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World Modeling
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AIXI
Updateless Decision Theory
Sleeping Beauty Paradox
Cognitive Science
Extraterrestrial Life
Economics
Grabby Aliens
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Human Values
Shard Theory
Complexity of Value
Gradient Hacking
Heuristics & Biases
Evolution
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Gradient Descent
Modularity
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Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer
paulfchristiano
6mo
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Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover
Ajeya Cotra
5mo
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38
Open technical problem: A Quinean proof of Löb's theorem, for an easier cartoon guide
Andrew_Critch
26d
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Humans do acausal coordination all the time
Adam Jermyn
1mo
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«Boundaries», Part 3a: Defining boundaries as directed Markov blankets
Andrew_Critch
1mo
13
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Less Threat-Dependent Bargaining Solutions?? (3/2)
Diffractor
4mo
7
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Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agents
johnswentworth
1y
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
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My research methodology
paulfchristiano
1y
36
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Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro
johnswentworth
1y
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Elementary Infra-Bayesianism
Jan
7mo
2
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Frequent arguments about alignment
John Schulman
1y
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24
What Is The True Name of Modularity?
TheMcDouglas
5mo
10
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Abstractions as Redundant Information
johnswentworth
10mo
7
62
Shard Theory in Nine Theses: a Distillation and Critical Appraisal
LawrenceC
1d
9
38
Positive values seem more robust and lasting than prohibitions
TurnTrout
3d
9
52
Alignment allows "nonrobust" decision-influences and doesn't require robust grading
TurnTrout
21d
27
249
The shard theory of human values
Quintin Pope
3mo
57
12
Working towards AI alignment is better
Johannes C. Mayer
11d
2
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Contra shard theory, in the context of the diamond maximizer problem
So8res
2mo
16
191
Humans provide an untapped wealth of evidence about alignment
TurnTrout
5mo
92
32
Unpacking "Shard Theory" as Hunch, Question, Theory, and Insight
Jacy Reese Anthis
1mo
8
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Shard Theory: An Overview
David Udell
4mo
34
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Human values & biases are inaccessible to the genome
TurnTrout
5mo
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Gradient Hacker Design Principles From Biology
johnswentworth
3mo
13
31
How are you dealing with ontology identification?
Erik Jenner
2mo
10
69
Ten experiments in modularity, which we'd like you to run!
TheMcDouglas
6mo
2
93
A broad basin of attraction around human values?
Wei_Dai
8mo
16