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Selection vs Control
42
Don't align agents to evaluations of plans
TurnTrout
24d
46
95
What's General-Purpose Search, And Why Might We Expect To See It In Trained ML Systems?
johnswentworth
4mo
15
206
The ground of optimization
Alex Flint
2y
74
70
Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life
Vika
1y
15
30
Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance
johnswentworth
7mo
15
49
Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed
jsteinhardt
1y
4
137
Selection vs Control
abramdemski
3y
25
25
Understanding Gradient Hacking
peterbarnett
1y
5
102
Optimization Amplifies
Scott Garrabrant
4y
12
89
Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers
DanielFilan
4y
21
60
Aligning a toy model of optimization
paulfchristiano
3y
26
41
Is the term mesa optimizer too narrow?
Matthew Barnett
3y
21
41
Optimization Provenance
Adele Lopez
3y
5
33
Two senses of “optimizer”
Joar Skalse
3y
41
59
Humans aren't fitness maximizers
So8res
2mo
45
80
Reflective Bayesianism
abramdemski
1y
27
41
Mesa-Optimizers vs “Steered Optimizers”
Steven Byrnes
2y
7
23
Applying Overoptimization to Selection vs. Control (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects - Clarifying Thoughts, Part 3)
Davidmanheim
3y
4
17
Mesa-Optimizers and Over-optimization Failure (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects, Clarifying Thoughts - Part 4)
Davidmanheim
3y
3