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Decision Theory
Utility Functions
Quantilization
Mild Optimization
Bounded Rationality
Coherence Arguments
Law-Thinking
Orthogonality Thesis
Coherent Extrapolated Volition
Indexical Information
20 posts
Goal-Directedness
Literature Reviews
154
Realism about rationality
Richard_Ngo
4y
145
134
Can you control the past?
Joe Carlsmith
1y
93
126
An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions
abramdemski
2y
53
105
Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
4y
69
105
Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
102
Coherence arguments imply a force for goal-directed behavior
KatjaGrace
1y
27
95
Decision Theory
abramdemski
4y
46
82
The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
22
82
On the purposes of decision theory research
Wei_Dai
3y
14
82
Probability is Real, and Value is Complex
abramdemski
4y
20
81
Pavlov Generalizes
abramdemski
3y
4
78
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false
Wei_Dai
3y
3
76
Troll Bridge
abramdemski
3y
59
72
When to use quantilization
RyanCarey
3y
5
153
2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
12mo
26
137
2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
1y
14
93
wrapper-minds are the enemy
nostalgebraist
6mo
36
92
why assume AGIs will optimize for fixed goals?
nostalgebraist
6mo
52
71
AI safety without goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
3y
15
69
When Most VNM-Coherent Preference Orderings Have Convergent Instrumental Incentives
TurnTrout
1y
4
69
Literature Review on Goal-Directedness
adamShimi
1y
21
57
Will humans build goal-directed agents?
Rohin Shah
3y
43
50
Finding Goals in the World Model
Jeremy Gillen
4mo
8
43
P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better
Ramana Kumar
1y
14
29
Behavioral Sufficient Statistics for Goal-Directedness
adamShimi
1y
12
25
Against the Backward Approach to Goal-Directedness
adamShimi
1y
6
21
Goal-directed = Model-based RL?
adamShimi
2y
10
20
Focus: you are allowed to be bad at accomplishing your goals
adamShimi
2y
17