Author’s note: This is quite a long post. It is highly speculative, obviously, but I think it offers an interesting perspective on, and proposal for, outer alignment. The specific idea here is to move away from demanding a final lightcone-scale conception of ‘The Good’ as an outer alignment target, whether...
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The Probe
so much depends
upon
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How can LLM RL Work Despite Information-Theoretic Inefficiency
Epistemic Status: Obviously speculative and maybe obvious.
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Is Endogenous Exploration Sufficient?
Epistemic Status: A short note which posits a question without necessarily arriving at a definitive answer.
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Autarkic Agency Will Likely Migrate Upwards
Epistemic status: Interesting as a mechanism and trend, but obviously highly variable over short timescales and ultimately speculative.
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