Recently I saw a paper by William Ratoff which argues that the alignment problem is significantly ameliorated for predictive processing (PP) agents. Their argument can be summarized as follows:
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Self-Hosting beren.io
This website (now www.beren.io) is now self hosted! No longer will it rely exist solely at Github/Microsoft’s discretion. It feels good.
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Selection and the Just World Fallacy
One thing that recently just struck me is that people (including me) often have a strong intutive sense of the just world fallacy when it comes to personal traits. People assume that if somebody has some great strength they must also have a great weakness. That if they are really...
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Intellectual Progress in 2020
The yearly intellectual progress report is a little late this year due to having to write up a PhD. Now that the PhD thesis beast is at least somewhat tamed, in a breather, I can try to figure out what progress I have made this year.
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How the Tails Come Apart
To play with the code directly, please look at the github
repository
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