Our big news this month is Scott Garrabrant's finite factored sets, one of MIRI's largest results to date. For most people, the best introductory resource on FFS is likely Scott’s Topos talk/transcript. Scott is also in the process of posting...
MIRI senior researcher Scott Garrabrant has a major new result, “Finite Factored Sets,” that he’ll be unveiling in an online talk this Sunday at noon Pacific time. (Zoom link.) For context on the result, see Scott’s new post “Saving Time.”...
MIRI updates MIRI researcher Abram Demski writes regarding counterfactuals: I've felt like the problem of counterfactuals is "mostly settled" (modulo some math working out) for about a year, but I don't think I've really communicated this online. Partly, I've been waiting...
MIRI updates MIRI's Eliezer Yudkowsky and Evan Hubinger comment in some detail on Ajeya Cotra's The Case for Aligning Narrowly Superhuman Models. This conversation touches on some of the more important alignment research views at MIRI, such as the view that alignment requires...
MIRI updates Abram Demski distinguishes different versions of the problem of “pointing at” human values in AI alignment. Evan Hubinger discusses “Risks from Learned Optimization” on the AI X-Risk Research Podcast. Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on AI safety via debate and...
MIRI updates MIRI’s Evan Hubinger uses a notion of optimization power to define whether AI systems are compatible with the strategy-stealing assumption. MIRI’s Abram Demski discusses debate approaches to AI safety that don’t rely on factored cognition. Evan argues that...
