MIRI Updates
July 2018 Newsletter
Updates A new paper: “Forecasting Using Incomplete Models“ New research write-ups and discussions: Prisoners’ Dilemma with Costs to Modeling; Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game; Optimization Amplifies Eliezer Yudkowsky, Paul Christiano, Jessica Taylor, and Wei Dai discuss Alex Zhu’s FAQ for Paul’s...
New paper: “Forecasting using incomplete models”
MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy has a paper out on issues in naturalized induction: “Forecasting using incomplete models”. Abstract: We consider the task of forecasting an infinite sequence of future observations based on some number of past observations, where the...
June 2018 Newsletter
Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Logical Inductors Converge to Correlated Equilibria (Kinda) MIRI researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen and Alex Zhu ran an AI safety retreat for MIT students and alumni. Andrew Critch discusses what kind of advice to give to...
May 2018 Newsletter
Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Resource-Limited Reflective Oracles; Computing An Exact Quantilal Policy New at AI Impacts: Promising Research Projects MIRI research fellow Scott Garrabrant and associates Stuart Armstrong and Vanessa Kosoy are among the winners in the second...
Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal
[mathjax] The following is a basically unedited summary I wrote up on March 16 of my take on Paul Christiano’s AGI alignment approach (described in “ALBA” and “Iterated Distillation and Amplification”). Where Paul had comments and replies, I’ve included them...
April 2018 Newsletter
Updates A new paper: “Categorizing Variants of Goodhart’s Law” New research write-ups and discussions: Distributed Cooperation; Quantilal Control for Finite Markov Decision Processes New at AI Impacts: Transmitting Fibers in the Brain: Total Length and Distribution of Lengths Scott Garrabrant,...
