Interesting Essays
Benjamin LyonsMainstream economics in unconventional domains
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Compiler dimensions
In a recent piece for Pax Machina, I mentioned that you could think of alignment compilers as being static, adaptive, or endogenous. These are really two different dimensions, static vs adaptive and exogenous vs endogenous, and I didn’t exp...
Alignment Science
Here’s a new research essay proposing the existence of “alignment science,” the study of alignment across substrates and scientific disciplines—biology, economics, psychology, behavior, etc. I’ve also pasted the essay below.
1. The...
New piece: “Alignment Compilers”
You can have every agent in a system have whatever individual properties you think they’re supposed to have and still run into alignment problems when the agents’ perception-behavior-cognition isn’t being properly guided toward the right ou...
The bitter lesson is sweet in humans
The bitter lesson is the observation in artificial intelligence that general learning + compute beats hand-coded knowledge. For example, if you want an AI that can beat humans at the game of Go, don’t teach it a bunch of basic go principles...
Transformational Alignment: The Economy as Singleton
Here’s a new essay on transformational alignment. Also available here. Here’s a new page on interoceptive/stress-sharing alignment. Sign up to get updates here.
1. A singleton is an alignment accomplishment
A singleton, coined...
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