LawrenceC comments on Dumb and ill-posed question: Is conceptual research like this MIRI paper on the shutdown problem/​Corrigibility “real”

[LawrenceC]

Nitpick:

IMO subsequent progress is promising,

This link probably meant to go to the induction heads and in context learning paper?

[Zac Hatfield-Dodds]

Fixed, thanks; it links to the transformer circuits thread which includes both the induction heads paper, SoLU, and Toy Models of Superposition.