Curated. Come on dude, stop writing so many awesome posts so quickly, it’s too much.
This is a central question in the science of agency and optimization. The proposal is simple, you connected it to other ideas from Drexler and Demski+Garrabrant, and you gave a ton of examples of how to apply the idea. I generally get scared by the academic style, worried that the authors will fill out the text and make it really hard to read, but this was all highly readable, and set its own context (re-explaining the basic ideas at the start). I’m looking forward to you discussing it in the comments with Ricraz, Rohin and John.
Thank you Ben. Reading this really filled me with joy and gives me energy to write more. Thank you for your curation work—it’s a huge part of why there is this place for such high quality discussion of topics like this, for which I’m very grateful.
Seconded that the academic style really helped, particularly discussing the problem and prior work early on. One classic introduction paragraph that I was missing is “what have prior works left unaddressed?”.
Curated. Come on dude, stop writing so many awesome posts so quickly, it’s too much.
This is a central question in the science of agency and optimization. The proposal is simple, you connected it to other ideas from Drexler and Demski+Garrabrant, and you gave a ton of examples of how to apply the idea. I generally get scared by the academic style, worried that the authors will fill out the text and make it really hard to read, but this was all highly readable, and set its own context (re-explaining the basic ideas at the start). I’m looking forward to you discussing it in the comments with Ricraz, Rohin and John.
Please keep writing these posts!
Thank you Ben. Reading this really filled me with joy and gives me energy to write more. Thank you for your curation work—it’s a huge part of why there is this place for such high quality discussion of topics like this, for which I’m very grateful.
You’re welcome :-)
Seconded that the academic style really helped, particularly discussing the problem and prior work early on. One classic introduction paragraph that I was missing is “what have prior works left unaddressed?”.