adamShimi

Karma: 6,652

Epistemologist specialized in the difficulties of alignment and how to solve AI X-Risks. Currently at Conjecture.

Blogging at For Methods.

Abstracting The Hardness of Alignment: Unbounded Atomic Optimization

adamShimiJul 29, 2022, 6:59 PM

75 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Levels of Pluralism

adamShimiJul 27, 2022, 9:35 AM

37 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Robustness to Scaling Down: More Important Than I Thought

adamShimiJul 23, 2022, 11:40 AM

38 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

How to Diversify Conceptual Alignment: the Model Behind Refine

adamShimiJul 20, 2022, 10:44 AM

87 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Mosaic and Palimpsests: Two Shapes of Research

adamShimiJul 12, 2022, 9:05 AM

39 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Epistemological Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimiJun 6, 2022, 12:27 AM

66 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

Refine: An Incubator for Conceptual Alignment Research Bets

adamShimiApr 15, 2022, 8:57 AM

144 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

AMA Conjecture, A New Alignment Startup

adamShimiApr 9, 2022, 9:43 AM

47 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimiApr 7, 2022, 4:41 PM

100 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Replacing Natural Interpretations

adamShimiMar 16, 2022, 1:05 PM

19 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature

adamShimiMar 14, 2022, 8:13 AM

28 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Treat Examples as World-Building

adamShimiMar 10, 2022, 3:09 PM

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

adamShimiMar 7, 2022, 12:01 PM

44 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

The Art and Science of Intuition Pumping

adamShimiFeb 22, 2022, 12:18 AM

26 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

What The Foucault

adamShimiFeb 19, 2022, 10:48 PM

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Implications of automated ontology identification

Alex Flint, adamShimi and Robert Miles

Feb 18, 2022, 3:30 AM

69 points

27 comments23 min readLW link

An analogy as the midwife of thermodynamics

adamShimiFeb 16, 2022, 9:34 PM

30 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Becoming Stronger as Epistemologist: Introduction

adamShimiFeb 15, 2022, 6:15 AM

30 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Is ELK enough? Diamond, Matrix and Child AI

adamShimiFeb 15, 2022, 2:29 AM

17 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Introducing the Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimiDec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM

61 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

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