Modified: February 25, 2022
agency
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.see also agent
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unique contribution
(this note expresses a tendency that I notice in myself. I don't necessarily endorse this tendency but I think it's interesting to…
worldly objective
This may be a central point of confusion: how do we define AI systems that have preferences about the real world , so that their goals and…
embedded agent
Notes on Abram Demski and Scott Garrabrant's sequence on Embedded Agency Embedded Agents : Classic models of rational [ agency ], such as…
agent
see also [ agency ]
Pointing Out the Great Way Level 1 retreat notes
This page contains my notes from the Pointing Out the Great Way Level 1 [ mahamudra ] [ meditation ] [ retreats|retreat ] course I took…
living on autopilot
Some things are genuinely hard to do. But many others I don't do just out of laziness, or maybe lack of [ agency ]. I know that they're…
it seemed profound at the time
Notes copied from Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7Gxo-A3gQrlUx3G4BYmH-GjUWbB7eTOJZcuAs2ii0A/edit most of these things…
reinforcement learning
Note : see [ reinforcement learning notation ] for a guide to the notation I'm attempting to use through my RL notes. Three paradigmatic…
leadership
I don't want to be led. I want to be creative and do things that are dramatically new. Telling other people what to do feels almost evil to…
every branch has high-value leaves
Events that seem really terrible---closing off good outcomes and potentially leading to bad outcomes---often refine into a fine path that…
agency and confidence
There is a similarity in kind between the negative effects of: rape slavery feeling forced to work on someone else's projects, by a boss…