Modified: February 25, 2022
agent
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 It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid.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 agency
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sense of self
When we talk about "the self", or having a "sense of self", what do we mean? There is an interpretation in terms of [ consciousness ] - that…
embedded agent
Notes on Abram Demski and Scott Garrabrant's sequence on Embedded Agency Embedded Agents : Classic models of rational [ agency ], such as…
value learning
Notes on the Alignment Forum's Value Learning sequence curated by Rohin Shah. ambitious value learning : the idea of learning 'the human…
reward
stray thoughts about reward functions (probably related to the [ agent ] abstraction and the [ intentional stance ]) one can make a…
simulator AI
References: https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ It seems pretty clear that the intelligence emerging from [ language model ]s is not…
emergent capabilities
A consequence of [ phase transition ]s in [ large models ] is that models may end up having capabilities we didn't expect. For example…
wrong models in AI
The models we use in AI are [ all models are wrong|wrong ] (if maybe still useful). How? Agency The [ agent ] model assumes a separation of…
conversation as a game
Okay so there’s a lot of research on what conversations are, what the goals are (of course I don’t know most of this research…). It seems as…
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…
agency
see also [ agent ]
thoughts are actions
The [ agent ] model of intelligence imposes a sharp distinction between the agent and its environment, where the agent 'chooses' actions…
glimpses of AI
An intelligent [ agent ] should work to understand the world. This understanding takes the form of a set of relevant [ abstraction ]s, a…
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…
many models
An idea I got from [ John Higgs ]'s discussion of metamodernism is that taking [ all models are wrong ] to its logical conclusion requires…
Buddhism is true
My feelings about Buddhism are linked to my feelings about [ psychedelic ]s and the mind more generally. I am pretty ignorant on all of…