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Cooperation and Alignment in Delegation Games (forthcoming under review)
You need both! (and also fairness)
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Oliver Sourbut

October 2023

2023 September roundup
Universally Challenged, Exponentials and Extinction, 'US vs China' vs me, and things to look forward to
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Oliver Sourbut

September 2023

Careless talk on US-China AI competition?
Caution on political discussion, nuance is needed, and criticism of CAIS coverage
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Oliver Sourbut
Invading Australia
Endless Formerlies Most Beautiful, or What I Learned On My Holiday
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Oliver Sourbut
Hertford, Sourbut
Rationality lessons from University Challenge
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Oliver Sourbut

May 2023

June 2022

Deliberation Everywhere: Simple Examples
We pre­vi­ously dis­cussed a con­cep­tual al­gorith­mic break­down of some as­pects of goal-di­rected be­havi­our with the in­ten­tion of in­spiring…
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Oliver Sourbut
Deliberation, Reactions, and Control: Tentative Definitions and a Restatement of Instrumental Convergence
This anal­y­sis is spec­u­la­tive. The fram­ing has been re­fined in con­ver­sa­tion and pri­vate re­flec­tion and re­search. To some ex­tent it feels…
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Oliver Sourbut
Breaking Down Goal-Directed Behaviour
When we speak about en­tities ‘want­ing’ things, or hav­ing ‘goal-di­rected be­havi­our’, what do we mean?
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Oliver Sourbut
You Only Get One Shot: an Intuition Pump for Embedded Agency
This is a short at­tempt to ar­tic­u­late a fram­ing which I some­times find use­ful for think­ing about em­bed­ded agency. I no­ticed that I wanted to…
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Oliver Sourbut

May 2022

Gato’s Generalisation: Predictions and Experiments I’d Like to See
I’m de­liber­ately in­hab­it­ing a devil’s ad­vo­cate mind­set be­cause that per­spec­tive seems to be miss­ing from the con­ver­sa­tions I’ve…
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Oliver Sourbut
Conditions for mathematical equivalence of Stochastic Gradient Descent and Natural Selection
Analo­gies are of­ten drawn be­tween nat­u­ral se­lec­tion and gra­di­ent de­scent (and other train­ing pro­ce­dures for para­met­ric al­gorithms). It…
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Oliver Sourbut
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