Oly on AI

You Can’t Skip Exploration

Why understanding experimentation and taste is key to understanding AI

May 21 • 

Oliver Sourbut

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November 2023

Cooperation and Alignment in Delegation Games

You need both! (and also fairness)

Nov 15, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

1

October 2023

2023 September roundup

Universally Challenged, Exponentials and Extinction, 'US vs China' vs me, and things to look forward to

Oct 6, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

1

September 2023

Careless talk on US-China AI competition?

Caution on political discussion, nuance is needed, and criticism of CAIS coverage

Sep 20, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

1

Invading Australia

Endless Formerlies Most Beautiful, or What I Learned On My Holiday

Sep 8, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

1

Hertford, Sourbut

Rationality lessons from University Challenge

Sep 4, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

1

May 2023

Un-unpluggability

Can’t we just un­plug it? A few weeks ago I was in­vited to the UK FCDO to dis­cuss op­por­tu­ni­ties and risks from AI. I highly ap­pre­ci­ated the…

May 15, 2023 • 

Oliver Sourbut

2

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…

Jun 27, 2022 • 

Oliver Sourbut

Deliberation, Reactions, and Control

Tentative Definitions and a Restatement of Instrumental Convergence

Jun 27, 2022 • 

Oliver Sourbut

Breaking Down Goal-Directed Behaviour

When we speak about en­tities ‘want­ing’ things, or hav­ing ‘goal-di­rected be­havi­our’, what do we mean?

Jun 16, 2022 • 

Oliver Sourbut

You Only Get One Shot

An Intuition Pump for Embedded Agency

Jun 9, 2022 • 

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…

May 18, 2022 • 

Oliver Sourbut