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Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It

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A Machine Alignment Monday post, 4/11/22

Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It A Machine Alignment Monday post, 4/11/22 Scott Alexander Apr 11, 2022 117 311 2 Share I. Our goal here is to popularize obscure and hard-to-understand areas of AI alignment, and surely this meme (retweeted by Eliezer last week) qualifies: Leo Gao @nabla_theta 4:24 AM · Dec 13, 2021 2 Reposts · 42 Likes So let’s try to understand the incomprehensible meme! Our main source will be Hubinger et al 2019, Risks From Learned Optimization In Advanced Machine Learning Systems . Mesa- is a Greek prefix which means the opposite o

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