Since free will is about as easy as a philosophical problem in reductionism can get, while still appearing "impossible" to at least some philosophers, it makes a good exercise for aspiring reductionists, which they should try on their own - see the main page on free will. These posts should not be read until having made a very serious effort on your own. Related Pages: Consciousness, Free Will, Philosophy, Reductionism, Blog posts (Items in italics can be skipped if in a rush.) * How An Alg...| www.lesswrong.com
This is a sequence version of the paper “Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems” by Evan Hubinger, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, Joar Skalse, and Scott Garrabrant. Each post in the sequence corresponds to a different section of the paper. Evan Hubinger, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, and Joar Skalse contributed equally to this sequence. The goal of this sequence is to analyze the type of learned optimization that occurs when a learned model (such...| www.lesswrong.com