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Figure 1 Placeholder. Notes on how to implement alignment in AI systems. This is necessarily a fuzzy concept, because Alignment is fuzzy and AI is fuzzy. We need to make peace with the frustrations of this fuzziness and move on. 1 Fine tuning to do nice stuff Think RLHF, Constitutional AI etc. I’m not greatly persuaded that these are the right way to go, but they are interesting. 2 Classifying models as unaligned I’m familiar only with mechanistic interpretability at the moment; I’m su...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Content warning: Stuff that I would prefer to have no opinion upon if that were an option. Culture wars. Figure 1 An interesting question in movement design is how much to embody the change you wish to see in the world in your pursuit of it. Examples If your movement advocates 8-hour workdays, should you work 8-hour days to build it? If you are relentlessly corporate in your pursuit of communism, will you have trouble recruiting cadre? Was it an acceptable trade-off for communism that the Bo...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
As an author, my writing goes through stages. Sometimes it’s a fragile flower, sometimes it’s an almost perfect final draft. And that means I need different feedback from co-authors and…| Research Degree Insiders
Driving Organizational Change Organizational Change “Working on change without believing in it is like waiting for the train on a station without tracks.” Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical leadership at New York Stern School of Business is the author of this striking metaphor. He thinks our brain is like an […] This post Riding the Elephant in the Room is published on Neurofied.| Neurofied