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Jesse Hoogland on Developmental Interpretability and Singular Learning Theory

The Inside View

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The Problem With the Manhattan Project

I think this is a problem on the order of the Manhattan Project. Probably harder. But I don't think there's anything in principle making that impossible. And so to the extent that structures, like skills, abilities emerge through phase transitions, we should expect something similar for values, for what these systems actually want.

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