
23 - Mechanistic Anomaly Detection with Mark Xu
AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast
Heuristic Arguments Give Quote Unquote the Wrong Answer
In the paper, you have a bunch of examples from number theory. So we are quite interested in cases where heuristic arguments give quote unquote the wrong answer. And so there's some notion of length here where we can't find like a compact heuristic argument that seems to describe why this thing happens the way it does. Where we conjecture that it's always possible to like explain a phenomenon in roughly the same manner as the phenomenon itself. We want to be able to use heuristic arguments for like this sort of mechanism distinction problem. Hopefully it'll work.
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