Don’t have a concrete definition off the top of my head, but I can try to give you a sense of what we’re thinking about. “Alignment theory” for us refers to the class of work which is more “reason about alignment from first principles” rather than running actual experiments. (Happy to have a discussion on why this is our focus if the discussion would be useful?)
How do you define alignment theory?
Don’t have a concrete definition off the top of my head, but I can try to give you a sense of what we’re thinking about. “Alignment theory” for us refers to the class of work which is more “reason about alignment from first principles” rather than running actual experiments. (Happy to have a discussion on why this is our focus if the discussion would be useful?)
Examples: Risks from learned optimization, inaccessible information, most posts in Evan’s list of research artifacts.