though importantly it might be actively more fit than intent alignment, so it’s also about outer alignment
What do you mean by this?
Also, not to pick on you, but I generally think it’s useful to “related work” type things, not just for credit assignment, but also to facilitate understanding. e.g. as someone who is very familiar with alignment, if I can just view “fitness maximizing” as a “goal misgeneralization, but with XYZ” then maybe I can get any key insights in a few minutes.
I mean that a major part of the reason why you got fitness-seeking goals was because your reward functions and other selection pressures were incompatible with competently pursuing the motivations you wished to instill in the model.
I think it’s not very helpful to frame this in terms of goal misgeneralization because all misalignment risk routes through goal misgeneralization. I agree related work is often helpful: The most helpful prior work is on reward-seeking, mentioned in the intro.
IIUC, reward-seeking is not goal misgeneralization, it’s reward hacking / outer-misalignment? (It would also be nice to include a definition of reward-seeking in the post).
What do you mean by this?
Also, not to pick on you, but I generally think it’s useful to “related work” type things, not just for credit assignment, but also to facilitate understanding. e.g. as someone who is very familiar with alignment, if I can just view “fitness maximizing” as a “goal misgeneralization, but with XYZ” then maybe I can get any key insights in a few minutes.
I mean that a major part of the reason why you got fitness-seeking goals was because your reward functions and other selection pressures were incompatible with competently pursuing the motivations you wished to instill in the model.
I think it’s not very helpful to frame this in terms of goal misgeneralization because all misalignment risk routes through goal misgeneralization. I agree related work is often helpful: The most helpful prior work is on reward-seeking, mentioned in the intro.
IIUC, reward-seeking is not goal misgeneralization, it’s reward hacking / outer-misalignment?
(It would also be nice to include a definition of reward-seeking in the post).