Reframing Impact

TurnTrout
8 Jul 2019 0:55 UTC

Why do some things seem like really big deals to us? Do most agents best achieve their goals by seeking power? How might we avert catastrophic incentives in the utility maximization framework?

Refram­ing Impact

TurnTrout20 Sep 2019 19:03 UTC
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1. What is impact?

Value Impact

TurnTrout23 Sep 2019 0:47 UTC
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De­duc­ing Impact

TurnTrout24 Sep 2019 21:14 UTC
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At­tain­able Utility The­ory: Why Things Matter

TurnTrout27 Sep 2019 16:48 UTC
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World State is the Wrong Ab­strac­tion for Impact

TurnTrout1 Oct 2019 21:03 UTC
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The Gears of Impact

TurnTrout7 Oct 2019 14:44 UTC
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2. How agents impact each other

Seek­ing Power is Often Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs
5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

At­tain­able Utility Land­scape: How The World Is Changed

TurnTrout10 Feb 2020 0:58 UTC
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The Catas­trophic Con­ver­gence Conjecture

TurnTrout14 Feb 2020 21:16 UTC
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At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Concepts

TurnTrout17 Feb 2020 5:20 UTC
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3. Regularizing impact

At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Em­piri­cal Results

TurnTrout and nealeratzlaff
22 Feb 2020 0:38 UTC
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How Low Should Fruit Hang Be­fore We Pick It?

TurnTrout25 Feb 2020 2:08 UTC
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At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Scal­ing to Superhuman

TurnTrout27 Feb 2020 0:52 UTC
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Rea­sons for Ex­cite­ment about Im­pact of Im­pact Mea­sure Research

TurnTrout27 Feb 2020 21:42 UTC
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Con­clu­sion to ‘Refram­ing Im­pact’

TurnTrout28 Feb 2020 16:05 UTC
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