Malign Prior Arguments

TagLast edit: 7 Feb 2026 0:09 UTC by abramdemski

Variations on Paul Christiano’s argument that the Solomonoff prior is malign.

Changing my mind about Christiano’s malign prior argument

Cole Wyeth4 Apr 2025 0:54 UTC

29 points

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The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark Xu14 Oct 2020 1:33 UTC

180 points

53 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

Clarifying Consequentialists in the Solomonoff Prior

Vlad Mikulik11 Jul 2018 2:35 UTC

20 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

The Solomonoff prior is malign. It’s not a big deal.

Charlie Steiner25 Aug 2022 8:25 UTC

43 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

“The Solomonoff Prior is Malign” is a special case of a simpler argument

David Matolcsi17 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

131 points

46 comments12 min readLW link

Clarifying The Malignity of the Universal Prior: The Lexical Update

interstice15 Jan 2020 0:00 UTC

20 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Prosaic misalignment from the Solomonoff Predictor

Cleo Nardo9 Dec 2022 17:53 UTC

43 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Weak arguments against the universal prior being malign

X4vier14 Jun 2018 17:11 UTC

50 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Are minimal circuits deceptive?

evhub7 Sep 2019 18:11 UTC

78 points

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[Question] Am I confused about the “malign universal prior” argument?

nostalgebraist27 Aug 2024 23:17 UTC

95 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

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