adamShimi(Adam Shimi)

Karma: 5,845

Epistemologist specialized in the difficulties of alignment. Currently at Conjecture, and running Refine.

Refine: An Incubator for Conceptual Alignment Research Bets

adamShimi15 Apr 2022 8:57 UTC

144 points

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What I Learned Running Refine

adamShimi24 Nov 2022 14:49 UTC

107 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC

107 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

Interpreting Yudkowsky on Deep vs Shallow Knowledge

adamShimi5 Dec 2021 17:32 UTC

100 points

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Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimi7 Apr 2022 16:41 UTC

97 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

How to Diversify Conceptual Alignment: the Model Behind Refine

adamShimi20 Jul 2022 10:44 UTC

87 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

The (Unofficial) Less Wrong Comment Challenge

adamShimi11 Nov 2020 14:18 UTC

82 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Literature Review on Goal-Directedness

adamShimi, Michele Campolo and Joe_Collman

18 Jan 2021 11:15 UTC

80 points

21 comments31 min readLW link

Confusing the ideal for the necessary

adamShimi16 Jan 2023 17:29 UTC

79 points

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(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Opportunity Cost Blackmail

adamShimi2 Jan 2023 13:48 UTC

70 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

The First Filter

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

26 Nov 2022 19:37 UTC

67 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemological Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimi6 Jun 2022 0:27 UTC

65 points

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Abstracting The Hardness of Alignment: Unbounded Atomic Optimization

adamShimi29 Jul 2022 18:59 UTC

65 points

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Review of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute”

adamShimi, Joe_Collman and Gyrodiot

28 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC

63 points

21 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Looking Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC

61 points

13 comments15 min readLW link

Assigning Praise and Blame: Decoupling Epistemology and Decision Theory

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

27 Jan 2023 18:16 UTC

59 points

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LCDT, A Myopic Decision Theory

adamShimi and evhub

3 Aug 2021 22:41 UTC

57 points

50 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Suggestions of posts on the AF to review

adamShimi16 Feb 2021 12:40 UTC

56 points

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Introducing the Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimi18 Dec 2021 15:23 UTC

56 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

Refine’s First Blog Post Day

adamShimi13 Aug 2022 10:23 UTC

55 points

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