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Garrett Baker

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Independent alignment researcher

[Question] Why does “deep ab­strac­tion” lose it’s use­ful­ness in the far past and fu­ture?

Garrett Baker9 Jul 2020 7:12 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] In­for­ma­tion on time-com­plex­ity prior?

Garrett Baker8 Jan 2021 6:09 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[cross-post with EA Fo­rum] The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

Garrett Baker5 Jul 2021 21:52 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Another ar­gu­ment that you will let the AI out of the box

Garrett Baker19 Apr 2022 21:54 UTC
7 points
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Model­ling Deception

Garrett Baker18 Jul 2022 21:21 UTC
15 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion the­o­retic model anal­y­sis may not lend much in­sight, but we may have been do­ing them wrong!

Garrett Baker24 Jul 2022 0:42 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

How (not) to choose a re­search project

Garrett Baker, CatGoddess and Johannes C. Mayer
9 Aug 2022 0:26 UTC
78 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Tak­ing the pa­ram­e­ters which seem to mat­ter and ro­tat­ing them un­til they don’t

Garrett Baker26 Aug 2022 18:26 UTC
120 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

A frame­work and open ques­tions for game the­o­retic shard modeling

Garrett Baker21 Oct 2022 21:40 UTC
11 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Perform­ing an SVD on a time-se­ries ma­trix of gra­di­ent up­dates on an MNIST net­work pro­duces 92.5 sin­gu­lar values

Garrett Baker21 Dec 2022 0:44 UTC
9 points
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Pes­simistic Shard Theory

Garrett Baker25 Jan 2023 0:59 UTC
72 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What con­straints does deep learn­ing place on al­ign­ment plans?

Garrett Baker3 May 2023 20:40 UTC
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Value drift threat models

Garrett Baker12 May 2023 23:03 UTC
27 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Ac­ti­va­tion ad­di­tions in a sim­ple MNIST network

Garrett Baker18 May 2023 2:49 UTC
26 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ac­ti­va­tion ad­di­tions in a small resi­d­ual network

Garrett Baker22 May 2023 20:28 UTC
22 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

My hopes for al­ign­ment: Sin­gu­lar learn­ing the­ory and whole brain emulation

Garrett Baker25 Oct 2023 18:31 UTC
57 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

When and why should you use the Kelly crite­rion?

Garrett Baker, philh and River
5 Nov 2023 23:26 UTC
26 points
25 comments16 min readLW link

Epoch wise crit­i­cal pe­ri­ods, and sin­gu­lar learn­ing theory

Garrett Baker14 Dec 2023 20:55 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Neu­ro­science and Alignment

Garrett Baker18 Mar 2024 21:09 UTC
39 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Suffer­ing For Good

Garrett Baker1 Apr 2024 17:08 UTC
70 points
5 comments1 min readLW link