Hi everyone,
I’m currently a student in the US. Around a year ago I first read Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch as a link that looked interesting; now I spend much of my free time reading blogposts in the rat-adjacent sphere and lurking on LessWrong and Twitter. Over time I’ve come to realize that I’m not doing anyone else any good by lurking, and it would be valuable for me to start receiving feedback from other people, so I’ve decided to try actively posting.
One interesting thing about me: I have been heavily involved in physics olympiads (competitions like the International Math Olympiad, but for physics). The relevance of the physics “process” towards world modeling and the ability of AI to solve difficult physics problems seems under-discussed to me.
The quality of discussion here is the highest I’ve ever seen on the Internet, and I hope to do my part to help uphold it!
It’s only a hypothetical situation the model was presented with in the alignment faking paper from Anthropic. (Separately Anthropic could be RLHF’ing Claude, but it’s not like we’d know.)