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Thomas Kwa

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Just left Vivek Hebbar’s team at MIRI, now doing various empirical alignment projects.

I’m looking for projects in interpretability, activation engineering, and control/​oversight; DM me if you’re interested in working with me.

[Question] Is a ran­dom box of gas pre­dictable af­ter 20 sec­onds?

24 Jan 2024 23:00 UTC
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[Question] Will quan­tum ran­dom­ness af­fect the 2028 elec­tion?

24 Jan 2024 22:54 UTC
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Thomas Kwa’s re­search journal

23 Nov 2023 5:11 UTC
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Thomas Kwa’s MIRI re­search experience

2 Oct 2023 16:42 UTC
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Catas­trophic Re­gres­sional Good­hart: Appendix

15 May 2023 0:10 UTC
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When is Good­hart catas­trophic?

9 May 2023 3:59 UTC
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Challenge: con­struct a Gra­di­ent Hacker

9 Mar 2023 2:38 UTC
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Failure modes in a shard the­ory al­ign­ment plan

Thomas Kwa27 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC
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Utility func­tions and prob­a­bil­ities are entangled

Thomas Kwa26 Jul 2022 5:36 UTC
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Deriv­ing Con­di­tional Ex­pected Utility from Pareto-Effi­cient Decisions

Thomas Kwa5 May 2022 3:21 UTC
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Most prob­lems don’t differ dra­mat­i­cally in tractabil­ity (un­der cer­tain as­sump­tions)

Thomas Kwa4 May 2022 0:05 UTC
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The case for turn­ing glowfic into Sequences

Thomas Kwa27 Apr 2022 6:58 UTC
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[Question] (When) do high-di­men­sional spaces have lin­ear paths down to lo­cal min­ima?

Thomas Kwa22 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC
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How dath ilan co­or­di­nates around solv­ing alignment

Thomas Kwa13 Apr 2022 4:22 UTC
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5 Tips for Good Hearting

Thomas Kwa1 Apr 2022 19:47 UTC
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Can we simu­late hu­man evolu­tion to cre­ate a some­what al­igned AGI?

Thomas Kwa28 Mar 2022 22:55 UTC
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Jet­lag, Nausea, and Diar­rhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC
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The Box Spread Trick: Get rich slightly faster

Thomas Kwa1 Sep 2020 21:41 UTC
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Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas Kwa13 Jun 2020 0:03 UTC
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[Question] What past highly-up­voted posts are over­rated to­day?

Thomas Kwa9 Jun 2020 21:25 UTC
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