TurnTrout

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My name is Alex Turner. I’m a research scientist at Google DeepMind on the Scalable Alignment team. My views are strictly my own; I do not represent Google. Reach me at alex[at]turntrout.com

Interpersonal Approaches for X-Risk Education

TurnTrout24 Jan 2018 0:47 UTC

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Walkthrough of ‘Formalizing Convergent Instrumental Goals’

TurnTrout26 Feb 2018 2:20 UTC

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Set Up for Success: Insights from ‘Naïve Set Theory’

TurnTrout28 Feb 2018 2:01 UTC

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Ambiguity Detection

TurnTrout1 Mar 2018 4:23 UTC

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How to Dissolve It

TurnTrout7 Mar 2018 6:19 UTC

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Lightness and Unease

TurnTrout21 Mar 2018 5:24 UTC

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The Art of the Artificial: Insights from ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach’

TurnTrout25 Mar 2018 6:55 UTC

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Open-Category Classification

TurnTrout28 Mar 2018 14:49 UTC

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Unyielding Yoda Timers: Taking the Hammertime Final Exam

TurnTrout3 Apr 2018 2:38 UTC

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The First Rung: Insights from ‘Linear Algebra Done Right’

TurnTrout22 Apr 2018 5:23 UTC

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Internalizing Internal Double Crux

TurnTrout30 Apr 2018 18:23 UTC

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Confounded No Longer: Insights from ‘All of Statistics’

TurnTrout3 May 2018 22:56 UTC

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Into the Kiln: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis I’

TurnTrout1 Jun 2018 18:16 UTC

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Swimming Upstream: A Case Study in Instrumental Rationality

TurnTrout3 Jun 2018 3:16 UTC

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Worrying about the Vase: Whitelisting

TurnTrout16 Jun 2018 2:17 UTC

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Overcoming Clinginess in Impact Measures

TurnTrout30 Jun 2018 22:51 UTC

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Making a Difference Tempore: Insights from ‘Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction’

TurnTrout5 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC

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Pretense

TurnTrout29 Jul 2018 0:35 UTC

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Turning Up the Heat: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis II’

TurnTrout24 Aug 2018 17:54 UTC

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Impact Measure Desiderata

TurnTrout2 Sep 2018 22:21 UTC

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