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2019 Review Rewrite: Seeking Power is Often Robustly Instrumental in MDPs

📅 2020
public awareness
⚪ Common
#ai #instrumental convergence #lesswrong review #myopia

📖 Description

For the 2019 LessWrong review, I've completely rewritten my post [*Seeking Power is Often Robustly Instrumental in MDPs*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6DuJxY8X45Sco4bS2/seeking-power-is-often-provably-instrumentally-convergent-in). The post explains the key insights of [my theorems on power-seeking and instrumental convergence / robust instrumentality](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01683v6). The new version is more substantial, more nuanced, and better motivated, without sacrificing the broad accessibility or the cute drawings of the original.

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