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Avoiding the instrumental policy by hiding information about humans

📅 2021
policy development
⚪ Common
#ai

📖 Description

I've been thinking about situations where alignment fails because "predict what a human would say" (or more generally "game the loss function," what I call the instrumental policy) is easier to learn than "answer questions honestly" ([overview](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/QvtHSsZLFCAHmzes7/a-naive-alignment-strategy-and-optimism-about-generalization)).

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Variable Change Condition
Research +5 Always
Vibey Doom +2 Always
Ethics Risk -5 Always

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