The More Power At Stake, The Stronger Instrumental Convergence Gets For Optimal Policies
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**Edit, 5/16/23: I think this post is beautiful, correct in its narrow technical claims, and practically irrelevant to alignment. This post presents a cripplingly unrealistic picture of the role of reward functions in reinforcement learning. Reward functions are not "goals", real-world policies are not "optimal", and the mechanistic function of reward is (usually) to provide policy gradients to update the policy network.**
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| Ethics Risk | -5 | Always |
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