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Answering questions honestly instead of predicting human answers: lots of problems and some solutions

📅 2021
public awareness
⚪ Common
#ai

📖 Description

*This post is the result of work I did with Paul Christiano on the ideas in his "[Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/QqwZ7cwEA2cxFEAun/teaching-ml-to-answer-questions-honestly-instead-of)" post. In addition to expanding upon what is in that post in terms of identifying numerous problems with the proposal there and identifying ways in which some of those problems can be patched, I think that this post also provides a useful window into what Paul-style research looks like from a non-Paul perspective.*

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