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Jeremy Gillen

Context: I wrote a shortform about conditioning on high capability AI, and the ways I think my past self messed that up. In particular, I claimed that conditioning on high capability means that the AI will be goal-directed.

Matt responded:

Distinguish two notions of "goal-directedness":

The system has a fixed goal that it capably works towards across all contexts.
The system is able to capably work towards goals, but which it does, if any, may depend on the context.

My sense is that a high level of capability implies (2) but not (1). And that (1) [...]

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First published:
November 4th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gz3SEm77Yvqs2RbKK/context-dependent-consequentialism

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