Joe Rogan has to pretend he’s not a political actor for his particular politics to appeal to the audience he’s using to accomplish his political goals.

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Our reward function compression work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉 In it, we present and empirically test a computational framework that formalizes the trade-offs between goal flexibility and learning efficiency. @annecollins.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Really excited about this paper with @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social - check it out! We have a few other projects coming out soon, which further support the theory we put forward.

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Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulation, such that I doubt we can “solve safety” if we don’t first address foundational issues.

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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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