Epistemic Status: This is not my speciality within ML and I present mostly speculative intuitions rather than experimentally verified facts and mathematically valid conjectures. Nevertheless, it captures my current thinking and intuitions about the phenomenon of ‘grokking’ in neural networks and of generalization in overparametrized networks more generally.
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Clarifying Value Alignment in Predictive Processing
Recently I saw a paper by William Ratoff which argues that the alignment problem is significantly ameliorated for predictive processing (PP) agents. Their argument can be summarized as follows:
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Self-Hosting beren.io
This website (now www.beren.io) is now self hosted! No longer will it rely exist solely at Github/Microsoft’s discretion. It feels good.
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Selection and the Just World Fallacy
One thing that recently just struck me is that people (including me) often have a strong intutive sense of the just world fallacy when it comes to personal traits. People assume that if somebody has some great strength they must also have a great weakness. That if they are really...
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Intellectual Progress in 2020
The yearly intellectual progress report is a little late this year due to having to write up a PhD. Now that the PhD thesis beast is at least somewhat tamed, in a breather, I can try to figure out what progress I have made this year.
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