I've recently read some cool posts on rationality through history (e.g., see here), and want to see if there are more examples! So: do you know of any "ancient" individual figures or institutions that you would consider rational? Or at least from several centuries ago.
Produced As Part Of The OxAI Safety Labs program, mentored by Joar Skalse. TL;DR This is a blog post introducing our new paper, "Goodhart's Law in Reinforcement Learning" (to appear at ICLR 2024). We study Goodhart's law in RL empirically, provide a geometric explanation for why it occurs, and use...
TLDR: We’re running a small iteration of MLAB (~10 participants) in Oxford towards the end of September. If you’re interested in participating, apply here by 7 September. If you’re interested in being a TA, please email us directly at oxfordmlab@gmail.com Edit: The dates are now confirmed for the 23 September-...