Epistemic status: a rough write-up of a taxonomy of agency I developed during my PIBBSS fellowship this summer. A few people have since asked me to write it up, so this is mainly so I have something to point to; it is exploratory rather than a finished theory. This post...
TL;DR; These nine lenses on agency give you a wide range of tools to model and interpret agents. Each gives you lens-specific alignment methods and lens-specific risks to address. Epistemic status: Little here is new in a general sense; it's value lies in the synthesis and in providing a single...
Epistemic status: trying to articulate a big idea which I feel is important but underexplored, partly because it is hard to frame clearly - may not be framing it clearly yet! Agency, both natural and artificial, is a very important concept. Understanding agency allows us to model our own behaviour...