Equation 16 · Part 3 · The Main Technical Approaches to AI Alignment, Compared
Symbol X_t
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is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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IDA is debate’s closest theoretical relative, aimed at the same underlying worry from a different angle: rather than trusting a single judge to adjudicate an argument about a hard problem, it never asks any one evaluator to face the hard problem directly. Christiano, Shlegeris, and Amodei describe a scheme they call Amplify: a composite system, written , “consisting of H and several copies of X working together to solve a problem,” in which H — standing in for a human overseer — breaks a hard question into useful subquestions, has several copies of the current trained agent X answer each subquestion, and then combines the subanswers into a response to the original…
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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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