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“Eliezer’s Lost Alignment Articles / The Arbital Sequence” by Ruby


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Circa 2015-2017, a lot of high quality content was written on Arbital by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, Paul Christiano, and others. Perhaps because the platform didn't take off, most of this content has not been as widely read as warranted by its quality. Fortunately, they have now been imported into LessWrong.

Most of the content written was either about AI alignment or math[1]. The Bayes Guide and Logarithm Guide are likely some of the best mathematical educational material online. Amongst the AI Alignment content are detailed and evocative explanations of alignment ideas: some well known, such as instrumental convergence and corrigibility, some lesser known like epistemic/instrumental efficiency, and some misunderstood like pivotal act.

The Sequence

The articles collected here were originally published as wiki pages with no set [...]

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Outline:

(01:01) The Sequence

(01:23) Tier 1

(01:32) Tier 2

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

February 20th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mpMWWKzkzWqf57Yap/eliezer-s-lost-alignment-articles-the-arbital-sequence

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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