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Also, to stave off a common confusion: I worked at ARC Theory, which is now simply called ARC, on Paul Christiano's theoretical alignment agenda. The more famous ARC Evals was a different group working on evaluations, their work was completely separate from ARC Theory, and they were only housed under the same organization out of convenience, until ARC Evals spun off under the name METR. Nothing I write here has any implication about the work of ARC Evals/METR in any way.

Low Probability Estimation

This is my third post in a sequence of posts on ARC's agenda, you should definitely read the first post before this one for [...]

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(00:56) Low Probability Estimation

(02:42) LPE on real distributions

(04:41) LPE as training signal

(07:55) Does LPE work at all?

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