This is a YouTube playlist of recorded lectures on the learning-theoretic AI alignment agenda (LTA) I gave for my MATS scholars of the Winter 2024 cohort, edited by my beloved spouse @Marcus Ogren. I hope these will become a useful resource for anyone who wants to get up to speed on the LTA, complementary to the reading list. In the future, I might record more lectures to expand this list.

Table of Contents

1. Agents and AIXI
2. Hidden rewards and the problem of privilege
3. Compositionality
4. Nonrealizability
5. It's a trap!
6. Traps, continued
7. Traps and frequentist guarantees
8. Game theory and learning theory
9. Hidden rewards
10. Algorithmic Descriptive Agency Measure (ADAM)
11. General reinforcement learning
12. Infra-Bayesianism
13. Learnability
14. Infra-Bandits
15. Newcombian problems
16. Ultradistributions and semi-environments
17. Formalizing Newcombian problems
18. Pseudocausality and a general formulation of Newcombian problems
19. Decision rules and pseudocausality
20. Instrumental reward functions
21. Infra-Bayesian haggling, part 1
22. Infra-Bayesian haggling, part 2
23. Anytime [...]

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