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“Why Corrigibility is Hard, and Important [IABED Resources]” by Raemon


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I worked a bunch on the website for If Anyone Builds Its Online Resources. It went through a lot of revisions in the weeks before launch.

There was a particular paragraphs I found important, which I now can't find a link to, and I'm not sure if they got deleted in an edit pass or if they just moved around somewhere I'm failing to search for.

It came after a discussion of corrigibility, and how MIRI made a pretty concerted attempt at solving it, which involved bringing in some quite smart people and talking to people who thought it was obviously "not that hard" to specify a corrigible mind in a toy environment.

The paragraph went (something like, paraphrased from memory):

The technical intuitions we gained from this process, is the real reason for our particularly strong confidence in this problem being hard."

This seemed like a pretty [...]

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Outline:

(03:21) Intelligent (Usually) Implies Incorrigible

(10:42) Shutdown Buttons and Corrigibility

(23:42) A Closer Look at Before and After

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First published:

September 30th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ksfjZJu3BFEfM6hHE/why-corrigibility-is-hard-and-important-iabed-resources

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