This is a link post.

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

Agents and AIXI
Hidden rewards and the problem of privilege
Compositionality
Nonrealizability
It's a trap!
Traps, continued
Traps and frequentist guarantees
Game theory and learning theory
Hidden rewards
Algorithmic Descriptive Agency Measure (ADAM)
General reinforcement learning
Infra-Bayesianism
Learnability
Infra-Bandits
Newcombian problems
Ultradistributions and semi-environments
Formalizing Newcombian problems
Pseudocausality and a general formulation of Newcombian problems
Decision rules and pseudocausality
Instrumental reward functions
Infra-Bayesian haggling, part 1
Infra-Bayesian haggling, part 2
Anytime [...]

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First published:
October 27th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NWKk2eQwfuGzRXusJ/video-lectures-on-the-learning-theoretic-agenda

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“Video lectures on the learning-theoretic agenda” by Vanessa Kosoy

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