Intermediate28 min
The Specification Problem
Why writing down what you want is harder than it looks: proxies diverge from intent under optimisation pressure, and Goodhart's law is the general statement of it.
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What it will cover
- specification
- Goodhart's law
- proxy
- objective
- intent