Scott Garrabrant

Apr 29, 2024 | lesswrong.com | John Wentworth |Scott Garrabrant

In Clarifying the Agent-Like Structure Problem (2022), John Wentworth describes a hypothetical instance of what he calls a selection theorem. In Scott Garrabrant's words, the question is, does agent-like behavior imply agent-like architecture? That is, if we take some class of behaving things and apply a filter for agent-like behavior, do we end up selecting things with agent-like architecture (or structure)? Of course, this question is heavily under-specified.