During the 2 hours of reading and skimming through the relevant blog posts I was able to come up with 2 strategies (and no counter-examples so far). They seem to me as quite intuitive and easy to come up with, so I’m wondering what I got wrong about the ELK problem or the contest...
Due to the low confidence in my understanding I don’t feel comfortable submitting these strategies, as I don’t want to waste the ARC’s team time.
My background: ML engineer (~7 years of experience), some previous exposure to AGI and AIS research and computer security.
I am pretty confident that ARC would want you to submit those strategies, especially given your background. Even if both trivially fail, it seems useful for them to know that they did not seem obviously ruled out to you by the provided material.
ARC would be excited for you to send a short email to elk@alignmentresearchcenter.org with a few bullet points describing your high level ideas, if you want to get a sense for whether you’re on the right track / whether fleshing them out would be likely to win a prize.
During the 2 hours of reading and skimming through the relevant blog posts I was able to come up with 2 strategies (and no counter-examples so far). They seem to me as quite intuitive and easy to come up with, so I’m wondering what I got wrong about the ELK problem or the contest...
Due to the low confidence in my understanding I don’t feel comfortable submitting these strategies, as I don’t want to waste the ARC’s team time.
My background: ML engineer (~7 years of experience), some previous exposure to AGI and AIS research and computer security.
I am pretty confident that ARC would want you to submit those strategies, especially given your background. Even if both trivially fail, it seems useful for them to know that they did not seem obviously ruled out to you by the provided material.
ARC would be excited for you to send a short email to elk@alignmentresearchcenter.org with a few bullet points describing your high level ideas, if you want to get a sense for whether you’re on the right track / whether fleshing them out would be likely to win a prize.
Can confirm we would be interested in hearing what you came up with.