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Acausal Trade slideshow

On January 15, 2019 By Daniel KokotajloIn General2 Comments

[Author’s note: Still working through a backlog of old stuff to put up. These are the slides from a presentation I made two years ago. If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask me!]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r4byVsmkTxzO86VRc7CRyxf8AT6_xXRGcb4TDSjspkA/edit?usp=sharing

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This is the blog of Caspar Oesterheld. Caspar is a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Vince Conitzer. Some past blog posts were written by Johannes Treutlein (PhD student at CHAI, UC Berkeley, supervised by Stuart Russell) and Daniel Kokotajlo (AI policy researcher at OpenAI).

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