crux-epistemic-versus-authority
cases · drafted
Statement
Corrigibility of a capable trained system follows from its value learning alone.
Source
The epistemic picture of value change in projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/value-change-as-epistemic-update.md (the note argues corrigibility is less anti-natural under it; that it suffices alone is the crux's sharpening, AI reading); the kernel's typing in wiki/Corrigibility.md, section 0: "Corrigibility is not an epistemic response to uncertainty about a hidden utility".
Notes
The crux between the epistemic picture and the public line's authority typing. Pictures: the epistemic picture suffices; an authority term typed into the objective is needed; explicit corrigibility rules backing the legitimacy term are needed; a learned value on agency supplies the authority term; residual. Its weights re-rank the corrigibility line against the public kernel and the value-on-agency plan.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size M.
No human event has touched this node.
Edges
Above
- part of corrigibility-landscape
- root (shared-claim) of corrigibility-landscape
Children
- part: crux-epistemic-versus-authority.partition leaf/partition
- part: pic-eva-epistemic-suffices leaf/picture
- part: pic-eva-authority-needed leaf/picture
- part: pic-eva-both-lines leaf/picture
- part: pic-eva-learned-agency-value leaf/picture
- part: pic-eva-residual leaf/picture
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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"weaker": "both"
},
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"draft": "ai",
"root": {
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"Pr": {
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"lo": "1/2",
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"value": null,
"cost": "118/1",
"margin": "no established leaves"
}
}Say something about it
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