Researchers ran real versions of the thought experiments in the 'MesaOptimisers' videos!
What they found won't shock you (if you've been paying attention)

Previous videos on the subject:
The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: MesaOptimizers and Inner Alignment:    • The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: Mesa...  
Deceptive Misaligned MesaOptimisers? It's More Likely Than You Think...:    • Deceptive Misaligned MesaOptimisers?...  

The Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14111
The Interpretability Article: https://distill.pub/2020/understandin...
Jacob Hilton's thoughts about what's going on: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/...
AI Safety Camp: https://aisafety.camp/

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