Comment by Raven White (raven-white) on Prizes for ELK proposals · 2022-02-09T03:48:52.029Z · LW · GW

Clarification question via scenario:

Predictor: I predict the diamond will be missing in 1 hours time.

Person A: Oh no, ramp up security until it says its safe.

Person B: Interesting, I wonder why it predicts this.

 

Is the purpose to be able to respond like person A (aka, the predictor may predict the diamond will be missing in an hour, but we cannot understand its output properly) or like person B (we understand the output, but not how it got there. Diamond be damned we want to learn what's going on under the hood). I suspect we're after person B's interpretation, but just want to be sure.