Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

Neuralese, Thinkish, and Poetry

Tracing the term "Neuralese" from its coinage in Andreas et al. (2017), where it named an emergent inter-agent protocol, to its current use for latent Chain-of-Thought reasoning, this paper examines the intermediate category that alignment research has come to call linguistic dri...

Neuralese, Thinkish, and Poetry

Tracing the term "Neuralese" from its coinage in Andreas et al. (2017), where it named an emergent inter-agent protocol, to its current use for latent Chain-of-Thought reasoning, this paper examines the intermediate category that alignment research has come to call linguistic dri...

A Brief Genealogy of Scheming

Recently, alignment theory, which investigates the safety-relevant properties of the motivation of nonhuman intelligences, has been awash with a relatively novel technical term: scheming. In this paper I trace the genealogy of this term and its development within nonhuman intelli...