Writeup: Progress on AI Safety via Debate

Beth Barnes and paulfchristiano

5 Feb 2020 21:04 UTC

77 points

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Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard

19 Mar 2020 23:20 UTC

76 points

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Simulacra and Subjectivity

5 Mar 2020 16:25 UTC

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic

14 Mar 2020 5:52 UTC

115 points

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Interfaces as a Scarce Resource

5 Mar 2020 18:20 UTC

112 points

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Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

Daniel Kokotajlo

1 Mar 2020 3:49 UTC

99 points

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Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

2 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC

85 points

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(rootsofprogress.org)

Reframing Impact

20 Sep 2019 19:03 UTC

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Seeing the Smoke

28 Feb 2020 18:26 UTC

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What cognitive biases feel like from the inside

3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC

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Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering

15 Feb 2020 17:27 UTC

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[Question] A ‘Practice of Rationality’ Sequence?

14 Feb 2020 22:56 UTC

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What can the principal-agent literature tell us about AI risk?

8 Feb 2020 21:28 UTC

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The Curse Of The Counterfactual

1 Nov 2019 18:34 UTC

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What Money Cannot Buy

1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

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AI Alignment 2018-19 Review

28 Jan 2020 2:19 UTC

138 points

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Technology Changes Constraints

25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC

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2018 Review: Voting Results!

24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC

128 points

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Becoming Unusually Truth-Oriented

3 Jan 2020 1:27 UTC

98 points

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Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

237 points

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