adamShimi

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Epistemologist specialized in the difficulties of alignment and how to solve AI X-Risks. Currently at Conjecture.

Blogging at For Methods.

Robert Caro And Mechanistic Models In Biography

adamShimiJul 14, 2024, 10:56 AM

24 points

9 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Managing Emotional Potential Energy

adamShimiJul 10, 2024, 6:20 PM

24 points

11 votes

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The Golden Mean of Scientific Virtues

adamShimiJul 8, 2024, 5:16 PM

12 points

4 votes

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Minimalist And Maximalist Type Systems

adamShimiJul 5, 2024, 4:25 PM

17 points

8 votes

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Libs vs Frameworks, Middle-Level Regularities vs Theories

adamShimiJul 4, 2024, 7:01 PM

23 points

10 votes

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Static Analysis As A Lifestyle

adamShimiJul 3, 2024, 6:29 PM

65 points

35 votes

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Assigning Praise and Blame: Decoupling Epistemology and Decision Theory

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Jan 27, 2023, 6:16 PM

59 points

21 votes

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Lost in Innovation: The Case of Phlogiston

adamShimiJan 20, 2023, 12:19 PM

19 points

11 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

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Group-level Consequences of Psychological Problems

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Jan 19, 2023, 9:27 AM

28 points

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Confusing the ideal for the necessary

adamShimiJan 16, 2023, 5:29 PM

80 points

45 votes

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The special nature of special relativity

adamShimiJan 9, 2023, 5:30 PM

37 points

18 votes

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Reification bias

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Jan 9, 2023, 12:22 PM

25 points

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Nothing New: Productive Reframing

adamShimiJan 7, 2023, 6:43 PM

44 points

22 votes

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Opportunity Cost Blackmail

adamShimiJan 2, 2023, 1:48 PM

70 points

34 votes

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Proof as mere strong evidence

adamShimiDec 14, 2022, 8:56 AM

28 points

11 votes

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Psychological Disorders and Problems

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Dec 12, 2022, 6:15 PM

39 points

22 votes

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Confusing the goal and the path

adamShimiDec 12, 2022, 4:42 PM

44 points

20 votes

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Formalization as suspension of intuition

adamShimiDec 11, 2022, 3:16 PM

54 points

23 votes

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The First Filter

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Nov 26, 2022, 7:37 PM

67 points

41 votes

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What I Learned Running Refine

adamShimiNov 24, 2022, 2:49 PM

108 points

48 votes

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