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The Bel­l­man equa­tion does not ap­ply to bounded rationality

Christopher KingJun 26, 2025, 11:01 PM
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Futarchy us­ing a sealed-bid auc­tion to avoid liquidity problems

Christopher KingJun 16, 2025, 1:34 AM
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The Way You Go Depends A Good Deal On Where You Want To Get: FEP min­i­mizes sur­prise about ac­tions us­ing prefer­ences about the fu­ture as *ev­i­dence*

Christopher KingApr 27, 2025, 9:55 PM
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METR’s pre­limi­nary eval­u­a­tion of o3 and o4-mini

Christopher KingApr 16, 2025, 8:23 PM
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[Question] How far along Metr’s law can AI start au­tomat­ing or helping with al­ign­ment re­search?

Christopher KingMar 20, 2025, 3:58 PM
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No, the Poly­mar­ket price does not mean we can im­me­di­ately con­clude what the prob­a­bil­ity of a bird flu pan­demic is. We also need to know the in­ter­est rate!

Christopher KingDec 28, 2024, 4:05 PM
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How I saved 1 hu­man life (in ex­pec­ta­tion) with­out over­think­ing it

Christopher KingDec 22, 2024, 8:53 PM
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Christo­pher King’s Shortform

Christopher KingDec 18, 2024, 9:02 PM
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LDT (and ev­ery­thing else) can be irrational

Christopher KingNov 6, 2024, 4:05 AM
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Acausal Now: We could to­tally acausally bar­gain with aliens at our cur­rent tech level if desired

Christopher KingAug 9, 2023, 12:50 AM
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Ne­cro­mancy’s un­in­tended con­se­quences.

Christopher KingAug 9, 2023, 12:08 AM
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How do low level hy­pothe­ses con­strain high level ones? The mys­tery of the dis­ap­pear­ing di­a­mond.

Christopher KingJul 11, 2023, 7:27 PM
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Challenge pro­posal: small­est pos­si­ble self-hard­en­ing back­door for RLHF

Christopher KingJun 29, 2023, 4:56 PM
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An­throp­i­cally Blind: the an­thropic shadow is re­flec­tively inconsistent

Christopher KingJun 29, 2023, 2:36 AM
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Solomonoff in­duc­tion still works if the uni­verse is un­com­putable, and its use­ful­ness doesn’t re­quire know­ing Oc­cam’s razor

Christopher KingJun 18, 2023, 1:52 AM
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De­mys­tify­ing Born’s rule

Christopher KingJun 14, 2023, 3:16 AM
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Cur­rent AI harms are also sci-fi

Christopher KingJun 8, 2023, 5:49 PM
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In­fer­ence from a Math­e­mat­i­cal De­scrip­tion of an Ex­ist­ing Align­ment Re­search: a pro­posal for an outer al­ign­ment re­search program

Christopher KingJun 2, 2023, 9:54 PM
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The un­spo­ken but ridicu­lous as­sump­tion of AI doom: the hid­den doom assumption

Christopher KingJun 1, 2023, 5:01 PM
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[Question] What pro­jects and efforts are there to pro­mote AI safety re­search?

Christopher KingMay 24, 2023, 12:33 AM
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