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The Intelligence Curse: an essay series

L Rudolf L and lukedrago

Apr 24, 2025, 12:59 PM

72 points

33 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

VDT: a solution to decision theory

L Rudolf LApr 1, 2025, 9:04 PM

350 points

185 votes

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33 comments4 min readLW link

A History of the Future, 2025-2040

L Rudolf LFeb 17, 2025, 12:03 PM

238 points

107 votes

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42 comments75 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI

L Rudolf LDec 28, 2024, 5:52 PM

304 points

196 votes

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105 comments16 min readLW link

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Review: Planecrash

L Rudolf LDec 27, 2024, 2:18 PM

360 points

182 votes

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46 comments22 min readLW link

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Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

L Rudolf LDec 21, 2024, 5:17 PM

43 points

24 votes

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0 comments23 min readLW link

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Survival without dignity

L Rudolf LNov 4, 2024, 2:29 AM

385 points

223 votes

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29 comments15 min readLW link

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AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation

L Rudolf LOct 28, 2024, 9:08 PM

18 points

7 votes

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0 comments14 min readLW link

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AI & wisdom 2: growth and amortised optimisation

L Rudolf LOct 28, 2024, 9:07 PM

18 points

7 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

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AI & wisdom 1: wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI

L Rudolf LOct 28, 2024, 9:02 PM

29 points

11 votes

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0 comments15 min readLW link

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Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup

L Rudolf L and Florence Hinder

Sep 21, 2024, 3:29 PM

71 points

27 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

Positive visions for AI

L Rudolf L and Florence Hinder

Jul 23, 2024, 8:15 PM

27 points

15 votes

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4 comments18 min readLW link

(www.florencehinder.com)

Me, Myself, and AI: the Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs

L Rudolf L, bilalchughtai, Jan Betley, kaivu, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, AlexMeinke, Owain_Evans and Marius Hobbhahn

Jul 8, 2024, 10:24 PM

109 points

44 votes

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37 comments5 min readLW link

A model of research skill

L Rudolf LJan 8, 2024, 12:13 AM

60 points

28 votes

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6 comments12 min readLW link

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A Disneyland Without Children

L Rudolf LJun 4, 2023, 1:06 PM

129 points

75 votes

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12 comments20 min readLW link 4 reviews

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Why we’re not founding a human-data-for-alignment org

L Rudolf L and Matt Putz

Sep 27, 2022, 8:14 PM

88 points

36 votes

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6 comments29 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AI Risk Intro 2: Solving The Problem

CallumMcDougall and L Rudolf L

Sep 22, 2022, 1:55 PM

22 points

8 votes

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0 comments27 min readLW link

AI Risk Intro 1: Advanced AI Might Be Very Bad

CallumMcDougall and L Rudolf L

Sep 11, 2022, 10:57 AM

46 points

29 votes

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13 comments30 min readLW link

Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death

L Rudolf LAug 20, 2022, 9:13 PM

44 points

26 votes

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7 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

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Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

L Rudolf LApr 11, 2022, 8:27 PM

17 points

10 votes

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9 comments10 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

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