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MichaelDickens

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Where I Am Donat­ing in 2025

MichaelDickens28 Nov 2025 5:07 UTC
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Align­ment Boot­strap­ping Is Dangerous

MichaelDickens27 Nov 2025 18:18 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

We won’t solve non-al­ign­ment prob­lems by do­ing research

MichaelDickens21 Nov 2025 18:03 UTC
23 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Know­ing Whether AI Align­ment Is a One-Shot Prob­lem Is a One-Shot Problem

MichaelDickens17 Nov 2025 19:11 UTC
32 points
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Epistemic Spot Check: Ex­pected Value of Donat­ing to Alex Bores’s Con­gres­sional Campaign

MichaelDickens13 Nov 2025 19:08 UTC
57 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Things I’ve Be­come More Con­fi­dent About

MichaelDickens3 Nov 2025 3:52 UTC
7 points
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Out­live: A Crit­i­cal Review

MichaelDickens4 Jul 2025 2:14 UTC
67 points
4 comments27 min readLW link
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[Question] How con­cerned are you about a fast take­off due to a leap in hard­ware us­age?

MichaelDickens14 Jun 2025 1:15 UTC
9 points
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Why would AI com­pa­nies use hu­man-level AI to do al­ign­ment re­search?

MichaelDickens25 Apr 2025 19:12 UTC
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What AI safety plans are there?

MichaelDickens23 Apr 2025 22:58 UTC
17 points
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Retroac­tive If-Then Commitments

MichaelDickens1 Feb 2025 22:22 UTC
8 points
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A “slow take­off” might still look fast

MichaelDickens17 Feb 2023 16:51 UTC
5 points
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[Question] How much should I up­date on the fact that my den­tist is named Den­nis?

MichaelDickens26 Dec 2022 19:11 UTC
2 points
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[Question] Why does gra­di­ent de­scent always work on neu­ral net­works?

MichaelDickens20 May 2022 21:13 UTC
15 points
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MichaelDick­ens’s Shortform

MichaelDickens18 Oct 2021 18:26 UTC
2 points
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How can we in­crease the fre­quency of rare in­sights?

MichaelDickens19 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
19 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Should I pre­fer to get a tax re­fund, or not to?

MichaelDickens22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
1 point
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