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Rob Bensinger

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Communications @ MIRI. Unless otherwise indicated, my posts and comments here reflect my own views, and not necessarily my employer’s. (Though we agree about an awful lot.)

Leav­ing Orbit

Rob BensingerDec 6, 2021, 9:48 PM
50 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion with Eliezer Yud­kowsky on AGI interventions

Nov 11, 2021, 3:01 AM
328 points
253 comments34 min readLW link1 review

Ex­cerpts from Veyne’s “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?”

Rob BensingerNov 8, 2021, 8:23 PM
24 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

Tran­script for Ge­off An­ders and Anna Sala­mon’s Oct. 23 conversation

Rob BensingerNov 8, 2021, 2:19 AM
83 points
97 comments58 min readLW link

2020 PhilPapers Sur­vey Results

Rob BensingerNov 2, 2021, 5:00 AM
58 points
50 comments12 min readLW link

Nate Soares on the Ul­ti­mate New­comb’s Problem

Rob BensingerOct 31, 2021, 7:42 PM
57 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

Rob BensingerOct 30, 2021, 6:05 PM
38 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

MIRI/​OP ex­change about de­ci­sion theory

Rob BensingerAug 25, 2021, 10:44 PM
56 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

COVID/​Delta ad­vice I’m cur­rently giv­ing to friends

Rob BensingerAug 24, 2021, 3:46 AM
61 points
31 comments8 min readLW link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

Rob BensingerAug 10, 2021, 12:16 AM
163 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

Garrabrant and Shah on hu­man mod­el­ing in AGI

Rob BensingerAug 4, 2021, 4:35 AM
60 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: LW tran­script with run­ning commentary

Jun 27, 2021, 4:02 PM
30 points
0 comments51 min readLW link

“Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” sur­vey results

Rob BensingerJun 1, 2021, 8:02 PM
66 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Pre­dict re­sponses to the “ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” survey

Rob BensingerMay 28, 2021, 1:32 AM
44 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Sa­bien on “work-life” balance

Rob BensingerMay 20, 2021, 6:33 PM
57 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI lo­ca­tion op­ti­miza­tion (and re­lated top­ics) discussion

Rob BensingerMay 8, 2021, 11:12 PM
141 points
163 comments12 min readLW link

Scott Alexan­der 2021 pre­dic­tions: cal­ibra­tion and up­dat­ing exercise

Rob BensingerApr 29, 2021, 7:15 PM
19 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Thiel on se­crets and indefiniteness

Rob BensingerApr 20, 2021, 9:59 PM
60 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

2012 Robin Han­son com­ment on “In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion: Ev­i­dence and Im­port”

Rob BensingerApr 2, 2021, 4:26 PM
28 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Lo­gan Strohl on ex­er­cise norms

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 4:28 AM
64 points
30 comments3 min readLW link