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tailcalled

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Non-copy­a­bil­ity as a se­cu­rity feature

tailcalled12 Oct 2025 9:03 UTC
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AI de­vel­op­ment as the first fully-au­to­mated job

tailcalled13 Aug 2025 16:45 UTC
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Against Infrabayesianism

tailcalled5 Jul 2025 8:03 UTC
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Knock­ing Down My AI Op­ti­mist Strawman

tailcalled8 Feb 2025 10:52 UTC
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My Men­tal Model of AI Op­ti­mist Opinions

tailcalled29 Jan 2025 18:44 UTC
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Evolu­tion’s se­lec­tion tar­get de­pends on your weighting

tailcalled19 Nov 2024 18:24 UTC
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Em­pa­thy/​Sys­tem­iz­ing Quo­tient is a poor/​bi­ased model for the autism/​sex link

tailcalled4 Nov 2024 21:11 UTC
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Bi­nary en­cod­ing as a sim­ple ex­plicit con­struc­tion for superposition

tailcalled12 Oct 2024 21:18 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ist Gnosticism

tailcalled10 Oct 2024 9:06 UTC
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RLHF is the worst pos­si­ble thing done when fac­ing the al­ign­ment problem

tailcalled19 Sep 2024 18:56 UTC
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[Question] Does life ac­tu­ally lo­cally *in­crease* en­tropy?

tailcalled16 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC
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Why I’m bear­ish on mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity: the shards are not in the network

tailcalled13 Sep 2024 17:09 UTC
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In defense of tech­nolog­i­cal un­em­ploy­ment as the main AI concern

tailcalled27 Aug 2024 17:58 UTC
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The causal back­bone conjecture

tailcalled17 Aug 2024 18:50 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ists are miss­ing a core piece for agent-like struc­ture (en­ergy vs in­for­ma­tion over­load)

tailcalled17 Aug 2024 9:57 UTC
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[LDSL#6] When is quan­tifi­ca­tion needed, and when is it hard?

tailcalled13 Aug 2024 20:39 UTC
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[LDSL#5] Com­par­i­son and mag­ni­tude/​diminishment

tailcalled12 Aug 2024 18:47 UTC
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[LDSL#4] Root cause anal­y­sis ver­sus effect size estimation

tailcalled11 Aug 2024 16:12 UTC
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[LDSL#3] In­for­ma­tion-ori­en­ta­tion is in ten­sion with mag­ni­tude-orientation

tailcalled10 Aug 2024 21:58 UTC
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[LDSL#2] La­tent vari­able mod­els, net­work mod­els, and lin­ear diffu­sion of sparse lognormals

tailcalled9 Aug 2024 19:57 UTC
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