Thomas Kwa

Karma: 1,271

Student at Caltech. Currently trying to get an AI safety inside view.

Utility functions and probabilities are entangled

Thomas Kwa26 Jul 2022 5:36 UTC

13 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions

Thomas Kwa5 May 2022 3:21 UTC

23 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Most problems don’t differ dramatically in tractability (under certain assumptions)

Thomas Kwa4 May 2022 0:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The case for turning glowfic into Sequences

Thomas Kwa27 Apr 2022 6:58 UTC

69 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

Mesa-utility functions might not be purely proxy goals

Thomas Kwa22 Apr 2022 22:16 UTC

12 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] (When) do high-dimensional spaces have linear paths down to local minima?

Thomas Kwa22 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC

12 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

How dath ilan coordinates around solving alignment

Thomas Kwa13 Apr 2022 4:22 UTC

50 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

5 Tips for Good Hearting

Thomas Kwa1 Apr 2022 19:47 UTC

25 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Can we simulate human evolution to create a somewhat aligned AGI?

Thomas Kwa28 Mar 2022 22:55 UTC

21 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC

83 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

The Box Spread Trick: Get rich slightly faster

Thomas Kwa1 Sep 2020 21:41 UTC

40 points

44 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas Kwa13 Jun 2020 0:03 UTC

12 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What past highly-upvoted posts are overrated today?

Thomas Kwa9 Jun 2020 21:25 UTC

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life?

Thomas Kwa20 May 2020 4:55 UTC

16 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

My experience with the “rationalist uncanny valley”

Thomas Kwa23 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC

64 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s Shortform

Thomas Kwa22 Mar 2020 23:19 UTC

2 points

56 comments1 min readLW link