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trevor

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“A Muggle security expert would have called it fence-post security, like building a fence-post over a hundred metres high in the middle of the desert. Only a very obliging attacker would try to climb the fence-post. Anyone sensible would just walk around the fence-post, and making the fence-post even higher wouldn’t stop that.” —HPMOR, Ch. 115

(Not to be confused with the Trevor who works at Open Phil)

[Question] What key nu­tri­ents are re­quired for daily en­ergy?

trevor20 Sep 2022 23:30 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best time-effi­cient al­ter­na­tive to the Se­quences?

trevor16 Dec 2022 20:17 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

There have been 3 planes (billion­aire donors) and 2 have crashed

trevor17 Dec 2022 3:58 UTC
16 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Why is Every­one So Bor­ing? By Robin Hanson

trevor6 Feb 2023 4:17 UTC
54 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Many im­por­tant tech­nolo­gies start out as sci­ence fic­tion be­fore be­com­ing real

trevor10 Feb 2023 9:36 UTC
26 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The best way so far to ex­plain AI risk: The Precipice (p. 137-149)

trevor10 Feb 2023 19:33 UTC
50 points
2 comments17 min readLW link

NYT: A Con­ver­sa­tion With Bing’s Chat­bot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

trevor16 Feb 2023 22:57 UTC
53 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] Are there ra­tio­nal­ity tech­niques similar to star­ing at the wall for 4 hours?

trevor24 Feb 2023 11:48 UTC
31 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

NYT: Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pan­demic, En­ergy Dept. Says

trevor26 Feb 2023 21:21 UTC
17 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Strong Cheap Signals

trevor29 Mar 2023 14:18 UTC
29 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(betonit.substack.com)

[Question] What could EA’s new name be?

trevor2 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC
17 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

10 rea­sons why lists of 10 rea­sons might be a win­ning strategy

trevor6 Apr 2023 21:24 UTC
101 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

All images from the WaitButWhy se­quence on AI

trevor8 Apr 2023 7:36 UTC
72 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the best source to ex­plain short AI timelines to a skep­ti­cal per­son?

trevor13 Apr 2023 4:29 UTC
12 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Fi­nan­cial Times: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

trevor13 Apr 2023 19:55 UTC
103 points
17 comments16 min readLW link
(www.ft.com)

Buy­ing Tall-Poppy-Cut­ting Offsets

trevor20 May 2023 3:59 UTC
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

One ex­am­ple of how LLM pro­pa­ganda at­tacks can hack the brain

trevor16 Aug 2023 21:41 UTC
24 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Assess­ment of in­tel­li­gence agency func­tion­al­ity is difficult yet important

trevor24 Aug 2023 1:42 UTC
47 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion war­fare his­tor­i­cally re­volved around hu­man conduits

trevor28 Aug 2023 18:54 UTC
37 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety is Drop­ping the Ball on Clown Attacks

trevor22 Oct 2023 20:09 UTC
71 points
72 comments34 min readLW link