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Wei Dai(Wei Dai)

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UDT shows that de­ci­sion the­ory is more puz­zling than ever

Wei Dai13 Sep 2023 12:26 UTC
192 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Meta Ques­tions about Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai1 Sep 2023 1:17 UTC
146 points
74 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why doesn’t China (or didn’t any­one) en­courage/​man­date elas­tomeric res­pi­ra­tors to con­trol COVID?

Wei Dai17 Sep 2022 3:07 UTC
34 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to bet against civ­i­liza­tional ad­e­quacy?

Wei Dai12 Aug 2022 23:33 UTC
53 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

AI ethics vs AI alignment

Wei Dai26 Jul 2022 13:08 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A broad basin of at­trac­tion around hu­man val­ues?

Wei Dai12 Apr 2022 5:15 UTC
107 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei Dai2 Dec 2021 6:35 UTC
188 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

(USA) N95 masks are available on Amazon

Wei Dai18 Jan 2021 10:37 UTC
54 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Anti-EMH Ev­i­dence (and a plea for help)

Wei Dai5 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC
94 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

A tale from Com­mu­nist China

Wei Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
251 points
65 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Every­thing I Know About Elite Amer­ica I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

Wei Dai11 Oct 2020 18:07 UTC
44 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] Tips/​tricks/​notes on op­ti­miz­ing investments

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC
83 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Have epistemic con­di­tions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC
205 points
106 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Against Pre­ma­ture Ab­strac­tion of Poli­ti­cal Issues

Wei Dai18 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC
84 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What de­ter­mines the bal­ance be­tween in­tel­li­gence sig­nal­ing and virtue sig­nal­ing?

Wei Dai9 Dec 2019 0:11 UTC
69 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Ways that China is sur­pass­ing the US

Wei Dai4 Nov 2019 9:45 UTC
60 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(palladiummag.com)

List of re­solved con­fu­sions about IDA

Wei Dai30 Sep 2019 20:03 UTC
94 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t de­pend on oth­ers to ask for explanations

Wei Dai18 Sep 2019 19:12 UTC
77 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Or­a­cles = on­line su­per­vised learn­ing with ran­dom se­lec­tion of train­ing episodes

Wei Dai10 Sep 2019 8:29 UTC
48 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety “Suc­cess Sto­ries”

Wei Dai7 Sep 2019 2:54 UTC
116 points
27 comments4 min readLW link1 review