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Yair Halberstadt(Yair Halberstadt)

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Posts mostly crossposted from my substack.

[Question] Best non-text­books on ev­ery subject

Yair Halberstadt4 Apr 2022 11:54 UTC
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Save Hu­man­ity! Breed Sapi­ent Oc­to­puses!

Yair Halberstadt5 Apr 2022 18:39 UTC
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[Question] Challenge: Does ChatGPT ever claim that a bad out­come for hu­man­ity is ac­tu­ally good?

Yair Halberstadt22 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC
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Heuris­tic: Re­place “No Ev­i­dence” with “No Rea­son”

Yair Halberstadt15 Feb 2021 21:25 UTC
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The op­ti­mal an­gle for a so­lar boiler is differ­ent than for a so­lar panel

Yair Halberstadt10 Nov 2022 10:32 UTC
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Book Re­view: 1948 by Benny Morris

Yair Halberstadt3 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC
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Linkpost: Robin Han­son—Why Not Wait On AI Risk?

Yair Halberstadt24 Jun 2022 14:23 UTC
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(www.overcomingbias.com)

De­sign policy to be testable

Yair Halberstadt31 Jan 2022 6:04 UTC
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[Question] How would you build Dath Ilan on earth?

Yair Halberstadt29 May 2022 7:26 UTC
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To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair Halberstadt4 Oct 2021 18:42 UTC
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Fal­ling fer­til­ity ex­pla­na­tions and Israel

Yair Halberstadt3 Apr 2024 3:27 UTC
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Aver­age util­i­tar­i­anism is non-local

Yair Halberstadt31 Oct 2022 16:36 UTC
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Schools prob­a­bly do do something

Yair Halberstadt26 Sep 2021 7:21 UTC
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Agen­tic GPT simu­la­tions: a risk and an opportunity

Yair Halberstadt22 Mar 2023 6:24 UTC
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Com­bin­ing the best of Ge­or­gian and Har­berger taxes

Yair Halberstadt12 Aug 2021 5:55 UTC
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Is it jus­tifi­able for non-ex­perts to have strong opinions about Gaza?

Yair Halberstadt and Adam Zerner
8 Jan 2024 17:31 UTC
23 points
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La­men­ta­tions, Gaza and Empathy

Yair Halberstadt7 Aug 2022 7:55 UTC
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What would hap­pen if we abol­ished the FDA to­mor­row?

Yair Halberstadt14 Sep 2022 15:22 UTC
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Par­li­a­ments with­out the Parties

Yair Halberstadt19 Jun 2022 14:06 UTC
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[Question] If there was a mil­len­nium equiv­a­lent prize for AI al­ign­ment, what would the prob­lems be?

Yair Halberstadt9 Jun 2022 16:56 UTC
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