Zack_M_Davis(Zack M. Davis)

The Evolu­tion of Hu­mans Was Net-Nega­tive for Hu­man Values

My In­ter­view With Cade Metz on His Re­port­ing About Slate Star Codex

“Deep Learn­ing” Is Func­tion Approximation

Agree­ing With Stalin in Ways That Ex­hibit Gen­er­ally Ra­tion­al­ist Principles

And All the Shog­goths Merely Players

On the Con­trary, Steel­man­ning Is Nor­mal; ITT-Pass­ing Is Niche

If Clar­ity Seems Like Death to Them

Ly­ing Align­ment Chart

Fake Deeply

Align­ment Im­pli­ca­tions of LLM Suc­cesses: a De­bate in One Act

Con­tra Yud­kowsky on Epistemic Con­duct for Author Criticism

As­sume Bad Faith

“Is There Any­thing That’s Worth More”

Lack of So­cial Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue

“Jus­tice, Cher­ryl.”

A Hill of Val­idity in Defense of Meaning

Blan­chard’s Danger­ous Idea and the Plight of the Lu­cid Crossdreamer

We Are Less Wrong than E. T. Jaynes on Loss Func­tions in Hu­man Society

Bayesian Net­works Aren’t Ne­c­es­sar­ily Causal

“You’ll Never Per­suade Peo­ple Like That”