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2024

A model of commitmentsoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2024
Preference utilitarians should care about the preferences of past peopleoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2024

2022

How to do theoretical research, a personal perspectiveoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2022
Facts from Essential Cell Biology CH5: DNA and chromosomesoriginal ↗
3 May 2022
On Londonoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2022
Comparing utilitarianism to deontology is a type errororiginal ↗
7 Feb 2022
Facts from Essential Cell Biology CH4: protein structure and functionoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2022
Advice I commonly give people new to AI alignmentoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2022
Facts from Essential Cell Biology CH3: energy, catalysis, and biosynthesisoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2022
Facts from Essential Cell Biology CH2: chemical components of cellsoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2022
Facts from Essential Cell Biology CH1: cells, the fundamental units of lifeoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022
Insights from Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performanceoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2022

2021

Notes on SMILE eye surgeryoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2021
Coase's theorem means the customer doesn't have to always be rightoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2021
Your time might be more valuable than you thinkoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2021
Review: A Really Short History of Nearly Everythingoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2021
Quirks with the Solomonoff priororiginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
Insights from Complicationsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
The simulation hypothesis undercuts the SIA/Great Filter doomsday argumentoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2021
Answering questions honestly in the Game of Lifeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2021
Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirementsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2021
Intermittent distillations #4original ↗
8 Jul 2021
Anthropic effects in estimating evolution difficultyoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
A rough perspective on strategy stealingoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2021
The wild world of policy debateoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2021
Rogue AGI embodies valuable intellectual propertyoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2021
An intuitive guide to Garrabrant inductionoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2021
Intermittent distillations #3original ↗
15 May 2021
Pre-Training + fine-tuning favors deceptionoriginal ↗
8 May 2021
Agents over Cartesian world modelsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2021
Intermittent distillations #2original ↗
13 Apr 2021
Transparency trichotomyoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
Intermittent distillations #1original ↗
16 Mar 2021
Strong evidence is commonoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2021
Open problems in myopiaoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2021
Towards a mechanistic understanding of goal-directednessoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
How simulacra levels increaseoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2021
Coincidences are improbableoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021
Definitions and examples of simulacra levelsoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
Money can't (easily) buy talentoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2021

2020

Chain breakingoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2020
Defusing AGI dangeroriginal ↗
24 Dec 2020
The first sample gives the most informationoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2020
A math student's guide to optionsoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2020
Does SGD produce deceptive alignment?original ↗
6 Nov 2020
The Solomonoff prior is malignoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
Flavors of choiceoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
Fixed point theoremsoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
Löb's theoremoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
Review: Against the Grainoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
Plans never erroriginal ↗
5 Aug 2020
Three things I've learned about Bayes' ruleoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
Stop asking people to maximizeoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
Contextualized normsoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2020