This year's posts
- Facts from ECB CH5: DNA and Chromosomes
- 'Dropping out' isn't a Plan
- On London
- Four Perspectives on Small Donors in EA
- Comparing Utilitarianism to Deontology is a Type Error
- When Learning a Skill Has Costs
- Facts from ECB CH4: Protein Structure and Function
- Removing My Bets Page
- Advice I Commonly Give People New To Alignment
- Facts from ECB CH3, Energy, Catalysis, and Biosynthesis
- Facts from ECB CH2, Chemical Components of Cells
- Transitioning Away From Veganism
- Facts from Essential Cell Biology Chapter 1, Cells: The Fundamental Units of Life
- Insights from Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
2021
- Notes On SMILE Eye Surgery
- Things That Should Be Destroyed
- How To Be (Semi)-Fashionable
- Retrospective On My 2020 FHI Research Scholar Application
- Owning Multiple Copies of Objects Can Reduce Attention Costs
- Coase's Theorem Means The Customer Doesn't Have To Always Be Right
- Overly Specific Reviews: Tongue Scrapers, Floss Picks, and Whiteboard Markers
- Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think
- Review: A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
- Quirks with the Solomonoff Prior
- Insights from Complications
- The Simulation Hypothesis Undercuts the SIA/Great Filter Doomsday Argument
- How well can people distinguish tastes?
- TAP Inventory
- Answering Questions Honestly in the Game of Life
- Style Guide: How to Sound Like an Evil Robot
- Signs that Something's Wrong
- If you weren't such a idiot...
- Buying Enough Snacks
- Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements
- Intermittent Distillations #4
- Anthropic Effects in Estimating Evolution Difficulty
- A Rough Perspective on Strategy Stealing
- The Wild World of Policy Debate
- Rogue AGI Embodies Valuable Intellectual Property
- An Intuitive Guide to Garrabrant Induction
- Intermittent Distillations #3
- Lumenator Recipe
- Pre-Training + Fine-Tuning Favors Deception
- Less Realistic Tales of Doom
- Making Markets Over Beliefs
- Agents Over Cartesian World Models
- Intermittent Distillations #2
- Meta-EA Needs Models
- RSS Feed
- Transparency Trichotomy
- Intermittent Distillations #1
- Strong Evidence is Common
- Open Problems in Myopia
- Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Goal-Directedness
- An Ode to My Parents
- Revenge of the Prediction Market
- Maslow First and the World Second
- How Simulacra Levels Increase
- Seriously, the Map is Not the Territory
- Some People Are Smarter Than You
- Coincidences are Improbable
- Be Reliable
- Definitions and Examples of Simulacra Levels
- Be Specific About Your Career
- Money Can't (Easily) Buy Talent
2020
- Interpolate Claims (Un)charitably
- The First Sample Gives the Most Information
- Defusing AGI Danger
- Chain Breaking
- CFAR Retrospective
- My Routine
- Be Responsible
- A Math Student's Guide to Options
- Be Goal-directed
- Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?
- Expected Money at Augur
- France Bet Postmortem
- Miscellaneous Mediocre Models
- The Solomonoff Prior is Malign
- Death is Bad
- Stories of my Life
- How to Construct Bets
- How to Buy Things
- These Legal Systems Do Not Exist
- AI Safety FAQs
- Be Stupid
- 100 Opinions About Emotions
- Be Perfect
- Review: Against the Grain
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Questions
- Review: Assorted Snacks
- Plans Never Err
- Three Things I've Learned About Bayes' Rule
- Stop Asking People To Maximize
- Resonant Quotations
- Contextualized Norms
- What I Want To Do With My Life
- In My Culture