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- 19:14, 22 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+503) . . N Emotional difficulties of AI safety research (Created page with "listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the AI safety community * Predicting the future is hard * One cannot...")
- 21:39, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+853) . . N Is AI safety no longer a scenius? (Created page with "Back in the 1990s up until 2013 or so, AI safety work was almost entirely a volunteer effort that I believe fit many of the [https://github.com/mnielsen/finding_scenius/blob/m...")
- 21:32, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+391) . . N Scenius (Created page with "'''Scenius''' is a term used in contrast to "genius", to emphasize that great work is often accomplished not solely by intrinsic talent, but by being embedded in a social cont...")
- 19:46, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+368) . . N Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit (Created page with "'''Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit'''. It's hard to start a habit, and hard to maintain a habit. But unlike many habits, spaced repetition is one...")
- 18:53, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+425) . . N Spaced repetition constantly reminds one of inadequacies (Created page with "Atomic cards allow different pieces of knowledge to be scheduled at different intervals. Easy cards get spaced out a lot, which means you are often stuck working through and s...")
- 18:51, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+271) . . N Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition (Created page with "* Feeling like a perpetual student in a subject due to spaced repetition * [[Competence vs learning distinction means spaced repetition feels like effort without progress]...")
- 18:49, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+888) . . N Feeling like a perpetual student in a subject due to spaced repetition (Created page with "Spaced repetition is great, because it allows you to remember the things you study for a long time. But also it comes with many Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition|e...")
- 20:54, 15 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+255) . . N Debates shift bystanders' beliefs (Created page with "the reason MIRI vs Paul Christiano debates are useful isn't to shift MIRI or paul; it's so that new people coming into AI safety will pick the "correct" agenda to work...")
- 03:11, 6 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+862) . . N Spaced repetition is not about memorization (Created page with "'''Spaced repetition isn't about memorization''': this is somewhat of a clickbait title. It's more accurate to say "Spaced repetition isn't ''just'' about memorization, or eve...")
- 01:01, 5 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+250) . . N Importance of knowing about AI takeoff (Created page with "'''Importance of knowing about AI takeoff''' is about the "so what?" of knowing which AI takeoff scenario will happen. How will our actions change if we expect a FOOM...")
- 21:58, 2 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+197) . . N Representing impossibilities (Created page with "if you want to do a proof by contradiction, you somehow have to visually represent impossible situations! ==See also== * Explorable explanation * Finiteness assumption...")
- 22:59, 1 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Takeoff speeds (Redirected page to AI takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:58, 1 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Takeoff speed (Redirected page to AI takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 18:55, 27 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . N Video games work with finite and discrete objects (Redirected page to Finiteness assumption in explorable media) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 18:55, 27 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Video games comparison to math (Created page with "* Video games allow immediate exploration * Video games work with finite and discrete objects Category:Learning")
- 23:03, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . N Humans consulting HCH (Redirected page to HCH) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:02, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+284) . . N HCH (Created page with "'''HCH''' (a recursive acronym for '''humans consulting HCH''') is a theoretical scheme for amplification, where a human performs tasks by consulting a team of other human...")
- 22:59, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+138) . . N Paul Christiano (Created page with "'''Paul Christiano''' is an AI safety researcher, previously at OpenAI and currently for some unknown project. Category:AI safety")
- 22:57, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+299) . . N Christiano's operationalization of slow takeoff (Created page with ""There will be a complete 4 year interval in which world output doubles, before the first 1 year interval in which world output doubles. (Similarly, we’ll see an 8 year doub...")
- 03:28, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+746) . . N Scaling hypothesis (Created page with "The '''scaling hypothesis''' is one of several statements stating roughly that once we find some "scalable" architecture, throwing more computing power and data at a problem t...")
- 01:08, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+32) . . N Continuous AI takeoff (Redirected page to Continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 01:07, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,047) . . N Changing selection pressures argument (Created page with "The '''changing selection pressures argument''' is an argument for continuous AI takeoff. It states that during most of hominid evolution, evolution was not optimizing for...")
- 23:42, 19 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+287) . . N Make Anki cards based on feedback you receive (Created page with "Something I thought of while working through Exercism: when someone gives you good feedback, it should go in Anki so that you don't forget this insight. It can take a bit...")
- 01:37, 4 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+766) . . N Use temporary separate Anki decks to learn new cards based on priority (Created page with "if you want to prioritize some cards over another, you can set up separate decks so that you only get e.g. 2 new cards from a low-priority deck but 10 new cards from a high-pr...")
- 21:35, 2 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+948) . . N Card sharing allows less valuable cards to be created (Created page with "With Anki deck sharing and with things like Quantum Country and Orbit, there is just a single card/problem creator but many consumers. This makes it possible to ju...")
- 21:16, 30 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+799) . . N Dual ratings for spaced inbox (Created page with "Dual ratings for incremental reading and spaced inbox? One for insightfulness and one for whether you still remembered the idea. E.g. today's incremental reading card abou...")
- 07:13, 21 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,245) . . N Add all permutations of a card to prevent pattern-matching (Created page with "One of the common problems when writing cards (especially cloze deletion cards) is that the brain just pattern-matches the "shape" of a card without really processing the...")
- 20:46, 17 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+969) . . N Unintended consequences of AI safety advocacy argument against AI safety (Created page with "I first heard this argument made by Michael Nielsen, that AI safety advocacy has increased the amount of work done on AI capabilities without actually increasing the s...")
- 18:38, 17 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+534) . . N Anki reviews are more fun on mobile (Created page with "For reasons I don't yet understand, I find Anki reviews to be much more fun/motivating on a mobile device than on my laptop, even though I prefer my laptop for almost ever...")
- 03:43, 13 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+705) . . N List of reasons something isn't popular or successful (Created page with "(i probably need a better title for the thing i am trying to point to) * from [https://www.facebook.com/groups/674486385982694/permalink/761458527285479/?comment_id=763779440...")
- 02:19, 5 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+484) . . N Switching costs of various kinds of software (Created page with "I've been thinking about switching costs of software ever since I saw [https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-studio-code/#fn:whytexteditorshavechurn this f...")
- 02:30, 16 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . N Category:Public discourse (Created page with "Page about public discourse.") (current)
- 07:34, 14 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,132) . . N Expert response heuristic for prompt writing (Created page with "The '''expert response heuristic for prompt writing''' says that when writing spaced repetition prompts, the prompt should be answerable by an expert in the subject who kn...")
- 20:59, 13 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N Using spaced repetition to improve public discourse (Created page with "some random ideas i came up with: * an "i want a reply to this" button on public forums, that if it crosses some threshold (set by the user) would notify them at spaced inter...")
- 00:55, 9 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . N Medium that reveals its flaws (Issa moved page Medium that reveals its flaws to Medium that reveals flaws) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:08, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Learning complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Teaching complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Teaching-complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,643) . . N Learning-complete (Created page with "An idea I've been toying with, in analogy with terms like "NP-complete" from complexity theory: some learning/teaching tasks seem to have a universality to them, such that onc...")
- 01:39, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+209) . . N Tao Analysis Solutions (Created page with "'''Tao Analysis Solutions''' is my blog where I post solutions to Terence Tao's ''Analysis I''. ==External links== * [taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Link to blog] Category:Co...")
- 01:17, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+520) . . N Asynchronous support (Created page with "One thing I don't like about blog posts is that if you come across one that was written years ago and comment on it asking a question, you are pretty unlikely to get a reply....")
- 01:13, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+746) . . N Distillation is not enough (Created page with "I think there's a somewhat popular meme in some rationalist circles that goes something like: "To make intellectual progress, we just need to create a space where people c...")
- 01:01, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+242) . . N Existential win (Created page with "'''Existential win''' is a phrase that is sometimes used to refer to the state where humanity has successfully navigated existential risks and has now reached a stable poi...")
- 01:00, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Human safety (Redirected page to Human safety problem) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:58, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+499) . . N Will it be possible for humans to detect an existential win? (Created page with "'''Will it be possible for humans to detect an existential win?''' If we take metaphilosophy and human safety issues seriously, then in many scenarios where humanity d...")
- 20:15, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+51) . . N Soft alarm clock (Redirected page to Spaced repetition as soft alarm clock) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:08, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+541) . . N Mapping mental motions to parts of a spaced repetition algorithm (Created page with "When reviewing in my spaced writing inbox, sometimes i am like, "oh i would deal with this item if i had more energy, but not right now". should i just press "good"? or is...")
- 20:05, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+502) . . N Snoozing epicycle (Created page with "When reviewing in my spaced writing inbox, sometimes i am like, "oh i would deal with this item if i had more energy, but not right now". should i just press "good"? or is...")
- 19:59, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+349) . . N Spaced inbox ideas (Created page with "essential features/"main modes" for a note taking/spaced inbox app? * daily notes/org capture/wordpress p2 theme/single place where new thoughts go in, with ability to just s...")
- 01:28, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+36) . . N Guided by the beauty of our weapons (Redirected page to Asymmetric institution) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
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