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- 18:24, 2 August 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+101) . . N Tips for reviving a spaced repetition practice (Created page with " ==See also== * Continually make new cards Category:Spaced repetition Category:Command")
- 18:22, 2 August 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+1,358) . . N Continually make new cards (Created page with "In Anki, having a fresh stream of new cards seems important for keeping up the daily habit. I went through a period where I barely reviewed my cards at all, and the review...")
- 08:53, 14 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+75) . . N Spaced inbox review should not be completionist (Issa moved page Spaced inbox review should not be completionist to Spaced inbox review should not be completionist or obligatory) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 08:49, 14 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+508) . . N Spaced inbox review should not be completionist or obligatory (Created page with "Seeing the number of cards that are due in Anki feels opressive... like, "i have all these cards due and that means i'm not even meeting the 90% retention rate!!!" or somethin...")
- 23:25, 3 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+1,050) . . N Spaced repetition response as chat message or chat reaction (Created page with "From [https://github.com/riceissa/spaced-inbox/blob/9ff26b5cf51b6fed52877233ae41384262609355/schema.sql#L46-L56 here]: <pre>The responses are intended to mimic the kinds of r...")
- 23:06, 3 February 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+877) . . N Finding the right primitives for spaced repetition responses (Created page with "incremental reading in SM doesn't distinguish between "i don't want to read this because i'm just not in a mathy mood right now" and "i don't want to read this because i'v...")
- 19:20, 20 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+254) . . N Late 2021 MIRI conversations (Created page with "https://www.lesswrong.com/s/n945eovrA3oDueqtq {| class="wikitable" ! Title !! Summary !! Things that were interesting to me !! Further reading |- | |} ==See also== ==What l...")
- 22:25, 12 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+144) . . N How similar are human brains to chimpanzee brains? (Created page with ""because our brains are so similar to those of chimps" https://www.lesswrong.com/s/n945eovrA3oDueqtq/p/gf9hhmSvpZfyfS34B Category:AI safety") (current)
- 18:16, 1 April 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+6,187) . . N Application of functional updateless timeless decision theory to everyday life (Created page with "While the application of functional/updateless/timeless decision theory to decision-...")
- 20:55, 18 March 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+172) . . N Doomer argument against AI safety (Created page with "Example: https://www.facebook.com/ozzie.gooen/posts/10166018642385363 ==See also== ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Category:AI safety") (current)
- 14:42, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+244) . . N Minimal AGI (Created page with " the term "minimal aligned AGI" was used in https://intelligence.org/2017/12/01/miris-2017-fundraiser/ ==External links== ==References== <references/> ==What links here=...") (current)
- 14:29, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+468) . . N Pivotal act (Created page with "A '''pivotal act''' is (putting down my guess here) something that allows a single entity (?) to take over the world? form a singleton? prevent others from taking over the...")
- 11:13, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+611) . . N Aligning smart AI using slightly less smart AI (Created page with "A strategy that some (who focus on machine learning safety) have cited for their relative optimism on the difficulty of AI alignment: we humans wouldn't need to direct...")
- 10:59, 26 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Difficulty of AI alignment (Created page with " Category:AI safety")
- 12:18, 7 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+371) . . N Comparison of pedagogical scenes (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Name !! Medium !! Focus on explanation vs creating/doing? !! Focus on analyzing explanations? |- | Generic pedagogy || |- | Tools for though...")
- 11:22, 6 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . N Category:Therapy and meditation (Created page with "i think of therapy and meditation as being pretty similar, so pages about that. i've also heard "metatherapy" as a term for this. i wish there was a better term to use here.") (current)
- 11:10, 6 February 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+492) . . N Instruction manuals vs giving the answers (Created page with "something i've noticed that's odd about https://meditationbook.page/ is that it's written as an instruction manual (like "follow these steps") rather than giving the answers (...")
- 04:01, 9 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+607) . . N Braid (Created page with "With Braid, you learn actual things. And you can tell this because you can immediately re-solve puzzles you've solved before. Contrast this with Stephen's Sausage Roll or...")
- 23:41, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+210) . . N Philosophical difficulty (Created page with "I find that people besides Wei Dai seem to just sort of ignore this problem ==See also== * Human safety problem ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLP...")
- 23:38, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+184) . . N Weird recursion (Created page with ""mistrust of weird recursions" (see Eliezer's comment on Paul agenda FAQ) ==See also== ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Category:AI...") (current)
- 23:37, 8 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+242) . . N Number of relevant actors around the time of creation of AGI (Created page with "* How many groups will plausibly be "in the running" to be the first to reach AGI? * This number has implications for ease of coordination. ==See also== ==What links here==...") (current)
- 20:05, 5 November 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+395) . . N Tricky examples in basic probability (Created page with "* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dkrfGqJrGRx2HsLpe/rafael-harth-s-shortform?commentId=tjkEbsuGjZK22a84W * Monty Hall problem * https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/wiki/User:I...") (current)
- 00:18, 25 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+63) . . N Deliberate practice for math (Issa moved page Deliberate practice for math to Deliberate practice for learning proof-based math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 19:59, 24 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+370) . . N Deliberate practice for learning proof-based math (Created page with "What would a deliberate practice for math look like? Specifically, while self-studying undergraduate-level and graduate-level proof-based math. ==Some difficulties with apply...")
- 17:24, 15 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+846) . . N Can the behavior of approval-direction be undefined or random? (Created page with "In approval-direction, what if the behavior turns out to be undefined/random? This could happen if the human can be convinced to give high approval to basically ''every''...") (current)
- 22:40, 14 October 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+329) . . N Credit card research 2021 (Created page with "In October 2021 I did some research on getting a credit card for the first time. ==Reasons I hadn't bothered getting a credit card until now== ==Reasons I decided to get a c...")
- 20:00, 29 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+266) . . N Tao Analysis Flashcards (Created page with "* Website: https://riceissa.github.io/tao-analysis-flashcards/ * Announcement blog post: https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/announcing-tao-analysis-flashcards/ ==Wh...") (current)
- 05:58, 27 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+229) . . N List of interesting search engines (Created page with "* https://searchmysite.net/ -- search engine for personal/independent sites * https://wiby.me/ -- search engine for JavaScript-free/1990s-looking sites * https://search.margin...")
- 07:57, 24 September 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+892) . . N Fractally misfit (Created page with "Some people ("socially well-adjusted people") fit into the default/mainstream society and are popular/charismatic/well-liked to some degree. Of the remaining people ("the misf...")
- 00:24, 20 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+936) . . N You don't need to eat your own dogfood in explanation science (Created page with "Sometimes people like to criticize a piece ''about pedagogy'' (i.e. not a pedagogical piece itself) by saying it's difficult to understand, or that it doesn't follow its own r...") (current)
- 21:25, 15 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+458) . . N Fake motivation (Created page with "Something that really bugs me about math exposition is when people attempt to give a motivation and believe they've succeeded when in fact the audience isn't really motivated....")
- 21:19, 15 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . N Definitions last (Created page with "There's [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Examples_first examples first] and [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Define_then_discuss define then discuss], but another principl...")
- 20:22, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N Bury cards to speed up review (Issa moved page Bury cards to speed up review to Bury effortful cards to speed up review) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:19, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+358) . . N Single-model generality (Created page with "In machine learning, '''single-model generality''' is the kind of generality where literally the same model (i.e. weights in a neural network, or whatever) can be used to solv...") (current)
- 20:18, 11 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+500) . . N Single-architecture generality (Created page with "In machine learning, '''single-architecture generality''' (is there a standard term for this?) is the kind of generality where the same basic architecture can be trained separ...") (current)
- 23:36, 10 August 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,016) . . N Discovery fiction (Created page with "'''Discovery fiction''' is a style of pedagogy in which one presents a fictitious story about how someone could have invented an idea. <blockquote>However, there is another w...")
- 21:07, 30 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+54) . . N Category:Philosophy (Created page with "Pages about philosophy that don't fit under AI safety.") (current)
- 21:06, 30 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Desiderata for cognitive reductions (Issa moved page Desiderata for cognitive reductions to Desiderata for dissolving the question) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:41, 28 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Secret sauce (Redirected page to Secret sauce for intelligence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:16, 24 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+271) . . N What counts as good motivation? (Created page with "* It helps solve some interesting problem * there is some kind of inherent beauty or something fascinating about the thing * it explains some great mystery that you have ==Se...")
- 20:15, 24 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . N Page template (Created page with "==See also== ==External links== ==References== <references/> ==What links here== {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} [[Category:]]")
- 01:47, 23 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,541) . . N Big cards can be good for mathematical discovery (Created page with "I had an awful card about Wang coding from studying computability theory a few years ago (I was just learning how to use Anki for math back then). No surprise then that I kept...")
- 04:19, 16 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,294) . . N Exhaustive quizzing allows impatient learners to skip the reading (Created page with "A strong enough exhaustive quizzing system (e.g. Anki-like prompts that exhaustively cover the material) allows learning to be flip-flopped so that you try to answer questions...")
- 00:55, 16 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+232) . . N What makes a word explanation good? (Created page with "* Establishes the prerequisites/background the reader needs, and then builds on that background * Anticipates common misinterpretations/misconceptions and counters them ==See...")
- 03:53, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+289) . . N Explanation science (Created page with "'''Explanation science''' is a phrase that keeps entering my verbal loop. I think there is a science of writing great explanations. ==See also== * We still don't know how...")
- 02:26, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+792) . . N We still don't know how to systematically write great word explanations (Created page with "Word explanations are already great, but they are extremely rare and seem to require a very skilled explainer, and may only be possible for some topics. How can we (as a c...")
- 00:16, 12 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Extrapolation argument for AI timelines (Redirected page to Fractional progress argument for AI timelines) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:15, 28 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N Permutation trick (Redirected page to Add all permutations of a card to prevent pattern-matching) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 19:10, 21 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+639) . . N Word explanations are already great (Created page with "I was recently reading https://math.stackexchange.com/a/498790/35525 and it reminded me that explanations using only words (no pictures, no video, no interactivity, no animati...")
- 23:33, 18 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+121) . . N Robin Hanson (Created page with "''Robin Hanson''' is an economist who has also written a lot about the future including AI stuff. Category:AI safety")
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