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- 22:49, 19 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . N DSA (Redirected page to Decisive strategic advantage) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:01, 6 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Missing gear (Redirected page to Missing gear for intelligence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 01:05, 1 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+49) . . N AlphaGo as evidence of discontinuous takeoff (Created page with "blah. fill this in later. Category:AI safety")
- 21:29, 30 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,340) . . N Kanzi (Created page with ""Eliezer: Well, people have tried raising chimps in human surroundings, and they absorbed this mysterious capacity for abstraction that sets them apart from other chimps. Ther...")
- 22:21, 28 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+94) . . N Interaction reversal between knowledge and notes (Issa moved page Interaction reversal between knowledge and notes to Interaction reversal between knowledge-to-be-memorized and ideas-to-be-developed) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:15, 28 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+129) . . N Spaced everything (Created page with "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riceissa/issarice.com/master/drafts/spaced-repetition-world.txt Category:Spaced repetition")
- 21:49, 28 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,211) . . N Spaced writing inbox (Created page with "A '''spaced writing inbox''' is a writing inbox that has spaced repetition built in, so that one is reminded of items in the inbox at spaced intervals. ==Implementati...")
- 21:41, 28 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,275) . . N Interaction reversal between knowledge-to-be-memorized and ideas-to-be-developed (Created page with "There's something really deep/strange going on between Anki cards vs spaced writing inbox, that I haven't seen anyone (not even Andy) talk about when you review cards in Anki...")
- 16:44, 24 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+335) . . N Progress in self-improvement (Created page with ""Also an AI which recursively improves itself forever will probably be preceded by AIs which self improve to a lesser extent, so the field will be moving fast already." https:...")
- 00:16, 10 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+295) . . N MediaWiki:Common.js (Created page with "→Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load.: mw.loader.load('/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javasc...") (current)
- 00:15, 10 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+7,165) . . N MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css (Created page with "→See mw:Reference Tooltips: .rt-tooltip { position: absolute; z-index: 100; max-width: 350px; background: #fff; color: #222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5e...") (current)
- 00:14, 10 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+25,846) . . N MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js (Created page with "// See mw:Reference Tooltips // Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js ( function () { // enwiki settings var REF_LINK_SELECTOR = '.r...")
- 00:14, 8 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+63) . . N Keyhole argument against continuous takeoff (Redirected page to Narrow window argument against continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 01:29, 7 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+323) . . N Fractional progress argument for AI timelines (Created page with ""One way of estimating how many years something will take is to estimate what fraction of progress toward it has been made over a fixed number of years, then to extrapolate th...")
- 00:26, 7 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+740) . . N Politicization of AI (Created page with "'''Politicization of AI''' is a hypothetical concern that discussions about AI and AI risk will become politicized/politically polarized, similar to how discussions about clim...")
- 23:35, 6 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Understanding is discontinuous (Redirected page to Missing gear for intelligence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:34, 6 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Missing gear for intelligence (Created page with "'''Missing gear for intelligence''' Category:AI safety")
- 00:18, 6 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . N Make new cards when you get stuck (Created page with "When doing spaced proof review or even during normal Anki reviews, if you get stuck on a particular thing, that's a good thing to turn into a new (small) An...")
- 06:53, 3 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . N Missing gear vs secret sauce (Created page with "I want to distinguish between the following two framings: * missing gear/one wrong number function: * secret sauce for intelligence/small number of breakthroughs: Cate...")
- 21:11, 1 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+129) . . N List of success criteria for HRAD work (Created page with " ==See also== * Something like realism about rationality * Goalpost for usefulness of HRAD work Category:AI safety")
- 01:03, 30 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+88) . . N AI timelines (Created page with "For now, see List of disagreements in AI safety#AI timelines Category:AI safety")
- 22:34, 29 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+409) . . N Unreliability of online question-answering services makes it emotionally taxing to write up questions (Created page with "Online question-answering services are unreliable, and this unreliability makes it emotionally taxing to write up questions because you aren't sure if the time you spend w...")
- 22:30, 29 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+554) . . N Online question-answering services are unreliable (Created page with "In my experience,<ref>https://math.stackexchange.com/users/35525/riceissa?tab=questions</ref><ref>https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/273265/riceissa?tab=questions</ref><ref...")
- 08:59, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+526) . . N Ignore Anki add-ons to focus on fundamentals (Created page with "There are many add-ons available for Anki. So far I've ignored all of them; never in the past two years have I installed an add-on for Anki. It took me over a year I think...")
- 04:22, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,828) . . N Competence gap (Created page with "to what extent paul's approach looks like humans trying to align arbitrarily large black boxes ("corralling hostile superintelligences") vs humans+pretty smart aligned AIs try...")
- 01:07, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+464) . . N Corrigibility (Created page with "'''Corrigibility''' is a term used in AI safety with multiple/unclear meanings. I think the term was originally used by MIRI to mean something like an AI that allowed hum...")
- 00:48, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+209) . . N Highly reliable agent designs (Created page with "'''Highly reliable agent designs''' is the kind of pure-math research related to agency, etc. that is done at MIRI. List of disagreements in AI safety#Highly reliable agent...")
- 00:47, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N HRAD (Redirected page to Highly reliable agent designs) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:47, 27 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+472) . . N Goalpost for usefulness of HRAD work (Created page with "There's a pattern I see where: * people advocating HRAD research bring up historical cases like Turing, Shannon, etc. where formalization worked well * people arguing aga...")
- 05:55, 26 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Hardware overhang (Created page with "==See also== * Resource overhang Category:AI safety")
- 02:45, 26 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+461) . . N Resource overhang (Created page with " ==Resource overhang and AI takeoff== Whether we are already in hardware overhang / other "resource bonanza". So whether we are in overhang depends on whether future earl...")
- 20:25, 23 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Quick review (Redirected page to Bury cards to speed up review) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:51, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+63) . . N Soft takeoff keyhole (Redirected page to Narrow window argument against continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:50, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+63) . . N Continuous takeoff keyhole (Redirected page to Narrow window argument against continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:44, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,031) . . N Narrow window argument against continuous takeoff (Created page with " "When you fold a whole chain of differential equations in on itself like this, it should either peter out rapidly as improvements fail to yield further improvements, or else...")
- 03:27, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+116) . . N Anki deck options (Created page with "* Deck options for proof cards * Incremental reading in Anki#My deck options Category:Spaced repetition")
- 01:34, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . N Incremental reading (Created page with "* Incremental reading in Anki Category:Spaced repetition")
- 01:34, 22 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+506) . . N Spaced repetition allows graceful deprecation of experiments (Created page with "e.g. my cloze deletion "read only" cards weren't so useful and i eventually switched to a dedicated incremental reading deck. but i can still keep reviewing my old cloze c...")
- 21:55, 21 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+327) . . N List of breakthroughs plausibly needed for AGI (Created page with "* Looking at things like ''The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences'' and Judea Pearl's work on causality and trying to estimate how many insights are required to build...")
- 00:41, 21 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+288) . . N Intra-personal comparison test (Created page with "The '''intra-personal comparison test''' is a test of people watching skill. The test asks: given two pieces of work of varying quality produced by a single individual, ca...") (current)
- 00:38, 21 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+273) . . N Inter-personal comparison test (Created page with "The '''inter-personal comparison test''' is a test of people watching skill. Given two people who are superficially similar but in fact very different in quality, can some...")
- 00:31, 21 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . N People are bad (Created page with "people are bad, mayne Category:Truths") (current)
- 09:41, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+573) . . N Secret sauce for intelligence vs specialization in intelligence (Created page with "what is the relationship between the "you can't specialize in 'intelligence'" argument and "there are a small number of insights for AGI" (a.k.a. secret sauce for intelligen...")
- 09:27, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+29) . . N Kasparov Window (Issa moved page Kasparov Window to Kasparov window over redirect) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:17, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+696) . . N Science argument (Created page with "The '''science argument''' says that science is this general "architectural insight" which allowed humans to have much more control over the world, and that w...")
- 07:59, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+229) . . N Content sharing between AIs (Created page with "Part of the discussion about content vs architecture. some common points that get brought up: * content sharing is common in software engineering in general * conten...") (current)
- 07:27, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+448) . . N List of thought experiments in AI safety (Created page with "list of thought experiments: * dropping seed AGI into world without AGI; see Counterfactual of dropping a seed AI into a world without other capable AI * the analogy of t...") (current)
- 01:33, 20 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+620) . . N Mass shift to technical AI safety research is suspicious (Created page with "Back in 2008-2011 when people were talking about AI safety on LessWrong, there were multiple "singularity strategies" that were proposed, of which technical AI safety was...")
- 02:10, 19 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+87) . . N Generic advice is difficult to give but also important (Issa moved page Generic advice is difficult to give but also important to Giving advice in response to generic questions is difficult but important) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:29, 19 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+275) . . N Ongoing friendship and collaboration is important (Created page with "Ongoing friendship and collaboration is to be contrasted with one-off replies you might get from people if you post something. I think of of the reasons that AI safety is n...")
- 00:16, 19 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+29) . . N It is difficult to get feedback on published work (Created page with " Category:AI safety meta")
- 23:30, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+98) . . N It is difficult to find people to bounce ideas off of (Created page with "The people who can give the most useful feedback tend to be very busy Category:AI safety meta")
- 23:24, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,177) . . N Newcomers in AI safety are silent about their struggles (Created page with "It's actually pretty hard to find people openly complaining about how to get involved in AI safety. You can find some random comments, and there are occasional Facebook thread...")
- 23:05, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+825) . . N Giving advice in response to generic questions is difficult but important (Created page with "I've seen a few times people saying things like "Don't contact me with generic questions like 'What should I work on?' because I can't help you. I can answer more straightforw...")
- 21:51, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,008) . . N Nobody understands what makes people snap into AI safety (Created page with "Getting even slightly interested in AI safety is hard. You need to have a mind that can understand other important things like cryonics/anti-aging, Tegmark multiverse, con...")
- 21:41, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+464) . . N AI safety is harder than most things (Created page with "I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. Aft...")
- 21:32, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,219) . . N My take on RAISE (Created page with "From October 2018: * I'm generally optimistic about making things easier to understand/distilling things. So I like this general area that RAISE is working in. * I'm not sure...")
- 21:21, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+96) . . N Timeline of my involvement in AI safety (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Year !! Month !! Event |- | a |} Category:AI safety meta")
- 21:10, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+904) . . N AI safety lacks a space to ask stupid or ballsy questions (Created page with "(this page assumes that asking stupid or ballsy questions is important for learning/making intellectual progress) I think the way that voting and crossposting work on LessW...")
- 20:59, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,098) . . N There is pressure to rush into a technical agenda (Created page with "AI safety has a weird dynamic going on where: * Most likely, only a single technical agenda will actually be useful. The others will have been good in expectation (in like a...")
- 20:38, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+866) . . N Mixed messaging regarding independent thinking (Created page with "I think the AI safety community and effective altruism in general has some mixed messaging going on regarding whether it's good to be an "independent thinker". On one...") (current)
- 20:30, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+321) . . N AI safety is not a community (Created page with "When I am feeling especially cynical and upset, it feels like '''AI safety is not a community'''. What do I mean by this? Basically, I think I've been in communities before, a...")
- 20:23, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+319) . . N AI safety technical pipeline does not teach how to start having novel thoughts (Created page with "Currently, the AI safety community does not have an explicit mechanism for teaching new people how to start having novel thoughts. The implicit hope seems to be something...")
- 20:11, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . N Category:AI safety meta (Created page with "For thoughts about the AI safety community and doing work in AI safety.") (current)
- 20:06, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+73) . . N My current thoughts on the technical AI safety pipeline (outside academia) (Created page with "* There is room for something like RAISE Category:AI safety meta")
- 20:05, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+365) . . N There is room for something like RAISE (Created page with "Self-studying all of the technical prerequisites for technical AI safety research is hard. The most that people new to the field get are a list of textbooks. I think there...")
- 01:10, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Intelligence amplification (Created page with "https://nickbostrom.com/cognitive.pdf Category:AI safety") (current)
- 01:06, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+876) . . N List of critiques of iterated amplification (Created page with ""critique" in the sense of "specific objection" not "piece of writing containing multiple objections" places to look: * https://intelligence.org/2018/05/19/challenges-to-chr...")
- 00:19, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . N Using Anki for math (Created page with " Spaced proof review Category:Spaced repetition")
- 21:51, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+67) . . N Slow feedback cycle for spaced repetition (Redirected page to Spaced repetition experiments take months to complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:51, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+67) . . N Slow feedback loop for spaced repetition (Redirected page to Spaced repetition experiments take months to complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:42, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+843) . . N Flag things to fix during review (Created page with "one thing i do while doing my daily reviews: if i come across some incongruity or question while reviewing a card, i write down the question on the paper in front of me (i alw...")
- 08:53, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Parasitizing on popularity (Issa moved page Parasitizing on popularity to Popularity symbiosis) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:50, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+184) . . N Category:Learning (Created page with "This is for pages that should probably go on the Learning Subwiki but they are too opinionated as written, and should probably be toned down/rewritten in a more encyclopedic w...")
- 00:48, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+325) . . N Feynman technique fails when existing explanations are bad (Created page with "The [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Feynman_technique Feynman technique] is great when you really want to internalize something. But the technique has a problem when all ex...")
- 00:24, 16 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+876) . . N Spaced repetition prevents unrecalled unrecallables (Created page with "In analogy with the known unknowns vs unknown unknowns distinction, we might distinguish between the following: * recalled unrecallables: things that you are aware you can't...")
- 23:50, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+942) . . N Dealing with bad problems in spaced proof review (Created page with "Choosing the right problems is important if you want to make spaced proof review a habit. But what if you've added a bad prob...")
- 23:45, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+536) . . N Choosing problems for spaced proof review (Created page with "Spaced proof review takes a lot of effort to implement even if done correctly. One of the mistakes one can make is to choose problems which aren't worth solving over and o...")
- 22:20, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Fake review (Redirected page to Empty review) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:20, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+346) . . N Empty review (Created page with "An '''empty review''' or '''fake review''' is a review of a card in Anki where you just press "Good" without thinking it through. This is most useful when reviewing big...")
- 07:19, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+887) . . N Spaced proof review is not about memorizing proofs (Created page with "Spaced proof review involves proving a result at spaced intervals with the help of Anki. And Anki is about memorizing things. So at first glance, it seems like the goa...")
- 06:42, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,021) . . N Use paper during spaced repetition reviews (Created page with "People like to talk about how they review their Anki cards while waiting in line or on their bus rides or whatever, but a core feature of how I review my Anki cards is to...")
- 04:02, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+697) . . N Spaced repetition experiments take months to complete (Created page with "By the very nature of spaced repetition, any experiment that tries to test some aspect of it will take months to complete. This is because in order to see how much you remembe...")
- 03:41, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,504) . . N Bury effortful cards to speed up review (Created page with "A spaced repetition deck has cards varying in difficulty. One problem you might have is that because there are these more effortful cards, you might be tempted to skip reviewi...")
- 03:17, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+547) . . N Add the complete proof on proof cards to reduce friction when reviewing (Created page with "i also now think that putting the full solution on the card, rather than just a reference to a textbook or web page, is better. it keeps everything self-contained, so when you...")
- 02:47, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+701) . . N Spaced proof review routine (Created page with "Here are the basic steps I take for spaced proof review. For each proof/exercise: # Do the proof for the first time. This isn't any different from what people normally d...")
- 02:41, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+833) . . N Do an empty review of proof cards immediately after adding to prevent backlog (Created page with "Proof cards are big, so you probably have a limit to new cards per day (maybe 1-5). This means if you solve a bunch of exercises on a day, you can add more cards...")
- 02:06, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,220) . . N Why ain'tcha better at math (Created page with "I feel like one response people might have, if they hear that I think I have new and exciting way to learn math, is to ask why I personally am not the best at math. There are...")
- 01:40, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+676) . . N Managing micro-movements in learning (Created page with "(there must be a better term for this...) * Some math books are good at putting things like "(why?)" to mark non-trivial inferential steps. This is comforting especially at a...")
- 01:32, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+745) . . N Deck options for proof cards (Created page with "Here are my deck options (as of 2020-05-14) for my proof cards decks. New Cards: * Steps: 960 * Order: Show new cards in order added * New cards/day: 1 * Graduating interval...")
- 01:11, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . N Big card (Created page with "A '''big card''' is an Anki card that takes a long time to review (say, longer than 1 minute). This is in contrast to small cards which can be reviewed in a small amou...")
- 01:00, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,127) . . N The mathematics community has no clear standards for what a mathematician should know (Created page with "mathematicians suck at communicating the differences between (1) stuff you should work through in detail once, but then forget about it later; (2) stuff you should know super...")
- 00:54, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+749) . . N Discursive texts are difficult to ankify (Created page with "[https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Discursiveness_(explanations) Discursive]/meandering texts reference topics outside of the main one, going off in tangents. While this can m...")
- 00:49, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+811) . . N Quotability vs ankifiability (Created page with "Something is '''quotable''' if it is easy to make into a quote. As someone who has [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Riceissa written] a bunch of Wikiquote...")
- 20:48, 10 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+194) . . N Spoiler test of depth (Created page with "The '''spoiler test of depth''' states that if something can be "spoiled" by spoilers, then it isn't deep, or in other words, that truly deep things cannot be spoiled by givin...")
- 09:50, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . N WBE (Redirected page to Whole brain emulation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 05:45, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+79) . . N Discontinuities in whole brain emulation technology (Issa moved page Discontinuities in whole brain emulation technology to Discontinuities in usefulness of whole brain emulation technology) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 05:39, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+770) . . N Discontinuities in usefulness of whole brain emulation technology (Created page with "Even Robin Hanson admits that whole brain emulations would result in a foom-ish/local outcome: """Eliezer: Right. So, in other words, we get a centralized economic shock,...")
- 05:31, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,021) . . N One wrong number problem (Created page with "The '''one wrong number problem''' has been discussed by Eliezer Yudkowsky in at least two contexts: * To talk about complexity of human values: "But suppose one or more...")
- 01:42, 1 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,286) . . N 3Blue1Brown (Created page with "Here's my current (April 2020) views on 3Blue1Brown's math videos: * he puts in a lot of effort into the visualizations, so they look pretty. these visualizations are actuall...")
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