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- 04:22, 22 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+334) . . N Second species argument (Created page with ""the second species argument that sufficiently intelligent AI systems could become the most intelligent species, in which case humans could lose the ability to create a valuab...") (current)
- 08:25, 18 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . N Spaced repetition world (Created page with "https://github.com/riceissa/issarice.com/blob/master/drafts/spaced-repetition-world.txt ==See also== * Spaced repetition and cleaning one's room Category:Spaced repe...")
- 08:23, 18 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,249) . . N Spaced repetition and cleaning one's room (Created page with "I feel like there is a connection between '''spaced repetition and cleaning one's room'''. What tends to happen for me in my physical surroundings is that I might put a book...")
- 00:40, 14 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+343) . . N Hyperbolic growth (Created page with "* https://sideways-view.com/2017/10/04/hyperbolic-growth/ * https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/ * https://forum.effectivealtruis...")
- 19:02, 23 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . N Category:Iterated amplification (Created page with "Pages about IDA.") (current)
- 19:02, 23 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+240) . . N Meta-execution (Created page with ""IDA’s current proposal for capability and security amplification is called meta-execution" [https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QGpURtFF-JFnWjkdIybW9Q-mI3fiKJjhxc0-LjprNQ/...") (current)
- 17:34, 22 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+442) . . N List of techniques for managing working memory in explanations (Created page with "* summarizing at appropriate intervals in the text * adding exercises to slow down the reader/force them to internalize something better * something like Quantum Country o...")
- 17:27, 22 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,122) . . N Unbounded working memory assumption in explanations (Created page with "The '''unbounded working memory assumption in explanations''' refers to the fact that many explanations assume that the reader has unbounded working memory, i.e. t...")
- 23:03, 30 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+355) . . N Uninsightful articles can seem insightful due to unintentional spaced repetition (Created page with "When an uninsightful article repeats an insight from a previous article, it acts as a spaced repetition mechanism for that particular insight, which our brains interpret as us...")
- 23:00, 26 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+890) . . N Short-term preferences-on-reflection (Created page with "i need to summarize this at some point. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/nRAMpjnb6Z4Qv3imF/the-strategy-stealing-assumption#comment-ERmqHuN3ZWziS4SGH is this right? "Detai...") (current)
- 07:11, 23 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+236) . . N Comparison of sexually transmitted diseases (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Name !! Routes of transmission !! Length of contagious period !! Tests which detect it |- | Mononucleosis |- | HSV-1 |- | HSV-2 |- | Syphili...")
- 18:59, 16 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+47) . . N Output curve for good people (Issa moved page Output curve for good people to Improvement curve for good people) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 18:48, 16 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Category:People watching (Created page with "People watching stuff.") (current)
- 18:47, 16 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . N Improvement curve for good people (Created page with "Given that someone eventually becomes good, how quickly do they get good? Is it possible to distinguish such people from noise early on in their strajectory? Category:P...")
- 07:15, 6 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+805) . . N Busy life periods and spaced inbox (Created page with "One problem with a naive implementation of a spaced inbox seems to be that it is not robust against having short bursts of extremely busy periods in one's life. If you get...")
- 07:11, 6 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Spaced inbox (Redirected page to Spaced writing inbox) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 07:04, 6 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+654) . . N The Witness (Created page with "I've considered playing The Witness, but for now I've decided not to for two main reasons: * I'm busy with a bunch of things, and I'm not sure The Witness is good enough to j...")
- 07:00, 6 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,070) . . N Duolingo (Created page with "Some learning tricks/techniques that Duolingo uses: * the initial levels of a lesson are mainly recognition-based, so cognitively easier; they build up confidence and familia...")
- 22:50, 19 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . N RCG (Redirected page to Rapid capability gain) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:50, 19 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+40) . . N RSI (Redirected page to Recursive self-improvement) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 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...")
- 18:54, 29 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N Architecture (Created page with "What is meant by terms like "mental architecture", "cognitive architecture", the "architecture of the AI", etc?")
- 22:55, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+5,113) . . N Desiderata for dissolving the question (Created page with "* I think when most people think about philosophy topics, they just stop thinking about it once they no longer feel confused? Like, they don't start out with a bunch of deside...")
- 21:28, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+420) . . N Richard Ngo (Created page with "'''Richard Ngo''' is an AI safety research engineer at Google DeepMind.<ref>[https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/richard_ngo richard_ngo]. "AI safety research engin...")
- 21:25, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+54) . . N Realism about rationality (Redirected page to Something like realism about rationality) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:18, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,989) . . N Something like realism about rationality (Created page with " something-like-realism-about-rationality, e.g. "Is there a theory of rationality that is sufficiently precise to build hierarchies of abstraction?" [https://www.greaterwrong....")
- 00:07, 27 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Toby Ord questions (Issa moved page Toby Ord questions to The Precipice notes) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:57, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . N Category:AI safety (Created page with "For pages related to AI safety and alignment. These pages should be moved to a dedicated AI safety wiki at some point.") (current)
- 03:55, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . N Lumpy (Redirected page to Lumpiness) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:54, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . N Lumpiness (Created page with "'''Lumpiness''' is a term that's often used by Robin Hanson to describe things like innovation, secrets, AI progress, citations. I'm not sure if he came up with this term....")
- 04:13, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,065) . . N Encoding dependence problem (Created page with "one difficulty i have with anki is for knowledge that is very "encoding-dependent" (there must be a better term for this). e.g. how in arithmetizing logic, each book uses a di...")
- 04:05, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+762) . . N Iteration cadence for spaced repetition experiments (Created page with "expect iteration time of 3-4 months: that's how long it takes to start to really forget things you've read about, which is when you can start to actually see what you retained...")
- 03:49, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . N Spaced proof review (Created page with "'''Spaced proof review''' is the general idea of trying to memorize/deeply understand a theorem using spaced repetition. This is currently one of my main interests with sp...")
- 03:43, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+885) . . N Reverse side card for everything (Created page with "'''Reverse side card for everything''' is the idea that in Anki, you should never use the basic note type (front->back), that you should instead use a "Basic (and reversed car...")
- 03:35, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+526) . . N One-sentence summary card (Created page with "some blog posts have snappy titles but their content is kinda hard to remember (but you keep seeing them linked or whatever, so it gets annoying if the main idea isn't availab...")
- 03:22, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,089) . . N Central node trick for remembering equivalent properties (Created page with "a way to memorize characterizations/equivalent properties in math — make them ''all'' related to a single "canonical" property, then make sure you know how to bridge the gap...")
- 03:16, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+670) . . N Distortion of true frequency of piece of knowledge due to spaced repetition (Created page with "does anki distort the "true frequency" of a piece of knowledge? because all cards are reviewed in the same way (uses the same spacing algorithm), you see "less useful" pieces...")
- 03:11, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . N Spaced repetition (Created page with "For now, see Category:Spaced repetition.")
- 03:10, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+671) . . N Spaced repetition as generator of questions (Created page with "anki as a way to ask questions about things: i quite often have questions about stuff as i'm reviewing on anki. i stop to write these down before continuing. if i hadn't enter...")
- 03:08, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,041) . . N Spaced proof review as a way to understand key insights in a proof (Created page with " One time I completely forgot the trick for how to even get started proving Löb's theorem. (That's sort of a good thing because I wasn't just relying on a memorized trick!)...")
- 02:59, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+698) . . N Spaced proof review as a way to invent novel proofs (Created page with "one of the great things about proof cards is that when you prove something after months of not seeing it, you sometimes come up with a novel proof! this happened with one of m...")
- 02:48, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+167) . . N Anki deck philosophy (Created page with "I have developed my own philosophy regarding Anki decks, which I think is pretty different from the typical ways in which Anki decks are organized. Category:Anki")
- 02:35, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+297) . . N Incremental reading in Anki (Created page with "'''Incremental reading in Anki''' is not supported by default. There are some plugins for it, but I haven't tried them. My own approach is to add read-only cards (i.e. cards t...")
- 02:33, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+660) . . N Spaced repetition as soft alarm clock (Created page with "Typical alarm clocks are ''hard'' in the sense that they require precisely choosing some future moment in time at which to sound the alarm. Some alarms have a "snooze" button,...")
- 02:28, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+82) . . N Category:Spaced repetition (Created page with "Pages about spaced repetition, which is a broader category than just Anki.") (current)
- 02:28, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+51) . . N Category:Anki (Created page with "Pages about Anki, the spaced repetition system.") (current)
- 02:26, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,320) . . N Linked list proof card (Created page with "'''Linked list proof card''' is a method of memorizing proofs using Anki. In linked list proof cards, each card asks for the next step in a proof so the cards together form a...")
- 04:26, 24 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Jonathan Blow (Created page with "'''Jonathan Blow''' jonathan blow on his aphantasia: https://youtu.be/tRHnHlV96Jg?t=763 (go back a bit from this timestamp)")
- 20:41, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . N The Secret of Psalm 46 (Created page with "'''The Secret of Psalm 46''' is a talk by Brian Moriarty. ==See also== * The Secret of Psalm 46 outline")
- 20:39, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,662) . . N The Secret of Psalm 46 outline (Created page with " ==Outline== 0:00 Eclipse RadioShack -- free batteries, how people bother to get the free batteries, even though they were crappy; lesson from this Masquerade, easter eggs...")
- 02:14, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . N People watching (Created page with "'''People watching''', according to me, refers to the art/science/act of observing people, judging them, classifying them, analyzing them, finding them, etc. etc. ==Big pictu...")
- 00:18, 22 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Explorable explanation (Created page with " ==External links== * wikipedia:Explorable explanation")
- 02:11, 20 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+407) . . N Finiteness assumption in explorable media (Created page with "Explorable and interactive media seem to bake in an assumption of finiteness, which makes it challenging to interact with the infinite and arbitrary objects that appear in mat...")
- 22:20, 16 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,306) . . N AI will solve everything argument against AI safety (Created page with "My understanding of this argument is that if we get AGI, that will solve all of our other problems. So we should try to get there as fast as possible, without worrying about A...")
- 07:44, 16 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,547) . . N Personhood API vs therapy axis of interpersonal interactions (Created page with "Building off of: * https://meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more-players/ * https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/uxYemA2ttzjs8z8Eb/drive-by-low-effort-criticism/...")
- 02:24, 16 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+722) . . N Selection effect for successful formalizations (Created page with "It's possible to point to some successful formalizations of things, like formalizing math, or formalizing computation. But there is a selection effect here because we are...")
- 03:01, 15 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+698) . . N The Precipice notes (Created page with "* "If we are the only moral agents that will ever arise in our universe—the only beings capable of making choices on the grounds of what is right and wrong—then responsibi...")
- 07:46, 8 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+674) . . N Tao Analysis I exercise count (Created page with "chapters 1-11: <pre>>>> (0 + 0) + (0 + 6 + 5) + (11 + 3 + 8 + 11 + 13 + 10) + (8 + 6 + 5 + 3) + (1 + 2 + 5 + 8 + 5 + 3) + (10 + 2 + 4 + 10 + 3 + 5 + 1) + (5 + 6 + 3 + 1 + 3)...")
- 07:03, 8 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,660) . . N Website to aggregate solutions to textbook exercises (Created page with "Why isn't there a website that pays users to submit solutions to textbook exercises, and then charges people to read those answers? it seems like many students are already do...")
- 06:17, 5 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N Kasparov window (Created page with "https://www.google.com/search?q=%22kasparov+window%22")
- 23:01, 31 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+323) . . N Statistical analysis of expert timelines argument for AI timelines (Created page with "This is a kind of higher-order/meta-level argument that simply performs a statistical analysis of experts' AI timelines to come up with some overall estimate of AI timelines....")
- 22:58, 31 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+323) . . N Category:AI timelines arguments (Created page with "An AI timelines argument gives a self-contained account of when humans are expected to create an AGI. In other words, the pages in this category do not simply give evi...")
- 22:52, 31 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+527) . . N Laplace's rule of succession argument for AI timelines (Created page with "The '''Laplace's rule of succession argument for AI timelines''' uses Laplace's rule of succession to estimate when humans will create AGI. Th...")
- 09:10, 31 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,706) . . N Probability and statistics as fields with an exploratory medium (Created page with "Something I've noticed about probability and statistics is that when I'm working on something (most recently, I was thinking about [https://stacky.net/wiki/index.php?title=Aga...")
- 04:36, 28 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+611) . . N List of men by number of sons, daughters, and wives (Created page with "List of men along with their number of sons, daughters, and wives. {| class="sortable wikitable" ! Name !! Sons !! Daughters !! Children (sons + daughters) !! Wives !! Source...")
- 05:19, 26 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N List of experiments with Anki (Created page with "On this page, I want to keep a list of experiments that I have tried or am currently trying with Anki. These experiments aren't formal (I don't do any rigorous data collection...")
- 08:55, 19 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+848) . . N Popularity symbiosis (Created page with "one of the things i've noticed is that i find people by looking for discussions of more famous people. e.g. i might find some random person's blog by searching for keith frank...")
- 08:50, 19 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+4,864) . . N Interacting with copies of myself (Created page with "(this is really crazy; don't read this) how should i interact with other copies of myself? sometimes there are people who think so similarly to you, who are value-aligned, et...")
- 08:18, 19 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,196) . . N Convergent evolution of values (Created page with "multiplicative process => log-resource utility function i think there can be lots of similar, robust phenomena like this, for evolved organisms. so in terms of six plausible...")
- 23:46, 15 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+152) . . N The Hour I First Believed (Created page with "'''"The Hour I First Believed"''' is a blog post by Scott Alexander about acausal trade and a big picture of what will happen in the multiverse.")
- 04:12, 15 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . N Test (Created page with "test <comments />")
- 01:25, 10 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+726) . . N AI prepping (Created page with ""As to the final step, I’m not claiming that AI is an extinction risk. I think that it’s not clear that even an AI that went badly wrong would want to kill everyone. I thi...")
- 00:46, 10 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,055) . . N Late singularity (Created page with "here "late singularity" means something like "the singularity happens 200+ years from now, rather than like 20 years or 100 years". are late singularities actually better? if...")
- 21:09, 8 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+294) . . N UDASSA (Created page with "'''UDASSA''' (sometimes also written '''UD+ASSA''' to make the two components clear) is a theory of anthropics. ==Etymology== The name "UDASSA" comes from "universal distrib...")
- 08:16, 8 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+94) . . N List of big discussions in AI alignment (Created page with "* Coherence and goal-directed agency discussion * Realism about rationality discussion")
- 22:52, 7 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+791) . . N Selection effect for who builds AGI (Created page with ""But also, what I’m more worried about is that the arguments will always be a bit uncertain, and that they will be the kind of arguments that maybe should push a rational pe...")
- 07:42, 5 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+187) . . N MIRI vs Paul research agenda hypotheses (Created page with "from "The concern" in https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1220 key hopes listed in https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/HCv2uwgDGf5dyX5y6/preface-to-the-sequence-on-iterated-a...")
- 22:35, 1 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+3,114) . . N Comparison of terms related to agency (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" ! Term !! Opposite |- | Agent || |- | Optimizer, optimization process || |- | consequentialist || |- | expected utility maximizer || |- | goal-directed, g...")
- 04:33, 27 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+73) . . N Terms used to describe intelligence of agents (Issa moved page Terms used to describe intelligence of agents to List of terms used to describe the intelligence of an agent) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 04:31, 27 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+421) . . N List of terms used to describe the intelligence of an agent (Created page with "Eliezer has lots of terms to describe how intelligent/powerful/whatever an agent is. * Relevant * Pivotal (is this only for actions, or also for agents, as in "agent who...")
- 03:30, 27 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+529) . . N Coherence and goal-directed agency discussion (Created page with "https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/vphFJzK3mWA4PJKAg/coherent-behaviour-in-the-real-world-is-an-incoherent#comment-F2YB5aJgDdK9ZGspw https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/NxF5G6...")
- 04:33, 26 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+381) . . N Simple core (Created page with "'''Simple core''' is a term that has been used to describe various things in AI safety. * Simple core to corrigibility<ref>https://ai-alignment.com/corrigibility-3039e668...")
- 23:27, 25 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+359) . . N Agent foundations (Created page with "==Terminology== There are many different terms used to describe MIRI's research, and it's a little unclear how careful people are when using these terms. * agent foundations...")
- 07:42, 25 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Uncertain Future (Redirected page to The Uncertain Future) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:54, 25 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+27) . . N Wei Dai (Created page with "aka distributor of weipills")
- 03:31, 25 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+362) . . N AI safety field consensus (Created page with "People in AI safety tend to disagree about many things. However, there is also wide agreement about some other things (which people...")
- 22:28, 24 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+323) . . N Deconfusion (Created page with "'''Deconfusion''' is a type of research aimed at making ourselves less confused about fundamental things. ==History=== The term was invented/popularized by MIRI. It was orig...")
- 10:19, 24 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N MIRI (Redirected page to Machine Intelligence Research Institute) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:46, 24 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+306) . . N The Uncertain Future (Created page with "'''The Uncertain Future''' is a future modeling web applet created by MIRI. Instructions for running it in 2020: https://gist.github.com/riceissa/6e239e8828cceeed5a0bd656...")
- 02:40, 24 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+94) . . N List of technical AI alignment agendas (Created page with "This is a '''list of technical AI alignment agendas'''. https://aiwatch.issarice.com/#agendas")
- 00:37, 24 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+492) . . N Rapid capability gain vs AGI progress (Created page with "* rapid capability gain seems to refer to how well a ''single'' AI system improves over time, e.g. AlphaGo going from "no knowledge of anything" to "superhuman at Go"...")
- 23:24, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+276) . . N Jessica Taylor (Created page with "The most important posts for AI strategy are: * [https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1220 On motivations for MIRI's highly reliable agent design research] * [https://agentfo...")
- 23:19, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+5,066) . . N List of disagreements in AI safety (Created page with "* list of things people disagree about:<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wI21XP-lRa6mi5h0dq_USooz0LpysdhS/view Clarifying some key hypotheses in AI alignment].</ref> ** h...")
- 09:43, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+43) . . N Simple core algorithm (Redirected page to Secret sauce for intelligence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:29, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+651) . . N Prosaic AI (Created page with "what are the possibilities for prosaic AI? i.e. if prosaic AI happened, then what are some possible reasons for why this happened? some ideas: * optimizing hard enough produc...")
- 05:06, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . N Goal inference (Redirected page to Value learning) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 05:05, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . N Value learning (Created page with "kinds of value learning: * ambitious value learning * narrow value learning ** paul's definition ** rohin's definition")
- 04:52, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+550) . . N Human safety problem (Created page with " e.g. "Think of the human as a really badly designed AI with a convoluted architecture that nobody understands, spaghetti code, full of security holes, has no idea what its te...")
- 03:08, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+21) . . N AlphaGo Zero (Redirected page to AlphaGo) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 02:30, 23 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+966) . . N Will there be significant changes to the world prior to some critical AI capability threshold being reached? (Created page with "'''Will there be significant changes to the world prior to some critical AI capability threshold being reached?''' This is currently one of the questions I am most confused ab...")
- 23:25, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . N Evolution analogy (Issa moved page Evolution analogy to Evolution) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:23, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+240) . . N Evolution (Created page with "In discussions of AI risk, evolution is often used as an analogy for the development of AGI. here are some examples: * chimpanzee vs human intelligence * optimization daemo...")
- 23:14, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+754) . . N Paperclip maximizer (Created page with "my understanding is that the paperclip maximizer example was intended to illustrate the following two concepts: * orthogonality thesis: intelligence/capability and values...")
- 22:40, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . N IDA (Created page with "# redirect Iterated amplification")
- 22:38, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+239) . . N Iterated amplification (Created page with "'''Iterated amplification''' (also called '''iterated distillation and amplification''', and abbreviated '''IDA''') is the technical alignment agenda that Paul Christiano...")
- 22:36, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+213) . . N AlphaGo (Created page with "'''AlphaGo''' and its successor '''AlphaGo Zero''' are used to make various points in AI safety. * Rapid capability gain * (for AlphaGo Zero) comparison to Paul Chr...")
- 09:39, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Hansonian (Redirected page to Robin Hanson) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:38, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Yudkowskian (Redirected page to Eliezer Yudkowsky) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:37, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+391) . . N Comparison of AI takeoff scenarios (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |- ! Scenario !! Significant changes to the world prior to critical AI capability threshold being reached? !! Intelligence explosion? !! Decisive strategi...")
- 06:57, 22 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+929) . . N Counterfactual of dropping a seed AI into a world without other capable AI (Created page with ""Well yeah, ''if'' we dropped a superintelligence into a world full of humans. But realistically the rest of the world will be undergoing intelligence explosion too. And indee...")
- 08:30, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+496) . . N Minimal AGI vs task AGI (Created page with "* I'm not clear on what the difference is here * See MIRI's strategic plan from end of 2017 where they make this distinction * It seems like MIRI went from: ** a one-step view...")
- 08:21, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,740) . . N My understanding of how IDA works (Created page with "==explanation== '''Stage 0''': In the beginning, Hugh directly rates actions to provide the initial training data on what Hugh approves of. This is used to train <math>A_0</m...")
- 03:48, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . N Simple core algorithm for agency (Redirected page to Simple core of consequentialist reasoning) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:27, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+29) . . N Paul (Redirected page to Paul Christiano) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:27, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . N Paul christiano (Created page with "# redirect Paul Christiano")
- 00:26, 20 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,487) . . N How doomed are ML safety approaches? (Created page with "I want to understand better the MIRI case for thinking that ML-based safety approaches (like paul christiano's agenda) are so hopeless as to not be worth working on (or so...")
- 22:35, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+192) . . N Future planning (Created page with "things to talk about: * how doomed ML safety approaches are e.g. see discussion [https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality#comment-32dCL2...")
- 03:16, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+246) . . N Hardware argument for AI timelines (Created page with "The '''hardware argument''' is a common argument structure for estimating when AGI will be created. see http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2010/10/why_early_singularities_ar...")
- 02:55, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . N Simple core algorithm of agency (Redirected page to Simple core of consequentialist reasoning) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 02:51, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+21) . . N Wei (Redirected page to Wei Dai) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:57, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+160) . . N MediaWiki:Common.css (Created page with "→CSS placed here will be applied to all skins: blockquote { border-left: 2px solid #369; padding-left: 10px; margin-right: 15px; margin-left: 0px; }") (current)
- 00:50, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Eliezer (Redirected page to Eliezer Yudkowsky) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:50, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,248) . . N Analyzing disagreements (Created page with "a cognitive reduction doesn't ask "why do i have free will?" but instead asks "why do i believe i have free will? what concrete mechanistic facts about the world correspon...")
- 00:25, 19 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+281) . . N Simple core of consequentialist reasoning (Created page with ""the MIRI intuition that there is a small core of good consequentialist reasoning that is important for AI capabilities and that can be discovered through theoretical research...")
- 23:09, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . N Nate (Redirected page to Nate Soares) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 06:51, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,572) . . N Soft-hard takeoff (Created page with "a scenario i've been wondering about recently is where there is a stereotypical "soft takeoff" until around the point where the AI has somewhat-infra-human level general intel...")
- 05:03, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+523) . . N Hardware-driven vs software-driven progress (Created page with " "A team called “Foresight” runs experiments to test how far they can push AI capabilities forward by training existing algorithms with increasingly large amounts of data...")
- 05:01, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+346) . . N List of teams at OpenAI (Created page with "why has nobody made a list like this? * Foresight [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615181/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/] *...")
- 02:44, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N Different senses of claims about AGI (Created page with "when making claims about AGI like "how much compute will AGI use?" or "will AGI be clean or messy?" there are several senses/scenarios of AGI we could be talking about: * cl...")
- 00:28, 18 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+250) . . N Secret sauce for intelligence (Created page with "https://sideways-view.com/2018/02/24/takeoff-speeds/ https://jacoblagerros.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/brains-and-backprop-a-key-timeline-crux/ https://lw2.issarice.com/posts/4...")
- 23:42, 17 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+278) . . N List of timelines for futuristic technologies (Created page with "what are all of the "default timelines" of various technologies? * de novo AGI * whole brain emulation * nanotechnology * iterated embryo selection * genome syn...")
- 23:39, 17 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+6,127) . . N Whole brain emulation (Created page with "==questions== * what is the best point estimate or range of estimates for the "default timeline" of WBE? * how much "advance warning" do we get for WBE? (with de novo AGI, we...")
- 23:36, 17 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . N Carl Shulman (Created page with "carl")
- 23:36, 17 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Carl (Redirected page to Carl Shulman) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:34, 17 February 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+3,331) . . N Stupid questions (Created page with "* there's a bunch of different considerations that people talk about (like different takeoff scenarios, comparisons to nuclear arms control, etc.) and it's unclear to me how t...")
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