User contributions
(newest | oldest) View (newer 100 | older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
- 01:01, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N List of timelines (Issa moved page List of timelines to List of timelines for futuristic technologies) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:41, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+98) . . N Tutoring heuristic for prompt writing (Created page with " ==See also== * Expert response heuristic for prompt writing Category:Spaced repetition")
- 23:26, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . N Spaced repetition isn't about memorization (Issa moved page Spaced repetition isn't about memorization to Spaced repetition is not about memorization) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:13, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+424) . . N Large graduating interval as substitute for putting effort into making atomic cards (Created page with "I've noticed that if you don't feel like putting a lot of effort into making good atomic cards, you can often substitute by doing something else, and still get a lot of the sa...")
- 23:07, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+676) . . N Steam game buying algorithm (Created page with "Here's the algorithm I currently use for buying games on Steam. I am not a gamer and didn't even know about any of this until very recently. # Keep games you are interest...")
- 23:02, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+473) . . N What would a vow of silence look like for math? (Created page with "What would a "vow of silence" look like for math? Maybe we can't take the vow literally, but could instead do a thing where we never define anything. Hamish Todd menti...")
- 22:19, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+252) . . N Corrigibility may be undesirable (Created page with "* a point originally made by Wei Dai is that if an AI is corrigible to its human operators, then it may have to forgo certain kinds of trades with other AIs such as Merg...")
- 20:01, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . N Education in The Blue Lagoon is awful (Issa moved page Education in The Blue Lagoon is awful to Depictions of learning in The Blue Lagoon are awful) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 19:59, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+330) . . N Repetition granularity (Created page with "'''Repetition granularity''' is the size of the "unit of review". For example, in Anki the repetition granularity is the card, usually a small card. In spaced proof...")
- 19:46, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+810) . . N Duolingo does repetition at the lesson level (Created page with "One thing I am confused about is that Duolingo does (spaced?) repetition at the lesson level, rather than the sentence or word level. If a language learner is making c...")
- 02:06, 25 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+688) . . N Depictions of learning in The Blue Lagoon are awful (Created page with "The Blue Lagoon is a film about two children who survive a shipwreck and grow up on an island. The film explores education and discovery using many different examples -- learn...")
- 01:10, 24 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+902) . . N Spaced repetition is useful because most knowledge is sparsely applicable (Created page with "One way to frame why we keep forgetting things: most knowledge isn't useful most of the time, so e.g. i might learn real analysis, but when will i use it next? it might be mon...")
- 00:15, 24 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,016) . . N The Sequences vs evergreen notes (Created page with "Eliezer Yudkowsky's Sequences on LessWrong and evergreen notes in the style of Andy Matuschak have a number of similarities: * they try to give labels to conc...")
- 21:33, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+217) . . N Vow of silence (Created page with "'''Vow of silence''' is a phrase from the talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDZ--AuiL8 'Wordy tutorials need to end. Why Game Designers should take a "Vow of Silence" ']...")
- 21:17, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+181) . . N Jelly no Puzzle (Created page with "'''Jelly no Puzzle''' is a free puzzle game for Windows (works under Wine on Linux). ==External links== * [http://qrostar.skr.jp/en/jelly/ Official webpage] Category:Lear...")
- 20:52, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N List of techniques for making small cards (Created page with "* Self-graded prompts made for others must provide guidance for grading * Add all permutations of a card to prevent pattern-matching * Central node trick for remembe...")
- 20:51, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+511) . . N Card sharing (Created page with "'''Card sharing''' is the tentative generic term I'm using for all kinds of situations where the person doing the spaced repetition reviews is not the same as the person w...")
- 20:46, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+79) . . N Small card (Created page with "* List of techniques for making small cards Category:Spaced repetition")
- 20:38, 23 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+585) . . N Self-graded prompts made for others must provide guidance for grading (Created page with "a thought I had while doing Quantum Country reviews. The card I got was "What does the Schroedinger equation describe?" The answer I said in my head was something like "de...")
- 19:14, 22 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+503) . . N Emotional difficulties of AI safety research (Created page with "listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the AI safety community * Predicting the future is hard * One cannot...")
- 21:39, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+853) . . N Is AI safety no longer a scenius? (Created page with "Back in the 1990s up until 2013 or so, AI safety work was almost entirely a volunteer effort that I believe fit many of the [https://github.com/mnielsen/finding_scenius/blob/m...")
- 21:32, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+391) . . N Scenius (Created page with "'''Scenius''' is a term used in contrast to "genius", to emphasize that great work is often accomplished not solely by intrinsic talent, but by being embedded in a social cont...")
- 19:46, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+368) . . N Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit (Created page with "'''Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit'''. It's hard to start a habit, and hard to maintain a habit. But unlike many habits, spaced repetition is one...")
- 18:53, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+425) . . N Spaced repetition constantly reminds one of inadequacies (Created page with "Atomic cards allow different pieces of knowledge to be scheduled at different intervals. Easy cards get spaced out a lot, which means you are often stuck working through and s...")
- 18:51, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+271) . . N Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition (Created page with "* Feeling like a perpetual student in a subject due to spaced repetition * [[Competence vs learning distinction means spaced repetition feels like effort without progress]...")
- 18:49, 19 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+888) . . N Feeling like a perpetual student in a subject due to spaced repetition (Created page with "Spaced repetition is great, because it allows you to remember the things you study for a long time. But also it comes with many Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition|e...")
- 20:54, 15 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+255) . . N Debates shift bystanders' beliefs (Created page with "the reason MIRI vs Paul Christiano debates are useful isn't to shift MIRI or paul; it's so that new people coming into AI safety will pick the "correct" agenda to work...")
- 03:11, 6 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+862) . . N Spaced repetition is not about memorization (Created page with "'''Spaced repetition isn't about memorization''': this is somewhat of a clickbait title. It's more accurate to say "Spaced repetition isn't ''just'' about memorization, or eve...")
- 01:01, 5 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+250) . . N Importance of knowing about AI takeoff (Created page with "'''Importance of knowing about AI takeoff''' is about the "so what?" of knowing which AI takeoff scenario will happen. How will our actions change if we expect a FOOM...")
- 21:58, 2 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+197) . . N Representing impossibilities (Created page with "if you want to do a proof by contradiction, you somehow have to visually represent impossible situations! ==See also== * Explorable explanation * Finiteness assumption...")
- 22:59, 1 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Takeoff speeds (Redirected page to AI takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:58, 1 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . N Takeoff speed (Redirected page to AI takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 18:55, 27 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . N Video games work with finite and discrete objects (Redirected page to Finiteness assumption in explorable media) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 18:55, 27 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Video games comparison to math (Created page with "* Video games allow immediate exploration * Video games work with finite and discrete objects Category:Learning")
- 23:03, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . N Humans consulting HCH (Redirected page to HCH) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:02, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+284) . . N HCH (Created page with "'''HCH''' (a recursive acronym for '''humans consulting HCH''') is a theoretical scheme for amplification, where a human performs tasks by consulting a team of other human...")
- 22:59, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+138) . . N Paul Christiano (Created page with "'''Paul Christiano''' is an AI safety researcher, previously at OpenAI and currently for some unknown project. Category:AI safety")
- 22:57, 25 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+299) . . N Christiano's operationalization of slow takeoff (Created page with ""There will be a complete 4 year interval in which world output doubles, before the first 1 year interval in which world output doubles. (Similarly, we’ll see an 8 year doub...")
- 03:28, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+746) . . N Scaling hypothesis (Created page with "The '''scaling hypothesis''' is one of several statements stating roughly that once we find some "scalable" architecture, throwing more computing power and data at a problem t...")
- 01:08, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+32) . . N Continuous AI takeoff (Redirected page to Continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 01:07, 24 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,047) . . N Changing selection pressures argument (Created page with "The '''changing selection pressures argument''' is an argument for continuous AI takeoff. It states that during most of hominid evolution, evolution was not optimizing for...")
- 23:42, 19 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+287) . . N Make Anki cards based on feedback you receive (Created page with "Something I thought of while working through Exercism: when someone gives you good feedback, it should go in Anki so that you don't forget this insight. It can take a bit...")
- 01:37, 4 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+766) . . N Use temporary separate Anki decks to learn new cards based on priority (Created page with "if you want to prioritize some cards over another, you can set up separate decks so that you only get e.g. 2 new cards from a low-priority deck but 10 new cards from a high-pr...")
- 21:35, 2 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+948) . . N Card sharing allows less valuable cards to be created (Created page with "With Anki deck sharing and with things like Quantum Country and Orbit, there is just a single card/problem creator but many consumers. This makes it possible to ju...")
- 21:16, 30 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+799) . . N Dual ratings for spaced inbox (Created page with "Dual ratings for incremental reading and spaced inbox? One for insightfulness and one for whether you still remembered the idea. E.g. today's incremental reading card abou...")
- 07:13, 21 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,245) . . N Add all permutations of a card to prevent pattern-matching (Created page with "One of the common problems when writing cards (especially cloze deletion cards) is that the brain just pattern-matches the "shape" of a card without really processing the...")
- 20:46, 17 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+969) . . N Unintended consequences of AI safety advocacy argument against AI safety (Created page with "I first heard this argument made by Michael Nielsen, that AI safety advocacy has increased the amount of work done on AI capabilities without actually increasing the s...")
- 18:38, 17 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+534) . . N Anki reviews are more fun on mobile (Created page with "For reasons I don't yet understand, I find Anki reviews to be much more fun/motivating on a mobile device than on my laptop, even though I prefer my laptop for almost ever...")
- 03:43, 13 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+705) . . N List of reasons something isn't popular or successful (Created page with "(i probably need a better title for the thing i am trying to point to) * from [https://www.facebook.com/groups/674486385982694/permalink/761458527285479/?comment_id=763779440...")
- 02:19, 5 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+484) . . N Switching costs of various kinds of software (Created page with "I've been thinking about switching costs of software ever since I saw [https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-studio-code/#fn:whytexteditorshavechurn this f...")
- 02:30, 16 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . N Category:Public discourse (Created page with "Page about public discourse.") (current)
- 07:34, 14 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,132) . . N Expert response heuristic for prompt writing (Created page with "The '''expert response heuristic for prompt writing''' says that when writing spaced repetition prompts, the prompt should be answerable by an expert in the subject who kn...")
- 20:59, 13 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N Using spaced repetition to improve public discourse (Created page with "some random ideas i came up with: * an "i want a reply to this" button on public forums, that if it crosses some threshold (set by the user) would notify them at spaced inter...")
- 00:55, 9 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . N Medium that reveals its flaws (Issa moved page Medium that reveals its flaws to Medium that reveals flaws) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:08, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Learning complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Teaching complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . N Teaching-complete (Redirected page to Learning-complete) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 09:07, 8 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,643) . . N Learning-complete (Created page with "An idea I've been toying with, in analogy with terms like "NP-complete" from complexity theory: some learning/teaching tasks seem to have a universality to them, such that onc...")
- 01:39, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+209) . . N Tao Analysis Solutions (Created page with "'''Tao Analysis Solutions''' is my blog where I post solutions to Terence Tao's ''Analysis I''. ==External links== * [taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Link to blog] Category:Co...")
- 01:17, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+520) . . N Asynchronous support (Created page with "One thing I don't like about blog posts is that if you come across one that was written years ago and comment on it asking a question, you are pretty unlikely to get a reply....")
- 01:13, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+746) . . N Distillation is not enough (Created page with "I think there's a somewhat popular meme in some rationalist circles that goes something like: "To make intellectual progress, we just need to create a space where people c...")
- 01:01, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+242) . . N Existential win (Created page with "'''Existential win''' is a phrase that is sometimes used to refer to the state where humanity has successfully navigated existential risks and has now reached a stable poi...")
- 01:00, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Human safety (Redirected page to Human safety problem) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 00:58, 1 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+499) . . N Will it be possible for humans to detect an existential win? (Created page with "'''Will it be possible for humans to detect an existential win?''' If we take metaphilosophy and human safety issues seriously, then in many scenarios where humanity d...")
- 20:15, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+51) . . N Soft alarm clock (Redirected page to Spaced repetition as soft alarm clock) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:08, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+541) . . N Mapping mental motions to parts of a spaced repetition algorithm (Created page with "When reviewing in my spaced writing inbox, sometimes i am like, "oh i would deal with this item if i had more energy, but not right now". should i just press "good"? or is...")
- 20:05, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+502) . . N Snoozing epicycle (Created page with "When reviewing in my spaced writing inbox, sometimes i am like, "oh i would deal with this item if i had more energy, but not right now". should i just press "good"? or is...")
- 19:59, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+349) . . N Spaced inbox ideas (Created page with "essential features/"main modes" for a note taking/spaced inbox app? * daily notes/org capture/wordpress p2 theme/single place where new thoughts go in, with ability to just s...")
- 01:28, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+36) . . N Guided by the beauty of our weapons (Redirected page to Asymmetric institution) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 01:27, 29 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+36) . . N Asymmetric weapon (Redirected page to Asymmetric institution) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:49, 28 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+496) . . N Asymmetric institution (Created page with "An '''asymmetric institution''' is an institution or mechanism which gives influence asymmetrically based on some property. ==External links== * [https://ea.greaterwrong.com...")
- 21:28, 28 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+811) . . N Task-dependent diversity (Created page with "It seems like the type of diversity one seeks in a given environment depends on the task at hand. For example: * For an edtech startup, one might want to hire people with lea...")
- 23:43, 25 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,393) . . N Stream of low effort questions helps with popularity (Created page with "I've noticed that one thing that some rationalists/EAs who are popular on social media do well (which seems to help a lot with their popularity) is that they publish a stream...")
- 19:46, 25 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+799) . . N Medium that reveals flaws (Created page with "(more accurately, something like "medium that reveals that flaws of the content produced in it") * A table makes it obvious when one of its cells is missing information. Once...")
- 03:10, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+276) . . N Michael Nielsen (Created page with "'''Michael Nielsen''' is co-creator of Quantum Country and author of several online essays about spaced repetition, including "Augmenting Long-term Memory" and "Usin...")
- 03:09, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+226) . . N List of people who have thought a lot about spaced repetition (Created page with "This is a '''list of people who have thought a lot about spaced repetition'''. * Michael Nielsen * Andy Matuschak * Master How To Learn guy * Soren Bjornstad...")
- 03:07, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+126) . . N Piotr Wozniak (Created page with "'''Piotr Wozniak''' is the creator of SuperMemo and author of the SuperMemo Guru wiki. Category:Spaced repetition")
- 03:07, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N Soren Bjornstad (Created page with "'''Soren Bjornstad''' has a blog that covers spaced repetition extensively. Category:Spaced repetition")
- 03:06, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+123) . . N Andy Matuschak (Created page with "'''Andy Matuschak''' is co-creator of Quantum Country and (sole?) creator of Orbit. Category:Spaced repetition")
- 02:59, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+206) . . N Proof card (Created page with "A '''proof card''' has a statement of a mathematical theorem on the front side, and its proof on the back side. Proof cards are the main component of spaced proof review....")
- 02:58, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . N Integration card (Created page with "An '''integration card''' integrates knowledge from many small cards an tests one's knowledge in an end-to-end way. Proof cards are an example. Category:Spaced repe...")
- 02:57, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+489) . . N Open-ended questions are common in real life (Created page with "A frequent advice in the spaced repetition community is to make each card small, with a definite answer. Complicated responses like lists and sets are disco...")
- 21:56, 16 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+68) . . N OpenAI (Created page with " ==See also== * List of teams at OpenAI Category:AI safety")
- 21:55, 16 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Fast takeoff (Redirected page to Hard takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:54, 16 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+32) . . N Slow takeoff (Redirected page to Continuous takeoff) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:54, 16 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+263) . . N Continuous takeoff (Created page with " * the word "continuous" in continuous takeoff does not mean the mathematical definition of continuity; even in a hard takeoff (i.e. "discontinuous takeoff") scenario, the...")
- 20:50, 16 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+512) . . N User:Issa (Created page with "old page ideas: * hardware overhang * fast takeoff * slow takeoff * optimization daemon/mesa-optimization * more ideas at https://arbital.greaterwrong.com...") (current)
- 23:24, 12 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Pascal's mugging argument against AI safety (Redirected page to Pascal's mugging and AI safety) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:15, 12 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+727) . . N Pascal's mugging and AI safety (Created page with "Existential risk reduction via work on AI safety has occasionally been compared to Pascal's mugging. The critic of AI safety argues that working on AI safety has a ver...")
- 22:39, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+851) . . N How meta should AI safety be? (Created page with "I often go back and forth between the following two approaches to AI safety: # Meta approach of "let's have nice things" -- make pipeline for becoming an AI safety researcher...")
- 06:05, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+3,136) . . N Summary of my beliefs (Created page with "This is my version of the table created by Brian Tomasik<ref>https://reducing-suffering.org/summary-beliefs-values-big-questions/</ref> and Pablo Stafforini.<ref>http:...")
- 22:57, 9 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N AI polarization (Redirected page to Politicization of AI) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:25, 9 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+258) . . N List of AI safety projects I could work on (Created page with "(November 2020) * Opinions ** writing some sort of overview of my beliefs regarding AI safety. like, if i was explaining things from scratch to someone, what would that sound...")
- 20:15, 9 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+518) . . N Text to speech software (Created page with "In November 2020 I spent some time looking into free text to speech software that I could use. I tried around 10 online ones and thought [https://www.naturalreaders.com/online...")
- 00:18, 7 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+637) . . N List of arguments against working on AI safety (Created page with "This is a '''list of arguments against working on AI safety'''. * Opportunity cost argument against AI safety: there is some more pressing problem for humanity (e.g. some...")
- 21:52, 29 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+267) . . N AI takeoff (Created page with "==See also== * List of disagreements in AI safety#Takeoff dynamics * Comparison of AI takeoff scenarios * Soft-hard takeoff * Narrow window argument against con...")
- 21:49, 29 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+563) . . N Sudden emergence (Created page with "In AI takeoff, '''sudden emergence''' is the hypothesis that AI development will follow a trajectory of mostly inconsequential systems, followed by a sudden jump to extrem...")
- 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...")
(newest | oldest) View (newer 100 | older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)