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- 23:33, 18 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Hanson (Redirected page to Robin Hanson) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:24, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Discontinuity from HLMI (Redirected page to Explosive aftermath) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:24, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Discontinuity from AGI (Redirected page to Explosive aftermath) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:23, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . N Discontinuity to HLMI (Redirected page to Sudden emergence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:23, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . N Discontinuity to AGI (Redirected page to Sudden emergence) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 23:22, 25 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,081) . . N Explosive aftermath (Created page with "In AI takeoff, '''explosive aftermath''' (also sometimes called things like '''discontinuity ''from'' AGI''') is the hypothesis that once the first highly capable AI syste...") (current)
- 06:31, 13 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+344) . . N Are due counts harmful? (Created page with "One of the difficulties of using spaced repetition is that it can feel like an obligation to keep reviewing things each day. Du...") (current)
- 23:49, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+64) . . N My beginner incremental reading questions (Created page with " ==See also== * SuperMemo shortcuts Category:SuperMemo")
- 23:48, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+105) . . N SuperMemo (Created page with "* SuperMemo shortcuts * My beginner incremental reading questions Category:Spaced repetition") (current)
- 23:40, 12 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,026) . . N SuperMemo shortcuts (Created page with "Here are some shortcuts for SuperMemo. Most of them were introduced to me by Raj on our first tutorial call. * alt-x -- extract the highlighted text * q -- takes you into...")
- 19:33, 11 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+402) . . N Add easy problems as cards with large graduating interval (Created page with "For super easy math problems like most of janich's linear algebra multiple choice questions, there could be a separate deck with graduating interval of 1-2 years or so...") (current)
- 19:10, 11 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+305) . . N Cognitive biases that are opposites of each other (Created page with " critch's bystander effect vs unilateralist's curse is another example of opposite biases. cognitive biases: but then there are ones like dunning-kruger, which give _differe...")
- 19:58, 10 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Anki (Created page with "* https://issarice.com/anki Category:Spaced repetition")
- 21:59, 6 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N Potpourri hypothesis (Redirected page to Potpourri hypothesis for math education) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:59, 6 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,192) . . N Potpourri hypothesis for math education (Created page with "The '''potpourri hypothesis for math education''' states that when thinking about an ideal math education, there will be various interventions that each add value, instead of...") (current)
- 08:37, 29 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+745) . . N If you want to succeed in the video games industry (Created page with "'''"If you want to succeed in the video games industry..."''' is a catchphrase often said by Jonathan Blow. The phrase is often followed by something ridiculous or extreme...") (current)
- 19:11, 23 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+412) . . N Textbook test for AI theory (Created page with "textbook test/paper test: so my question for robin hanson is, once you have a complete theory of AI, how many pages of text does it take to describe that theory in sufficient...")
- 19:33, 19 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+675) . . N Setting up Windows (Created page with "stuff... * Emacs: need to use weird trick so that opening from task bar doesn't leave the blank console open; magit doesn't work so I gave up and am using git bash * neovim:...")
- 20:37, 14 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N Creative forgetting (Created page with "forgetting something is not always bad. by forgetting, you allow yourself to look at the same thing with "fresh eyes". stuff to add to this page: * some stuff from the Sup...")
- 20:12, 13 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . N Thinking Physics for math (Redirected page to Thinking Mathematics) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:10, 13 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+613) . . N Thinking Mathematics (Created page with "is there a Thinking Economics? basically a Thinking Physics for econ. actually, is there a Thinking Mathematics? (maybe AOPS books are it?) it feels like math would w...")
- 18:16, 7 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+50) . . N Deck options for small cards (Created page with " Category:Spaced repetition Category:Anki")
- 01:38, 5 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+458) . . N Reference class forecasting on human achievements argument for AI timelines (Created page with "'''Reference class forecasting on human achievements''' uses various reference classes like "ambitious STEM technology" or "notable mathematical conjectures" to get an o...")
- 04:24, 31 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+645) . . N Equivalence classes of prompts (Created page with "In Anki each card has exactly one way it could appear in reviews. But instead of having a one-to-one relationship between cards-at-review-time and atomic-fact-to-be-learne...")
- 22:52, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Master How To Learn guy (Redirected page to Hnous927) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 22:51, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+97) . . N Hnous927 (Created page with "'''hnous927''' is the author of the website MasterHowToLearn. Category:Spaced repetition")
- 22:50, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Hnous (Redirected page to Hnous927) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:32, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Math vs video games (Redirected page to Video games comparison to math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 20:31, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Video games vs math (Redirected page to Video games comparison to math) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 02:07, 30 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+537) . . N Should booster cards be marked as new? (Created page with "In some unlocking mechanisms of booster cards, there is the option to either tell the learner that the car...")
- 17:50, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Narrow augmentation (Redirected page to Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:50, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+52) . . N Broad augmentation (Redirected page to Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:46, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+227) . . N Narrow vs broad cognitive augmentation (Created page with "Here is one axis I've been paying attention to when thinking about the question of "how to do we make people better at thinking?": * '''narrow/vertical/specialized''': * '''b...")
- 17:19, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+573) . . N Existing implementations of card sharing have nontrivial overhead (Created page with "All existing implementations of card sharing are pretty inconvenient to use if you just want to make some cards and share them with a friend. For example if I want to use...")
- 05:10, 29 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+421) . . N Cards created by oneself can be scheduled more aggressively (Created page with "A similar point was made by Andy Matuschak about Quantum Country cards: if you encounter a card as part of an article you're reading, you know/understand the facts wel...")
- 16:44, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+909) . . N Optimal unlocking mechanism for booster cards is unclear (Created page with "When creating booster cards, there are a few different mechanisms for unlocking the cards that one can imagine: * time-based unlocking: 3 months after you read the initia...")
- 02:42, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . N Category:Claim (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a claim.") (current)
- 02:41, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+107) . . N Category:Command (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a command. Often for tips I have, or an exhortation for myself or others.") (current)
- 02:41, 28 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . N Category:Question (Created page with "Pages whose titles are phrased as a question.") (current)
- 20:05, 27 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+1,101) . . N Different mental representations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math (Created page with "If we want something like a Braid for math, one blocker is that the same mathematical object might have completely different ways of thinking about it (i.e. completely dif...")
- 00:24, 27 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+397) . . N Video games allow immediate exploration (Created page with "Video games typically have a one-to-one relationship between the objects that the game is about, and the objects on the screen. This makes exploration immediate, intuitive, an...")
- 23:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+158) . . N Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory (Created page with "'''Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory'''. ==See also== * Duolingo for math * Braid for math Category:Learning")
- 22:07, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+175) . . N Combinatorial explosion in math (Created page with "One of the key difficulties in math, compared to puzzle games, is the combinatorial explosion of ideas. ==See also== Category:Learning")
- 22:04, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+62) . . N Braid for math (Created page with " ==See also== * Duolingo for math Category:Learning")
- 21:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+74) . . N Live math video (Created page with "I wrote about this here: https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Live_math_video")
- 21:59, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+231) . . N Duolingo for math (Created page with "An idea I roll around in my head from time to time, not as an idea to be taken literally, but as a tool to generate new ideas, is trying to imagine what a '''Duolingo for...")
- 21:49, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+475) . . N Can spaced repetition interfere with internal sense of relevance? (Created page with "There's a Matt vs Japan video that says that Anki can mess up your internal sense of how frequent certain words are (especially if those words are very infrequent/rare...")
- 21:44, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+414) . . N Physical vs digital clutter (Created page with "A big difference between '''physical and digital clutter''' is that the latter doesn't take up space, so there is little cost to keeping stuff around. You aren't taking up spa...")
- 20:44, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+904) . . N Booster card (Created page with " I think that something like Quantum Country would benefit from having additional cards that you can collect by reading a separate page a month or so after you read the...")
- 16:17, 26 March 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+647) . . N Large graduating interval as a way to prevent pattern-matching (Created page with "One problem with spaced repetition cards (especially cloze deletion cards) is that the brain just remembers the "shape" of a card without really internalizing the righ...")
- 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...")
- 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...")
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