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94Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?

7mo

20

92How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

1y

16

90What makes people intellectually active?

1y

62

86Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs?

1y

21

85What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

7mo

65

85Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on?

4mo

27

81Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?

4mo

53

76Best reasons for pessimism about impact of impact measures?Ω

8mo

Ω

54

75How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study?

12d

38

70How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

10mo

Ω

19

64Does anti-malaria charity destroy the local anti-malaria industry?

1y

16

61Is it harder to become a MIRI mathematician in 2019 compared to in 2013?

1mo

2

58How do people become ambitious?

8mo

36

57Why are people so bad at dating?

2mo

46

56Why so much variance in human intelligence?

4mo

28

55Understanding information cascades

jacobjacob, Ben Pace

9mo

37

54What LessWrong/Rationality/EA chat-servers exist that newcomers can join?

8mo

13

53Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?

10mo

22

53What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

6mo

27

53How common is it for one entity to have a 3+ year technological lead on its nearest competitor?Ω

Daniel Kokotajlo

1mo

Ω

18

52Under what circumstances is "don't look at existing research" good advice?

13h

10

51How does OpenAI's language model affect our AI timeline estimates?

10mo

7

51If a "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equlibria" was built, do you have a concrete inadequate equilibrium to fix?

10mo

33

50How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

4mo

12

49Is there a guide to 'Problems that are too fast to Google'?

6mo

13

48What would you need to be motivated to answer "hard" LW questions?

9mo

35

48How long can people be productive in [time period]?

7mo

17

47How good is a human's gut judgement at guessing someone's IQ?

10mo

18

47Any rebuttals of Christiano and AI Impacts on takeoff speeds?

8mo

20

47What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

5d

21

45Why Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

1y

17

45Does Agent-like Behavior Imply Agent-like Architecture?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

4mo

Ω

7

44Is the "business cycle" an actual economic principle?

6mo

14

44Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why?

5mo

15

43How much funding and researchers were in AI, and AI Safety, in 2018?

9mo

11

43What are the requirements for being "citable?"

15d

8

42What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?

6mo

12

41When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?

10mo

12

40LW authors: How many clusters of norms do you (personally) want?

5mo

40

39What is "Social Reality?"

1y

17

39How Old is Smallpox?

1y

5

39What's wrong with these analogies for understanding Informed Oversight and IDA?Ω

9mo

Ω

3

39Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

7mo

14

39What's up with self-esteem?

6mo

14

38Historical forecasting: Are there ways I can get lots of data, but only up to a certain date?

22d

10

38Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?

3d

22

37Did the recent blackmail discussion change your beliefs?

9mo

7

37Can we use ideas from ecosystem management to cultivate a healthy rationality memespace?

jacobjacob, Nora_Ammann

6mo

1

36What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements?

1y

27

36How can we measure creativity?

5mo

3