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Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?
Wei_Dai
7mo
20
92
How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?
Ben Pace
1y
16
Review
90
What makes people intellectually active?
abramdemski
1y
62
Review
86
Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs?
Wei_Dai
1y
21
85
What are the open problems in Human Rationality?
Raemon
7mo
65
85
Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on?
elityre
4mo
27
81
Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?
MakoYass
4mo
53
76
Best reasons for pessimism about impact of impact measures?
Ω
TurnTrout
8mo
Ω
54
75
How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study?
elityre
12d
38
70
How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?
Ω
Scott Garrabrant
10mo
Ω
19
64
Does anti-malaria charity destroy the local anti-malaria industry?
Viliam
1y
16
61
Is it harder to become a MIRI mathematician in 2019 compared to in 2013?
riceissa
1mo
2
58
How do people become ambitious?
Raemon
8mo
36
57
Why are people so bad at dating?
Xodarap
2mo
46
56
Why so much variance in human intelligence?
Ben Pace
4mo
28
55
Understanding information cascades
jacobjacob
,
Ben Pace
9mo
37
54
What LessWrong/Rationality/EA chat-servers exist that newcomers can join?
habryka
8mo
13
53
Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?
Wei_Dai
10mo
22
53
What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?
jp
6mo
27
53
How common is it for one entity to have a 3+ year technological lead on its nearest competitor?
Ω
Daniel Kokotajlo
1mo
Ω
18
52
Under what circumstances is "don't look at existing research" good advice?
Kaj_Sotala
13h
10
51
How does OpenAI's language model affect our AI timeline estimates?
jimrandomh
10mo
7
51
If a "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equlibria" was built, do you have a concrete inadequate equilibrium to fix?
Raemon
10mo
33
50
How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?
Elizabeth
4mo
12
49
Is there a guide to 'Problems that are too fast to Google'?
Vaniver
6mo
13
48
What would you need to be motivated to answer "hard" LW questions?
Raemon
9mo
35
48
How long can people be productive in [time period]?
Elizabeth
7mo
17
47
How good is a human's gut judgement at guessing someone's IQ?
habryka
10mo
18
47
Any rebuttals of Christiano and AI Impacts on takeoff speeds?
SoerenMind
8mo
20
47
What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?
Wei_Dai
5d
21
45
Why Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?
Jacobian
1y
17
45
Does Agent-like Behavior Imply Agent-like Architecture?
Ω
Scott Garrabrant
4mo
Ω
7
44
Is the "business cycle" an actual economic principle?
Liron
6mo
14
44
Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why?
Raemon
5mo
15
43
How much funding and researchers were in AI, and AI Safety, in 2018?
Raemon
9mo
11
43
What are the requirements for being "citable?"
Raemon
15d
8
42
What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?
Bucky
6mo
12
41
When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?
jacobjacob
10mo
12
40
LW authors: How many clusters of norms do you (personally) want?
Raemon
5mo
40
39
What is "Social Reality?"
Raemon
1y
17
39
How Old is Smallpox?
Raemon
1y
5
39
What's wrong with these analogies for understanding Informed Oversight and IDA?
Ω
Wei_Dai
9mo
Ω
3
39
Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?
ricraz
7mo
14
39
What's up with self-esteem?
abramdemski
6mo
14
38
Historical forecasting: Are there ways I can get lots of data, but only up to a certain date?
elityre
22d
10
38
Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?
johnswentworth
3d
22
37
Did the recent blackmail discussion change your beliefs?
Dagon
9mo
7
37
Can we use ideas from ecosystem management to cultivate a healthy rationality memespace?
jacobjacob
,
Nora_Ammann
6mo
1
36
What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements?
jacobjacob
1y
27
36
How can we measure creativity?
Elizabeth
5mo
3