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93Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?

3mo

11

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

7mo

21

83What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

3mo

61

79What makes people intellectually active?

7mo

60

79How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

8mo

11

75Best reasons for pessimism about impact of impact measures?Ω

4mo

Ω

51

71Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on?

8h

18

70How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

7mo

Ω

19

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

8mo

16

58How do people become ambitious?

5mo

36

58Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?

17d

45

55Understanding information cascades

jacobjacob, Benito

5mo

33

53Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?

6mo

22

53What LessWrong/Rationality/EA chat-servers exist that newcomers can join?

5mo

11

52What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

2mo

26

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

6mo

6

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

6mo

33

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

5mo

35

48Is there a guide to 'Problems that are too fast to Google'?

2mo

13

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

4mo

20

46How long can people be productive in [time period]?

4mo

17

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

8mo

17

45How good is a human's gut judgement at guessing someone's IQ?

6mo

15

44Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why?

2mo

15

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

6mo

11

42Is the "business cycle" an actual economic principle?

2mo

12

42What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?

2mo

12

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

6mo

12

40What's up with self-esteem?

2mo

12

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

1mo

40

39What is "Social Reality?"

8mo

17

39How Old is Smallpox?

8mo

5

39Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

3mo

14

37What's wrong with these analogies for understanding Informed Oversight and IDA?Ω

5mo

Ω

3

37Did the recent blackmail discussion change your beliefs?

5mo

7

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

jacobjacob, Nora_Ammann

2mo

1

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

8mo

27

36How can we measure creativity?

2mo

3

36What are some of Robin Hanson's best posts?

2mo

4

35What are questions?

7mo

17

35Why does category theory exist?

4mo

9

35How is Solomonoff induction calculated in practice?

3mo

13

35When does adding more people reliably make a system better?

1mo

21

34What self-help has helped you?

G Gordon Worley III

8mo

21

34What explanatory power does Kahneman's System 2 possess?

10d

3

33What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?

clone of saturn

5mo

23

32What are the components of intellectual honesty?

7mo

4

32What are CAIS' boldest near/medium-term predictions?

5mo

17

32What would 10x or 100x better than CFAR look like?

5mo

4

32What is required to run a psychology study?

3mo

14