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

5mo

20

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

9mo

21

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

2mo

27

83What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

5mo

61

82What makes people intellectually active?

9mo

60

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

9mo

11

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

6mo

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51

75Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?

2mo

52

70How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

8mo

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

9mo

16

58How do people become ambitious?

6mo

36

55Understanding information cascades

jacobjacob, Ben Pace

7mo

33

55Why so much variance in human intelligence?

2mo

25

53Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?

8mo

22

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

6mo

11

53What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

4mo

27

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

8mo

6

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

8mo

33

50How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

2mo

11

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

7mo

35

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

4mo

13

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

6mo

20

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

5mo

17

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

10mo

17

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

8mo

15

44Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why?

4mo

15

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

7mo

11

43Does Agent-like Behavior Imply Agent-like Architecture?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

2mo

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7

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

4mo

12

42What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?

4mo

12

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

8mo

12

40What's up with self-esteem?

4mo

14

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

3mo

40

39What is "Social Reality?"

10mo

17

39How Old is Smallpox?

10mo

5

39Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

5mo

14

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

7mo

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3

37Did the recent blackmail discussion change your beliefs?

7mo

7

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

jacobjacob, Nora_Ammann

4mo

1

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

9mo

27

36How can we measure creativity?

4mo

3

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

3mo

4

35What are questions?

9mo

17

35Why does category theory exist?

6mo

9

35How is Solomonoff induction calculated in practice?

4mo

13

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

3mo

21

34What self-help has helped you?

G Gordon Worley III

10mo

21

34What authors consistently give accurate pictures of complex topics they discuss?

2mo

3

33What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?

clone of saturn

7mo

23

33What explanatory power does Kahneman's System 2 possess?

2mo

3