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

8mo

22

93How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

1y

16

91What makes people intellectually active?

1y

62

87Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs?

1y

21

86What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

8mo

67

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

5mo

27

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

6mo

53

78How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study?

2mo

38

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

9mo

Ω

54

71Under what circumstances is "don't look at existing research" good advice?

1mo

19

70How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?Ω

Scott Garrabrant

1y

Ω

19

66Is it harder to become a MIRI mathematician in 2019 compared to in 2013?

3mo

3

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

1y

16

62Why are people so bad at dating?

3mo

56

60What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

2mo

26

59How do people become ambitious?

10mo

36

56Why so much variance in human intelligence?

5mo

28

55Understanding information cascades

jacobjacob, Ben Pace

10mo

37

55What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

7mo

27

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

10mo

13

53Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?

1y

22

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

Daniel Kokotajlo

2mo

Ω

18

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

1y

7

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

1y

33

50How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

5mo

12

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

7mo

13

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

10mo

35

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

9mo

17

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

1y

18

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

9mo

20

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

1y

17

45Is the "business cycle" an actual economic principle?

7mo

15

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

Scott Garrabrant

5mo

Ω

7

44Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why?

7mo

15

44What are the requirements for being "citable?"

2mo

8

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

1y

11

42What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?

7mo

12

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

1y

12

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

7mo

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

10mo

Ω

3

39Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

8mo

14

39What's up with self-esteem?

7mo

14

39Historical forecasting: Are there ways I can get lots of data, but only up to a certain date?

2mo

10

38Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?

1mo

22

37Did the recent blackmail discussion change your beliefs?

10mo

7

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

jacobjacob, Nora_Ammann

7mo

1

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

1y

27

36Why does category theory exist?

9mo

9