Chris_Leong

Please note this reading list is very outdated, I had hoped to find time to update it before sharing it separately, but I've become caught up in other projects, so I think it makes sense to share it now before it becomes even more outdated. motivation ‘AI for societal uplift’...

If Less Wrong wants people to be sharing more of their intellectual output on this website, we should probably be looking at Substack since it probably scores best in terms of being both successful and similar. Whilst I expect there are many features that would make sense to copy over,...

Epistemic status: Speculative psychoanalysis to illustrate a point Many people have observed that Tyler Cowen's Act Like it is science is a clear case of an isolated demand for rigor. I agree, but I feel it's worth trying to understand how he ended up there. Tyler Cowen is clearly extremely...

Epistemic status: Quick write-up to get the idea out there. > “Plans are worthless, planning is everything” - Dwight D. Eisenhower Many governments say they want to be agile, I’ve seen this in many different policy documents, but words are cheap. If you want to be agile, you can’t just...

This article is based on reflections from co-leading the Sydney AI Safety Fellowship. This post is primarily focused on AI safety, but I expect the lessons to be more generally applicable. We have a Problem™ 😱—actually several problems; okay even more problems. Unfortunately, the edge cases make it hard to...

LawrenceC proposed that the nine main theses of shard theory are as follows: > * Agents are well modeled as being made of shards---contextually activated decision influences. > * Shards generally care about concepts inside the agent's world model, as opposed to pure sensory experiences or maximizing reward. > *...

I was inspired to revise my formulation of this thought experiment by Ihor Kendiukhov's post On The Independence Axiom. Kendiukhov quotes Scott Garrabrant: > My take is that the concept of expected utility maximization is a mistake. [...] As far as I know, every argument for utility assumes (or implies)...