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Qi Xuan Ding

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  • Another proposed taxonomy uses three axes: individualist vs. authoritarian, winners vs. losers, and progress vs. decay. But I think cosmopolitanism vs. nationalistic, nativistic, and parochial outlooks is often more a more important axis.
    Cosmopolitanism — EA Forum
  • For example, 98% of respondents somewhat or strongly agreed that AGI labs should conduct pre-deployment risk assessments, dangerous capabilities evaluations, third-party model audits, safety restrictions on model usage, and red teaming.
    Towards Best Practices in AGI Safety and Governance | GovAI
  • User wants to do X. User doesn't know how to do X, but thinks they can fumble their way to a solution if they can just manage to do Y. User doesn't know how to do Y either. User asks for help with Y. Others try to help user with Y, but are confused because Y seems like a strange problem to want to solve. After much interaction and wasted time, it finally becomes clear that the user really wants help with X, and that Y wasn't even a suitable solution for X
    The XY Problem
  • The massive input approach gives you permission to skim, jump ahead, and go on tangents. But in contrast, I would never do this with any formal subject (math, physics, learning a new programming language, computer science in general).
    Nintil - Massive input and/or spaced repetition
  • Parts of the world, particularly India and the Philippines, could soon be hit with a tidal wave of job losses as companies turn to chatbots instead of human workers.
    CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT
  • I've since discovered that textbooks are usually the quickest and best way to learn new material. That's what they are designed to be, after all.
    The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - LessWrong
  • This is probably the best mathematical explanation for why both of these dispositions are to some extent necessary: the world is not entirely convex, but it is not entirely concave either. But the existence of some concave path between any two distant positions A and B is very likely, and if you can find that path then you can often find a synthesis between the two positions that is better than both.
    Convex and Concave Dispositions