Miles Kodama
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on the atlas · 25
- You Can Load a Die, But You Can't Bias a Coin3 savers
- Singular value decomposition5 savers
- A gap in the theoretical justification for surrogate goals and safe Pareto improvements – The Universe from an Intentional Stance2 savers
- Painful intelligence --- Book home page1 savers
- I found >800 orthogonal “write code” steering vectors | Jacob’s Blog3 savers
- Party for the Animals - Wikipedia1 savers
- Learn In Public30 savers
- On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold Aschenbrenner1 savers
- Benacerraf's identification problem4 savers
- Does higher density cause lower birth rates?1 savers
- Imprecise Probabilities (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)2 savers
- What I learned from doing Quiz Bowl | Jacob’s Blog4 savers
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes (Author of The Common Law)1 savers
- Musical Key Characteristics2 savers
- Market Failures in Science5 savers
- The Magnitude of Things: Noteworthy Facts and Figures About the World · Yiqin Fu3 savers
- Learning By Writing43 savers
- Outrangeous (Calibration Game) — LessWrong1 savers
- Betz's law - Wikipedia1 savers
- juin2009.idd1 savers
- Intro | Putting the "You" in CPU19 savers
- Coset - Wikipedia2 savers
- Cities and Ambition42 savers
- Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report — EA Forum1 savers
- Homepage | Rohan's Rambles1 savers
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It is not only the AI that can sandbag its capabilities and then do a type of treacherous turn. If I was running an AI lab in this situation, I would be foolish not to give a lot of thought to whether I wanted to get taken over by the government or I would rather the government get taken over by my lab.
On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold AschenbrennerSubstantial existential risk does not change this so much. If the world ends with 50% probability, then you factor that in.
On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold AschenbrennerIf you are investing betting on AGI, I think you will have very good expected returns in dollars. That does not obviously mean you have high expected returns in utility. Ask in what worlds money has how much marginal utility
On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold AschenbrennerPatterns called boojums
What I learned from doing Quiz Bowl | Jacob’s BlogThis is commonly known as “tilting.” Not being happy also probably makes your thoughts and reflexes slower, which could additionally explain the necessity of the team being happy during tossups.
What I learned from doing Quiz Bowl | Jacob’s BlogBad products, bad service, and slow innovation follow.
Market Failures in ScienceFunding students directly rather than funding advisors could ameliorate some of this problem.
Market Failures in ScienceMaybe it’s worth making science less cool.
Market Failures in Sciencethe increasing status of scientists in society may have increased the number of scientists who are motivated by status-seeking rather than truth-seeking.
Market Failures in ScienceSweden: 10m, 2x that of Denmark, Norway, and Finland South Korea: 50m, 1/2 that of Japan, 2x that of Taiwan
The Magnitude of Things: Noteworthy Facts and Figures About the World · Yiqin Fu2019: U.S. 55%, China 60%, India 20%, World 51% 2000: U.S. 60%, China 70%, India 30%, World 47%
The Magnitude of Things: Noteworthy Facts and Figures About the World · Yiqin FuWords Whose Abstract Meanings Came Before the Concrete
The Magnitude of Things: Noteworthy Facts and Figures About the World · Yiqin FuNot to be confused with Cosette.
Coset - WikipediaWhat cities provide is an audience, and a funnel for peers. These aren't so critical in something like math or physics, where no audience matters except your peers, and judging ability is sufficiently straightforward that hiring and admissions committees can do it reliably.
Cities and AmbitionThe people you find in Cambridge are not there by accident. You have to make sacrifices to live there. It's expensive and somewhat grubby, and the weather's often bad. So the kind of people you find in Cambridge are the kind of people who want to live where the smartest people are, even if that means living in an expensive, grubby place with bad weather.
Cities and Ambition