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On 'Inventing Temperature' and the realness of properties
Augustine of Hippo's Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love in Latin (or: Claude as Pandoc++)
Consider not donating under $100 to political candidates
A theory of how alignment research should work
A failure of an argument against sola scriptura
Why keep a diary, and why wish for large language models
Bayesian inference without priors
n of m ring signatures
How to type Aleksander Mądry's last name in LaTeX
If a little is good, is more better?
Watermarking considered overrated?
Difficulties in making powerful aligned AI
On Blogging and Podcasting
Things I carry almost every day, as of late December 2022
Announcing The Filan Cabinet
Takeaways from a survey on AI alignment resources
What’s the chance a smart London resident dies of a Russian nuke in the next month?
A Nice Representation of the Laplacian
The Meta-Puzzle
Even if you're right, you're wrong
Handicapping competitive games
A second example of conditional orthogonality in finite factored sets
A simple example of conditional orthogonality in finite factored sets
Challenge: know everything that the best go bot knows about go
Privacy vs proof of character
Cognitive mistakes I've made about COVID-19
Announcing AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast
Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds
An Analytic Perspective on AI Alignment
A Personal Rationality Wishlist
Verification and Transparency
Test Cases for Impact Regularisation Methods
Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers
Mechanistic Transparency for Machine Learning
Insights from 'The Strategy of Conflict'
Topology
A discussion on the usefulness on 538's forecasts
Kelly bettors
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