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Back to Search"The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism" by Malmesbury
Cross-posted from substack.
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clonal interference."
– Oscar Wilde (kind of)
As we all know…
2 years, 5 months ago
"A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX" by jacobjacob
Patrick Collison has a fantastic list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together since the 19th Century. It does make you …
2 years, 5 months ago
"AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas" by TurnTrout & Garrett Baker
This is a linkpost for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kbWY5mahQ
None of the presidents fully represent my (TurnTrout's) views.
TurnTrout wrote the s…
2 years, 5 months ago
"UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever" by Wei Dai
I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision theory, whereas maybe they could have attracted …
2 years, 5 months ago
"Sum-threshold attacks" by TsviBT
How do you affect something far away, a lot, without anyone noticing?
(Note: you can safely skip sections. It is also safe to skip the essay entirely,…
2 years, 5 months ago
"A list of core AI safety problems and how I hope to solve them" by Davidad
Context: I sometimes find myself referring back to this tweet and wanted to give it a more permanent home. While I'm at it, I thought I would try to …
2 years, 5 months ago
"Report on Frontier Model Training" by Yafah Edelman
This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsYkDYtV6BKiCN9PAOirRAy3TrNDu2XncUZ5UZfaAKA/edit?usp=sharing
Understanding what drives the …
2 years, 5 months ago
"Defunding My Mistake" by ymeskhout
Until about five years ago, I unironically parroted the slogan All Cops Are Bastards (ACAB) and earnestly advocated to abolish the police and prison …
2 years, 5 months ago
"Sharing Information About Nonlinear" by Ben Pace
Added (11th Sept): Nonlinear have commented that they intend to write a response, have written a short follow-up, and claim that they dispute 85 clai…
2 years, 5 months ago
"One Minute Every Moment" by abramdemski
About how much information are we keeping in working memory at a given moment?
"Miller's Law" dictates that the number of things humans can hold in wo…
2 years, 5 months ago