In 2023…
- Forecasting Newsletter for November and December 2022
- Can GPT-3 produce new ideas? Partially automating Robin Hanson and others
- Prevalence of belief in “human biodiversity” amongst self-reported EA respondents in the 2020 SlateStarCodex Survey
- Interim Update on QURI’s Work on EA Cause Area Candidates
- There will always be a Voigt-Kampff test
- My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
- An in-progress experiment to test how Laplace’s rule of succession performs in practice.
- Effective Altruism No Longer an Expanding Empire.
- no matter where you stand
- Just-in-time Bayesianism
- Impact markets as a mechanism for not loosing your edge
- Straightforwardly eliciting probabilities from GPT-3
- Inflation-proof assets
- A Bayesian Adjustment to Rethink Priorities' Welfare Range Estimates
- A computable version of Solomonoff induction
- Use of “I’d bet” on the EA Forum is mostly metaphorical
- Winners of the Squiggle Experimentation and 80,000 Hours Quantification Challenges
- What happens in Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
- Estimation for sanity checks
- Find a beta distribution that fits your desired confidence interval
- Some estimation work in the horizon
- Soothing software
- What is forecasting?
- Things you should buy, quantified
- General discussion thread
- A Soothing Frontend for the Effective Altruism Forum
- A flaw in a simple version of worldview diversification
- Review of Epoch’s Scaling transformative autoregressive models
- Updating in the face of anthropic effects is possible
- Relative values for animal suffering and ACE Top Charities
- People’s choices determine a partial ordering over people’s desirability
- Betting and consent
- Some melancholy about the value of my work depending on decisions by others beyond my control
- Why are we not harder, better, faster, stronger?
- squiggle.c
- Webpages I am making available to my corner of the internet
- Incorporate keeping track of accuracy into X (previously Twitter)
- Quick thoughts on Manifund’s application to Open Philanthropy
- Count words in <50 lines of C
- Brief thoughts on CEA’s stewardship of the EA Forum
- Hurdles of using forecasting as a tool for making sense of AI progress
- Auftragstaktik
- AI safety forecasting questions
- Alternative Visions of Effective Altruism