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I recently wrote an essay about AI risk, targeted at other academics: Long-Term and Short-Term Challenges to Ensuring the Safety of AI Sys

Recently Luke Muelhauser posed the question, “Can noise have power?”, which basically asks whether randomization can ever be useful, or whet

[Highlights for the busy: de-bunking standard "Bayes is optimal" arguments; frequentist Solomonoff induction; and a description of the onlin

Cross-posted from my blog. It is almost certainly a bad idea to let this post be your first exposure to the effective altruist movement. You

Overview The basic observation is that, if we think of life as an optimization problem, then redefining the search space is much more impo

(Note: this is cross-posted from my blog and also available in pdf here.) If you are a newly initiated student into the field of machine l

Audio books have been discussed a bit before, but I never saw a list of recommendations. What books are good in an audio format (especially

I recently came out against paleo in the open thread, and realized that I probably haven't yet heard the strongest arguments in favor of a p

enough people have reported this that i wanted to make it publicly known. on my phone so will let others provide more detail

In September I will be moving to Mountain View, CA together with a friend of mine from MIT. It turns out that the quality/cost ratio increas