7+ hour, 36+ min ago  (985+ words) AI "time horizons" are mostly not about time (I think it"s mostly "data", but you"ll see where I"m unsure). "...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago  (25+ words) (This one's a double-header on the tightly-linked senses of smell and taste, especially pertaining to foodcraft; it comprises both The Space of Olfac...

1+ day, 9+ min ago  (1368+ words) Veganism is Virtuous, but not Obligatory " "...

1+ day, 9+ min ago  (1372+ words) Veganism is Virtuous, but not Obligatory " "...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1750+ words) This sequence is an attempt to sketch a unified framework for several interconnected questions: Where do Bayesian priors come from? What even are probabilities? How should we deal with infinite ethics? What's going on with anthropics? I hope to lay…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (568+ words) [see also Four Ways Learning Economics makes you people dumber future AI] "...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (804+ words) I've been a toe-in rat and existed on the outskirts of the social scene for approaching a decade now, and I can confidently say (with love) that rati...

1+ day, 40+ min ago  (836+ words) Lukeprog's How to Beat Procrastination includes in its framework a term for expectancy or how likely/accomplishable a successful outcome feels internally. One of the levers to combat procrastination is thus to increase the perceived odds of getting a reward....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1186+ words) I am crossposting this to Less Wrong to get more eyeballs on it, essentially throwing it to the wolves to see if it survives. While I'm aware of similarities with other rational moral frameworks, I believe that Cogitism is distinct…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (23+ words) My first AI security paper as an independent researcher (with one other independent collaborator) was just accepted to the Security in Machine Learni...