owencb

Karma: 2,208

Wholesomeness and Effective Altruism

owencbFeb 28, 2024, 8:28 PM

42 points

3 comments LW link

Acting Wholesomely

owencbFeb 26, 2024, 9:49 PM

59 points

64 comments LW link

On the future of language models

owencbDec 20, 2023, 4:58 PM

105 points

17 comments LW link

Report from a civilizational observer on Earth

owencbJul 9, 2022, 5:26 PM

49 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Perils of optimizing in social contexts

owencbJun 16, 2022, 5:40 PM

50 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Don’t Over-Optimize Things

owencbJun 16, 2022, 4:33 PM

27 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Deferring

owencbMay 12, 2022, 11:56 PM

18 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie

Owain_Evans, owencb and Lukas Finnveden

Oct 18, 2021, 6:37 PM

82 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

“Good judgement” and its components

owencbAug 24, 2020, 10:32 AM

27 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Learning to get things right first time

owencbMay 29, 2015, 10:06 PM

12 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Counterfactual trade

owencbMar 9, 2015, 1:23 PM

22 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Neutral hours: a tool for valuing time

owencbMar 4, 2015, 4:38 PM

28 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Report—Allocating risk mitigation across time

owencbFeb 20, 2015, 4:37 PM

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions

owencbJan 10, 2015, 7:09 PM

14 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

Factoring cost-effectiveness

owencbDec 24, 2014, 11:25 PM

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Make your own cost-effectiveness Fermi estimates for one-off problems

owencbDec 11, 2014, 12:00 PM

14 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of research

owencbDec 11, 2014, 11:55 AM

33 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Decision theories as heuristics

owencbSep 28, 2014, 2:36 PM

21 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Why we should err in both directions

owencbAug 21, 2014, 11:10 AM

15 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

How to treat problems of unknown difficulty

owencbJul 30, 2014, 11:27 AM

20 points

10 comments9 min readLW link