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owencb

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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

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