Mark Xu

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  • Nov 09, 2024 Preference utilitarians should care about the preferences of past people
  • Nov 09, 2024 A model of commitments
  • Aug 19, 2022 How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
  • May 03, 2022 Facts from ECB CH5: DNA and Chromosomes
  • Apr 21, 2022 On London
  • Feb 19, 2022 Four Perspectives on Small Donors in EA
  • Feb 07, 2022 Comparing Utilitarianism to Deontology is a Type Error
  • Jan 19, 2022 When Learning a Skill Has Costs
  • Jan 15, 2022 Facts from ECB CH4: Protein Structure and Function
  • Jan 08, 2022 Removing My Bets Page
  • Jan 07, 2022 Advice I Commonly Give People New To Alignment
  • Jan 06, 2022 Facts from ECB CH3, Energy, Catalysis, and Biosynthesis
  • Jan 04, 2022 Facts from ECB CH2, Chemical Components of Cells
  • Jan 03, 2022 Transitioning Away From Veganism
  • Jan 03, 2022 Facts from Essential Cell Biology Chapter 1, Cells: The Fundamental Units of Life
  • Jan 01, 2022 Insights from Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
  • Dec 04, 2021 Notes On SMILE Eye Surgery
  • Nov 28, 2021 Things That Should Be Destroyed
  • Nov 21, 2021 How To Be (Semi)-Fashionable
  • Nov 18, 2021 Retrospective On My 2020 FHI Research Scholar Application
  • Nov 07, 2021 Owning Multiple Copies of Objects Can Reduce Attention Costs
  • Nov 07, 2021 Coase's Theorem Means The Customer Doesn't Have To Always Be Right
  • Oct 20, 2021 Overly Specific Reviews: Tongue Scrapers, Floss Picks, and Whiteboard Markers
  • Oct 17, 2021 Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think
  • Oct 12, 2021 Review: A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Oct 08, 2021 Quirks with the Solomonoff Prior
  • Oct 04, 2021 Insights from Complications
  • Oct 01, 2021 The Simulation Hypothesis Undercuts the SIA/Great Filter Doomsday Argument
  • Sep 26, 2021 How well can people distinguish tastes?
  • Sep 25, 2021 TAP Inventory
  • Sep 25, 2021 Answering Questions Honestly in the Game of Life
  • Sep 22, 2021 Style Guide: How to Sound Like an Evil Robot
  • Sep 19, 2021 Signs that Something's Wrong
  • Sep 15, 2021 If you weren't such a idiot...
  • Sep 04, 2021 Buying Enough Snacks
  • Jul 14, 2021 Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements
  • Jul 08, 2021 Intermittent Distillations #4
  • Jul 04, 2021 Anthropic Effects in Estimating Evolution Difficulty
  • Jun 24, 2021 A Rough Perspective on Strategy Stealing
  • Jun 12, 2021 The Wild World of Policy Debate
  • Jun 04, 2021 Rogue AGI Embodies Valuable Intellectual Property
  • Jun 03, 2021 An Intuitive Guide to Garrabrant Induction
  • May 15, 2021 Intermittent Distillations #3
  • May 12, 2021 Lumenator Recipe
  • May 08, 2021 Pre-Training + Fine-Tuning Favors Deception
  • May 06, 2021 Less Realistic Tales of Doom
  • Apr 30, 2021 Making Markets Over Beliefs
  • Apr 26, 2021 Agents Over Cartesian World Models
  • Apr 13, 2021 Intermittent Distillations #2
  • Apr 05, 2021 Meta-EA Needs Models
  • Mar 29, 2021 RSS Feed
  • Mar 28, 2021 Transparency Trichotomy
  • Mar 16, 2021 Intermittent Distillations #1
  • Mar 13, 2021 Strong Evidence is Common
  • Mar 10, 2021 Open Problems in Myopia
  • Mar 09, 2021 Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Goal-Directedness
  • Mar 05, 2021 Revenge of the Prediction Market
  • Mar 04, 2021 Maslow First and the World Second
  • Mar 03, 2021 How Simulacra Levels Increase
  • Mar 02, 2021 Seriously, the Map is Not the Territory
  • Feb 24, 2021 Some People Are Smarter Than You
  • Feb 23, 2021 Coincidences are Improbable
  • Feb 13, 2021 Be Reliable
  • Feb 12, 2021 Definitions and Examples of Simulacra Levels
  • Feb 11, 2021 Be Specific About Your Career
  • Jan 21, 2021 Money Can't (Easily) Buy Talent
  • Dec 31, 2020 Interpolate Claims (Un)charitably
  • Dec 24, 2020 The First Sample Gives the Most Information
  • Dec 24, 2020 Defusing AGI Danger
  • Dec 24, 2020 Chain Breaking
  • Dec 24, 2020 CFAR Retrospective
  • Dec 21, 2020 My Routine
  • Dec 10, 2020 Be Responsible
  • Dec 09, 2020 A Math Student's Guide to Options
  • Dec 05, 2020 Be Goal-directed
  • Nov 06, 2020 Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?
  • Oct 29, 2020 Expected Money at Augur
  • Oct 26, 2020 France Bet Postmortem
  • Oct 24, 2020 Miscellaneous Mediocre Models
  • Oct 13, 2020 The Solomonoff Prior is Malign
  • Sep 27, 2020 Death is Bad
  • Sep 26, 2020 Stories of my Life
  • Sep 22, 2020 How to Construct Bets
  • Sep 22, 2020 How to Buy Things
  • Sep 15, 2020 These Legal Systems Do Not Exist
  • Sep 14, 2020 AI Safety FAQs
  • Sep 07, 2020 Be Stupid
  • Sep 04, 2020 100 Opinions About Emotions
  • Sep 03, 2020 Be Perfect
  • Aug 28, 2020 Review: Against the Grain
  • Aug 26, 2020 These Are a Few of My Favorite Questions
  • Aug 25, 2020 Review: Assorted Snacks
  • Aug 05, 2020 Plans Never Err
  • Aug 04, 2020 Three Things I've Learned About Bayes' Rule
  • Jul 30, 2020 Stop Asking People To Maximize
  • Jul 29, 2020 Resonant Quotations
  • Jul 15, 2020 Contextualized Norms
  • Jul 14, 2020 What I Want To Do With My Life
  • Jan 27, 2020 In My Culture