You don't understand why someone believes X?
Asks questions about why you might claim to not understand another's position.
Improving ourselves
Intelligence
Common traits of flawed definitions
Patterns of failure in intelligence definitions
Some problematic definitions of intelligence
Discusses weaknesses of some definitions
Russell's definition of intelligence
Stuart Russell offers a useful definition
Why care about definitions?
Hint: they aren't just ink on a page or pixels on a screen
The Conclave of Clarity
A parable of occult sense-making
Criticism of Russell's definition
It is a meta-definition; give it a chance
General intelligence
TODO
Consciousness
Prediction without understanding qualia
Suggests we can predict agent behavior without making progress on the hard problem of consciousness.
AI safety via debate
Definition of the debate game
The definition of the debate game from AI safety via debate (2018).
Reasons to worry about AI safety via debate
Discusses some reasons why AI safety via debate could fail.
Interaction patterns for truth-seeking
Poses four questions about interaction patterns for truth-seeking.
Downsides of debate
Gives reasons why debate is a suboptimal for truth-seeking.
Better than debate
Suggests a better way than debate to seek truth.
Words matter
What democratize really means
The word democratize is often abused. You can help. Push back.
Science writing
Science writing matters (1 of 2)
Brief introduction to why I care about science writing.
Science writing matters (2 of 2)
Brief introduction to why I care about science writing.
Zero-sum bias
Nature's zero-sum thinking about AI risk
Criticizes the flawed thinking of a 2023 Nature editorial.