Posts by importance
I put an “importance” score on my posts: this weights the topic of the post.1 The scale goes from 1 (“applies only to Gavin’s life”) to 10 (“applies to the entire possible future of all life”). So it’s superexponential: a “10” is on a topic much more than a trillion times more important than a “2”.
Anything “4” or above could affect your life, might be something you should know, as a generally optimising or curious or altruistic person.
It is an enduring mystery to me why my interest in a topic is not more correlated with my own estimate of its importance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> Existential risk as common cause |
9
> Against the Culture |
> AI alignment & academia |
> AI ethics for present & future |
> Worldview in Five Books |
> 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar |
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> Consent as conclusive evidence |
> 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts |
> 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry |
> Why is quality rare? |
> What's the highest moral wage? |
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> hope dies last |
> Nation playlists |
> 'The Odyssey' (2017) by Emily Wilson |
> Staring at mystics |
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> Misreading Russell on radical scepticism |
- I stole the idea from Gwern.