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The European parliamentary election is currently taking place (voting period: 2024-04-07 to 2024-07-10). While I assume my vote[1] has ~no impact on x-risk either way, I'd nonetheless like to take into account if parties have made public statements on AI. But I'm not sure they do. Does anyone know, or...

I saw this guest post on the Slow Boring substack, by a former senior US government official, and figured it might be of interest here. The post's original title is "The economic research policymakers actually need", but it seemed to me like the post could be applied just as well...

This is a transcript of The Filan Cabinet podcast, episode 6, with host Daniel Filan and guest Oliver Habryka. The transcript is by MondSemmel. The original LessWrong post is here. In addition to each "section" having a timestamp, phrases/sentences that were difficult to understand (and where the transcript is therefore...

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A key question for advice in a domain is: how are outcomes in this domain statistically distributed? If extremely good and extremely bad outcomes are rare, you probably can't do much better than just copying the default or median behavior. The value of acquiring information in this domain seems low....

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The Underspecified Normie You’re well-aware of the benefits of a healthier lifestyle: less pain, more energy, more mobility and autonomy, a higher life expectancy, and so on and so forth ad nauseam. Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t compel you to action. Your behavior mostly follows simple hyperbolic discounting - healthy actions...