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Optimizer's curse
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Bayesian epistemology
Bayes' Theorem
244
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
saulius
3y
30
218
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
87
[Link] The Optimizer's Curse & Wrong-Way Reductions
Chris Smith
3y
61
48
Probability distributions of Cost-Effectiveness can be misleading
Lorenzo Buonanno
5mo
52
41
Don't Over-Optimize Things
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
7
40
[Stats4EA] Expectations are not Outcomes
matthewp
2y
5
28
Take care with notation for uncertain quantities
Gregory Lewis
2y
2
28
Five Ways to Handle Flow-Through Effects
Peter Wildeford
6y
3
26
Estimating value from pairwise comparisons
Jonas Moss
2mo
3
24
Turning percentages back into people: personalizing quantification
sky
2y
0
22
The Multi-Class Optimizer's Curse
FeelingSentient
1y
0
21
How accurately does anyone know the global distribution of income?
Robert_Wiblin
5y
30
21
[Stats4EA] Uncertain Probabilities
matthewp
2y
7
20
How to Understand and Mitigate Risk (Crosspost from LessWrong)
Halffull
3y
7
177
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
162
Global health is important for the epistemic foundations of EA, even for longtermists
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
16
89
Deference for Bayesians
John G. Halstead
1y
30
89
Limits to Legibility
Jan_Kulveit
5mo
3
73
Disagreeables and Assessors: Two Intellectual Archetypes
Ozzie Gooen
1y
20
72
Bayesian Mindset
Holden Karnofsky
12mo
19
37
Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority
Scott Garrabrant
28d
2
25
Where can I find good criticisms of EA made by non-EAs?
oh54321
6mo
5
22
Red teaming a model for estimating the value of longtermist interventions - A critique of Tarsney's "The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism"
Anjay F
5mo
0
21
A thinking tool for whether X causes Y
Ben Stewart
8mo
0
19
The Geometric Expectation
Scott Garrabrant
27d
0
18
An epistemology for effective altruism?
Benjamin_Todd
8y
19
16
How modest should you be?
John G. Halstead
1y
10
14
Matsés - Are languages providing epistemic certainty of statements not of the interest of the EA community?
mikbp
1y
13