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Optimizer's curse
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Bayes' Theorem
209
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
204
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
saulius
3y
30
84
[Link] The Optimizer's Curse & Wrong-Way Reductions
Chris Smith
3y
61
66
Probability distributions of Cost-Effectiveness can be misleading
Lorenzo Buonanno
5mo
52
52
Don't Over-Optimize Things
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
7
39
Take care with notation for uncertain quantities
Gregory Lewis
2y
2
37
[Stats4EA] Expectations are not Outcomes
matthewp
2y
5
34
Estimating value from pairwise comparisons
Jonas Moss
2mo
3
32
Five Ways to Handle Flow-Through Effects
Peter Wildeford
6y
3
30
A peek at pairwise preference estimation in economics, marketing, and statistics
Jonas Moss
2mo
5
25
Turning percentages back into people: personalizing quantification
sky
2y
0
25
[Stats4EA] Uncertain Probabilities
matthewp
2y
7
23
The Multi-Class Optimizer's Curse
FeelingSentient
1y
0
22
How accurately does anyone know the global distribution of income?
Robert_Wiblin
5y
30
208
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
160
Global health is important for the epistemic foundations of EA, even for longtermists
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
16
98
Limits to Legibility
Jan_Kulveit
5mo
3
97
Deference for Bayesians
John G. Halstead
1y
30
85
Disagreeables and Assessors: Two Intellectual Archetypes
Ozzie Gooen
1y
20
72
Bayesian Mindset
Holden Karnofsky
12mo
19
41
Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority
Scott Garrabrant
28d
2
26
Where can I find good criticisms of EA made by non-EAs?
oh54321
6mo
5
24
How modest should you be?
John G. Halstead
1y
10
24
The Geometric Expectation
Scott Garrabrant
27d
0
22
A thinking tool for whether X causes Y
Ben Stewart
8mo
0
21
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
19
Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example
Linch
1y
2
18
An epistemology for effective altruism?
Benjamin_Todd
8y
19