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Links For January 2025

Scott shares various interesting links and news items from January 2025, covering topics from AI development and politics to historical curiosities and economic trends.

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Jan 17, 2025 5,422 words 236 likes 873 comments Listen · 32 min Read Read
Eliezer Yudkowsky (31) OpenAI (30) AI forecasting (11) paradigm shifts (8) AI timelines (7) Moore's Law (4)

Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work

Scott Alexander reviews competing methodologies for predicting AI timelines, focusing on Ajeya Cotra's biological anchors approach and Eliezer Yudkowsky's critique.

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Feb 23, 2022 11,126 words 142 likes 368 comments Listen · 71 min Read Read
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