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Quan­tified Uncer­tainty Re­search Institute

TagLast edit: 3 Nov 2022 16:57 UTC by brook

The Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI) is a nonprofit set up to study forecasting and epistemics. QURI was founded in 2019.

Funding

As of June 2022, QURI has received over $650,000 in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,[1][2] and $200,000 from the Future Fund.[3]

External links

Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute. Official website.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2021) SFF-2022-H1 S-Process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Future Fund (2022) Our grants and investments: QURI, Future Fund.

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In­cen­tive Prob­lems With Cur­rent Fore­cast­ing Com­pe­ti­tions.

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Big List of Cause Candidates

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132 points
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Rel­a­tive Im­pact of the First 10 EA Fo­rum Prize Winners

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88 points
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2018-2019 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Gran­tees: How did they do?

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Shal­low eval­u­a­tions of longter­mist organizations

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Build­ing Blocks of Utility Maximization

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210 points
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Ex­ter­nal Eval­u­a­tion of the EA Wiki

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78 points
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Ozzie Gooen23 Dec 2021 7:08 UTC
82 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

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25 points
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Ozzie Gooen29 Dec 2021 18:41 UTC
69 points
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Five steps for quan­tify­ing spec­u­la­tive interventions

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114 points
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122 points
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Sim­ple es­ti­ma­tion ex­am­ples in Squiggle

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111 points
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116 points
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39 points
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76 points
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Misha Yagudin and Ozzie Gooen Dis­cuss LLMs and Effec­tive Altruism

Ozzie Gooen6 Jan 2023 22:59 UTC
47 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Why does Academia+EA pro­duce so few on­line videos?

Ozzie Gooen10 Jan 2023 13:49 UTC
24 points
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14 Ways ML Could Im­prove In­for­ma­tive Video

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8 points
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EA could use bet­ter in­ter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tions infrastructure

Ozzie Gooen12 Jan 2023 1:07 UTC
67 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Can GPT-3 pro­duce new ideas? Par­tially au­tomat­ing Robin Han­son and others

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82 points
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My highly per­sonal skep­ti­cism brain­dump on ex­is­ten­tial risk from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

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431 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

An in-progress ex­per­i­ment to test how Laplace’s rule of suc­ces­sion performs in prac­tice.

NunoSempere30 Jan 2023 17:41 UTC
57 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Eli Lifland on Nav­i­gat­ing the AI Align­ment Landscape

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48 points
9 comments31 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Straight­for­wardly elic­it­ing prob­a­bil­ities from GPT-3

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41 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Select Challenges with Crit­i­cism & Eval­u­a­tion Around EA

Ozzie Gooen10 Feb 2023 23:36 UTC
111 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Who is Un­com­fortable Cri­tiquing Who, Around EA?

Ozzie Gooen24 Feb 2023 5:55 UTC
150 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

Win­ners of the Squig­gle Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and 80,000 Hours Quan­tifi­ca­tion Challenges

NunoSempere8 Mar 2023 1:03 UTC
62 points
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Ac­cu­racy Agree­ments: A Flex­ible Alter­na­tive to Pre­dic­tion Markets

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37 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Owain Evans on LLMs, Truth­ful AI, AI Com­po­si­tion, and More

Ozzie Gooen2 May 2023 1:20 UTC
21 points
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(quri.substack.com)

Pa­trick Gruban on Effec­tive Altru­ism Ger­many and Non­profit Boards in EA

Ozzie Gooen5 May 2023 17:23 UTC
37 points
2 comments45 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Think­ing of Con­ve­nience as an Eco­nomic Term

Ozzie Gooen5 May 2023 19:09 UTC
28 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

A flaw in a sim­ple ver­sion of wor­ld­view diversification

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45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

Rel­a­tive Value Func­tions: A Flex­ible New For­mat for Value Estimation

Ozzie Gooen18 May 2023 16:39 UTC
57 points
23 comments18 min readEA link

Rel­a­tive val­ues for an­i­mal suffer­ing and ACE Top Charities

NunoSempere30 May 2023 16:37 UTC
33 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
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Us­ing Points to Rate Differ­ent Kinds of Evidence

Ozzie Gooen25 Aug 2023 19:26 UTC
33 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Open Tech­ni­cal Challenges around Prob­a­bil­is­tic Pro­grams and Javascript

Ozzie Gooen26 Aug 2023 2:04 UTC
39 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Distinc­tions when Dis­cussing Utility Functions

Ozzie Gooen8 Mar 2024 18:43 UTC
13 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Is Fore­cast­ing a Promis­ing EA Cause Area?

Ozzie Gooen25 Mar 2024 20:36 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
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