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| + | * There are a bunch of files on http://www.weidai.com/ but they don't have dates on them so it's hard to know where to put them. (Internet Archive would help with this to some extent.) | ||
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* [http://www.weidai.com/ Wei Dai's personal website] | * [http://www.weidai.com/ Wei Dai's personal website] | ||
* [http://lesswrong.com/user/Wei_Dai/overview/ Wei Dai's LessWrong account] | * [http://lesswrong.com/user/Wei_Dai/overview/ Wei Dai's LessWrong account] | ||
| + | * [http://effective-altruism.com/user/Wei_Dai/ Wei Dai's Effective Altruism Forum account] | ||
| + | * [https://medium.com/@weidai Wei Dai's Medium account] | ||
| + | * [https://agentfoundations.org/threads?id=Wei_Dai Wei Dai's comments on the Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist|30em}} | {{Reflist|30em}} | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 16 February 2018
This is a timeline of Wei Dai publications. The timeline takes a broad view of publications that includes blog posts and mailing list posts.
Contents
Big picture
| Venue | Time period | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Cypherpunks | 1994–1996 | |
| everything-list | 1998–2010 | |
| Extropians | 2002–2003 | |
| SL4 | 2002–2008 | |
| LessWrong | 2009–present |
Full timeline
Comment counts are as of February 15, 2018.
For mailing list posts, the main inclusion criterion is that the initial post in a thread is made by Wei. This will probably miss some substantive posts in other threads, but I'm not sure how to quickly identify those posts without spending much more time.
| Year | Month and date | Format | Venue | Title | Summary | Comment count | Word count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | August 19 | Cypherpunks | "trusted time stamping", "timestamp.c", "timestamp.c mangled" | ||||
| 1995 | January 12 | Cypherpunks | "analysis of RemailerNet" | ||||
| 1995 | January 12 | Cypherpunks | "time stamping service (again)" | ||||
| 1995 | January 19 | Cypherpunks | "traffic analyzing Chaum's digital mix" | ||||
| 1995 | January 24 | Cypherpunks | "analysis of Chaum's MIX continued" | ||||
| 1995 | February 6 | Cypherpunks | "a simple explanation of DC-Net" | ||||
| 1995 | February 7 | Cypherpunks | "a new way to do anonymity" | ||||
| 1995 | February 9 | Cypherpunks | "LESM - Link Encrypted Session Manager" | ||||
| 1995 | February 10 | Cypherpunks | "law vs technology" | ||||
| 1995 | September 6 | Cypherpunks | "fast modular reduction" | ||||
| 1995 | September 10 | Cypherpunks | "question about reputation" | ||||
| 1995 | October 5 | Cypherpunks | "subjective names and MITM" | ||||
| 1995 | October 8 | Cypherpunks | "anonymous cash without blinding" | ||||
| 1995 | October 16 | Cypherpunks | "transaction costs in anonymous markets" | ||||
| 1995 | October 21 | Cypherpunks | "Encrypted TCP Tunneler" | ||||
| 1995 | October 26 | Cypherpunks | "idle CPU markets" | ||||
| 1995 | November 4 | Cypherpunks | "Crypto++ 1.1" | ||||
| 1995 | November 10 | Cypherpunks | "Diffie-Hellman in GF(2^n)?" | ||||
| 1995 | November 21 | Cypherpunks | "towards a theory of reputation" | ||||
| 1995 | November 23 | Cypherpunks | "generating provable primes" | ||||
| 1995 | December 18 | Cypherpunks | "wish list for Crypto++?" | ||||
| 1996 | February 5 | Cypherpunks | "Disperse/Collect version 1.0" | Announces release of software that helps with sending large files. | |||
| 1996 | February 13 | Cypherpunks | "Crypto++ 2.0 beta" | ||||
| 1996 | February 20 | Cypherpunks | "ANNOUNCE: Crypto++ 2.0" | ||||
| 1996 | March 23 | Cypherpunks | "Java questions" | ||||
| 1996 | May 11 | Cypherpunks, Coderpunks | "Crypto++ 2.1" | ||||
| 1996 | July 29 | Cypherpunks | "game theory" | ||||
| 1996 | September 9 | Cypherpunks | "papers on anonymous protocols" | ||||
| 1997 | February 3 | Cypherpunks | "what's in a name?" | ||||
| 1997 | March 21 | Cypherpunks | "'why privacy' revisited" | ||||
| 1997 | March 26 | Cypherpunks | "game theoretic analysis of junk mail" | ||||
| 1997 | March 27 | Cypherpunks | "junk mail analysis, part 2" | ||||
| 1997 | April 8 | Cypherpunks | "some arguments for privacy" | ||||
| 1997 | April 12 | Cypherpunks | "anonymous credit" | ||||
| 1997 | September 18 | Cypherpunks | "sooner or later" | Assuming a crypto ban is inevitable, the message explores why an earlier ban may be preferable to cypherpunks. | |||
| 1997 | September 22 | Cypherpunks | "encouraging digital pseudonyms" | ||||
| 1998 | January 6 | Cypherpunks | "cypherpunks and guns" | ||||
| 1998 | January 15 | "ANNOUNCE: the 'everything' mailing list" | The email announces the launch of everything-list. | ||||
| 1998 | January 19 | everything-list | "basic questions" | ||||
| 1998 | January 19 | Cypherpunks | "PipeNet description" | ||||
| 1998 | January 26 | everything-list | "continous universes" | ||||
| 1998 | January 28 | everything-list | "lost in the many worlds" | ||||
| 1998 | February 11 | everything-list | "relative state and decoherence" | ||||
| 1998 | February 11 | everything-list | "experimentation" | ||||
| 1998 | February 16 | Cypherpunks | "payment mix" | ||||
| 1998 | February 18 | everything-list | "predictions" | ||||
| 1998 | February 21 | everything-list | "another paradox and a solution" | ||||
| 1998 | March 15 | everything-list | "probability and decision theory" | ||||
| 1998 | April 14 | everything-list | "a baysian solution" | ||||
| 1998 | April 16 | everything-list | "the one universe" | ||||
| 1998 | May 28 | everything-list | "momentary and persistent minds" | ||||
| 1998 | June 9 | everything-list | "possibilities for I and Q" | ||||
| 1998 | November? | Text file | "b-money" | This document proposes b-money. It would eventually be cited in the bitcoin whitepaper. Discussion on Cypherpunks takes place starting in December.[1] | |||
| 1998 | November 26 | Cypherpunks | "PipeNet 1.1 and b-money" | ||||
| 1999 | January 9 | everything-list | "information content of measures" | ||||
| 1999 | January 14 | everything-list | "consciousness based on information or computation?" | ||||
| 1999 | January 15 | everything-list | "book recommendation" | The message recommends Li and Vitanyi's An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications to everyone on the mailing list. | |||
| 1999 | April 1 | everything-list | "all of me or one of me" | ||||
| 1999 | June 1 | everything-list | "practical reasoning and strong SSA" | ||||
| 1999 | June 7 | everything-list | "why is death painful?" | ||||
| 1999 | July 12 | everything-list | "philosophical frameworks" | ||||
| 1999 | July 12 | everything-list | "minimal theory of consciousness" | ||||
| 2001 | January 23 | everything-list | "Oracle by Greg Egan" | ||||
| 2001 | February 15 | everything-list | "no need for anthropic reasoning" | ||||
| 2001 | February 28 | everything-list | "another anthropic reasoning paradox" | ||||
| 2001 | December 20 | everything-list | "relevance of the real measure" | ||||
| 2002 | April 17 | everything-list | "decision theory papers" | Introduces two decision theory papers to the list. | |||
| 2002 | May 3 | SL4 | "supergoal stability" | ||||
| 2002 | May 23 | everything-list | "JOINING posts" | ||||
| 2002 | June 14 | everything-list, Extropians | "self-sampling assumption is incorrect" | ||||
| 2002 | August 11 | everything-list | "a framework for multiverse decision theory" | ||||
| 2002 | August 12 | everything-list | "modal logic and possible worlds" | ||||
| 2002 | August 13 | everything-list | "SIA and the presumptuous philosopher" | ||||
| 2002 | December 31 | SL4 | "moral symmetry" | ||||
| 2003 | February 20 | Extropians | "IRAQ: cost of inspections" | ||||
| 2003 | May 8 | Extropians | "a market approach to terrorism" | ||||
| 2003 | August 5 | Extropians | "a simulated utilitarian" | ||||
| 2003 | December 31 | SL4 | "'friendly' humans?" | ||||
| 2004 | January 24 | everything-list | "recommended books" | A list of books that are relevant for understanding topics discussed on the mailing list. | |||
| 2004 | March 27 | SL4 | "escape from simulation" | ||||
| 2004 | April 19 | everything-list | "conversation with a Bayesian" | ||||
| 2004 | June 28 | SL4 | "dream qualia" | ||||
| 2004 | October 23 | SL4 | "SIAI's direction" | ||||
| 2005 | July 13 | everything-list | "is induction unformalizable?" | ||||
| 2005 | August 24 | SL4 | "uncertainty in mathematics" | ||||
| 2005 | September 11 | SL4 | "mathematical reasoning" | ||||
| 2006 | March 29 | everything-list | "proper behavior for a mathematical substructure" | ||||
| 2006 | April 9 | everything-list | "why can't we erase information?" | ||||
| 2007 | September 26 | everything-list | "against UD+ASSA, part 1" | ||||
| 2007 | September 26 | everything-list | "against UD+ASSA, part 2" | ||||
| 2007 | November 1 | SL4 | "how to do something with really small probability?" | ||||
| 2007 | November 10 | SL4 | "answers I'd like from an SI" | ||||
| 2007 | November 13 | SL4 | "answers I'd like, part 2" | ||||
| 2008 | July 14 | SL4 | "prove your source code" | ||||
| 2008 | July 16 | SL4 | "trade or merge?" | ||||
| 2008 | September 7 | SL4 | "Bayesian rationality vs. voluntary mergers" | ||||
| 2009 | April 7 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Newcomb's Problem vs. One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma" | 15 | ||
| 2009 | May 7 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent" | 19 | ||
| 2009 | June 7 | Blog post | LessWrong | "indexical uncertainty and the Axiom of Independence" | 70 | ||
| 2009 | July 16 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Fair Division of Black-Hole Negentropy: an Introduction to Cooperative Game Theory" | 34 | ||
| 2009 | July 17 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Popularization Bias" | 53 | ||
| 2009 | July 23 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Nature of Offense" | 173 | ||
| 2009 | July 26 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Second Best" | 53 | ||
| 2009 | July 31 | Blog post | LessWrong | "An Alternative Approach to AI Cooperation" | 25 | ||
| 2009 | August 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Towards a New Decision Theory" | This post introduces what would be called updateless decision theory (UDT). | 142 | |
| 2009 | September 3 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT" | 28 | ||
| 2009 | September 16 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Absent-Minded Driver" | 141 | ||
| 2009 | September 24 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity" | 38 | ||
| 2009 | September 26 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Non-Malthusian Scenarios" | 88 | ||
| 2009 | October 2 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities" | 7 | ||
| 2009 | October 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality?" | 105 | ||
| 2009 | October 20 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Why the beliefs/values dichotomy?" | 153 | ||
| 2009 | November 3 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Re-understanding Robin Hanson’s 'Pre-Rationality'" | 18 | ||
| 2009 | November 9 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Reflections on Pre-Rationality" | 30 | ||
| 2009 | November 16 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Why (and why not) Bayesian Updating?" | 26 | ||
| 2009 | November 24 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future" | 87 | ||
| 2009 | November 30 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies" | 71 | ||
| 2009 | December 10 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Probability Space & Aumann Agreement" | 71 | ||
| 2009 | December 11 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What Are Probabilities, Anyway?" | 78 | ||
| 2009 | December 29 | Blog post | LessWrong | "A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences" | 80 | ||
| 2010 | January 8 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Fictional Evidence vs. Fictional Insight" | 43 | ||
| 2010 | January 15 | Blog post | LessWrong | "The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem" | 104 | ||
| 2010 | January 17 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions" | 52 | ||
| 2010 | January 24 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario" | 28 | ||
| 2010 | January 30 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome" | 198 | ||
| 2010 | February 9 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Shut Up and Divide?" | 258 | ||
| 2010 | February 19 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)" | 38 | ||
| 2010 | March 2 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality" | 54 | ||
| 2010 | March 14 | everything-list | "everything-list and the Singularity" | Notes the connection between the modal realism and Singularity communities, and introduces LessWrong to everything-list. | |||
| 2010 | March 19 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Think Before You Speak (And Signal It)" | 39 | ||
| 2010 | April 4 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News" | 75 | ||
| 2010 | April 8 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic | 79 | ||
| 2010 | June 3 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit" | 194 | ||
| 2010 | July 27 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Metaphilosophical Mysteries" | 255 | ||
| 2011 | January 8 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Why do some kinds of work not feel like work?" | 21 | ||
| 2011 | February 5 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Another Argument Against Eliezer's Meta-Ethics" | 35 | ||
| 2011 | February 7 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What does a calculator mean by '2'?" | 29 | ||
| 2011 | February 14 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Why Do We Engage in Moral Simplification?" | 35 | ||
| 2011 | March 11 | Blog post | LessWrong | "A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue" | 41 | ||
| 2011 | May 3 | Blog post | LessWrong | "[link] Whole Brain Emulation and the Evolution of Superorganisms" | 7 | ||
| 2011 | May 22 | Blog post | LessWrong | "How To Be More Confident... That You're Wrong" | 24 | ||
| 2011 | May 24 | Blog post | LessWrong | "LessWrong Power Reader (Greasemonkey script, updated)" | 26 | ||
| 2011 | June 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What do bad clothes signal about you?" | 78 | ||
| 2011 | July 6 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Outline of possible Singularity scenarios (that are not completely disastrous)" | 40 | ||
| 2011 | July 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Some Thoughts on Singularity Strategies" | 29 | ||
| 2011 | July 17 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Experiment: Psychoanalyze Me" | 12 | ||
| 2011 | July 24 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What if sympathy depends on anthropomorphizing?" | 16 | ||
| 2011 | July 27 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What's wrong with simplicity of value?" | 37 | ||
| 2011 | August 22 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Do we want more publicity, and if so how?" | 54 | ||
| 2011 | September 28 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Wanted: backup plans for 'seed AI turns out to be easy'" | 62 | ||
| 2011 | November 18 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Where do selfish values come from?" | 57 | ||
| 2012 | March 21 | Blog post | LessWrong | "A Problem About Bargaining and Logical Uncertainty" | 45 | ||
| 2012 | March 22 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Modest Superintelligences" | 88 | ||
| 2012 | April 11 | Blog post | LessWrong | "against 'AI risk'" | 89 | ||
| 2012 | April 12 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Reframing the Problem of AI Progress" | 47 | ||
| 2012 | April 18 | Blog post | LessWrong | "How can we get more and better LW contrarians?" | 328 | ||
| 2012 | May 10 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Strong intutions. Weak arguments. What to do?" | 45 | ||
| 2012 | May 12 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Neuroimaging as alternative/supplement to cryonics?" | 68 | ||
| 2012 | May 16 | Blog post | LessWrong | "How can we ensure that a Friendly AI team will be sane enough?" | 64 | ||
| 2012 | June 6 | Blog post | LessWrong | "List of Problems That Motivated UDT" | 11 | ||
| 2012 | June 6 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Open Problems Related to Solomonoff Induction" | 103 | ||
| 2012 | July 21 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Work on Security Instead of Friendliness?" | 103 | ||
| 2012 | August 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Cynical explanations of FAI critics (including myself)" | 49 | ||
| 2012 | August 16 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Kelly Criteria and Two Envelopes" | 1 | ||
| 2012 | September 12 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Under-acknowledged Value Differences" | 68 | ||
| 2012 | October 8 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Reasons for someone to 'ignore' you" | 55 | ||
| 2012 | December 18 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Ontological Crisis in Humans" | 67 | ||
| 2012 | December 20 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Beware Selective Nihilism" | 46 | ||
| 2012 | December 26 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Morality Isn't Logical" | 85 | ||
| 2013 | January 11 | Blog post | LessWrong | "How to signal curiosity?" | 52 | ||
| 2013 | January 18 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Outline of Possible Sources of Values" | 28 | ||
| 2013 | April 23 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Normativity and Meta-Philosophy" | 55 | ||
| 2013 | July 17 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Three Approaches to 'Friendliness'" | 84 | ||
| 2013 | August 28 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Outside View(s) and MIRI's FAI Endgame" | 60 | ||
| 2014 | July 19 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush?" | 113 | ||
| 2014 | August 6 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Six Plausible Meta-Ethical Alternatives" | 36 | ||
| 2014 | August 13 | Blog post | LessWrong | "What is the difference between rationality and intelligence?" | 52 | ||
| 2014 | October 21 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?" | 14 | ||
| 2015 | June 6 | Blog post | LessWrong | "[link] Baidu cheats in an AI contest in order to gain a 0.24% advantage" | 32 | ||
| 2016 | December 8 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Combining Prediction Technologies to Help Moderate Discussions" | 15 | ||
| 2017 | September 5 | Blog post | LessWrong | "Online discussion is better than pre-publication peer review" | 25 |
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by Issa Rice.
Funding information for this timeline is available.
Feedback and comments
Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:
- FIXME
What the timeline is still missing
- There are a bunch of files on http://www.weidai.com/ but they don't have dates on them so it's hard to know where to put them. (Internet Archive would help with this to some extent.)
- There are some good comment threads that involve Wei on LW, EA Forum, Medium, and IAFF. I think some of these should be included.
Timeline update strategy
See also
External links
- Wei Dai's personal website
- Wei Dai's LessWrong account
- Wei Dai's Effective Altruism Forum account
- Wei Dai's Medium account
- Wei Dai's comments on the Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum
References
- ↑ Adam Back (December 5, 1998). "Wei Dei's "b-money" protocol". Retrieved February 16, 2018.
