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Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

259 points

57 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

What cognitive biases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC

249 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC

248 points

40 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

Coordination as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC

236 points

22 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

212 points

106 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Moral public goods

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 0:10 UTC

147 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

2018 Review: Voting Results!

Ben Pace24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC

135 points

59 comments6 min readLW link

AI Alignment 2018-19 Review

Rohin Shah28 Jan 2020 2:19 UTC

126 points

6 comments35 min readLW link

On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

115 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Technology Changes Constraints

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC

113 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Hedonic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC

98 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Draining the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC

97 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Road to Mazedom

Zvi18 Jan 2020 14:10 UTC

94 points

25 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AIRCS Workshop: How I failed to be recruited at MIRI.

ArthurRainbow7 Jan 2020 1:03 UTC

93 points

15 comments23 min readLW link

Book review: Rethinking Consciousness

Steven Byrnes10 Jan 2020 20:41 UTC

89 points

56 comments8 min readLW link

Becoming Unusually Truth-Oriented

abramdemski3 Jan 2020 1:27 UTC

89 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

Homeostasis and “Root Causes” in Aging

johnswentworth5 Jan 2020 18:43 UTC

86 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Double-Crux With Suicide Rock

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2020 19:02 UTC

81 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Dominic Cummings: “we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos”

ESRogs3 Jan 2020 0:33 UTC

80 points

57 comments4 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.com)

How Doomed are Large Organizations?

Zvi21 Jan 2020 12:20 UTC

79 points

42 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Material Goods as an Abundant Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:23 UTC

79 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

How to Escape From Immoral Mazes

Zvi16 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC

76 points

20 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bay Solstice 2019 Retrospective

mingyuan16 Jan 2020 17:15 UTC

75 points

36 comments15 min readLW link

Circling as Cousin to Rationality

Vaniver1 Jan 2020 1:16 UTC

72 points

98 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

What is Life in an Immoral Maze?

Zvi5 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC

71 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The two-layer model of human values, and problems with synthesizing preferences

Kaj_Sotala24 Jan 2020 15:17 UTC

69 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

A rant against robots

Lê Nguyên Hoang14 Jan 2020 22:03 UTC

65 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

How to Identify an Immoral Maze

Zvi12 Jan 2020 12:10 UTC

63 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

62 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Normalization of Deviance

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2020 22:58 UTC

62 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Mod Notice about Election Discussion

Vaniver29 Jan 2020 1:35 UTC

61 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Subscripting Typographic Convention For Citations/Dates/Sources/Evidentials: A Proposal

gwern8 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC

59 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Ten Causes of Mazedom

Zvi25 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC

59 points

6 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

High-precision claims may be refuted without being replaced with other high-precision claims

jessicata30 Jan 2020 23:08 UTC

55 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Constraints & Slackness as a Worldview Generator

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:18 UTC

53 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Potential Ways to Fight Mazes

Zvi28 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC

53 points

9 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Appendix: how a subagent could get powerful

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2020 15:28 UTC

53 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Criticism as Entertainment

Elizabeth9 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC

53 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Of arguments and wagers

paulfchristiano10 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC

52 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Voting Phase of 2018 LW Review

Ben Pace8 Jan 2020 3:35 UTC

51 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

50 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Epistea Summer Experiment (ESE)

Nora_Ammann, Jan_Kulveit, Anna Gajdova and kotrfa

24 Jan 2020 10:49 UTC

49 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

ACDT: a hack-y acausal decision theory

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2020 17:22 UTC

49 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Cassette Tape Thoughts

Elizabeth22 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC

48 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Healing vs. exercise analogies for emotional work

Kaj_Sotala27 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC

48 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Stripping Away the Protections

Zvi8 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC

48 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Review: How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren)

Elizabeth27 Jan 2020 21:10 UTC

48 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Please Critique Things for the Review!

Raemon11 Jan 2020 20:59 UTC

48 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

(A → B) → A in Causal DAGs

johnswentworth22 Jan 2020 18:22 UTC

48 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

What is Success in an Immoral Maze?

Zvi10 Jan 2020 13:20 UTC

48 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)