Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC

127 points

20 comments12 min readLW link

All is fair in love and war, on Zero-sum games in life

Ratios17 Apr 2021 2:11 UTC

3 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences

Wei_Dai29 Dec 2009 1:02 UTC

84 points

94 comments3 min readLW link

Defining “optimizer”

Chantiel17 Apr 2021 15:38 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC

123 points

59 comments12 min readLW link

Superrational Agents Kelly Bet Influence!

abramdemski16 Apr 2021 22:08 UTC

34 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness

Ruby13 Apr 2021 21:08 UTC

116 points

22 comments22 min readLW link

[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

55 points

125 comments1 min readLW link

On Sleep Procrastination: Going To Bed At A Reasonable Hour

iamef17 Apr 2021 2:10 UTC

12 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How do you deal with decision paralysis?

Raj Thimmiah13 Apr 2021 6:01 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.

AdeleneDawner22 May 2011 9:37 UTC

78 points

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Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

423 points

77 comments10 min readLW link

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC

90 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes (RAAPs)

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC

117 points

46 comments22 min readLW link

The Scout Mindset—read-along

weft16 Apr 2021 19:43 UTC

36 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could degoogling be a practice run for something more important?

Quinn17 Apr 2021 0:03 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomight15 Apr 2021 14:15 UTC

98 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Networks of Meaning

Erich_Grunewald17 Apr 2021 7:30 UTC

18 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] What does vaccine effectiveness as a function of time look like?

capybaralet17 Apr 2021 0:36 UTC

18 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Wanting to Succeed on Every Metric Presented

elriggs12 Apr 2021 20:43 UTC

55 points

25 comments3 min readLW link