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Eight Short Studies On Excuses
Scott Alexander
20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
351
points
231
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Arbital postmortem
alexei
30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC
336
points
107
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
296
points
412
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Scott Alexander
30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
286
points
352
comments
9
min read
LW
link
My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms
Kaj_Sotala
8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC
283
points
122
comments
17
min read
LW
link
AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Oct 2017 2:18 UTC
282
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
HoldenKarnofsky
11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
271
points
1,284
comments
29
min read
LW
link
A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
Scott Alexander
28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC
270
points
117
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Preface
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
269
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
lukeprog
16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
266
points
351
comments
7
min read
LW
link
An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated
abramdemski
20 Mar 2018 0:00 UTC
263
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Oct 2017 21:38 UTC
262
points
61
comments
25
min read
LW
link
“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback
sarahconstantin
5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
254
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Scott Alexander
16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
253
points
202
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
244
points
173
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Hero Licensing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
240
points
78
comments
52
min read
LW
link
A voting theory primer for rationalists
Jameson Quinn
12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC
228
points
67
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Noticing the Taste of Lotus
Valentine
27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
227
points
70
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dying Outside
HalFinney
5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
212
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What failure looks like
paulfchristiano
17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
209
points
42
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Critch on career advice for junior AI-x-risk-concerned researchers
Rob Bensinger
12 May 2018 2:13 UTC
204
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Expressive Vocabulary
Alicorn
24 May 2018 6:59 UTC
202
points
61
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Personalized Medicine For Real
sarahconstantin
4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC
200
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
199
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Alignment Research Field Guide
abramdemski
8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC
199
points
5
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists
Zack_M_Davis
24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC
199
points
29
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Making yourself small
Helen
8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC
198
points
50
comments
11
min read
LW
link
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
Scott Alexander
4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC
197
points
161
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?
Scott Alexander
27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
195
points
1,746
comments
7
min read
LW
link
“Other people are wrong” vs “I am right”
Buck
22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
195
points
15
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
lukeprog
5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC
194
points
153
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC
193
points
356
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Goodhart Taxonomy
Scott Garrabrant
30 Dec 2017 16:38 UTC
192
points
30
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 May 2018 21:28 UTC
192
points
44
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Humans are not automatically strategic
AnnaSalamon
8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
191
points
272
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge
Ben Pace
15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC
191
points
24
comments
20
min read
LW
link
The Least Convenient Possible World
Scott Alexander
14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
190
points
199
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups
sarahconstantin
11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC
187
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
kalla724
11 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC
186
points
99
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC
185
points
23
comments
62
min read
LW
link
Cached Selves
AnnaSalamon
22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
182
points
79
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Anti-social Punishment
Martin Sustrik
27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC
182
points
58
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
180
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Pavlov Strategy
sarahconstantin
20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC
180
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Sunset at Noon
Raemon
29 Nov 2017 14:52 UTC
179
points
19
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Apr 2018 4:25 UTC
179
points
52
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Ugh fields
Roko
12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC
178
points
73
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Intelligent Social Web
Valentine
22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
178
points
88
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective
berekuk
25 Aug 2018 0:28 UTC
178
points
23
comments
16
min read
LW
link
The Apologist and the Revolutionary
Scott Alexander
11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
177
points
97
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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