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Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

738 points

202 comments20 min readLW link

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

680 points

638 comments30 min readLW link

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

651 points

244 comments10 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

575 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

574 points

392 comments7 min readLW link

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

557 points

247 comments6 min readLW link

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

536 points

136 comments6 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

513 points

80 comments10 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

491 points

207 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

432 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

420 points

81 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

412 points

179 comments28 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

406 points

181 comments5 min readLW link

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália Coelho Mendonça21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

403 points

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Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

387 points

415 comments6 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

386 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

383 points

125 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

380 points

127 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

377 points

274 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

352 points

174 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

348 points

1,756 comments7 min readLW link

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do

Swimmer9631 May 2022 23:51 UTC

348 points

303 comments9 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

334 points

75 comments16 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

329 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

chinchilla’s wild implications

nostalgebraist31 Jul 2022 1:18 UTC

328 points

108 comments12 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

326 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

326 points

256 comments34 min readLW link

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

326 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

326 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

323 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

319 points

367 comments8 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

319 points

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Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

316 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

315 points

39 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

Security Mindset: Lessons from 20+ years of Software Security Failures Relevant to AGI Alignment

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC

312 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

309 points

31 comments13 min readLW link

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

308 points

94 comments7 min readLW link

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

305 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

303 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

302 points

54 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

301 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

300 points

156 comments3 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

297 points

261 comments4 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

296 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

Feature Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC

296 points

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That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

295 points

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What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

292 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

What should you change in response to an “emergency”? And AI risk

AnnaSalamon18 Jul 2022 1:11 UTC

290 points

59 comments6 min readLW link

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

288 points

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LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

288 points

51 comments3 min readLW link