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Arbital postmortem
alexei
30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC
327
points
107
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Eight Short Studies On Excuses
Scott Alexander
20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
301
points
229
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
274
points
412
comments
6
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
271
points
122
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Scott Alexander
30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
265
points
351
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
HoldenKarnofsky
11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
262
points
1,284
comments
29
min read
LW
link
AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Oct 2017 2:18 UTC
262
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
Scott Alexander
28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC
260
points
116
comments
4
min read
LW
link
An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated
abramdemski
20 Mar 2018 0:00 UTC
260
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
249
points
60
comments
25
min read
LW
link
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
lukeprog
16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
244
points
342
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Scott Alexander
16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
237
points
200
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Hero Licensing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
229
points
78
comments
52
min read
LW
link
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
228
points
173
comments
5
min read
LW
link
“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback
sarahconstantin
5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
221
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Preface
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
220
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A voting theory primer for rationalists
Jameson Quinn
12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC
206
points
66
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Noticing the Taste of Lotus
Valentine
27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
201
points
69
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Critch on career advice for junior AI-x-risk-concerned researchers
Rob Bensinger
12 May 2018 2:13 UTC
201
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What failure looks like
paulfchristiano
17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
198
points
42
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Personalized Medicine For Real
sarahconstantin
4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC
196
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Alignment Research Field Guide
abramdemski
8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC
194
points
5
comments
17
min read
LW
link
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
Scott Alexander
4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC
192
points
160
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
lukeprog
5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC
190
points
153
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Making yourself small
Helen
8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC
190
points
50
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 May 2018 21:28 UTC
190
points
44
comments
12
min read
LW
link
“Other people are wrong” vs “I am right”
Buck
22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
188
points
14
comments
9
min read
LW
link
What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
185
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?
Scott Alexander
27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
184
points
1,745
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Expressive Vocabulary
Alicorn
24 May 2018 6:59 UTC
184
points
60
comments
3
min read
LW
link
2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC
184
points
23
comments
62
min read
LW
link
Dying Outside
HalFinney
5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
183
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge
Benito
15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC
183
points
24
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups
sarahconstantin
11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC
183
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC
181
points
353
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Least Convenient Possible World
Scott Alexander
14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
180
points
199
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Anti-social Punishment
Martin Sustrik
27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC
180
points
58
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Cached Selves
AnnaSalamon
22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
179
points
79
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
kalla724
11 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC
178
points
99
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective
berekuk
25 Aug 2018 0:28 UTC
176
points
23
comments
16
min read
LW
link
The Pavlov Strategy
sarahconstantin
20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC
176
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meta-tations on Moderation: Towards Public Archipelago
Raemon
25 Feb 2018 3:59 UTC
173
points
174
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
173
points
45
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Ugh fields
Roko
12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC
171
points
73
comments
3
min read
LW
link
“Taking AI Risk Seriously” (thoughts by Critch)
Raemon
29 Jan 2018 9:27 UTC
171
points
68
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 May 2018 18:18 UTC
170
points
38
comments
23
min read
LW
link
How to Beat Procrastination
lukeprog
5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
168
points
154
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Humans are not automatically strategic
AnnaSalamon
8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
167
points
270
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Apologist and the Revolutionary
Scott Alexander
11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
166
points
96
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Announcement: AI alignment prize winners and next round
cousin_it
15 Jan 2018 14:33 UTC
166
points
68
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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