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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander

20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

408 points

236 comments10 min readLW link

Arbital postmortem

alexei

30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

343 points

108 comments19 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

329 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander

30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

323 points

353 comments9 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog

16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

304 points

359 comments7 min readLW link

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander

28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

300 points

412 comments6 min readLW link

My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms

Kaj_Sotala

8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC

297 points

131 comments17 min readLW link 3 nominations 2 reviews

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander

28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC

291 points

126 comments4 min readLW link 3 nominations 4 reviews

AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate

Eliezer Yudkowsky

21 Oct 2017 2:18 UTC

288 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander

16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

281 points

203 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky

11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

272 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky

13 Oct 2017 21:38 UTC

271 points

67 comments25 min readLW link

An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated

abramdemski

20 Mar 2018 0:00 UTC

271 points

38 comments1 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz

19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

259 points

175 comments5 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin

5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

259 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Noticing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine

27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC

249 points

80 comments3 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon

16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

243 points

52 comments13 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky

21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC

242 points

82 comments52 min readLW link

A voting theory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn

12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC

240 points

78 comments17 min readLW link 3 nominations 2 reviews

[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

234 points

334 comments1 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney

5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

230 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon

8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

218 points

273 comments4 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine

22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

218 points

113 comments12 min readLW link 3 nominations 2 reviews

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano

17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

218 points

43 comments8 min readLW 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

216 points

31 comments8 min readLW link

Expressive Vocabulary

Alicorn

24 May 2018 6:59 UTC

215 points

69 comments5 min readLW link 3 nominations 1 review

Making yourself small

Helen

8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC

213 points

53 comments11 min readLW link 1 nomination

Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

Elizabeth and jimrandomh

7 Mar 2020 2:00 UTC

213 points

116 comments6 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

210 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all

Duncan_Sabien

3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC

210 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge

Ben Pace

15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC

209 points

30 comments20 min readLW link 4 nominations 2 reviews

Critch on career advice for junior AI-x-risk-concerned researchers

Rob Bensinger

12 May 2018 2:13 UTC

208 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander

13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

206 points

357 comments8 min readLW link

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander

27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

205 points

1,747 comments7 min readLW link

Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization

Eliezer Yudkowsky

7 Apr 2018 4:25 UTC

205 points

63 comments13 min readLW link 3 nominations 5 reviews

Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 May 2018 21:28 UTC

205 points

46 comments12 min readLW link 2 nominations

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski

8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

205 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

Goodhart Taxonomy

Scott Garrabrant

30 Dec 2017 16:38 UTC

204 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander

4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

203 points

161 comments4 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog

5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

202 points

153 comments3 min readLW link

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

kalla724

11 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC

200 points

99 comments7 min readLW link

Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin

4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC

199 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

What Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth

1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

198 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Sunset at Noon

Raemon

29 Nov 2017 14:52 UTC

195 points

19 comments17 min readLW link

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik

27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

195 points

64 comments6 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

195 points

26 comments62 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin

20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC

195 points

12 comments4 min readLW link 3 nominations

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

“Other people are wrong” vs “I am right”

Buck

22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC

195 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Embedded Agents

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant

29 Oct 2018 19:53 UTC

194 points

40 comments1 min readLW link 6 nominations 2 reviews

The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander

14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

193 points

200 comments5 min readLW link