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Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

772 points

205 comments20 min readLW link

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

725 points

653 comments30 min readLW link

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

686 points

244 comments10 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

601 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

596 points

394 comments7 min readLW link

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

562 points

248 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

550 points

136 comments6 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

524 points

80 comments10 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

510 points

216 comments6 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC

452 points

102 comments44 min readLW link

(generative.ink)

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

448 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

440 points

83 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

428 points

86 comments12 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

423 points

181 comments28 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

417 points

181 comments5 min readLW link

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

416 points

275 comments4 min readLW link

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália Coelho Mendonça21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

409 points

130 comments15 min readLW link

The Redaction Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC

406 points

34 comments27 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

397 points

32 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

395 points

416 comments6 min readLW link

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

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

386 points

125 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

385 points

127 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

364 points

1,758 comments7 min readLW link

DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments

Vika12 Aug 2022 21:06 UTC

362 points

34 comments14 min readLW link

chinchilla’s wild implications

nostalgebraist31 Jul 2022 1:18 UTC

361 points

114 comments11 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

359 points

85 comments16 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

356 points

175 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

356 points

32 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do

Swimmer9631 May 2022 23:51 UTC

351 points

305 comments9 min readLW link

Losing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC

351 points

20 comments9 min readLW link

(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why

Thomas Larsen and elifland

29 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC

341 points

83 comments38 min readLW link

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

340 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

339 points

261 comments4 min readLW link

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

337 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking

Neel Nanda and Tom Lieberum

15 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC

337 points

39 comments42 min readLW link

(colab.research.google.com)

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

335 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case

KatjaGrace14 Oct 2022 13:00 UTC

335 points

121 comments34 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

331 points

55 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

330 points

368 comments8 min readLW link

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

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC

330 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

328 points

46 comments3 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

325 points

257 comments34 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

322 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

319 points

523 comments18 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

318 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

317 points

39 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

314 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

314 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

314 points

95 comments7 min readLW link