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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander

20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

339 points

230 comments10 min readLW link

Arbital postmortem

alexei

30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

333 points

107 comments19 min readLW link

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander

28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

292 points

412 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander

30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

280 points

352 comments9 min readLW link

AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate

Eliezer Yudkowsky

21 Oct 2017 2:18 UTC

279 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala

8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC

279 points

122 comments17 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky

11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

271 points

1,284 comments29 min readLW link

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander

28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC

264 points

117 comments4 min readLW link

An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated

abramdemski

20 Mar 2018 0:00 UTC

263 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky

13 Oct 2017 21:38 UTC

261 points

61 comments25 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog

16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

259 points

347 comments7 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

253 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander

16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

249 points

201 comments6 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin

5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

246 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz

19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

242 points

173 comments5 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky

21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC

234 points

78 comments52 min readLW link

Noticing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine

27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC

224 points

70 comments3 min readLW link

A voting theory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn

12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC

209 points

67 comments17 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano

17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

208 points

42 comments8 min readLW link

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

Rob Bensinger

12 May 2018 2:13 UTC

203 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Expressive Vocabulary

Alicorn

24 May 2018 6:59 UTC

200 points

61 comments3 min readLW link

Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin

4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC

199 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski

8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

197 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney

5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

196 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

Making yourself small

Helen

8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC

196 points

50 comments11 min readLW link

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

Buck

22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC

195 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander

4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

194 points

161 comments4 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog

5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

192 points

153 comments3 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

192 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander

27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

192 points

1,746 comments7 min readLW link

Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 May 2018 21:28 UTC

192 points

44 comments12 min readLW link

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge

Ben Pace

15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC

190 points

24 comments20 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander

13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

187 points

355 comments8 min readLW link

The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander

14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

187 points

199 comments5 min readLW link

Goodhart Taxonomy

Scott Garrabrant

30 Dec 2017 16:38 UTC

187 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin

11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

186 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon

8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

185 points

270 comments4 min readLW link

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

185 points

23 comments62 min readLW link

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

kalla724

11 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC

183 points

99 comments7 min readLW link

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik

27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

182 points

58 comments6 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamon

22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC

180 points

79 comments7 min readLW link

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin

20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC

180 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Sunset at Noon

Raemon

29 Nov 2017 14:52 UTC

179 points

19 comments17 min readLW link

Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information

Davis_Kingsley

12 May 2018 10:20 UTC

178 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

The Apologist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander

11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC

176 points

97 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective

berekuk

25 Aug 2018 0:28 UTC

176 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine

22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

175 points

88 comments12 min readLW link

Meta-tations on Moderation: Towards Public Archipelago

Raemon

25 Feb 2018 3:59 UTC

174 points

175 comments23 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko

12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

172 points

73 comments3 min readLW link

How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog

5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC

172 points

154 comments15 min readLW link