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Arbital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

227 points

110 comments19 min readLW link

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC

216 points

129 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC

195 points

32 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False

orthonormal2 Jan 2018 16:38 UTC

171 points

28 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Why everything might have taken so long

KatjaGrace1 Jan 2018 1:00 UTC

112 points

16 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

“Taking AI Risk Seriously” (thoughts by Critch)

Raemon29 Jan 2018 9:27 UTC

110 points

68 comments13 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 1: Bug Hunt

alkjash30 Jan 2018 6:40 UTC

105 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Rationality: Abridged

Quaerendo6 Jan 2018 0:20 UTC

98 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Hammers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC

89 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Announcement: AI alignment prize winners and next round

cousin_it15 Jan 2018 14:33 UTC

80 points

68 comments2 min readLW link

Demon Threads

Raemon7 Jan 2018 3:48 UTC

75 points

74 comments9 min readLW link

More Babble

alkjash12 Jan 2018 1:41 UTC

70 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

A model I use when making plans to reduce AI x-risk

Ben Pace19 Jan 2018 0:21 UTC

69 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

Prune

alkjash12 Jan 2018 22:50 UTC

68 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Roleplaying As Yourself

orthonormal6 Jan 2018 6:48 UTC

68 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Kenshō

Valentine20 Jan 2018 0:12 UTC

67 points

283 comments6 min readLW link

The different types (not sizes!) of infinity

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2018 11:14 UTC

59 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Singularity Mindset

alkjash19 Jan 2018 0:32 UTC

52 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Insights from ‘The Strategy of Conflict’

DanielFilan4 Jan 2018 5:05 UTC

46 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

moridinamael24 Jan 2018 16:52 UTC

40 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Beware of black boxes in AI alignment research

cousin_it18 Jan 2018 15:07 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Write

alkjash29 Jan 2018 2:11 UTC

39 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Conversational Presentation of Why Automation is Different This Time

ryan_b17 Jan 2018 22:11 UTC

33 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Have you felt exiert yet?

Stuart_Armstrong5 Jan 2018 17:03 UTC

28 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Pareto improvements are rarer than they seem

philh27 Jan 2018 22:23 UTC

28 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Teaching Ladders

alkjash24 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC

28 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjash19 Jan 2018 23:50 UTC

27 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Adequacy as Levels of Play

Davis_Kingsley22 Jan 2018 20:57 UTC

27 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Magic Brain Juice

alkjash26 Jan 2018 17:54 UTC

26 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Circumambulation

alkjash15 Jan 2018 19:17 UTC

24 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Solitaire Principle: Game Theory for One

alkjash17 Jan 2018 0:14 UTC

24 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Niceness Stealth-Bombing

things_which_are_not_on_fire8 Jan 2018 22:16 UTC

23 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Taking it Private: Short Circuiting Demon Threads (working example)

Raemon22 Jan 2018 0:37 UTC

23 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

An Untrollable Mathematician

abramdemski23 Jan 2018 18:46 UTC

23 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

An Apology is a Surrender

Zachary Jacobi18 Jan 2018 0:06 UTC

22 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Making Exceptions to General Rules

Chris_Leong17 Jan 2018 23:47 UTC

22 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Biological humans and the rising tide of AI

cousin_it29 Jan 2018 16:04 UTC

22 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Field-Building and Deep Models

Ben Pace13 Jan 2018 21:16 UTC

21 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Superhuman Meta Process

SquirrelInHell3 Jan 2018 13:39 UTC

21 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Dispel your justification-monkey with a “HWA!”

MalcolmOcean24 Jan 2018 4:51 UTC

20 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

The Tallest Pygmy Effect

Elizabeth21 Jan 2018 23:00 UTC

20 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Myopia and Comfort Zones

alkjash20 Jan 2018 23:11 UTC

20 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Book Review: The Secrets of Alchemy

namespace21 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC

19 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

Understanding-1-2-3

Zvi23 Jan 2018 0:10 UTC

19 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Aliveness

Ziz18 Jan 2018 5:00 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(sinceriously.fyi)

What are the Best Hammers in the Rationalist Community?

Bound_up24 Jan 2018 14:43 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How the LW2.0 front page could be better at incentivizing good content

cousin_it21 Jan 2018 16:11 UTC

18 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Boiling the Crab: Slow Changes (beneath Sensory Threshold) add up

RTiberiu12 Jan 2018 20:44 UTC

18 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Fashionable or Fundamental Thought in Communities

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)19 Jan 2018 9:03 UTC

17 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Form and Feedback in Phenomenology

Gordon Seidoh Worley24 Jan 2018 19:42 UTC

17 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)