Ar­bital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC
231 points
110 comments19 min readLW link

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC
224 points
130 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC
224 points
34 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Loud­est Alarm Is Prob­a­bly False

orthonormal2 Jan 2018 16:38 UTC
207 points
28 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Why ev­ery­thing might have taken so long

KatjaGrace1 Jan 2018 1:00 UTC
121 points
16 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Ham­mer­time Day 1: Bug Hunt

alkjash30 Jan 2018 6:40 UTC
121 points
28 comments5 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

“Tak­ing AI Risk Se­ri­ously” (thoughts by Critch)

Raemon29 Jan 2018 9:27 UTC
110 points
68 comments13 min readLW link

Ham­mers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC
106 points
35 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity: Abridged

Quaerendo6 Jan 2018 0:20 UTC
102 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

More Babble

alkjash12 Jan 2018 1:41 UTC
84 points
24 comments8 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Prune

alkjash12 Jan 2018 22:50 UTC
81 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

An­nounce­ment: AI al­ign­ment prize win­ners and next round

cousin_it15 Jan 2018 14:33 UTC
81 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

Kenshō

Valentine20 Jan 2018 0:12 UTC
79 points
299 comments6 min readLW link

De­mon Threads

Raemon7 Jan 2018 3:48 UTC
76 points
74 comments9 min readLW link

Role­play­ing As Yourself

orthonormal6 Jan 2018 6:48 UTC
73 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The differ­ent types (not sizes!) of infinity

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2018 11:14 UTC
71 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

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

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

moridinamael24 Jan 2018 16:52 UTC
58 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity Mindset

alkjash19 Jan 2018 0:32 UTC
52 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Write

alkjash29 Jan 2018 2:11 UTC
50 points
7 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

Be­ware of black boxes in AI al­ign­ment research

cousin_it18 Jan 2018 15:07 UTC
39 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Biolog­i­cal hu­mans and the ris­ing tide of AI

cousin_it29 Jan 2018 16:04 UTC
34 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tional Pre­sen­ta­tion of Why Au­toma­tion is Differ­ent This Time

ryan_b17 Jan 2018 22:11 UTC
33 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing Ladders

alkjash24 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC
29 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Pareto im­prove­ments are rarer than they seem

philh27 Jan 2018 22:23 UTC
29 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Have you felt ex­iert yet?

Stuart_Armstrong5 Jan 2018 17:03 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­e­quacy as Levels of Play

Davis_Kingsley22 Jan 2018 20:57 UTC
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Circumambulation

alkjash15 Jan 2018 19:17 UTC
27 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

An Un­trol­lable Mathematician

abramdemski23 Jan 2018 18:46 UTC
27 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Nice­ness Stealth-Bombing

things_which_are_not_on_fire8 Jan 2018 22:16 UTC
26 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The Soli­taire Prin­ci­ple: Game The­ory for One

alkjash17 Jan 2018 0:14 UTC
26 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjash19 Jan 2018 23:50 UTC
26 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Magic Brain Juice

alkjash26 Jan 2018 17:54 UTC
26 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

Raemon22 Jan 2018 0:37 UTC
24 points
70 comments5 min readLW link

The Tallest Pygmy Effect

Elizabeth21 Jan 2018 23:00 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Mak­ing Ex­cep­tions to Gen­eral Rules

Chris_Leong17 Jan 2018 23:47 UTC
24 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

An Apol­ogy is a Surrender

Zachary Jacobi18 Jan 2018 0:06 UTC
23 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

On not get­ting swept away by men­tal content

Kaj_Sotala25 Jan 2018 20:30 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Un­der­stand­ing-1-2-3

Zvi23 Jan 2018 0:10 UTC
22 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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)

Video: The Phenomenol­ogy of Intentions

Trinley Goldenberg9 Jan 2018 3:40 UTC
21 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Dispel your jus­tifi­ca­tion-mon­key with a “HWA!”

MalcolmOcean24 Jan 2018 4:51 UTC
21 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Aliveness

Ziz18 Jan 2018 5:00 UTC
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(sinceriously.fyi)

My­opia and Com­fort Zones

alkjash20 Jan 2018 23:11 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

What are the Best Ham­mers in the Ra­tion­al­ist Com­mu­nity?

Bound_up24 Jan 2018 14:43 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

RTiberiu12 Jan 2018 20:44 UTC
19 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Se­crets of Alchemy

namespace21 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC
19 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

Book Re­view—Prob­a­bil­ity and Fi­nance: It’s Only a Game!

ryan_b23 Jan 2018 18:52 UTC
18 points
9 comments6 min readLW link