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The Intelligent Social Web

ValentineFeb 22, 2018, 6:55 PM

230 points

112 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantinFeb 5, 2018, 11:16 PM

190 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Robustness to Scale

Scott GarrabrantFeb 21, 2018, 10:55 PM

130 points

23 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Write a Thousand Roads to Rome

ScrewtapeFeb 8, 2018, 6:09 PM

119 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Arguments about fast takeoff

paulfchristianoFeb 25, 2018, 4:53 AM

97 points

68 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(sideways-view.com)

Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation

abramdemskiFeb 16, 2018, 12:44 AM

92 points

36 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

“Just Suffer Until It Passes”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Feb 12, 2018, 4:01 AM

90 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Inconvenience Is Qualitatively Bad

AlicornFeb 26, 2018, 11:27 PM

83 points

52 comments2 min readLW link

Meta-tations on Moderation: Towards Public Archipelago

RaemonFeb 25, 2018, 3:59 AM

81 points

176 comments23 min readLW link

What Are Meetups Actually Trying to Accomplish?

mingyuanFeb 8, 2018, 5:30 AM

77 points

17 comments12 min readLW link

Circling

UnrealFeb 16, 2018, 11:26 PM

75 points

275 comments9 min readLW link 3 reviews

Mythic Mode

ValentineFeb 23, 2018, 10:45 PM

68 points

82 comments9 min readLW link

Two types of mathematician

drossbucketFeb 23, 2018, 7:26 PM

64 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

A Proper Scoring Rule for Confidence Intervals

Scott GarrabrantFeb 13, 2018, 1:45 AM

63 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

Beware Social Coping Strategies

LulieFeb 5, 2018, 4:48 AM

57 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 10: Murphyjitsu

alkjashFeb 7, 2018, 6:40 PM

52 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Factorio, Accelerando, Empathizing with Empires and Moderate Takeoffs

RaemonFeb 4, 2018, 2:33 AM

51 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

An alternative way to browse LessWrong 2.0

clone of saturnFeb 19, 2018, 1:52 AM

48 points

58 comments1 min readLW link

The abruptness of nuclear weapons

paulfchristianoFeb 25, 2018, 5:40 PM

47 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Lessons from the Cold War on Information Hazards: Why Internal Communication is Critical

GentzelFeb 24, 2018, 11:34 PM

47 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Tune Your Cognitive Strategies

SquirrelInHellFeb 15, 2018, 5:54 PM

47 points

6 comments LW link

(bewelltuned.com)

Spamming Micro-Intentions to Generate Willpower

moridinamaelFeb 13, 2018, 8:16 PM

45 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Some conceptual highlights from “Disjunctive Scenarios of Catastrophic AI Risk”

Kaj_SotalaFeb 12, 2018, 12:30 PM

45 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

[Meta] New moderation tools and moderation guidelines

habrykaFeb 18, 2018, 3:22 AM

42 points

74 comments2 min readLW link

Rationalist Lent

Qiaochu_YuanFeb 13, 2018, 11:55 PM

41 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

Two Coordination Styles

abramdemskiFeb 7, 2018, 9:00 AM

41 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

The Monthly Newsletter as Thinking Tool

moridinamaelFeb 2, 2018, 4:42 PM

39 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Are you the rider or the elephant?

Qiaochu_YuanFeb 21, 2018, 7:25 AM

38 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Condition on no Catastrophes

Scott GarrabrantFeb 21, 2018, 9:50 PM

37 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Bug Hunt 2

alkjashFeb 20, 2018, 5:00 AM

37 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Principled Intelligence Hypothesis

KatjaGraceFeb 14, 2018, 1:00 AM

34 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

In Defence of Conflict Theory

Richard_NgoFeb 17, 2018, 3:33 AM

34 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.co.uk)

Hammertime Intermission and Open Thread

alkjashFeb 7, 2018, 10:10 PM

34 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Fun Theory in EverQuest

moridinamaelFeb 5, 2018, 8:26 PM

34 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 4: Design

alkjashFeb 1, 2018, 7:00 PM

32 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Knowledge is Freedom

Scott GarrabrantFeb 9, 2018, 5:24 AM

32 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam ZernerFeb 8, 2018, 9:23 PM

32 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Models of moderation

habrykaFeb 2, 2018, 11:29 PM

30 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

Replacing expensive costly signals

KatjaGraceFeb 17, 2018, 12:50 AM

30 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

On Building Theories of History

Samo BurjaFeb 23, 2018, 11:40 PM

30 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 8: Sunk Cost Faith

alkjashFeb 5, 2018, 1:00 AM

29 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

AI Safety Research Camp—Project Proposal

David_KristofferssonFeb 2, 2018, 4:25 AM

29 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Whose reasoning can you rely on when your own is faulty?

weftFeb 18, 2018, 10:41 PM

29 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 7: Aversion Factoring

alkjashFeb 4, 2018, 4:10 PM

28 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Yoda Timers 2

alkjashFeb 21, 2018, 7:40 AM

28 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Goal Factoring

alkjashFeb 26, 2018, 11:30 PM

27 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Will AI See Sudden Progress?

KatjaGraceFeb 26, 2018, 12:41 AM

27 points

11 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Categories of Sacredness

ZviFeb 27, 2018, 2:00 AM

26 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open-Source Monasticism

Nathan RosquistFeb 25, 2018, 1:52 PM

26 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Active vs Passive Distraction

squidiousFeb 14, 2018, 10:14 PM

26 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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