Un­rol­ling so­cial metacog­ni­tion: Three lev­els of meta are not enough.

Academian25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
187 points
44 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Ra­tion­al­ist Com­mu­nity Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective

berekuk25 Aug 2018 0:28 UTC
171 points
23 comments16 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal math­e­mat­i­ci­ans ex­hibit a birth or­der effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC
141 points
19 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Un­known Knowns

Zvi28 Aug 2018 13:20 UTC
120 points
17 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Y Couchinator

Alicorn18 Aug 2018 3:41 UTC
111 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

His­tory of the Devel­op­ment of Log­i­cal Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC
100 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Trust Me I’m Ly­ing: A Sum­mary and Review

quanticle13 Aug 2018 2:55 UTC
100 points
11 comments7 min readLW link
(quanticle.net)

Sub­si­diz­ing Pre­dic­tion Markets

Zvi17 Aug 2018 15:40 UTC
96 points
8 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pre­limi­nary thoughts on moral weight

lukeprog13 Aug 2018 23:45 UTC
93 points
49 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Zetetic explanation

Benquo27 Aug 2018 0:12 UTC
90 points
138 comments6 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

How to Build a Lumenator

Raemon12 Aug 2018 5:11 UTC
75 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Tac­ti­cal vs. Strate­gic Cooperation

sarahconstantin12 Aug 2018 16:41 UTC
73 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Player of Games

Jacob Falkovich29 Aug 2018 21:26 UTC
64 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Jobs In­side the API

Jacob Falkovich21 Aug 2018 21:45 UTC
64 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Re­duc­ing col­lec­tive ra­tio­nal­ity to in­di­vi­d­ual op­ti­miza­tion in com­mon-pay­off games us­ing MCMC

jessicata20 Aug 2018 0:51 UTC
59 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Book Re­view: AI Safety and Security

Michaël Trazzi21 Aug 2018 10:23 UTC
51 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Iso­lat­ing Con­tent can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC
49 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

HLAI 2018 Field Report

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Aug 2018 0:11 UTC
48 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

AI Read­ing Group Thoughts (1/​?): The Man­date of Heaven

Alicorn10 Aug 2018 0:24 UTC
45 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[Fea­ture Idea] Epistemic Status

Raemon21 Aug 2018 20:22 UTC
44 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing ex­pected util­ity for Good(hart)

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2018 3:32 UTC
42 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Learn­ing strate­gies and the Poke­mon league parable

Jsevillamol7 Aug 2018 9:37 UTC
40 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man-Aligned AI Sum­mer School: A Summary

Michaël Trazzi11 Aug 2018 8:11 UTC
39 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Cause Aware­ness as a Fac­tor against Cause Neutrality

Darmani13 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC
38 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Log­a­r­ithms and To­tal Utilitarianism

Pablo Villalobos9 Aug 2018 8:49 UTC
37 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

EA Tourism: Lon­don, Black­pool and Prague

Jsevillamol7 Aug 2018 10:41 UTC
36 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Tidy­ing One’s Room

Zvi16 Aug 2018 13:50 UTC
36 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Turn­ing Up the Heat: In­sights from Tao’s ‘Anal­y­sis II’

TurnTrout24 Aug 2018 17:54 UTC
36 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Four kinds of problems

jacobjacob21 Aug 2018 23:01 UTC
35 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

The­o­ries of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC
35 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

Do what we mean vs. do what we say

Rohin Shah30 Aug 2018 22:03 UTC
34 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

New pa­per: Long-Term Tra­jec­to­ries of Hu­man Civilization

Kaj_Sotala12 Aug 2018 9:10 UTC
33 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Fix­ing sci­ence via a ba­sic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
30 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

SSC Mee­tups Every­where 2018

habryka10 Aug 2018 3:18 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

You Play to Win the Game

Zvi30 Aug 2018 14:10 UTC
27 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #21

Rohin Shah27 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC
25 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame

Zvi22 Aug 2018 21:10 UTC
25 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Chang­ing main con­tent font to Valkyrie?

habryka24 Aug 2018 23:05 UTC
24 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

One night, with­out sleep

Mitchell_Porter16 Aug 2018 17:50 UTC
24 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Is there a prac­ti­tioner’s guide for ra­tio­nal­ity?

cedric13 Aug 2018 5:39 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

July gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern2 Aug 2018 13:42 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

I am Sailor Vul­can!

Sailor Vulcan24 Aug 2018 17:47 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-08-10 – Front­page map, Mark­down in LaTeX, re­stored posts and re­versed spam votes

habryka10 Aug 2018 18:14 UTC
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-08-03 – Com­ment Sorting

Raemon3 Aug 2018 23:39 UTC
23 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Au­gust 2018

Elo1 Aug 2018 1:49 UTC
23 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

A fu­ture for neuroscience

Mike Johnson19 Aug 2018 23:58 UTC
22 points
12 comments19 min readLW link

What are your plans for the evening of the apoc­a­lypse?

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

LW Up­date 2018-08-23 – Perfor­mance Improvements

Raemon24 Aug 2018 2:02 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity doesn’t always have a good ac­tion to take

Stuart_Armstrong28 Aug 2018 20:30 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link