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Wel­come to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka
14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC
378 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
368 points
52 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
359 points
56 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

The Parable of Pre­dict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC
316 points
41 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC
289 points
71 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC
280 points
41 comments21 min readLW link3 reviews

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selec­tive Re­port­ing and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC
266 points
39 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Align­ment Re­search Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC
252 points
9 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

Kaj_Sotala26 Jan 2019 12:25 UTC
249 points
84 comments28 min readLW link2 reviews

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

Buck22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
241 points
20 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Is Ra­tion­al­ist Self-Im­prove­ment Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC
235 points
72 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

De­bate on In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence be­tween LeCun, Rus­sell, Ben­gio, Zador, and More

Ben Pace4 Oct 2019 4:08 UTC
219 points
61 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

The Zet­telkas­ten Method

abramdemski20 Sep 2019 13:15 UTC
213 points
90 comments42 min readLW link3 reviews

Per­son­al­ized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC
213 points
16 comments5 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Asym­met­ric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
211 points
100 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC
209 points
52 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Book Re­view: De­sign Prin­ci­ples of Biolog­i­cal Circuits

johnswentworth5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
200 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhub1 Nov 2019 20:13 UTC
200 points
38 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Mis­takes with Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

abramdemski8 Jun 2019 23:07 UTC
196 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Notic­ing Frame Differences

Raemon30 Sep 2019 1:24 UTC
195 points
38 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

The 3 Books Tech­nique for Learn­ing a New Skilll

Matt Goldenberg9 Jan 2019 12:45 UTC
193 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning Divination

Vaniver5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC
185 points
48 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Hu­mans Who Are Not Con­cen­trat­ing Are Not Gen­eral Intelligences

sarahconstantin25 Feb 2019 20:40 UTC
183 points
35 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC
177 points
75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Risks from Learned Op­ti­miza­tion: Introduction

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, vlad_m, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant
31 May 2019 23:44 UTC
177 points
42 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC
176 points
62 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC
175 points
40 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rest Days vs Re­cov­ery Days

Unreal19 Mar 2019 22:37 UTC
173 points
33 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Why Subagents?

johnswentworth1 Aug 2019 22:17 UTC
170 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

You Get About Five Words

Raemon12 Mar 2019 20:30 UTC
170 points
76 comments1 min readLW link6 reviews

Jeff Hawk­ins on neu­ro­mor­phic AGI within 20 years

Steven Byrnes15 Jul 2019 19:16 UTC
167 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

Evolu­tion of Modularity

johnswentworth14 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
161 points
12 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Seek­ing Power is Often Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs
5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC
159 points
39 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews
(arxiv.org)

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
157 points
6 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: The Se­cret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC
155 points
19 comments25 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Selec­tion vs Control

abramdemski2 Jun 2019 7:01 UTC
155 points
25 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

johnswentworth22 Nov 2019 22:41 UTC
154 points
28 comments7 min readLW link1 review

RAISE post-mortem

null24 Nov 2019 16:19 UTC
154 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Book Sum­mary: Con­scious­ness and the Brain

Kaj_Sotala16 Jan 2019 14:43 UTC
153 points
20 comments26 min readLW link1 review

Some Thoughts on My Psy­chi­a­try Practice

Laura B16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC
153 points
43 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

The Schel­ling Choice is “Rab­bit”, not “Stag”

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC
152 points
52 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

In­tegrity and ac­countabil­ity are core parts of rationality

habryka15 Jul 2019 20:22 UTC
150 points
66 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Make more land

jefftk16 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC
149 points
33 comments2 min readLW link5 reviews
(www.jefftk.com)

Rea­son isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC
148 points
19 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC
147 points
12 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

A Key Power of the Pres­i­dent is to Co­or­di­nate the Ex­e­cu­tion of Ex­ist­ing Con­crete Plans

Ben Pace16 Jul 2019 5:06 UTC
146 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

The un­ex­pected difficulty of com­par­ing AlphaS­tar to humans

Richard Korzekwa 18 Sep 2019 2:20 UTC
145 points
36 comments26 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2019 21:33 UTC
142 points
81 comments26 min readLW link3 reviews

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei Dai30 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC
140 points
42 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Un­der­stand­ing “Deep Dou­ble Des­cent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC
139 points
51 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews