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What failure looks like

paulfchristiano

17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

212 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_Davis

24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

202 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski

8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

201 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin

4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC

199 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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

Buck

22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC

195 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski

15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

188 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Kaj_Sotala

8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC

183 points

25 comments21 min readLW link

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth

24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

176 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

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

Ben Pace

4 Oct 2019 4:08 UTC

172 points

47 comments15 min readLW link

Building up to an Internal Family Systems model

Kaj_Sotala

26 Jan 2019 12:25 UTC

160 points

65 comments28 min readLW link

Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

Jacobian

9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC

159 points

60 comments11 min readLW link

Jeff Hawkins on neuromorphic AGI within 20 years

steve2152

15 Jul 2019 19:16 UTC

156 points

11 comments12 min readLW link

Asymmetric Justice

Zvi

25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC

149 points

87 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Hazard

31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC

149 points

57 comments4 min readLW link

Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence

abramdemski

8 Jun 2019 23:07 UTC

148 points

15 comments12 min readLW link

Steelmanning Divination

Vaniver

5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC

146 points

40 comments6 min readLW link

RAISE post-mortem

toonalfrink

24 Nov 2019 16:19 UTC

142 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

The 3 Books Technique for Learning a New Skilll

mr-hire

9 Jan 2019 12:45 UTC

141 points

46 comments2 min readLW link

Noticing Frame Differences

Raemon

30 Sep 2019 1:24 UTC

140 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

The Relationship Between the Village and the Mission

Raemon

12 May 2019 21:09 UTC

139 points

67 comments18 min readLW link

Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019

Ben Pace

26 Sep 2019 9:10 UTC

138 points

168 comments4 min readLW link

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhub

1 Nov 2019 20:13 UTC

137 points

33 comments12 min readLW link

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander

5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC

136 points

8 comments25 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality

habryka

15 Jul 2019 20:22 UTC

135 points

62 comments6 min readLW link

The Zettelkasten Method

abramdemski

20 Sep 2019 13:15 UTC

133 points

60 comments40 min readLW link

The unexpected difficulty of comparing AlphaStar to humans

Richard Korzekwa

18 Sep 2019 2:20 UTC

129 points

32 comments26 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

19 Dec 2019 3:00 UTC

129 points

17 comments62 min readLW link

Yes Requires the Possibility of No

Scott Garrabrant

17 May 2019 22:39 UTC

127 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction

evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

31 May 2019 23:44 UTC

126 points

32 comments12 min readLW link

Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

johnswentworth

5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC

126 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Thoughts on Human Models

xrchz and Scott Garrabrant

21 Feb 2019 9:10 UTC

124 points

22 comments10 min readLW link

Disentangling arguments for the importance of AI safety

ricraz

21 Jan 2019 12:41 UTC

122 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

The Amish, and Strategic Norms around Technology

Raemon

24 Mar 2019 22:16 UTC

122 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 May 2019 21:33 UTC

122 points

54 comments26 min readLW link

CO2 Stripper Postmortem Thoughts

Diffractor

30 Nov 2019 21:20 UTC

121 points

33 comments8 min readLW link

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

sarahconstantin

25 Feb 2019 20:40 UTC

120 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

We run the Center for Applied Rationality, AMA

AnnaSalamon

19 Dec 2019 16:34 UTC

118 points

329 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ben Pace

16 Jul 2019 5:06 UTC

117 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Introduction to Introduction to Category Theory

countedblessings

6 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC

117 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

What I’ll be doing at MIRI

evhub

12 Nov 2019 23:19 UTC

117 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi

28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC

117 points

28 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rest Days vs Recovery Days

Unreal

19 Mar 2019 22:37 UTC

116 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

Reason isn’t magic

Benquo

18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC

116 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

Elizabeth

22 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC

116 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Paper-Reading for Gears

johnswentworth

4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

116 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

Elizabeth

2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC

115 points

64 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice

Laura B

16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC

113 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin

20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC

113 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Soft takeoff can still lead to decisive strategic advantage

Daniel Kokotajlo

23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC

113 points

32 comments8 min readLW link

Degrees of Freedom

sarahconstantin

2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC

112 points

31 comments11 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)