Book Re­view: De­sign Prin­ci­ples of Biolog­i­cal Circuits

johnswentworthNov 5, 2019, 6:49 AM
222 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhubNov 1, 2019, 8:13 PM
208 points
38 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Evolu­tion of Modularity

johnswentworthNov 14, 2019, 6:49 AM
185 points
12 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

johnswentworthNov 22, 2019, 10:41 PM
175 points
29 comments7 min readLW link1 review

RAISE post-mortem

nullNov 24, 2019, 4:19 PM
161 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Men­tal Mountains

Scott AlexanderNov 27, 2019, 5:30 AM
156 points
14 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

The Curse Of The Counterfactual

pjebyNov 1, 2019, 6:34 PM
140 points
35 comments19 min readLW link1 review

A mechanis­tic model of meditation

Kaj_SotalaNov 6, 2019, 9:37 PM
136 points
12 comments21 min readLW link

AlphaS­tar: Im­pres­sive for RL progress, not for AGI progress

orthonormalNov 2, 2019, 1:50 AM
113 points
58 comments2 min readLW link1 review

What I’ll be do­ing at MIRI

evhubNov 12, 2019, 11:19 PM
112 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Uber Self-Driv­ing Crash

jefftkNov 7, 2019, 3:00 PM
109 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Credit As­sign­ment Problem

abramdemskiNov 8, 2019, 2:50 AM
105 points
40 comments17 min readLW link1 review

To­tal horse takeover

KatjaGraceNov 5, 2019, 12:10 AM
103 points
14 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.com)

The LessWrong 2018 Review

RaemonNov 21, 2019, 2:50 AM
101 points
91 comments7 min readLW link

In­stant stone (just add wa­ter!)

jasoncrawfordNov 13, 2019, 10:33 PM
99 points
27 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Rele­vance Norms; Or, Gricean Im­pli­ca­ture Queers the De­cou­pling/​Con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing Binary

Zack_M_DavisNov 22, 2019, 6:18 AM
99 points
30 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Could some­one please start a bright home light­ing com­pany?

lincolnquirkNov 26, 2019, 7:20 PM
94 points
42 comments6 min readLW link
(www.lincolnquirk.com)

But ex­actly how com­plex and frag­ile?

KatjaGraceNov 3, 2019, 6:20 PM
87 points
32 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.com)

Neu­ral An­neal­ing: Toward a Neu­ral The­ory of Every­thing (cross­post)

Michael Edward JohnsonNov 29, 2019, 5:31 PM
86 points
29 comments40 min readLW link3 reviews

Wrinkles

johnswentworthNov 19, 2019, 10:59 PM
81 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Autism And In­tel­li­gence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott AlexanderNov 14, 2019, 5:30 AM
76 points
12 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Rid­dled with Scien­tific and Fac­tual Errors

habrykaNov 16, 2019, 8:27 PM
72 points
14 comments2 min readLW link
(guzey.com)

Self-Keep­ing Secrets

lsusrNov 10, 2019, 7:59 AM
72 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Can you elimi­nate memetic scarcity, in­stead of fight­ing?

RaemonNov 25, 2019, 2:07 AM
71 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

[Team Up­date] Why we spent Q3 op­ti­miz­ing for karma

RubyNov 7, 2019, 11:39 PM
70 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

The Bus Ticket The­ory of Genius

VaniverNov 23, 2019, 10:12 PM
63 points
11 commentsLW link
(www.paulgraham.com)

My Anki patterns

agentydragonNov 26, 2019, 6:27 AM
59 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Ways that China is sur­pass­ing the US

Wei DaiNov 4, 2019, 9:45 AM
59 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(palladiummag.com)

How I do research

TurnTroutNov 19, 2019, 8:31 PM
59 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Build­ing In­tu­itions On Non-Em­piri­cal Ar­gu­ments In Science

Scott AlexanderNov 7, 2019, 6:50 AM
56 points
27 comments11 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Antimemes

lsusrNov 26, 2019, 5:58 AM
54 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

3 Cul­tural In­fras­truc­ture Ideas from MAPLE

UnrealNov 26, 2019, 6:56 PM
53 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

[1911.08265] Mas­ter­ing Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Plan­ning with a Learned Model | Arxiv

DragonGodNov 21, 2019, 1:18 AM
52 points
4 commentsLW link
(arxiv.org)

The new dot com bub­ble is here: it’s called on­line advertising

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 18, 2019, 10:05 PM
50 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(thecorrespondent.com)

[Question] How com­mon is it for one en­tity to have a 3+ year tech­nolog­i­cal lead on its near­est com­peti­tor?

Daniel KokotajloNov 17, 2019, 3:23 PM
49 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Skill and leverage

KatjaGraceNov 3, 2019, 9:10 PM
49 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Speak­ing up pub­li­cly is heroic

jefftkNov 2, 2019, 12:00 PM
44 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AI Align­ment Re­search Overview (by Ja­cob Stein­hardt)

Ben PaceNov 6, 2019, 7:24 PM
44 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Will trans­parency help catch de­cep­tion? Per­haps not

Matthew BarnettNov 4, 2019, 8:52 PM
43 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Pie­ces of time

KatjaGraceNov 11, 2019, 7:00 AM
43 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] What are the re­quire­ments for be­ing “citable?”

RaemonNov 28, 2019, 9:24 PM
42 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Power to Draw Better

LironNov 18, 2019, 3:06 AM
40 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

“em­bed­ded self-jus­tifi­ca­tion,” or some­thing like that

nostalgebraistNov 3, 2019, 3:20 AM
40 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Cy­ber­netic dreams: Beer’s pond brain

Yuxi_LiuNov 19, 2019, 12:48 PM
39 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[AN #75]: Solv­ing Atari and Go with learned game mod­els, and thoughts from a MIRI employee

Rohin ShahNov 27, 2019, 6:10 PM
38 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] His­tor­i­cal fore­cast­ing: Are there ways I can get lots of data, but only up to a cer­tain date?

Eli TyreNov 21, 2019, 5:16 PM
38 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Elon Musk is wrong: Rob­o­taxis are stupid. We need stan­dard­ized rented au­tonomous tugs to move cus­tomized owned un­pow­ered wag­ons.

chaosmageNov 4, 2019, 2:04 PM
36 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Self polic­ing for self doubt

KatjaGraceNov 7, 2019, 11:10 PM
36 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Lazy Com­post is Worse Than Landfill

jefftkNov 15, 2019, 4:20 PM
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Pic­ture Frames, Win­dow Frames and Frameworks

RaemonNov 3, 2019, 10:09 PM
35 points
7 comments7 min readLW link