Asym­met­ric Justice

ZviApr 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
236 points
105 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Forces of Bland­ness and the Disagree­able Majority

sarahconstantinApr 28, 2019, 7:44 PM
132 points
27 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Where to Draw the Boundaries?

Zack_M_DavisApr 13, 2019, 9:34 PM
124 points
109 comments13 min readLW link3 reviews

The Hard Work of Trans­la­tion (Bud­dhism)

romeostevensitApr 7, 2019, 9:04 PM
117 points
139 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

An­nounc­ing the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Postrationality

Pee DoomApr 2, 2019, 1:17 AM
110 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture Re­view: Distributed Teams

ElizabethApr 16, 2019, 1:19 AM
106 points
37 comments6 min readLW link1 review

1960: The Year The Sin­gu­lar­ity Was Cancelled

Scott AlexanderApr 23, 2019, 1:30 AM
104 points
15 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

De­grees of Freedom

sarahconstantinApr 2, 2019, 9:10 PM
103 points
31 comments11 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Counterspells

Virgil KurkjianApr 27, 2019, 11:37 PM
100 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

[An­swer] Why wasn’t sci­ence in­vented in China?

RubyApr 23, 2019, 9:47 PM
96 points
46 comments21 min readLW link1 review

Align­ment Newslet­ter One Year Retrospective

Rohin ShahApr 10, 2019, 6:58 AM
94 points
31 comments21 min readLW link

The Prin­ci­ple of Pre­dicted Improvement

Ronny FernandezApr 23, 2019, 9:21 PM
80 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Strate­gic im­pli­ca­tions of AIs’ abil­ity to co­or­di­nate at low cost, for ex­am­ple by merging

Wei DaiApr 25, 2019, 5:08 AM
69 points
46 comments2 min readLW link1 review

He­len Toner on China, CSET, and AI

Rob BensingerApr 21, 2019, 4:10 AM
68 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

Book re­view: The Sleep­walk­ers by Arthur Koestler

Richard_NgoApr 23, 2019, 12:10 AM
68 points
26 comments9 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Any re­but­tals of Chris­ti­ano and AI Im­pacts on take­off speeds?

SoerenMindApr 21, 2019, 8:39 PM
67 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomhApr 2, 2019, 6:00 AM
65 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Slack Club

quanticleApr 16, 2019, 6:43 AM
62 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Crypto quant trad­ing: Intro

AlexeiApr 17, 2019, 8:52 PM
62 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Best rea­sons for pes­simism about im­pact of im­pact mea­sures?

TurnTroutApr 10, 2019, 5:22 PM
60 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How do peo­ple be­come am­bi­tious?

RaemonApr 4, 2019, 7:12 PM
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Speak­ing for my­self (re: how the LW2.0 team com­mu­ni­cates)

RubyApr 25, 2019, 10:39 PM
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als about So­cial Media

ZviApr 22, 2019, 12:20 PM
53 points
23 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Long Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant decisions

habrykaApr 8, 2019, 2:05 AM
53 points
0 comments46 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Ex­cerpts from a larger dis­cus­sion about simulacra

BenquoApr 10, 2019, 9:27 PM
53 points
40 comments6 min readLW link5 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

LW Up­date 2019-04-02 – Front­page Rework

RaemonApr 2, 2019, 11:48 PM
47 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Defeat­ing Good­hart and the “clos­est un­blocked strat­egy” problem

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 3, 2019, 2:46 PM
45 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

AI Align­ment Prob­lem: “Hu­man Values” don’t Ac­tu­ally Exist

avturchinApr 22, 2019, 9:23 AM
45 points
29 comments43 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems in Archipelago

RaemonApr 16, 2019, 10:57 PM
44 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Peck­ing Order and Flight Leadership

sarahconstantinApr 29, 2019, 8:30 PM
43 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

“Every­thing is Cor­re­lated”: An An­thol­ogy of the Psy­chol­ogy Debate

gwernApr 27, 2019, 1:48 PM
41 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

User GPT2 Has a Warn­ing for Vio­lat­ing Front­page Com­ment­ing Guidelines

jimrandomhApr 1, 2019, 8:23 PM
40 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does cat­e­gory the­ory ex­ist?

Ben PaceApr 25, 2019, 4:54 AM
37 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

On AI and Compute

johncroxApr 3, 2019, 7:00 PM
36 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Robin Han­son on Sim­ple, Ev­i­dence Backed Models

RaemonApr 16, 2019, 10:22 PM
36 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2017–2019)

gwernApr 28, 2019, 8:18 PM
35 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Buy­ing Value, not Price

Jacob FalkovichApr 29, 2019, 3:51 PM
32 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

On the Na­ture of Agency

RubyApr 1, 2019, 1:32 AM
31 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

When is ra­tio­nal­ity use­ful?

Richard_NgoApr 24, 2019, 10:40 PM
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

I found a wild ex­pla­na­tion for two big anoma­lies in meta­physics then be­came very doubt­ful of it

mako yassApr 1, 2019, 3:19 AM
26 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Scry­ing for out­comes where the prob­lem of deep­fakes has been solved

mako yassApr 15, 2019, 4:45 AM
26 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Agency and Sphex­ish­ness: A Se­cond Glance

RubyApr 16, 2019, 1:25 AM
26 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment learn­ing with im­per­cep­ti­ble rewards

Vanessa KosoyApr 7, 2019, 10:27 AM
26 points
1 comment32 min readLW link

[Question] De­gree of du­pli­ca­tion and co­or­di­na­tion in pro­jects that ex­am­ine com­put­ing prices, AI progress, and re­lated top­ics?

riceissaApr 23, 2019, 12:27 PM
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Sim­ple Solow Model of Soft­ware Engineering

johnswentworthApr 8, 2019, 11:06 PM
25 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best ap­proach to cu­rat­ing a news­feed to max­i­mize use­ful con­trast­ing POV?

Ben GoldhaberApr 26, 2019, 5:29 PM
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #51

Rohin ShahApr 3, 2019, 4:10 AM
25 points
2 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] How to make plans?

Pee DoomApr 23, 2019, 8:29 AM
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal Open Thread April 2019: So­cratic method

nullApr 1, 2019, 1:29 AM
23 points
165 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of in­cor­rigi­bil­ity?

RyanCareyApr 28, 2019, 12:22 AM
23 points
17 comments1 min readLW link