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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

299 points

40 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Zettelkasten Method

abramdemski20 Sep 2019 13:15 UTC

216 points

90 comments42 min readLW link 3 reviews

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)

Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019

Ben Pace26 Sep 2019 9:10 UTC

137 points

168 comments4 min readLW link

Utility ≠ Reward

Vlad Mikulik5 Sep 2019 17:28 UTC

121 points

24 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

AI Safety “Success Stories”

Wei Dai7 Sep 2019 2:54 UTC

117 points

27 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

What is operations?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 26 Sep 2019 14:16 UTC

110 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

Gears vs Behavior

johnswentworth19 Sep 2019 6:50 UTC

107 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

System 2 as working-memory augmented System 1 reasoning

Kaj_Sotala25 Sep 2019 8:39 UTC

107 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

97 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 6 reviews

Reframing Impact

TurnTrout20 Sep 2019 19:03 UTC

96 points

15 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC

93 points

28 comments8 min readLW link

Meetups as Institutions for Intellectual Progress

mingyuan17 Sep 2019 5:23 UTC

91 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

Reframing the evolutionary benefit of sex

paulfchristiano14 Sep 2019 17:00 UTC

91 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Rationality Exercises Prize of September 2019 ($1,000)

Ben Pace11 Sep 2019 0:19 UTC

89 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

The Power to Teach Concepts Better

Liron23 Sep 2019 0:21 UTC

89 points

22 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

How Specificity Works

Liron3 Sep 2019 12:11 UTC

88 points

47 comments7 min readLW link

Bioinfohazards

Spiracular17 Sep 2019 2:41 UTC

87 points

14 comments18 min readLW link 2 reviews

The strategy-stealing assumption

paulfchristiano16 Sep 2019 15:23 UTC

86 points

53 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

A Critique of Functional Decision Theory

wdmacaskill13 Sep 2019 19:23 UTC

86 points

56 comments20 min readLW link

Novum Organum: Introduction

Ruby19 Sep 2019 22:34 UTC

86 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Specificity: Your Brain’s Superpower

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:53 UTC

82 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Follow-Up to Petrov Day, 2019

Ben Pace27 Sep 2019 23:47 UTC

78 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

How Much is Your Time Worth?

lynettebye2 Sep 2019 6:19 UTC

77 points

22 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Are minimal circuits deceptive?

evhub7 Sep 2019 18:11 UTC

77 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Don’t depend on others to ask for explanations

Wei Dai18 Sep 2019 19:12 UTC

77 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Partial Agency

abramdemski27 Sep 2019 22:04 UTC

72 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Deducing Impact

TurnTrout24 Sep 2019 21:14 UTC

72 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Concrete experiments in inner alignment

evhub6 Sep 2019 22:16 UTC

71 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

A simple environment for showing mesa misalignment

Matthew Barnett26 Sep 2019 4:44 UTC

71 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Value Impact

TurnTrout23 Sep 2019 0:47 UTC

70 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Relaxed adversarial training for inner alignment

evhub10 Sep 2019 23:03 UTC

69 points

27 comments27 min readLW link

Modes of Petrov Day

Raemon17 Sep 2019 2:47 UTC

69 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer

Samo Burja17 Sep 2019 20:10 UTC

67 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Attainable Utility Theory: Why Things Matter

TurnTrout27 Sep 2019 16:48 UTC

65 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Christiano decision theory excerpt

Rob Bensinger29 Sep 2019 2:55 UTC

65 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Shallow Review of Consistency in Statement Evaluation

Elizabeth9 Sep 2019 23:21 UTC

65 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Candy for Nets

jefftk29 Sep 2019 11:10 UTC

62 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Age gaps and Birth order: Failed reproduction of results

Bucky7 Sep 2019 19:22 UTC

57 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Novum Organum: Preface

Francis Bacon19 Sep 2019 22:51 UTC

54 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Integrating the Lindy Effect

lsusr7 Sep 2019 17:38 UTC

53 points

11 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Free Money at PredictIt?

Zvi26 Sep 2019 16:10 UTC

49 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Probability as Minimal Map

johnswentworth1 Sep 2019 19:19 UTC

48 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodes

Wei Dai10 Sep 2019 8:29 UTC

48 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

Age gaps and Birth order: Reanalysis

Bucky7 Sep 2019 19:33 UTC

48 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Do Sufficiently Advanced Agents Use Logic?

abramdemski13 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC

47 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

Zvi10 Sep 2019 12:10 UTC

47 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Realism and Rationality

bmgarfinkel16 Sep 2019 3:09 UTC

45 points

49 comments23 min readLW link

Conversation with Paul Christiano

abergal11 Sep 2019 23:20 UTC

44 points

6 comments30 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Towards an empirical investigation of inner alignment

evhub23 Sep 2019 20:43 UTC

44 points

9 comments6 min readLW link