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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

467 points

83 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

394 points

121 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

334 points

37 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

What Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

298 points

46 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

295 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Great minds might not think alike

Eric Neyman26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

294 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

290 points

127 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

281 points

68 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

276 points

135 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

259 points

106 comments4 min readLW link

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

252 points

57 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC

248 points

40 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

A tale from Communist China

Wei_Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

243 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

243 points

88 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

What cognitive biases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC

242 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

The ground of optimization

Alex Flint20 Jun 2020 0:38 UTC

228 points

75 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

Elizabeth and jimrandomh

7 Mar 2020 2:00 UTC

225 points

119 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

218 points

335 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Draft report on AI timelines

Ajeya Cotra18 Sep 2020 23:47 UTC

212 points

56 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Coordination as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC

210 points

21 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristiano1 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC

206 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI

evhub29 May 2020 20:38 UTC

206 points

36 comments38 min readLW link 2 reviews

We’ve built Connected Papers—a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC

205 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC

200 points

37 comments50 min readLW link 2 reviews

DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

JohnBuridan6 Jul 2020 23:34 UTC

200 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei_Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

200 points

106 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

The Treacherous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC

195 points

115 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

193 points

69 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC

192 points

51 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Simulacra Levels and their Interactions

Zvi15 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC

191 points

49 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC

191 points

86 comments19 min readLW link

Seeing the Smoke

Jacob Falkovich28 Feb 2020 18:26 UTC

190 points

29 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Six economics misconceptions of mine which I’ve resolved over the last few years

Buck13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

189 points

59 comments9 min readLW link

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

aphyer14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC

189 points

48 comments7 min readLW link

Covid-19: My Current Model

Zvi31 May 2020 17:40 UTC

188 points

74 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The LessWrong 2018 Book is Available for Pre-order

Ben Pace and jacobjacob

1 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC

187 points

110 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on “The Anthropology of Childhood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC

183 points

10 comments45 min readLW link

Interfaces as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth5 Mar 2020 18:20 UTC

182 points

15 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Discontinuous progress in history: an update

KatjaGrace14 Apr 2020 0:00 UTC

182 points

25 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

(aiimpacts.org)

interpreting GPT: the logit lens

nostalgebraist31 Aug 2020 2:47 UTC

181 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Growing Independence

jefftk7 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC

180 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC

178 points

32 comments11 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Inner Alignment: Explain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael Harth1 Aug 2020 15:24 UTC

178 points

46 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Literature Review For Academic Outsiders: What, How, and Why

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC

178 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Transportation as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC

175 points

27 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Most Prisoner’s Dilemmas are Stag Hunts; Most Stag Hunts are Schelling Problems

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 22:13 UTC

171 points

36 comments10 min readLW link 3 reviews

Motive Ambiguity

Zvi15 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

171 points

58 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

microCOVID.org: A tool to estimate COVID risk from common activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

169 points

36 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(microcovid.org)

The rationalist community’s location problem

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 18:39 UTC

167 points

142 comments4 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine

johnswentworth5 Nov 2020 19:01 UTC

165 points

11 comments7 min readLW link