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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

311 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

304 points

137 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

252 points

116 comments9 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

246 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Great minds might not think alike

UnexpectedValues26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

246 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

238 points

57 comments13 min readLW link

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

236 points

125 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

229 points

92 comments4 min readLW link

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

227 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all

Duncan_Sabien3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC

221 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

220 points

82 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

217 points

334 comments1 min readLW link

Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

Elizabeth and jimrandomh

7 Mar 2020 2:00 UTC

216 points

117 comments6 min readLW link

A tale from Communist China

Wei_Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

216 points

64 comments2 min readLW link

What Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

215 points

44 comments4 min readLW link

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristiano1 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC

205 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

What cognitive biases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC

201 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

200 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

Covid-19: My Current Model

Zvi31 May 2020 17:40 UTC

180 points

73 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The LessWrong 2018 Book is Available for Pre-order

Ben Pace and jacobjacob

2 Dec 2020 11:21 UTC

178 points

118 comments10 min readLW link

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

aphyer14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC

177 points

49 comments7 min readLW link

The Treacherous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC

173 points

114 comments11 min readLW link

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

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC

171 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Motive Ambiguity

Zvi15 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

168 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC

167 points

37 comments50 min readLW link

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC

165 points

85 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei_Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

164 points

105 comments4 min readLW link

Discontinuous progress in history: an update

KatjaGrace14 Apr 2020 0:00 UTC

163 points

23 comments31 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Notes on “The Anthropology of Childhood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC

160 points

9 comments45 min readLW link

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

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC

159 points

40 comments15 min readLW link

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

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC

159 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem

Davidmanheim25 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC

158 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

The ground of optimization

alexflint20 Jun 2020 0:38 UTC

158 points

64 comments27 min readLW link

Seeing the Smoke

Jacob Falkovich28 Feb 2020 18:26 UTC

155 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Simulacra Levels and their Interactions

Zvi15 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC

152 points

46 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New York Times, Please Do Not Threaten The Safety of Scott Alexander By Revealing His True Name

Zvi23 Jun 2020 12:20 UTC

152 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Growing Independence

jefftk7 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC

151 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

151 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

(microcovid.org)

An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI

evhub29 May 2020 20:38 UTC

147 points

30 comments38 min readLW link

Radical Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC

146 points

46 comments35 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC

146 points

30 comments11 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

JohnBuridan6 Jul 2020 23:34 UTC

145 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

Transportation as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC

143 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

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

Buck13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

143 points

53 comments9 min readLW link

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

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

142 points

54 comments12 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Draft report on AI timelines

Ajeya Cotra18 Sep 2020 23:47 UTC

142 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

The rationalist community’s location problem

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 18:39 UTC

142 points

139 comments4 min readLW link

Moral public goods

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 0:10 UTC

141 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

I’m leaving AI alignment – you better stay

rmoehn12 Mar 2020 5:58 UTC

139 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Choosing the Zero Point

orthonormal6 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC

139 points

20 comments3 min readLW link