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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

291 points

68 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

A tale from Communist China

Wei Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

271 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristiano1 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC

206 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The Treacherous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC

205 points

115 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

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

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC

194 points

53 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark Xu14 Oct 2020 1:33 UTC

168 points

52 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] What are some beautiful, rationalist artworks?

jacobjacob17 Oct 2020 6:32 UTC

154 points

139 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Introduction to Cartesian Frames

Scott Garrabrant22 Oct 2020 13:00 UTC

153 points

32 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

The Felt Sense: What, Why and How

Kaj_Sotala5 Oct 2020 15:57 UTC

149 points

23 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel Kokotajlo22 Oct 2020 10:41 UTC

145 points

32 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Message Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC

134 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Rohin Shah6 Oct 2020 17:41 UTC

120 points

7 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(www.amazon.com)

Philosophy of Therapy

DaystarEld10 Oct 2020 20:12 UTC

117 points

27 comments16 min readLW link

(daystareld.com)

Launching Forecast, a community for crowdsourced predictions from Facebook

Rebecca Kossnick20 Oct 2020 6:20 UTC

111 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Rounds 0 to 10

lsusr24 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC

107 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

The bads of ads

KatjaGrace23 Oct 2020 5:50 UTC

105 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Desperation hamster wheels

Nicole Ross28 Oct 2020 2:32 UTC

97 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Postmortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben Pace3 Oct 2020 21:30 UTC

97 points

63 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 10/1: The Long Haul

Zvi1 Oct 2020 18:00 UTC

95 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon

jacobjacob1 Oct 2020 4:20 UTC

93 points

114 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

The Darwin Game

lsusr9 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC

91 points

131 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What should experienced rationalists know?

sapphire13 Oct 2020 17:32 UTC

88 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on ADHD

romeostevensit7 Oct 2020 20:46 UTC

85 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Can we hold intellectuals to similar public standards as athletes?

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC

84 points

48 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 10/22: Europe in Crisis

Zvi22 Oct 2020 15:40 UTC

80 points

13 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Babble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemski15 Oct 2020 13:46 UTC

80 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Moloch games

Chris van Merwijk16 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC

80 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Weird Things About Money

abramdemski3 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC

79 points

31 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 10/15: Playtime is Over

Zvi15 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC

74 points

21 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.

David Gross15 Oct 2020 3:28 UTC

71 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Conclusion

Richard_Ngo4 Oct 2020 23:06 UTC

71 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

A prior for technological discontinuities

NunoSempere13 Oct 2020 16:51 UTC

71 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Have the lockdowns been worth it?

Ben Pace and zhukeepa

12 Oct 2020 23:35 UTC

70 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/8: October Surprise

Zvi8 Oct 2020 13:20 UTC

66 points

17 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Msg Len

Zack_M_Davis12 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC

65 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Group debugging guidelines & thoughts

Kaj_Sotala19 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC

65 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Additive Operations on Cartesian Frames

Scott Garrabrant26 Oct 2020 15:12 UTC

62 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Words and Implications

johnswentworth1 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

61 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/29: All We Ever Talk About

Zvi29 Oct 2020 15:10 UTC

61 points

50 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Boston?

jefftk11 Oct 2020 2:40 UTC

60 points

86 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge

Samo Burja30 Oct 2020 10:50 UTC

60 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AGI safety from first principles: Control

Richard_Ngo2 Oct 2020 21:51 UTC

60 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Alignment

Richard_Ngo1 Oct 2020 3:13 UTC

59 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

Box inversion hypothesis

Jan Kulveit20 Oct 2020 16:20 UTC

59 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

COVID Strategy 101

Mike Harris5 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC

58 points

7 comments18 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Round 1

lsusr29 Oct 2020 21:56 UTC

58 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: A summary

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2020 21:41 UTC

58 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

AI risk hub in Singapore?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Oct 2020 11:45 UTC

57 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

DanielFilan27 Oct 2020 3:20 UTC

55 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

[Question] Models predicting significant violence in the US?

kdbscott25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC

54 points

6 comments3 min readLW link