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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

517 points

89 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

316 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

243 points

88 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC

204 points

37 comments50 min readLW link 2 reviews

Generalized Heat Engine

johnswentworth5 Nov 2020 19:01 UTC

185 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Where do (did?) stable, cooperative institutions come from?

AnnaSalamon3 Nov 2020 22:14 UTC

151 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

the scaling “inconsistency”: openAI’s new insight

nostalgebraist7 Nov 2020 7:40 UTC

148 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 1

lsusr26 Nov 2020 3:02 UTC

147 points

31 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Working in Virtual Reality: A Review

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 23:14 UTC

139 points

40 comments6 min readLW link

Inner Alignment in Salt-Starved Rats

Steven Byrnes19 Nov 2020 2:40 UTC

137 points

39 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC

124 points

47 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function Of Humans’ Latent Variables

johnswentworth18 Nov 2020 17:47 UTC

123 points

49 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC

122 points

9 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 11/26: Thanksgiving

Zvi26 Nov 2020 14:50 UTC

114 points

14 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Predictions

Amandango and Ben Pace

21 Nov 2020 3:46 UTC

112 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Probability vs Likelihood

abramdemski10 Nov 2020 21:28 UTC

110 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC

103 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Clarifying inner alignment terminology

evhub9 Nov 2020 20:40 UTC

102 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 11/12: The Winds of Winter

Zvi12 Nov 2020 14:30 UTC

100 points

64 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?

Mark Xu6 Nov 2020 23:48 UTC

96 points

9 comments16 min readLW link

My intellectual influences

Richard_Ngo22 Nov 2020 18:00 UTC

94 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC

94 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC

93 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch

Viliam5 Nov 2020 20:05 UTC

93 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC

90 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

Gifts Which Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth4 Nov 2020 19:37 UTC

89 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare

Kaj_Sotala24 Nov 2020 10:36 UTC

83 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(www.liebertpub.com)

Learning Normativity: A Research Agenda

abramdemski11 Nov 2020 21:59 UTC

82 points

18 comments19 min readLW link

The (Unofficial) Less Wrong Comment Challenge

adamShimi11 Nov 2020 14:18 UTC

82 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Commentary on AGI Safety from First Principles

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 21:37 UTC

79 points

4 comments54 min readLW link

Pain is the unit of Effort

lsusr25 Nov 2020 8:30 UTC

78 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Gear

johnswentworth16 Nov 2020 16:34 UTC

77 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Location Discussion Takeaways

mingyuan2 Nov 2020 21:14 UTC

77 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

Persuasion Tools: AI takeover without AGI or agency?

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Nov 2020 16:54 UTC

75 points

25 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

A guide to Iterated Amplification & Debate

Rafael Harth15 Nov 2020 17:14 UTC

75 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

Beware Experiments Without Evaluation

Davis_Kingsley15 Nov 2020 8:18 UTC

75 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Non-Obstruction: A Simple Concept Motivating Corrigibility

TurnTrout21 Nov 2020 19:35 UTC

74 points

19 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 11/19: Don’t Do Stupid Things

Zvi19 Nov 2020 16:00 UTC

72 points

29 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When Hindsight Isn’t 20/20: Incentive Design With Imperfect Credit Allocation

johnswentworth8 Nov 2020 19:16 UTC

72 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

2020 Election: Prediction Markets versus Polling/Modeling Assessment and Postmortem

Zvi18 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC

71 points

17 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to get the benefits of moving without moving (babble)

mingyuan13 Nov 2020 20:17 UTC

70 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

The next AI winter will be due to energy costs

hippke24 Nov 2020 16:53 UTC

70 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Forecasting Innovation Prize

ozziegooen and NunoSempere

15 Nov 2020 21:12 UTC

69 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine II: Thermodynamic Efficiency Limit

johnswentworth6 Nov 2020 17:30 UTC

68 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Continuing the takeoffs debate

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 15:58 UTC

67 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Writing to think

Adam Zerner17 Nov 2020 7:54 UTC

65 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 11/5: Don’t Mention the War

Zvi5 Nov 2020 14:20 UTC

64 points

16 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Signalling & Simulacra

abramdemski14 Nov 2020 19:24 UTC

62 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

Evading Mind Control

lsusr25 Nov 2020 5:01 UTC

62 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on Voting Methods

abramdemski17 Nov 2020 20:23 UTC

61 points

24 comments5 min readLW link