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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjashNov 24, 2020, 8:00 PM

566 points

91 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworthNov 3, 2020, 5:34 PM

351 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

AmandangoNov 20, 2020, 6:35 PM

243 points

88 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

Andrew_CritchNov 19, 2020, 3:18 AM

205 points

37 comments50 min readLW link 2 reviews

Generalized Heat Engine

johnswentworthNov 5, 2020, 7:01 PM

186 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 1

lsusrNov 26, 2020, 3:02 AM

153 points

31 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

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

AnnaSalamonNov 3, 2020, 10:14 PM

151 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

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

nostalgebraistNov 7, 2020, 7:40 AM

148 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Working in Virtual Reality: A Review

ozziegooenNov 20, 2020, 11:14 PM

140 points

42 comments6 min readLW link

Inner Alignment in Salt-Starved Rats

Steven ByrnesNov 19, 2020, 2:40 AM

137 points

41 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey LadishNov 7, 2020, 5:42 AM

131 points

48 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

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

johnswentworthNov 18, 2020, 5:47 PM

129 points

50 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawfordNov 9, 2020, 11:06 PM

123 points

9 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 11/26: Thanksgiving

ZviNov 26, 2020, 2:50 PM

114 points

14 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Predictions

Amandango and Ben Pace

Nov 21, 2020, 3:46 AM

112 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Probability vs Likelihood

abramdemskiNov 10, 2020, 9:28 PM

110 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

Clarifying inner alignment terminology

evhubNov 9, 2020, 8:40 PM

109 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm

willbradshawNov 27, 2020, 10:43 AM

103 points

34 comments7 min readLW link

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

jasoncrawfordNov 6, 2020, 8:01 PM

103 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 11/12: The Winds of Winter

ZviNov 12, 2020, 2:30 PM

100 points

64 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions

lynettebyeNov 5, 2020, 12:22 AM

97 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?

Mark XuNov 6, 2020, 11:48 PM

96 points

9 comments16 min readLW link

My intellectual influences

Richard_NgoNov 22, 2020, 6:00 PM

95 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch

ViliamNov 5, 2020, 8:05 PM

94 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

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

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2020, 4:40 PM

93 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Gifts Which Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworthNov 4, 2020, 7:37 PM

93 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Persuasion Tools: AI takeover without AGI or agency?

Daniel KokotajloNov 20, 2020, 4:54 PM

85 points

25 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

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

Kaj_SotalaNov 24, 2020, 10:36 AM

83 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(www.liebertpub.com)

The (Unofficial) Less Wrong Comment Challenge

adamShimiNov 11, 2020, 2:18 PM

82 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Learning Normativity: A Research Agenda

abramdemskiNov 11, 2020, 9:59 PM

82 points

18 comments19 min readLW link

Commentary on AGI Safety from First Principles

Richard_NgoNov 23, 2020, 9:37 PM

81 points

4 comments54 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Gear

johnswentworthNov 16, 2020, 4:34 PM

79 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

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

johnswentworthNov 8, 2020, 7:16 PM

79 points

24 comments6 min readLW link

Location Discussion Takeaways

mingyuanNov 2, 2020, 9:14 PM

77 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

A guide to Iterated Amplification & Debate

Rafael HarthNov 15, 2020, 5:14 PM

75 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

Beware Experiments Without Evaluation

Davis_KingsleyNov 15, 2020, 8:18 AM

75 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Non-Obstruction: A Simple Concept Motivating Corrigibility

TurnTroutNov 21, 2020, 7:35 PM

74 points

20 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 11/19: Don’t Do Stupid Things

ZviNov 19, 2020, 4:00 PM

72 points

29 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

ZviNov 18, 2020, 11:00 PM

71 points

17 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

mingyuanNov 13, 2020, 8:17 PM

71 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

The next AI winter will be due to energy costs

hippkeNov 24, 2020, 4:53 PM

70 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Forecasting Innovation Prize

ozziegooen and NunoSempere

Nov 15, 2020, 9:12 PM

69 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Writing to think

Adam ZernerNov 17, 2020, 7:54 AM

69 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine II: Thermodynamic Efficiency Limit

johnswentworthNov 6, 2020, 5:30 PM

69 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Continuing the takeoffs debate

Richard_NgoNov 23, 2020, 3:58 PM

67 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 11/5: Don’t Mention the War

ZviNov 5, 2020, 2:20 PM

64 points

16 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Signalling & Simulacra

abramdemskiNov 14, 2020, 7:24 PM

63 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

Manifesto of the Silent Minority

lsusrNov 24, 2020, 5:30 AM

63 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Evading Mind Control

lsusrNov 25, 2020, 5:01 AM

62 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Success Buys Freedom

lsusrNov 25, 2020, 1:53 PM

62 points

4 comments6 min readLW link