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[LIVE!!] LW/EA New Year’s Ultra Party
Ruby
Dec 18, 2020, 4:49 AM
67
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 10
lsusr
Dec 24, 2020, 8:33 AM
67
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski’s General Semantics
abramdemski
Dec 21, 2020, 5:44 AM
66
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Best Visualizations on Every Subject
ryan_b
Dec 21, 2020, 10:51 PM
63
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Explorations
alkjash
Dec 16, 2020, 9:27 PM
63
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
[Expired] 20,000 Free $50 Charity Gift Cards
WilliamKiely
Dec 11, 2020, 8:02 PM
62
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Avoiding Side Effects in Complex Environments
TurnTrout
and
nealeratzlaff
Dec 12, 2020, 12:34 AM
62
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(avoiding-side-effects.github.io)
It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions
Ian David Moss
Dec 17, 2020, 3:30 AM
61
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
When life was literally full of crap
jasoncrawford
Dec 21, 2020, 9:16 PM
60
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Meetup Organizers, Our Virtual Garden is at Your Disposal
Ruby
Dec 4, 2020, 11:29 PM
59
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 12/10: Vaccine Approval Day in America
Zvi
Dec 10, 2020, 2:20 PM
58
points
31
comments
20
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Logistics for the 2020 online Secular Solstice*
Alex_Altair
,
LauraVaughan
and
Raemon
Dec 3, 2020, 12:08 AM
56
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 11
lsusr
Dec 27, 2020, 9:03 AM
56
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Good Try Rule
DirectedEvolution
Dec 27, 2020, 2:38 AM
56
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Warfare
Gentzel
Dec 11, 2020, 3:50 AM
56
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Collider bias as a cognitive blindspot?
TurnTrout
Dec 30, 2020, 2:39 AM
54
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Announcing AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast
DanielFilan
Dec 23, 2020, 8:00 PM
54
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
Elephant seal
KatjaGrace
Dec 21, 2020, 12:00 PM
54
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
[AN #127]: Rethinking agency: Cartesian frames as a formalization of ways to carve up the world into an agent and its environment
Rohin Shah
Dec 2, 2020, 6:20 PM
53
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Mental Blinders from Working Within Systems
abramdemski
Dec 10, 2020, 7:09 PM
53
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
My Model of the New COVID Strain and US Response
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 27, 2020, 4:34 AM
51
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci Evaluation and Ruleset
abstractapplic
Dec 12, 2020, 3:00 PM
51
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Lesswrong helped me make $25K: A rational pricing strategy
kareemabukhadra
Dec 21, 2020, 8:20 PM
50
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hermione Granger and Newcomb’s Paradox
lsusr
Dec 14, 2020, 5:27 AM
49
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Interactive exploration of LessWrong and other large collections of documents
vpetukhov
and
FriendlyOwl
Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
49
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Defusing AGI Danger
Mark Xu
Dec 24, 2020, 10:58 PM
48
points
9
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Review: LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 28, 2020, 4:32 AM
47
points
15
comments
7
min read
LW
link
New SARS-CoV-2 variant
TheMajor
Dec 20, 2020, 9:22 PM
46
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Debugging the student
Adam Zerner
Dec 16, 2020, 7:07 AM
46
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Postmortem on my Comment Challenge
adamShimi
Dec 4, 2020, 2:15 PM
46
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Thread for making 2019 Review accountability commitments
Bird Concept
Dec 18, 2020, 5:07 AM
46
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cognitive mistakes I’ve made about COVID-19
DanielFilan
Dec 27, 2020, 12:50 AM
45
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
The AI Safety Game (UPDATED)
Daniel Kokotajlo
Dec 5, 2020, 10:27 AM
45
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Incomprehensibility Bluff
SocratesDissatisfied
Dec 6, 2020, 6:26 PM
45
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What is it good for? But actually?
KatjaGrace
Dec 16, 2020, 9:20 AM
44
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
[Question]
What technologies could cause world GDP doubling times to be <8 years?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Dec 10, 2020, 3:34 PM
43
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Technical AI Safety Podcast
Quinn
Dec 7, 2020, 6:51 PM
42
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)
Operationalizing compatibility with strategy-stealing
evhub
Dec 24, 2020, 10:36 PM
41
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How long till Inverse AlphaFold?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Dec 17, 2020, 7:56 PM
41
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New Eliezer Yudkowsky interview on We Want MoR, the HPMOR Podcast
moridinamael
Dec 21, 2020, 5:21 PM
41
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to eradicate the desire to check time-wasting sites
Space L Clottey
Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
40
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Dissolving the Problem of Induction
Liron
Dec 27, 2020, 5:58 PM
40
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
An elegant proof of Laplace’s rule of succession
Eric Neyman
Dec 7, 2020, 10:43 PM
39
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Are index funds still a good investment?
Kaj_Sotala
2 Dec 2020 21:31 UTC
38
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Good Life Quantified
Jacob Falkovich
11 Dec 2020 17:52 UTC
38
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- Planning Attacks
lsusr
23 Dec 2020 21:52 UTC
37
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Human Genetic Engineering: Increasing Intelligence
GeneSmith
5 Dec 2020 22:06 UTC
37
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Debate Minus Factored Cognition
abramdemski
29 Dec 2020 22:59 UTC
37
points
42
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Open Christmas card to my mother
KatjaGrace
24 Dec 2020 7:00 UTC
36
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”
Joe Carlsmith
23 Dec 2020 2:21 UTC
36
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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