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What Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

376 points

53 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

218 points

337 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Seeing the Smoke

Jacob Falkovich28 Feb 2020 18:26 UTC

197 points

29 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering

johnswentworth15 Feb 2020 17:27 UTC

144 points

18 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Category Theory Without The Baggage

johnswentworth3 Feb 2020 20:03 UTC

139 points

53 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Will COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting disability at a high rate?

jimrandomh11 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC

134 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Jan Bloch’s Impossible War

Slimepriestess17 Feb 2020 16:14 UTC

112 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Demons in Imperfect Search

johnswentworth11 Feb 2020 20:25 UTC

110 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

What can the principal-agent literature tell us about AI risk?

apc8 Feb 2020 21:28 UTC

104 points

29 comments16 min readLW link

Writeup: Progress on AI Safety via Debate

Beth Barnes and paulfchristiano

5 Feb 2020 21:04 UTC

103 points

18 comments33 min readLW link

The Adventure: a new Utopia story

Stuart_Armstrong5 Feb 2020 16:50 UTC

101 points

37 comments51 min readLW link

Tessellating Hills: a toy model for demons in imperfect search

DaemonicSigil20 Feb 2020 0:12 UTC

97 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

How to Lurk Less (and benefit others while benefiting yourself)

romeostevensit17 Feb 2020 6:18 UTC

95 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Mazes Sequence Roundup: Final Thoughts and Paths Forward

Zvi6 Feb 2020 16:10 UTC

88 points

28 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Distinguishing definitions of takeoff

Matthew Barnett14 Feb 2020 0:16 UTC

79 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] A ‘Practice of Rationality’ Sequence?

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 22:56 UTC

79 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Jaan Tallinn’s Philanthropic Pledge

jaan22 Feb 2020 10:03 UTC

78 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Protecting Large Projects Against Mazedom

Zvi3 Feb 2020 17:10 UTC

78 points

11 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“But that’s your job”: why organisations can work

Stuart_Armstrong5 Feb 2020 12:25 UTC

77 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

My slack budget: 3 surprise problems per week

Raemon25 Feb 2020 21:52 UTC

69 points

10 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Some quick notes on hand hygiene

willbradshaw6 Feb 2020 2:47 UTC

68 points

52 comments3 min readLW link

Attainable Utility Preservation: Empirical Results

TurnTrout and nealeratzlaff

22 Feb 2020 0:38 UTC

66 points

8 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Theory and Data as Constraints

johnswentworth21 Feb 2020 22:00 UTC

65 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Value of the Long Tail

johnswentworth26 Feb 2020 17:24 UTC

62 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Quarantine Preparations

jefftk25 Feb 2020 2:40 UTC

59 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Cautionary Note on Unlocking the Emotional Brain

eapache8 Feb 2020 17:21 UTC

56 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Bayes-Up: An App for Sharing Bayesian-MCQ

Louis Faucon6 Feb 2020 19:01 UTC

53 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

A point of clarification on infohazard terminology

eukaryote2 Feb 2020 17:43 UTC

52 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Attainable Utility Landscape: How The World Is Changed

TurnTrout10 Feb 2020 0:58 UTC

52 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

The case for lifelogging as life extension

Matthew Barnett1 Feb 2020 21:56 UTC

51 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Suspiciously balanced evidence

gjm12 Feb 2020 17:04 UTC

50 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Blog Post Day (Unofficial)

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Feb 2020 19:05 UTC

49 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Relational Stance

Raemon11 Feb 2020 5:16 UTC

48 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

How to Frame Negative Feedback as Forward-Facing Guidance

Liron9 Feb 2020 2:47 UTC

46 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

The Catastrophic Convergence Conjecture

TurnTrout14 Feb 2020 21:16 UTC

45 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Reviewing the Review

Raemon26 Feb 2020 2:51 UTC

45 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

Bayesian Evolving-to-Extinction

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 23:55 UTC

44 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott Alexander13 Feb 2020 7:20 UTC

43 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] Did AI pioneers not worry much about AI risks?

lisperati9 Feb 2020 19:58 UTC

42 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Pessimism About Unknown Unknowns Inspires Conservatism

michaelcohen3 Feb 2020 14:48 UTC

41 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Training Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark Xu14 Feb 2020 8:22 UTC

41 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

What are information hazards?

MichaelA18 Feb 2020 19:34 UTC

41 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Conclusion to ‘Reframing Impact’

TurnTrout28 Feb 2020 16:05 UTC

40 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

More writeups!

jefftk7 Feb 2020 3:10 UTC

40 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

On characterizing heavy-tailedness

Jsevillamol16 Feb 2020 0:14 UTC

38 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Plausibly, almost every powerful algorithm would be manipulative

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2020 11:50 UTC

38 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Attainable Utility Preservation: Concepts

TurnTrout17 Feb 2020 5:20 UTC

38 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Training Regime Day 4: Murphyjitsu

Mark Xu18 Feb 2020 17:33 UTC

36 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the big-picture implications of the coronavirus, assuming it eventually infects >10% of the world?

Daniel Kokotajlo26 Feb 2020 14:19 UTC

36 points

93 comments1 min readLW link

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics or: AI vs sandwiches

Vanessa Kosoy14 Feb 2020 18:46 UTC

36 points

8 comments9 min readLW link 1 review