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An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI

evhubMay 29, 2020, 8:38 PM

220 points

37 comments38 min readLW link 2 reviews

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard MeadowsMay 15, 2020, 8:44 PM

197 points

88 comments19 min readLW link

Literature Review For Academic Outsiders: What, How, and Why

namespaceMay 9, 2020, 10:58 PM

195 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Studies On Slack

Scott AlexanderMay 13, 2020, 5:00 AM

165 points

34 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”

Zack_M_DavisMay 20, 2020, 6:04 PM

158 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 1:36 PM

146 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM

134 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM

126 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Baking is Not a Ritual

Sisi ChengMay 25, 2020, 6:08 PM

125 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Movable Housing for Scalable Cities

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 15, 2020, 9:21 PM

124 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

A non-mystical explanation of “no-self” (three characteristics series)

Kaj_SotalaMay 8, 2020, 10:37 AM

120 points

65 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?

Mark XuMay 16, 2020, 4:53 PM

118 points

171 comments1 min readLW link

Why Artists Study Anatomy

Sisi ChengMay 18, 2020, 6:44 PM

98 points

10 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)

Kaj_SotalaMay 15, 2020, 1:21 PM

96 points

56 comments19 min readLW link

A Taijitu symbol for Moloch and Slack

B JacobsMay 25, 2020, 8:03 PM

91 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM

90 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adaptive theories

willbradshawMay 26, 2020, 5:41 PM

89 points

22 comments11 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

[Question] Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments

Wei DaiMay 6, 2020, 11:21 PM

83 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Mazes Sequence Summary

ZviMay 23, 2020, 4:40 PM

81 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How uniform is the neocortex?

zhukeepaMay 4, 2020, 2:16 AM

80 points

23 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

The Oil Crisis of 1973

ElizabethMay 22, 2020, 3:50 PM

79 points

10 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

How to (not) do a literature review

Katarina SlamaMay 30, 2020, 12:11 AM

79 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(katarinaslama.github.io)

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduckMay 3, 2020, 1:19 AM

77 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

On the construction of the self

Kaj_SotalaMay 29, 2020, 1:04 PM

77 points

18 comments17 min readLW link

Why Rationalists Shouldn’t be Interested in Topos Theory

jollybardMay 25, 2020, 5:35 AM

77 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Zack_M_DavisMay 11, 2020, 6:00 AM

72 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI announces GPT-3

gwernMay 29, 2020, 1:49 AM

67 points

23 comments LW link

(arxiv.org)

Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Vika, Vlad Mikulik, Matthew Rahtz, tom4everitt, Zac Kenton and janleike

May 6, 2020, 11:51 PM

66 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

GPT-3: a disappointing paper

nostalgebraistMay 29, 2020, 7:06 PM

65 points

43 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

From self to craving (three characteristics series)

Kaj_SotalaMay 22, 2020, 12:16 PM

63 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Subspace optima

Chris van MerwijkMay 15, 2020, 12:38 PM

61 points

7 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Shuttling between science and invention

jasoncrawfordMay 27, 2020, 9:25 PM

61 points

1 comment6 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Pointing to a Flower

johnswentworthMay 18, 2020, 6:54 PM

61 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)

MarcelloMay 23, 2020, 11:44 PM

59 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Project Proposal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworthMay 9, 2020, 6:47 PM

58 points

43 comments7 min readLW link

Get It Done Now

ZviMay 22, 2020, 12:20 PM

57 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Highlights of Comparative and Evolutionary Aging

johnswentworthMay 22, 2020, 5:01 PM

56 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Wikipedia Edit War Update

jefftkMay 22, 2020, 11:30 AM

55 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What ageing is and is not

willbradshawMay 24, 2020, 9:06 AM

55 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

[Job ad] Lead an ambitious COVID-19 forecasting project [Deadline extended: June 10th]

Bird ConceptMay 27, 2020, 4:38 PM

54 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

SlateStarCodex 2020 Predictions: Buy, Sell, Hold

ZviMay 1, 2020, 2:30 PM

53 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria

eapacheMay 18, 2020, 5:25 PM

51 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Coping and Cultures

SpiracularMay 6, 2020, 10:49 PM

50 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

“AI and Efficiency”, OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012)

gwern5 May 2020 16:32 UTC

48 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

On Negative Feedback and Simulacra

Zvi3 May 2020 17:00 UTC

47 points

7 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Starwink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_Davis18 May 2020 8:17 UTC

47 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(alicorn.elcenia.com)

In Search of Slack

Martin Sustrik23 May 2020 11:20 UTC

47 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

[Question] Should I self-variolate to COVID-19

Eli Tyre25 May 2020 20:29 UTC

46 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

A taxonomy of Cruxes

Eli Tyre27 May 2020 17:25 UTC

44 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Failures in technology forecasting? A reply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelA8 May 2020 12:41 UTC

44 points

19 comments11 min readLW link