Why haven’t we cel­e­brated any ma­jor achieve­ments lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
194 points
69 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on “The An­thro­pol­ogy of Child­hood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC
183 points
10 comments45 min readLW link

In­ner Align­ment: Ex­plain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael Harth1 Aug 2020 15:24 UTC
179 points
46 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

Rad­i­cal Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC
176 points
47 comments35 min readLW link1 review

Align­ment By Default

johnswentworth12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC
173 points
94 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

microCOVID.org: A tool to es­ti­mate COVID risk from com­mon activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
169 points
36 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(microcovid.org)

Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC
153 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemski20 Aug 2020 0:08 UTC
140 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review

The Fu­sion Power Gen­er­a­tor Scenario

johnswentworth8 Aug 2020 18:31 UTC
140 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Fore­cast­ing Thread: AI Timelines

22 Aug 2020 2:33 UTC
134 points
98 comments2 min readLW link

Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC
128 points
26 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

My Un­der­stand­ing of Paul Chris­ti­ano’s Iter­ated Am­plifi­ca­tion AI Safety Re­search Agenda

Chi Nguyen15 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC
120 points
20 comments39 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing hard­ware overhang

hippke5 Aug 2020 19:59 UTC
112 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion To The In­fra-Bayesi­anism Sequence

26 Aug 2020 20:31 UTC
109 points
62 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
106 points
16 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Search ver­sus design

Alex Flint16 Aug 2020 16:53 UTC
100 points
40 comments36 min readLW link1 review

Covid 8/​27: The Fall of the CDC

Zvi27 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
85 points
16 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

Zvi3 Aug 2020 12:10 UTC
84 points
31 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Up­dates and ad­di­tions to “Embed­ded Agency”

29 Aug 2020 4:22 UTC
82 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Model splin­ter­ing: mov­ing from one im­perfect model to another

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC
79 points
10 comments33 min readLW link

When can Fic­tion Change the World?

Timothy Underwood24 Aug 2020 13:47 UTC
79 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Swiss Poli­ti­cal Sys­tem: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC
72 points
8 comments22 min readLW link

[Geo: Cal­ifor­nia/​Bay Area] Mini-Re­search of 2020 Fire Situation

Ruby23 Aug 2020 5:13 UTC
71 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
70 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] Do we have up­dated data about the risk of ~ per­ma­nent chronic fa­tigue from COVID-19?

Eli Tyre14 Aug 2020 19:19 UTC
60 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe Ly­ing Can’t Ex­ist?!

Zack_M_Davis23 Aug 2020 0:36 UTC
58 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
55 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Mul­ti­tudi­nous out­side views

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
55 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Three men­tal images from think­ing about AGI de­bate & corrigibility

Steven Byrnes3 Aug 2020 14:29 UTC
55 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

Tag­ging Progress at 100%! (Party & Cel­e­bra­tory Talk w/​ Ja­son Crawford, Habryka on Sun, Aug 30th, 12pm PDT)

Ruby22 Aug 2020 16:45 UTC
54 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 18:51 UTC
54 points
45 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Will OpenAI’s work un­in­ten­tion­ally in­crease ex­is­ten­tial risks re­lated to AI?

adamShimi11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC
53 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

nos­talge­braist: Re­cur­sive Good­hart’s Law

Kaj_Sotala26 Aug 2020 11:07 UTC
53 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Covid 8/​13: Same As It Ever Was

Zvi13 Aug 2020 15:40 UTC
53 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­ter­pretabil­ity in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearner4 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC
53 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Look­ing for ad­ver­sar­ial col­lab­o­ra­tors to test our De­bate protocol

Beth Barnes19 Aug 2020 3:15 UTC
52 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on eco­nomic growth

Matthew Barnett27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC
51 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

“The Holy Grail” of port­fo­lio management

Alexei22 Aug 2020 4:25 UTC
51 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC
50 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

In­finite Data/​Com­pute Ar­gu­ments in Alignment

johnswentworth4 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC
50 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

My pa­per was sig­nal­ling the whole time—Robin Han­son wins again

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC
49 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Sun­day, 20/​8/​30, 12pm PDT – Tag­ging Cel­e­bra­tion: Habryka/​Crawford + Party

Ruby25 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC
49 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

High­lights from the Black­mail De­bate (Robin Han­son vs Zvi Mow­show­itz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Week­end, Septem­ber 11th-13th

Linda Linsefors1 Aug 2020 14:55 UTC
48 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

10 Fun Ques­tions for LessWrongers

Ben Pace18 Aug 2020 3:28 UTC
47 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 8/​20: A Lit­tle Progress

Zvi20 Aug 2020 14:30 UTC
47 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
46 points
8 comments32 min readLW link

[Question] Is Wire­cut­ter still good?

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC
45 points
16 comments1 min readLW link