Draft re­port on AI timelines

Ajeya Cotra18 Sep 2020 23:47 UTC
214 points
56 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Most Pri­soner’s Dilem­mas are Stag Hunts; Most Stag Hunts are Schel­ling Problems

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 22:13 UTC
177 points
36 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews

The ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity’s lo­ca­tion problem

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 18:39 UTC
168 points
142 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Work­ing With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC
166 points
26 comments11 min readLW link

My com­pu­ta­tional frame­work for the brain

Steven Byrnes14 Sep 2020 14:19 UTC
150 points
26 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC
145 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Introduction

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC
121 points
18 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 9/​10: Vi­tamin D

Zvi10 Sep 2020 19:00 UTC
113 points
50 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What’s Wrong with So­cial Science and How to Fix It: Reflec­tions After Read­ing 2578 Papers

habryka12 Sep 2020 1:46 UTC
107 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(fantasticanachronism.com)

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC
101 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing “What failure looks like”

Sam Clarke20 Sep 2020 20:40 UTC
95 points
14 comments17 min readLW link

Covid 9/​24: Un­til Mo­rale Improves

Zvi24 Sep 2020 15:40 UTC
95 points
16 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage is Not About Trade

johnswentworth22 Sep 2020 18:43 UTC
89 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Some thoughts on criticism

Buck18 Sep 2020 4:58 UTC
88 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC
86 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

How To Fermi Model

9 Sep 2020 5:13 UTC
86 points
9 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Against Victimhood

Jacob Falkovich18 Sep 2020 1:58 UTC
85 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

What hap­pens if you drink ace­tone?

dynomight14 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC
82 points
13 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(dyno-might.github.io)

Numer­acy ne­glect—A per­sonal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC
81 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

The Four Chil­dren of the Seder as the Si­mu­lacra Levels

Zvi7 Sep 2020 15:00 UTC
81 points
17 comments16 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_Leong28 Sep 2020 7:38 UTC
78 points
86 comments5 min readLW link

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Goals and Agency

Richard_Ngo29 Sep 2020 19:06 UTC
76 points
15 comments15 min readLW link

Cap­tur­ing Ideas

abramdemski9 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC
73 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: A Modern Ap­proach (4th edi­tion) on the Align­ment Problem

Zack_M_Davis17 Sep 2020 2:23 UTC
72 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aima.cs.berkeley.edu)

The Wiki is Dead, Long Live the Wiki! [help wanted]

Ruby12 Sep 2020 3:34 UTC
70 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Com­par­ing Utilities

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 20:56 UTC
70 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC
68 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Us­ing GPT-N to Solve In­ter­pretabil­ity of Neu­ral Net­works: A Re­search Agenda

3 Sep 2020 18:27 UTC
67 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Needed: AI in­fo­haz­ard policy

Vanessa Kosoy21 Sep 2020 15:26 UTC
64 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Tips for the most im­mer­sive video calls

benkuhn27 Sep 2020 20:36 UTC
60 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Gems from the Wiki: Do The Math, Then Burn The Math and Go With Your Gut

17 Sep 2020 22:41 UTC
60 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The new Editor

habryka23 Sep 2020 2:25 UTC
58 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

“Learn­ing to Sum­ma­rize with Hu­man Feed­back”—OpenAI

[deleted]7 Sep 2020 17:59 UTC
57 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dates Thread

Adam Zerner9 Sep 2020 4:34 UTC
56 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

johnswentworth28 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
56 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Puz­zle Games

Scott Garrabrant27 Sep 2020 21:14 UTC
56 points
69 comments7 min readLW link

Why GPT wants to mesa-op­ti­mize & how we might change this

John_Maxwell19 Sep 2020 13:48 UTC
55 points
33 comments9 min readLW link

De­sign thoughts for build­ing a bet­ter kind of so­cial space with many webs of trust

mako yass6 Sep 2020 2:08 UTC
54 points
41 comments11 min readLW link
(makopool.com)

Covid 9/​17: It’s Worse

Zvi17 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC
54 points
41 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are good ra­tio­nal­ity ex­er­cises?

Ben Pace27 Sep 2020 21:25 UTC
54 points
25 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Reflec­tions on AI Timelines Fore­cast­ing Thread

Amandango1 Sep 2020 1:42 UTC
53 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity for Kids?

goose00016 Sep 2020 22:58 UTC
51 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/​3: Meet the New CDC

Zvi3 Sep 2020 13:40 UTC
49 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

Raemon27 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC
48 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2020 12:20 UTC
47 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Con­flict, the Rules of En­gage­ment, and Professionalism

habryka5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC
47 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Let the AI teach you how to flirt

DirectedEvolution17 Sep 2020 19:04 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Stop press­ing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
45 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Mul­ti­vari­ate es­ti­ma­tion & the Squig­gly language

ozziegooen5 Sep 2020 4:35 UTC
44 points
5 comments7 min readLW link