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Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

508 points

246 comments6 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

418 points

73 comments10 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

317 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

243 points

31 comments15 min readLW link

RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

228 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

219 points

44 comments11 min readLW link

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC

215 points

58 comments9 min readLW link

“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC

213 points

85 comments2 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

212 points

36 comments34 min readLW link

Dark Matters

Diffractor14 Mar 2021 23:36 UTC

198 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

Your Cheerful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC

192 points

76 comments17 min readLW link

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

183 points

48 comments11 min readLW link

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomh21 Jan 2021 23:20 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Takeaways from one year of lockdown

mingyuan1 Mar 2021 3:53 UTC

169 points

80 comments6 min readLW link

The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models

Ajeya Cotra5 Mar 2021 22:29 UTC

167 points

72 comments38 min readLW link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Appeals to the Complexity/Mysteriousness/Efficiency of the Brain

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC

166 points

74 comments14 min readLW link

Covid 1/7: The Fire of a Thousand Suns

Zvi7 Jan 2021 17:00 UTC

157 points

57 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC

156 points

73 comments8 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin Sustrik20 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC

153 points

19 comments18 min readLW link

Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

142 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis

UnexpectedValues15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC

138 points

21 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC

138 points

22 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Strong Evidence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC

138 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

Zvi21 Jan 2021 16:40 UTC

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My research methodology

paulfchristiano22 Mar 2021 21:20 UTC

135 points

35 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategy

johnswentworth26 Jan 2021 19:40 UTC

132 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

129 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben Pace1 Apr 2021 6:34 UTC

125 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI comments on Cotra’s “Case for Aligning Narrowly Superhuman Models”

Rob Bensinger5 Mar 2021 23:43 UTC

124 points

13 comments26 min readLW link

Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC

123 points

56 comments12 min readLW link

Another RadVac Testing Update

johnswentworth23 Mar 2021 17:29 UTC

123 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Demand offsetting

paulfchristiano21 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC

122 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusr2 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC

120 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC

120 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Science in a High-Dimensional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC

115 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

Tales from Prediction Markets

ike3 Apr 2021 23:38 UTC

112 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

(misinfounderload.substack.com)

Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC

112 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

The feeling of breaking an Overton window

AnnaSalamon17 Feb 2021 5:31 UTC

111 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC

109 points

25 comments14 min readLW link

Covid 1/14: To Launch a Thousand Shipments

Zvi14 Jan 2021 17:30 UTC

108 points

35 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Core Pathways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC

108 points

51 comments22 min readLW link

Fourth Wave Covid Toy Modeling

Zvi6 Jan 2021 18:30 UTC

107 points

22 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Defending the non-central fallacy

Matthew Barnett9 Mar 2021 21:42 UTC

107 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes (RAAPs)

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC

107 points

24 comments21 min readLW link

Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro

johnswentworth6 Apr 2021 21:24 UTC

104 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Full-time AGI Safety!

Steven Byrnes1 Mar 2021 12:42 UTC

103 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers

lifelonglearner and Peter Hase

9 Apr 2021 19:19 UTC

103 points

6 comments102 min readLW link

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC

102 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC

102 points

52 comments7 min readLW link

Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

102 points

45 comments50 min readLW link