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Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

519 points

246 comments6 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

458 points

79 comments10 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

328 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

288 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

280 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

253 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

236 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC

235 points

99 comments9 min readLW link

RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

230 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

228 points

37 comments34 min readLW link

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC

224 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC

222 points

86 comments2 min readLW link

DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC

220 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

Core Pathways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC

207 points

88 comments22 min readLW link

Dark Matters

Diffractor14 Mar 2021 23:36 UTC

206 points

24 comments15 min readLW link

Intentionally Making Close Friends

Neel Nanda27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC

201 points

25 comments18 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

199 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

Your Cheerful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC

198 points

76 comments17 min readLW link

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC

188 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

Takeaways from one year of lockdown

mingyuan1 Mar 2021 3:53 UTC

187 points

85 comments6 min readLW link

Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC

183 points

37 comments12 min readLW link

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

182 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

Two non-obvious lessons from microcovid.org

catherio24 Jun 2021 2:35 UTC

181 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Working With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC

177 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models

Ajeya Cotra5 Mar 2021 22:29 UTC

174 points

74 comments38 min readLW link

Announcing the Alignment Research Center

paulfchristiano26 Apr 2021 23:30 UTC

174 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomh21 Jan 2021 23:20 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

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

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC

167 points

74 comments14 min readLW link

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC

161 points

73 comments8 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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)

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin Sustrik20 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC

156 points

20 comments18 min readLW link

Going Out With Dignity

Bjartur Tómas9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC

155 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

The topic is not the content

aaronb506 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC

154 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism

UnexpectedValues5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC

153 points

16 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusr2 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC

152 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Power dynamics as a blind spot or blurry spot in our collective world-modeling, especially around AI

Andrew_Critch1 Jun 2021 18:45 UTC

151 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

147 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Strong Evidence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC

146 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencerg28 May 2021 14:23 UTC

146 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

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

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC

145 points

57 comments22 min readLW link

Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

dynomight4 Jun 2021 18:14 UTC

144 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

The Apprentice Experiment

johnswentworth10 Jun 2021 3:29 UTC

144 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

The Point of Trade

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2021 17:56 UTC

144 points

75 comments4 min readLW link

Small and Vulnerable

deluks9173 May 2021 4:55 UTC

142 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness

Ruby13 Apr 2021 21:08 UTC

140 points

38 comments23 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC

139 points

22 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My research methodology

paulfchristiano22 Mar 2021 21:20 UTC

139 points

36 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis

UnexpectedValues15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC

138 points

21 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion

Rob Bensinger8 May 2021 23:12 UTC

137 points

164 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

Zvi21 Jan 2021 16:40 UTC

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)