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Making Vaccine
johnswentworth
3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
567
points
249
comments
6
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
567
points
81
comments
11
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC
415
points
146
comments
16
min read
LW
link
1
review
Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
jefftk
3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC
405
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.jefftk.com)
How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor
johnswentworth
28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC
397
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Taboo “Outside View”
Daniel Kokotajlo
17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC
335
points
33
comments
8
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency
johnswentworth
19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC
334
points
38
comments
13
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions
Rob Bensinger
and
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC
328
points
251
comments
34
min read
LW
link
1
review
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
eukaryote
3 May 2021 3:47 UTC
320
points
53
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)
Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching
TurnTrout
23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC
310
points
72
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
308
points
83
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Feature Selection
Zack_M_Davis
1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC
308
points
24
comments
16
min read
LW
link
1
review
“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
AnnaSalamon
14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
306
points
93
comments
2
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach
Zvi
28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC
295
points
41
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service
Ruby
7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC
294
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Frame Control
Aella
27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC
291
points
282
comments
23
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity
Darmani
25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC
289
points
34
comments
15
min read
LW
link
1
review
EfficientZero: How It Works
1a3orn
26 Nov 2021 15:17 UTC
288
points
48
comments
29
min read
LW
link
1
review
Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options
[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien
17 Oct 2021 2:47 UTC
281
points
128
comments
14
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
271
points
46
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC
270
points
53
comments
7
min read
LW
link
1
review
Intentionally Making Close Friends
Neel Nanda
27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC
269
points
32
comments
18
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.neelnanda.io)
A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
lc
28 Dec 2021 21:15 UTC
267
points
54
comments
15
min read
LW
link
1
review
Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over
Zvi
26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC
260
points
95
comments
18
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
tanagrabeast
4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC
260
points
38
comments
34
min read
LW
link
1
review
Study Guide
johnswentworth
6 Nov 2021 1:23 UTC
258
points
44
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Your Cheerful Price
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
256
points
81
comments
17
min read
LW
link
6
reviews
Core Pathways of Aging
johnswentworth
28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC
254
points
119
comments
22
min read
LW
link
1
review
Omicron: My Current Model
Zvi
28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC
253
points
72
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
larger language models may disappoint you [or, an eternally unfinished draft]
nostalgebraist
26 Nov 2021 23:08 UTC
251
points
31
comments
31
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
Vitor
11 Nov 2021 15:58 UTC
249
points
22
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think
StyleOfDog
1 May 2021 5:16 UTC
248
points
108
comments
9
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!
habryka
1 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC
247
points
71
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement
So8res
30 Nov 2021 0:19 UTC
247
points
103
comments
13
min read
LW
link
1
review
DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play
Daniel Kokotajlo
27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC
247
points
53
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(deepmind.com)
Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty
Eliezer Yudkowsky
and
Richard_Ngo
15 Nov 2021 20:31 UTC
246
points
139
comments
99
min read
LW
link
1
review
What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes (RAAPs)
Andrew_Critch
31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC
246
points
64
comments
22
min read
LW
link
1
review
Where do your eyes go?
alkjash
19 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC
242
points
22
comments
14
min read
LW
link
1
review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
The Plan
johnswentworth
10 Dec 2021 23:41 UTC
240
points
78
comments
14
min read
LW
link
1
review
RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results
johnswentworth
26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
240
points
30
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance
cata
2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC
233
points
52
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Dark Matters
Diffractor
14 Mar 2021 23:36 UTC
230
points
23
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive
13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC
228
points
261
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute
Daniel Kokotajlo
1 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC
226
points
85
comments
12
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Precognition
jasoncrawford
14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
226
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
(jasoncrawford.org)
Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”
juliawise
2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
225
points
11
comments
12
min read
LW
link
1
review
Strong Evidence is Common
Mark Xu
13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC
225
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
4
reviews
(markxu.com)
Another (outer) alignment failure story
paulfchristiano
7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC
225
points
38
comments
12
min read
LW
link
1
review
ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
paulfchristiano
,
Mark Xu
and
Ajeya Cotra
14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC
224
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
(docs.google.com)
Concentration of Force
[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien
6 Nov 2021 8:20 UTC
218
points
23
comments
12
min read
LW
link
1
review
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