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Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

581 points

81 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

574 points

249 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

473 points

150 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

428 points

38 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

414 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

348 points

33 comments8 min readLW link 3 reviews

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

343 points

38 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC

339 points

74 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

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

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

333 points

58 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

329 points

85 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

328 points

251 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein

lc28 Dec 2021 21:15 UTC

322 points

59 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Feature Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC

315 points

24 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Frame Control

Aella27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC

314 points

282 comments23 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC

307 points

93 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

299 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

297 points

34 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

294 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

EfficientZero: How It Works

1a3orn26 Nov 2021 15:17 UTC

292 points

50 comments29 min readLW link 1 review

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien17 Oct 2021 2:47 UTC

288 points

132 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Science in a High-Dimensional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC

285 points

53 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

282 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Intentionally Making Close Friends

Neel Nanda27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC

280 points

35 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

(www.neelnanda.io)

Study Guide

johnswentworth6 Nov 2021 1:23 UTC

279 points

48 comments16 min readLW link

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

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC

272 points

64 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

265 points

38 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Your Cheerful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC

262 points

82 comments17 min readLW link 6 reviews

Where do your eyes go?

alkjash19 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC

261 points

22 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics

Vitor11 Nov 2021 15:58 UTC

261 points

22 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over

Zvi26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC

260 points

95 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Core Pathways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC

260 points

123 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC

256 points

108 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

larger language models may disappoint you [or, an eternally unfinished draft]

nostalgebraist26 Nov 2021 23:08 UTC

254 points

31 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Plan

johnswentworth10 Dec 2021 23:41 UTC

254 points

78 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron: My Current Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

253 points

72 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

15 Nov 2021 20:31 UTC

250 points

148 comments99 min readLW link 1 review

Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement

So8res30 Nov 2021 0:19 UTC

249 points

103 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

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

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC

247 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!

habryka1 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC

247 points

71 comments4 min readLW link

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

244 points

11 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Strong Evidence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC

244 points

49 comments1 min readLW link 4 reviews

(markxu.com)

RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

241 points

30 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC

241 points

38 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Working With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC

239 points

54 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Dark Matters

Diffractor14 Mar 2021 23:36 UTC

236 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

Concentration of Force

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien6 Nov 2021 8:20 UTC

235 points

23 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

233 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC

229 points

261 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC

229 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(jasoncrawford.org)

ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra

14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC

225 points

90 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

(docs.google.com)