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Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

415 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC

339 points

74 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

297 points

34 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Science in a High-Dimensional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC

285 points

53 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

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

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC

194 points

86 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC

192 points

79 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategy

johnswentworth26 Jan 2021 19:40 UTC

179 points

37 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomh21 Jan 2021 23:20 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

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

Zvi7 Jan 2021 17:00 UTC

157 points

56 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis

Eric Neyman15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC

157 points

22 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Cryonics signup guide #1: Overview

mingyuan6 Jan 2021 0:25 UTC

150 points

33 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

Zvi21 Jan 2021 16:40 UTC

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Matt Levine on “Fraud is no fun without friends.”

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC

120 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Lessons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkel6 Jan 2021 22:40 UTC

114 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

Catching the Spark

LoganStrohl30 Jan 2021 23:23 UTC

111 points

21 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 1/14: To Launch a Thousand Shipments

Zvi14 Jan 2021 17:30 UTC

108 points

35 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fourth Wave Covid Toy Modeling

Zvi6 Jan 2021 18:30 UTC

108 points

22 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Imitative Generalisation (AKA ‘Learning the Prior’)

Beth Barnes10 Jan 2021 0:30 UTC

107 points

15 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC

106 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

DALL-E by OpenAI

Daniel Kokotajlo5 Jan 2021 20:05 UTC

97 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/28: Muddling Through

Zvi28 Jan 2021 16:50 UTC

97 points

18 comments35 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Exercise: Taboo “Should”

johnswentworth22 Jan 2021 21:02 UTC

96 points

28 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

#3: Choosing a cryonics provider

mingyuan20 Jan 2021 1:47 UTC

93 points

21 comments18 min readLW link

RationalWiki on face masks

Viliam15 Jan 2021 1:55 UTC

92 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Tentative covid surface risk estimates

KatjaGrace25 Jan 2021 9:40 UTC

92 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception

Zack_M_Davis8 Jan 2021 20:54 UTC

89 points

27 comments33 min readLW link 1 review

A few thought on the inner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC

89 points

23 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

What is going on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC

89 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

87 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

A vastly faster vaccine rollout

KatjaGrace12 Jan 2021 7:40 UTC

86 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Taking money seriously

dominicq28 Jan 2021 12:53 UTC

83 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Literature Review on Goal-Directedness

adamShimi, Michele Campolo and Joe_Collman

18 Jan 2021 11:15 UTC

80 points

21 comments31 min readLW link

Reflections on Larks’ 2020 AI alignment literature review

Alex Flint1 Jan 2021 22:53 UTC

79 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Eight claims about multi-agent AGI safety

Richard_Ngo7 Jan 2021 13:34 UTC

78 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Thoughts on being mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC

78 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

How to Write Like Kaj Sotala

Matt Goldenberg7 Jan 2021 19:33 UTC

77 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

For Better Commenting, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution20 Jan 2021 1:11 UTC

76 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Review of Soft Takeoff Can Still Lead to DSA

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Jan 2021 18:10 UTC

76 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Why I’m excited about Debate

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 23:37 UTC

75 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 13

lsusr1 Jan 2021 8:01 UTC

73 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Covid: The Question of Immunity From Infection

Zvi20 Jan 2021 15:50 UTC

68 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Group house norms really do seem toxic to many people.

sapphire11 Jan 2021 23:42 UTC

65 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

Unpopularity of efficiency

KatjaGrace28 Jan 2021 8:30 UTC

63 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Pointers Problem: Clarifications/Variations

abramdemski5 Jan 2021 17:29 UTC

61 points

15 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] How good are our mouse models (psychology, biology, medicine, etc.), ignoring translation into humans, just in terms of understanding mice? (Same question for drosophila.)

Ruby22 Jan 2021 20:45 UTC

60 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Overall numbers won’t show the English strain coming

Eric Neyman1 Jan 2021 23:00 UTC

60 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Everything Okay

Zvi23 Jan 2021 14:50 UTC

60 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On clinging

Joe Carlsmith24 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC

59 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Retrospective on Teaching Rationality Workshops

Neel Nanda3 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC

59 points

2 comments31 min readLW link

#2: Neurocryopreservation vs whole-body preservation

mingyuan and Eli Tyre

13 Jan 2021 1:18 UTC

59 points

24 comments12 min readLW link