Self-In­tegrity and the Drown­ing Child

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 24, 2021, 8:57 PM
336 points
91 comments5 min readLW link1 review

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

ZviOct 28, 2021, 2:40 PM
301 points
41 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabri­cated Options

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 17, 2021, 2:47 AM
301 points
132 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

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

habrykaOct 1, 2021, 1:20 AM
247 points
71 comments4 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Ex­pe­rience with Lev­er­age Research

Ilverin the Stupid and OffensiveOct 13, 2021, 4:44 AM
229 points
261 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconiOct 1, 2021, 9:44 PM
224 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworthOct 7, 2021, 9:58 PM
222 points
64 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 9, 2021, 5:30 AM
202 points
124 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Rul­ing Out Every­thing Else

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 27, 2021, 9:50 PM
195 points
51 comments21 min readLW link2 reviews

Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristianoOct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM
161 points
37 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

[$10k bounty] Read and com­pile Robin Han­son’s best posts

Richard_NgoOct 20, 2021, 10:03 PM
137 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

ValentineOct 14, 2021, 4:39 AM
132 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
121 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_FlexmanOct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM
121 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Men­tal health benefits and down­sides of psychedelic use in ACX read­ers: sur­vey results

RationalElfOct 25, 2021, 10:55 PM
119 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

How much should you up­date on a COVID test re­sult?

mayleafOct 17, 2021, 7:49 PM
114 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing Cap­i­tal­ism Harder

jefftkOct 17, 2021, 2:40 AM
111 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael HarthOct 9, 2021, 1:10 PM
110 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimiOct 11, 2021, 8:20 AM
110 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

How much slower is re­mote work?

jsteinhardtOct 8, 2021, 2:00 AM
108 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

A very crude de­cep­tion eval is already passed

Beth BarnesOct 29, 2021, 5:57 PM
108 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

ElizabethOct 22, 2021, 10:00 PM
104 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

I Really Don’t Un­der­stand Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s Po­si­tion on Consciousness

J BostockOct 29, 2021, 11:09 AM
104 points
120 comments4 min readLW link

Recom­mend­ing Un­der­stand, a Game about Discern­ing the Rules

MondSemmelOct 28, 2021, 2:53 PM
98 points
55 comments4 min readLW link

Dat­ing pro­files from first prin­ci­ples: het­ero­sex­ual male pro­file design

XodarapOct 25, 2021, 3:23 AM
97 points
32 comments15 min readLW link

My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

jessicataOct 16, 2021, 9:28 PM
95 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

True Sto­ries of Al­gorith­mic Improvement

johnswentworthOct 29, 2021, 8:57 PM
92 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Play

jsteinhardtOct 24, 2021, 2:50 AM
91 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Re­quest for pro­pos­als for pro­jects in AI al­ign­ment that work with deep learn­ing systems

Oct 29, 2021, 7:26 AM
87 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Build­ing Blocks of Poli­tics: An Overview of Selec­torate Theory

Yoav RavidOct 12, 2021, 11:27 AM
86 points
26 comments49 min readLW link1 review

Good­hart’s Imperius

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 29, 2021, 8:19 PM
86 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Book Re­view Re­view (end of the bounty pro­gram)

RubyOct 15, 2021, 3:23 AM
85 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Truth­ful AI: Devel­op­ing and gov­ern­ing AI that does not lie

Oct 18, 2021, 6:37 PM
82 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

RubyOct 21, 2021, 9:50 PM
80 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Suc­cess­ful Men­tor­ing on Par­ent­ing, Ar­ranged Through LessWrong

Oct 21, 2021, 8:27 AM
78 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How To Talk So Lit­tle Kids Will Listen

weftOct 14, 2021, 6:56 AM
76 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion Con­cepts in the Game of Life

Oct 16, 2021, 8:51 PM
75 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

Listen to top LessWrong posts with The Non­lin­ear Library

KatWoodsOct 19, 2021, 12:24 PM
74 points
27 comments8 min readLW link

What Selec­tion The­o­rems Do We Ex­pect/​Want?

johnswentworthOct 1, 2021, 4:03 PM
71 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes co­op­er­a­tive ethics

lsusrOct 7, 2021, 1:52 AM
71 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Contestants

lsusrOct 3, 2021, 5:09 AM
70 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/​21: Ro­gan vs. Gupta

ZviOct 21, 2021, 3:10 PM
70 points
62 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals cur­ricu­lum and application

Richard_NgoOct 20, 2021, 9:44 PM
69 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Do­minic Cum­mings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Sili­con Valley

ChristianKlOct 2, 2021, 7:35 PM
68 points
73 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.substack.com)

“Eat­ing Dirt Benefits Kids” is Ba­si­cally Made Up

ElizabethOct 8, 2021, 8:30 AM
66 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Per­cep­tual dex­ter­ity: a case study

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 7, 2021, 10:25 PM
66 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Book Anal­y­sis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandiasOct 14, 2021, 5:49 PM
64 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Post­mod­ern Warfare

lsusrOct 25, 2021, 9:02 AM
64 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Mo­ti­va­tion: The Pandemic

RaemonOct 21, 2021, 9:57 PM
64 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing progress in lan­guage models

Oct 28, 2021, 8:40 PM
62 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)