Self-In­tegrity and the Drown­ing Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
327 points
85 comments5 min readLW link1 review

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

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC
298 points
41 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabri­cated Options

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien17 Oct 2021 2:47 UTC
288 points
131 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

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

habryka1 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC
247 points
71 comments4 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)

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

niconiconi1 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
219 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworth7 Oct 2021 21:58 UTC
219 points
64 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien9 Oct 2021 5:30 UTC
193 points
124 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Rul­ing Out Every­thing Else

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien27 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC
190 points
51 comments21 min readLW link2 reviews

Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristiano10 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC
161 points
37 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

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

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 22:03 UTC
133 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
126 points
58 comments23 min readLW link1 review

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

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC
117 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

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

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien11 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC
117 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

How much should you up­date on a COVID test re­sult?

mayleaf17 Oct 2021 19:49 UTC
114 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC
114 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

A very crude de­cep­tion eval is already passed

Beth Barnes29 Oct 2021 17:57 UTC
108 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael Harth9 Oct 2021 13:10 UTC
107 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

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

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC
107 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

How much slower is re­mote work?

jsteinhardt8 Oct 2021 2:00 UTC
106 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Ex­plain­ing Cap­i­tal­ism Harder

jefftk17 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC
105 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

Elizabeth22 Oct 2021 22:00 UTC
97 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Dat­ing pro­files from first prin­ci­ples: het­ero­sex­ual male pro­file design

Xodarap25 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
97 points
32 comments15 min readLW link

Recom­mend­ing Un­der­stand, a Game about Discern­ing the Rules

MondSemmel28 Oct 2021 14:53 UTC
96 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

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

J Bostock29 Oct 2021 11:09 UTC
96 points
120 comments4 min readLW link

True Sto­ries of Al­gorith­mic Improvement

johnswentworth29 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
91 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Play

jsteinhardt24 Oct 2021 2:50 UTC
88 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

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

Book Re­view Re­view (end of the bounty pro­gram)

Ruby15 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
85 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Truth­ful AI: Devel­op­ing and gov­ern­ing AI that does not lie

18 Oct 2021 18:37 UTC
81 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

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

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC
80 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

Ruby21 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC
80 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Imperius

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien29 Oct 2021 20:19 UTC
79 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Suc­cess­ful Men­tor­ing on Par­ent­ing, Ar­ranged Through LessWrong

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

Listen to top LessWrong posts with The Non­lin­ear Library

KatWoods19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC
74 points
27 comments8 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion Con­cepts in the Game of Life

16 Oct 2021 20:51 UTC
74 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How To Talk So Lit­tle Kids Will Listen

weft14 Oct 2021 6:56 UTC
74 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Build­ing Blocks of Poli­tics: An Overview of Selec­torate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC
73 points
22 comments49 min readLW link1 review

2021 Dar­win Game—Contestants

lsusr3 Oct 2021 5:09 UTC
70 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Cheap food causes co­op­er­a­tive ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC
70 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 10/​21: Ro­gan vs. Gupta

Zvi21 Oct 2021 15:10 UTC
70 points
62 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals cur­ricu­lum and application

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
69 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

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

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC
68 points
73 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.substack.com)

Per­cep­tual dex­ter­ity: a case study

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien7 Oct 2021 22:25 UTC
66 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

What Selec­tion The­o­rems Do We Ex­pect/​Want?

johnswentworth1 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
65 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Mo­ti­va­tion: The Pandemic

Raemon21 Oct 2021 21:57 UTC
64 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

“Eat­ing Dirt Benefits Kids” is Ba­si­cally Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC
64 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Post­mod­ern Warfare

lsusr25 Oct 2021 9:02 UTC
64 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Book Anal­y­sis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandias14 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC
62 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing progress in lan­guage models

28 Oct 2021 20:40 UTC
62 points
6 comments11 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)