Co­or­di­na­tion Mo­ti­va­tion: The Pandemic

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

An Idea for a More Com­mu­nal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben PaceOct 21, 2021, 9:51 PM
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

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

Fea­ture idea: No­tifi­ca­tion when a par­ent com­ment is modified

ViliamOct 21, 2021, 6:15 PM
38 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Sto­icism vs the Meth­ods of Rationality

Space L ClotteyOct 21, 2021, 6:07 PM
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Notic­ing the Value of Notic­ing Confusion

Space L ClotteyOct 21, 2021, 6:04 PM
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Stop­ping You?

Neel NandaOct 21, 2021, 4:20 PM
40 points
2 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Rapid Anti­gen Tests for COVID

TornusOct 21, 2021, 3:26 PM
25 points
3 comments8 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)

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna goes hiking

Laszlo_TreszkaiOct 21, 2021, 11:34 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

NATO: Cog­ni­tive War­fare Project

ChristianKlOct 21, 2021, 9:57 AM
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(web.archive.org)

Suc­cess­ful Men­tor­ing on Par­ent­ing, Ar­ranged Through LessWrong

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

Ex­per­i­ment­ing with An­droid Digi­tal Wellbeing

Yair HalberstadtOct 21, 2021, 5:43 AM
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Emer­gent mod­u­lar­ity and safety

Richard_NgoOct 21, 2021, 1:54 AM
31 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

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

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

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals cur­ricu­lum and application

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

[AN #167]: Con­crete ML safety prob­lems and their rele­vance to x-risk

Rohin ShahOct 20, 2021, 5:10 PM
21 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnlineOct 20, 2021, 1:48 PM
10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Bor­ing ma­chine learn­ing is where it’s at

George3d6Oct 20, 2021, 11:23 AM
28 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

AxiomsOct 20, 2021, 8:56 AM
−4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ravec’s Para­dox Comes From The Availa­bil­ity Heuristic

james.lucassenOct 20, 2021, 6:23 AM
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

Book re­view: Lost Con­nec­tions by Jo­hann Hari

maiaOct 20, 2021, 2:40 AM
38 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

[Up­date] Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin SpiegelOct 20, 2021, 1:17 AM
11 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: ‘Pre­dict­ing the Next Pres­i­dent: The Keys to the White House’

TranscendetalIdealistOct 20, 2021, 12:42 AM
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Some of the best ra­tio­nal­ity essays

Jack ROct 19, 2021, 10:57 PM
29 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal For­mat/​Fre­quency of In­for­ma­tion Consumption

AviOct 19, 2021, 3:39 PM
2 points
0 comments1 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

[Linkpost] Hor­mone-dis­rupt­ing plas­tics and re­pro­duc­tive health

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielOct 19, 2021, 11:01 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In the shadow of the Great War

jasoncrawfordOct 18, 2021, 11:08 PM
32 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Re­search for Ad­vanc­ing Wis­dom and Intelligence

ozziegooenOct 18, 2021, 10:28 PM
49 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Beyond the hu­man train­ing dis­tri­bu­tion: would the AI CEO cre­ate al­most-ille­gal ted­dies?

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 18, 2021, 9:10 PM
36 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

On The Risks of Emer­gent Be­hav­ior in Foun­da­tion Models

jsteinhardtOct 18, 2021, 8:00 PM
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Truth­ful AI: Devel­op­ing and gov­ern­ing AI that does not lie

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

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ism for New EAs

Zach Stein-PerlmanOct 18, 2021, 4:00 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup

Dan HOct 18, 2021, 3:19 PM
59 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Causal vs Pre­dic­tive Models, and the Causal Taboo

HazardOct 18, 2021, 3:05 PM
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive Cat­e­gories Make Bad Causal Variables

HazardOct 18, 2021, 3:02 PM
27 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Epistemic Strate­gies of Selec­tion Theorems

adamShimiOct 18, 2021, 8:57 AM
33 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Hu­mans are the uni­ver­sal eco­nomic bottleneck

DachOct 18, 2021, 8:32 AM
24 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_OOct 18, 2021, 8:16 AM
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Quick Look: Alti­tude and Child Development

ElizabethOct 18, 2021, 1:20 AM
58 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think

Mark XuOct 18, 2021, 12:55 AM
57 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

Ap­plied Math­e­mat­i­cal Logic For The Prac­tic­ing Researcher

JanOct 17, 2021, 8:28 PM
9 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

How much should you up­date on a COVID test re­sult?

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

Fea­ture Sugges­tion: one way anonymity

Yair HalberstadtOct 17, 2021, 5:54 PM
14 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Pre­dic­tion] We are in an Al­gorith­mic Over­hang, Part 2

lsusrOct 17, 2021, 7:48 AM
21 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabri­cated Options

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

Ex­plain­ing Cap­i­tal­ism Harder

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

“Re­dun­dant” AI Alignment

Mckay JensenOct 16, 2021, 9:32 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(quevivasbien.github.io)

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