Why I am no longer driven

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 8:43 PM
71 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Why Study Physics?

johnswentworthNov 27, 2021, 10:30 PM
71 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Chris Voss ne­go­ti­a­tion MasterClass: review

VipulNaikNov 20, 2021, 10:39 PM
70 points
15 comments33 min readLW link

A Cer­tain For­mal­iza­tion of Cor­rigi­bil­ity Is VNM-Incoherent

TurnTroutNov 20, 2021, 12:30 AM
68 points
24 comments8 min readLW link

AI Tracker: mon­i­tor­ing cur­rent and near-fu­ture risks from su­per­scale models

Nov 23, 2021, 7:16 PM
67 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(aitracker.org)

Covid 11/​11: Win­ter and Effec­tive Treat­ments Are Coming

ZviNov 11, 2021, 2:50 PM
65 points
19 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paths For­ward: Scal­ing the Shar­ing of In­for­ma­tion and Solutions

ZviNov 2, 2021, 11:50 PM
64 points
20 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Steel­man soli­taire: how to take play­ing devil’s ad­vo­cate to the next level

KatWoodsNov 8, 2021, 8:49 PM
63 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Com­pe­tence/​Confidence

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Nov 20, 2021, 8:59 AM
60 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Re­lax­ation-Based Search, From Every­day Life To Un­fa­mil­iar Territory

johnswentworthNov 10, 2021, 9:47 PM
60 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What ex­actly is GPT-3′s base ob­jec­tive?

Daniel KokotajloNov 10, 2021, 12:57 AM
60 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Chu are you?

Adele LopezNov 6, 2021, 5:39 PM
60 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(adelelopez.com)

2020 PhilPapers Sur­vey Results

Rob BensingerNov 2, 2021, 5:00 AM
58 points
50 comments12 min readLW link

Watch­ing My­self Program

mattoNov 29, 2021, 1:44 PM
56 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 11/​18: Paxlovid Re­mains Illegal

ZviNov 18, 2021, 3:50 PM
55 points
36 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paxlovid Re­mains Ille­gal: 11/​24 Update

ZviNov 24, 2021, 1:40 PM
54 points
21 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An­throp­ics and the Univer­sal Distribution

Joe CarlsmithNov 28, 2021, 8:35 PM
52 points
9 comments47 min readLW link

Why do you need the story?

George3d6Nov 24, 2021, 8:26 PM
52 points
11 comments5 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

Laplace’s rule of succession

Ege ErdilNov 23, 2021, 3:48 PM
52 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

The po­etry of progress

jasoncrawfordNov 15, 2021, 7:24 PM
51 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in ra­tio­nal­ity/​EA

Kaj_SotalaNov 17, 2021, 9:43 AM
51 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(sashachapin.substack.com)

Model­ing the im­pact of safety agendas

Ben CottierNov 5, 2021, 7:46 PM
51 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 11/​4: The After Times

ZviNov 4, 2021, 3:20 PM
51 points
33 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Y2K: Suc­cess­ful Prac­tice for AI Alignment

DarmaniNov 5, 2021, 6:09 AM
49 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Worth check­ing your stock trad­ing skills

at_the_zooNov 8, 2021, 7:19 PM
48 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Vi­talik: Cryp­toe­co­nomics and X-Risk Re­searchers Should Listen to Each Other More

Emerson SpartzNov 21, 2021, 6:53 PM
47 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions for AI Safety Camp 2022 Now Open!

adamShimiNov 17, 2021, 9:42 PM
47 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In Defence of Op­ti­miz­ing Rou­tine Tasks

leogaoNov 9, 2021, 5:09 AM
47 points
6 comments3 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Is there a clearly laid-out write-up of the case to drop Covid pre­cau­tions?

NoSignalNoNoiseNov 9, 2021, 2:46 AM
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Disagree­ables and Asses­sors: Two In­tel­lec­tual Archetypes

ozziegooenNov 5, 2021, 9:05 AM
46 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Red­wood Re­search is hiring for sev­eral roles

Nov 29, 2021, 12:16 AM
44 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

My un­der­stand­ing of the al­ign­ment problem

danieldeweyNov 15, 2021, 6:13 PM
43 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Brain-Com­puter In­ter­faces to get more data for AI alignment

RobboNov 7, 2021, 12:00 AM
43 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Is ge­net­ics “dark”?

David Hugh-JonesNov 1, 2021, 6:23 PM
42 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Drug ad­dicts and de­cep­tively al­igned agents—a com­par­a­tive analysis

JanNov 5, 2021, 9:42 PM
42 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Baby Sister Numbers

jefftkNov 4, 2021, 1:10 AM
42 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Am­bi­tious Altru­is­tic Soft­ware Eng­ineer­ing Efforts: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Benefits

ozziegooenNov 19, 2021, 5:55 PM
42 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Quadratic Vot­ing and Collusion

leogaoNov 17, 2021, 12:19 AM
41 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

French long COVID study: Belief vs Infection

BuckyNov 23, 2021, 11:14 PM
40 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

In­te­grat­ing Three Models of (Hu­man) Cognition

jbkjrNov 23, 2021, 1:06 AM
40 points
4 comments32 min readLW link

The Opt-Out Clause

Raymond DouglasNov 3, 2021, 10:02 PM
39 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Solve Cor­rigi­bil­ity Week

Logan RiggsNov 28, 2021, 5:00 PM
39 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Be­ing Nor­mal by Brian Caplan

Gunnar_ZarnckeNov 27, 2021, 10:19 PM
38 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion on My Homeworld

lsusrNov 14, 2021, 10:16 AM
37 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Dun­geon­crawl­ing: The Crown of Command

aphyerNov 7, 2021, 6:39 PM
36 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Co­or­di­nat­ing the Unequal Treaties

lsusrNov 25, 2021, 10:47 AM
34 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing: Zeroth and First Order

jsteinhardtNov 18, 2021, 1:30 AM
33 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

[AN #169]: Col­lab­o­rat­ing with hu­mans with­out hu­man data

Rohin ShahNov 24, 2021, 6:30 PM
33 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

There Meat Come A Scan­dal...

Nicholas / Heather KrossNov 7, 2021, 8:52 PM
31 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Pos­si­ble re­search di­rec­tions to im­prove the mechanis­tic ex­pla­na­tion of neu­ral networks

delton137Nov 9, 2021, 2:36 AM
31 points
8 comments9 min readLW link