All 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 202020212022 2023 2024 2025

All Jan Feb Mar AprMayJun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

All 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3031

Why don’t long running conversations happen on LessWrong?

Adam ZernerMay 30, 2021, 10:36 PM

64 points

27 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

75 comments2 min readLW link

Paper Review: Mathematical Truth

Alex HollowMay 30, 2021, 8:25 PM

5 points

3 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

14 comments3 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste

jasoncrawfordMay 30, 2021, 6:10 PM

101 points

48 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

11 comments14 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Electric heat pumps (Mini-Splits) vs Natural gas boilers

Steven ByrnesMay 30, 2021, 3:51 PM

16 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

13 comments3 min readLW link

What is the most effective way to donate to AGI XRisk mitigation?

JoshuaFoxMay 30, 2021, 11:08 AM

44 points

13 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Use of GPT-3 for identifying Phishing and other email based attacks?

jmhMay 29, 2021, 5:11 PM

6 points

2 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time

adamShimiMay 29, 2021, 1:26 PM

12 points

7 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

5 comments1 min readLW link

How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy—A Short Summary

JsevillamolMay 29, 2021, 11:47 AM

26 points

19 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

4 comments4 min readLW link

Two Definitions of Generalization

ozziegooenMay 29, 2021, 4:20 AM

34 points

10 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Sanity Waterline Bulges at the Middle

matejsuchyMay 29, 2021, 3:15 AM

−7 points

6 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

5 comments2 min readLW link

(matejsuchy.substack.com)

 Against Being Against Growth

Alex HollowMay 29, 2021, 2:18 AM

−1 points

5 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

5 comments2 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Wrist Update

jefftkMay 29, 2021, 1:30 AM

12 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How one uses set theory for alignment problem?

Valentin2026May 29, 2021, 12:28 AM

8 points

7 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is anyone else frustrated with ‘un-informative’ post titles?

KennyMay 28, 2021, 8:11 PM

18 points

16 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

10 comments1 min readLW link

Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers

paulfchristianoMay 28, 2021, 5:30 PM

53 points

13 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

18 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

The blue-minimising robot and model splintering

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 28, 2021, 3:09 PM

13 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

5 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

154 points

79 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

18 comments6 min readLW link

(Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2021, 5:51 AM

74 points

42 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

13 comments5 min readLW link

Why Prefetch Is Broken

jefftkMay 28, 2021, 2:20 AM

13 points

6 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Aphantasia

CrackatookMay 28, 2021, 1:55 AM

7 points

4 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

23 comments1 min readLW link

Predict responses to the “existential risk from AI” survey

Rob BensingerMay 28, 2021, 1:32 AM

44 points

16 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

6 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 7.5 - Forecasting Transformative AI from Biological Anchors with Ajeya Cotra

DanielFilanMay 28, 2021, 12:20 AM

24 points

6 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

1 comment67 min readLW link

The Homunculus Problem

abramdemskiMay 27, 2021, 8:25 PM

50 points

24 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

38 comments5 min readLW link

99% shorter

philhMay 27, 2021, 7:50 PM

16 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

0 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Data on forecasting accuracy across different time horizons and levels of forecaster experience

CharlesDMay 27, 2021, 6:53 PM

25 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

0 comments23 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your visual experience when reading technical material?

DirectedEvolutionMay 27, 2021, 6:34 PM

24 points

7 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum

reviewerMay 27, 2021, 6:22 PM

56 points

25 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

11 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] How likely is our view of the cosmos?

YitzMay 27, 2021, 4:35 PM

8 points

6 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

3 comments1 min readLW link

Freaking blockchains: How do they work?

norswapMay 27, 2021, 4:22 PM

3 points

5 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

0 comments1 min readLW link

(norswap.com)

Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown

ZviMay 27, 2021, 12:30 PM

72 points

34 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?

Siddhartha GautamaMay 27, 2021, 8:20 AM

2 points

2 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

2 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichaelMay 26, 2021, 11:26 PM

8 points

13 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

10 comments7 min readLW link

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon GilbertMay 26, 2021, 10:56 PM

0 points

2 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is (“Chemical Imbalance” ⇒ Depression) an example of fake causality?

const LIZARDMANMay 26, 2021, 10:55 PM

3 points

2 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] List of good AI safety project ideas?

Aryeh EnglanderMay 26, 2021, 10:36 PM

24 points

11 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

8 comments1 min readLW link

Dallas SSC Meetup #11

DacynMay 26, 2021, 10:19 PM

4 points

1 vote

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

0 comments1 min readLW link

Antifragility in Games of Chance, Research, and Debate

DirectedEvolutionMay 26, 2021, 5:51 PM

13 points

5 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusrMay 26, 2021, 6:24 AM

77 points

36 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

57 comments8 min readLW link

The Practice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooenMay 26, 2021, 12:34 AM

41 points

18 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

11 comments11 min readLW link

MDP models are determined by the agent architecture and the environmental dynamics

TurnTroutMay 26, 2021, 12:14 AM

23 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

34 comments3 min readLW link

The BTC equilibriumating and the ETH one-eightening

Randomized, ControlledMay 25, 2021, 9:32 PM

22 points

14 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

7 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a term for ‘the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead’?

freedomandutilityMay 25, 2021, 7:18 PM

6 points

7 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

10 comments1 min readLW link

Decoupling deliberation from competition

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2021, 6:50 PM

86 points

31 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

17 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Knowledge is not just map/territory resemblance

Alex FlintMay 25, 2021, 5:58 PM

28 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

4 comments3 min readLW link

Abstraction Talk

johnswentworthMay 25, 2021, 4:45 PM

38 points

9 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

3 comments1 min readLW link

Starting a Rationalist Meetup during Lockdown

Felix KargMay 25, 2021, 3:43 PM

29 points

15 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

2 comments11 min readLW link

Oracles, Informers, and Controllers

ozziegooenMay 25, 2021, 2:16 PM

15 points

7 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

2 comments3 min readLW link

We should probably buy ADA?

mako yassMay 24, 2021, 11:58 PM

15 points

13 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

41 comments9 min readLW link

Books on Infant and Early Childhood Development?

moderockMay 24, 2021, 11:44 PM

14 points

8 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

1 comment1 min readLW link

Questions are tools to help answerers optimize utility

ozziegooenMay 24, 2021, 7:30 PM

33 points

14 votes

Overall karma indicates overall quality.

6 comments4 min readLW link

Keyboard shortcuts

Keys shown in yellow (e.g., ]) are accesskeys, and require a browser-specific modifier key (or keys).

Keys shown in grey (e.g., ?) do not require any modifier keys.

General
? Show keyboard shortcuts
Esc Hide keyboard shortcuts

Site navigation
h Go to Home (a.k.a. “Frontpage”) view
f Go to Featured (a.k.a. “Curated”) view
a Go to All (a.k.a. “Community”) view
m Go to Meta view
v Go to Tags view
c Go to Recent Comments view
r Go to Archive view
q Go to Sequences view
t Go to About page
u Go to User or Login page
o Go to Inbox page

Page navigation
, Jump up to top of page
. Jump down to bottom of page
/ Jump to top of comments section
s Search

Page actions
n New post or comment
e Edit current post

Post/comment list views
. Focus next entry in list
, Focus previous entry in list
; Cycle between links in focused entry
Enter Go to currently focused entry
Esc Unfocus currently focused entry
] Go to next page
[ Go to previous page
\ Go to first page
e Edit currently focused post

Editor
k Bold text
i Italic text
l Insert hyperlink
q Blockquote text

Appearance
= Increase text size
- Decrease text size
0 Reset to default text size
′ Cycle through content width settings
1 Switch to default theme [A]
2 Switch to dark theme [B]
3 Switch to grey theme [C]
4 Switch to ultramodern theme [D]
5 Switch to simple theme [E]
6 Switch to brutalist theme [F]
7 Switch to ReadTheSequences theme [G]
8 Switch to classic Less Wrong theme [H]
9 Switch to modern Less Wrong theme [I]
; Open theme tweaker
Enter Save changes and close theme tweaker
Esc Close theme tweaker (without saving)

Slide shows
l Start/resume slideshow
Esc Exit slideshow
→↓ Next slide
←↑ Previous slide
Space Reset slide zoom

Miscellaneous
x Switch to next view on user page
z Switch to previous view on user page
` Toggle compact comment list view
g Toggle anti-kibitzer