Ta­boo “Out­side View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC
348 points
33 comments8 min readLW link3 reviews

In­ten­tion­ally Mak­ing Close Friends

Neel Nanda27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC
280 points
35 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
229 points
35 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(jasoncrawford.org)

Two non-ob­vi­ous les­sons from micro­covid.org

catherio24 Jun 2021 2:35 UTC
195 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

So­cial be­hav­ior curves, equil­ibria, and radicalism

Eric Neyman5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC
186 points
18 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Power dy­nam­ics as a blind spot or blurry spot in our col­lec­tive world-mod­el­ing, es­pe­cially around AI

Andrew_Critch1 Jun 2021 18:45 UTC
182 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

The Point of Trade

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2021 17:56 UTC
171 points
76 comments4 min readLW link1 review

The Ap­pren­tice Experiment

johnswentworth10 Jun 2021 3:29 UTC
150 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Al­co­hol, health, and the ruth­less logic of the Asian flush

dynomight4 Jun 2021 18:14 UTC
149 points
45 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Selec­tion Has A Qual­ity Ceiling

johnswentworth2 Jun 2021 18:25 UTC
144 points
18 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Ir­ra­tional Modesty

Tomás B.20 Jun 2021 19:38 UTC
142 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Ap­pren­tice Thread

Zvi17 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC
139 points
59 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An In­tu­itive Guide to Garrabrant Induction

Mark Xu3 Jun 2021 22:21 UTC
133 points
20 comments24 min readLW link

Re­ward Is Not Enough

Steven Byrnes16 Jun 2021 13:52 UTC
120 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:10 UTC
111 points
20 comments35 min readLW link

Why did we wait so long for the thresh­ing ma­chine?

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2021 19:55 UTC
104 points
20 comments12 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Book re­view: “Feel­ing Great” by David Burns

Steven Byrnes9 Jun 2021 13:17 UTC
103 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Fre­quent ar­gu­ments about alignment

John Schulman23 Jun 2021 0:46 UTC
99 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

At­tri­bu­tions, Karma and bet­ter dis­cov­er­abil­ity for wiki/​tag features

2 Jun 2021 23:47 UTC
93 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Bad names make you open the box

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2021 3:19 UTC
90 points
51 comments10 min readLW link1 review

Scal­ing Net­works of Trust

Henrik Karlsson22 Jun 2021 4:57 UTC
88 points
21 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 6/​17: One Last Scare

Zvi17 Jun 2021 18:40 UTC
86 points
42 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Thoughts on the Align­ment Im­pli­ca­tions of Scal­ing Lan­guage Models

leogao2 Jun 2021 21:32 UTC
82 points
11 comments17 min readLW link

Search-in-Ter­ri­tory vs Search-in-Map

johnswentworth5 Jun 2021 23:22 UTC
77 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: Ob­jec­tive Ro­bust­ness and In­ner Align­ment Terminology

23 Jun 2021 23:25 UTC
73 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

En­vi­ron­men­tal Struc­ture Can Cause In­stru­men­tal Convergence

TurnTrout22 Jun 2021 22:26 UTC
71 points
43 comments16 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Rogue AGI Em­bod­ies Valuable In­tel­lec­tual Property

3 Jun 2021 20:37 UTC
71 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

The Align­ment Fo­rum should have more trans­par­ent mem­ber­ship standards

Peter Hase4 Jun 2021 6:25 UTC
68 points
43 comments5 min readLW link

Big pic­ture of pha­sic dopamine

Steven Byrnes8 Jun 2021 13:07 UTC
66 points
22 comments36 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Re­plac­ing Guilt audiobook

gianlucatruda25 Jun 2021 13:38 UTC
65 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

“Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” sur­vey results

Rob Bensinger1 Jun 2021 20:02 UTC
65 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Five Sugges­tions For Ra­tion­al­ity Re­search and Devel­op­ment

LoganStrohl14 Jun 2021 1:09 UTC
64 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Em­piri­cal Ob­ser­va­tions of Ob­jec­tive Ro­bust­ness Failures

23 Jun 2021 23:23 UTC
63 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC
63 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Com­ment on the lab leak hypothesis

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jun 2021 22:49 UTC
61 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Look­ing Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
61 points
13 comments15 min readLW link

The value of low-con­scien­tious­ness peo­ple on teams

CraigMichael14 Jun 2021 2:06 UTC
60 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 9 - Finite Fac­tored Sets with Scott Garrabrant

DanielFilan24 Jun 2021 22:10 UTC
59 points
2 comments59 min readLW link

In­tro to Debt Crises

Connor_Flexman28 Jun 2021 23:50 UTC
59 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments with a ran­dom clock

Malmesbury13 Jun 2021 17:08 UTC
58 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Would you like me to de­bug your math?

Gurkenglas11 Jun 2021 10:54 UTC
58 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 6/​10: Some­body Else’s Problem

Zvi10 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC
57 points
26 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Why did no LessWrong dis­course on gain of func­tion re­search de­velop in 2013/​2014?

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 23:35 UTC
56 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on War: Grand Strategy

johnswentworth18 Jun 2021 22:55 UTC
55 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copi­lot af­fect pro­gram­ming?

smountjoy29 Jun 2021 16:42 UTC
55 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Fauci’s Emails and the Lab Leak Hypothesis

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 13:55 UTC
53 points
12 comments14 min readLW link

The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock

chemslug13 Jun 2021 1:40 UTC
52 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Re­in­forc­ing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC
50 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

We need a stan­dard set of com­mu­nity ad­vice for how to fi­nan­cially pre­pare for AGI

GeneSmith7 Jun 2021 7:24 UTC
50 points
52 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 6/​3: No News is Good News

Zvi3 Jun 2021 16:50 UTC
50 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)