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Working With Monsters

johnswentworthJul 20, 2021, 3:23 PM

251 points

54 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel KokotajloJul 27, 2021, 2:19 PM

247 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

Going Out With Dignity

Tomás B.Jul 9, 2021, 10:07 PM

195 points

25 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

The topic is not the content

Aaron BergmanJul 6, 2021, 12:14 AM

182 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Potential Bottlenecks to Taking Over The World

johnswentworthJul 6, 2021, 7:34 PM

154 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_FlexmanJul 28, 2021, 3:38 AM

119 points

60 comments16 min readLW link

How much chess engine progress is about adapting to bigger computers?

paulfchristianoJul 7, 2021, 10:35 PM

114 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] ($1000 bounty) How effective are marginal vaccine doses against the covid delta variant?

Bird ConceptJul 22, 2021, 1:26 AM

105 points

73 comments2 min readLW link

Experimentally evaluating whether honesty generalizes

paulfchristianoJul 1, 2021, 5:47 PM

103 points

24 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

Bob BakerJul 25, 2021, 2:39 AM

101 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

Relentlessness

AlicornJul 6, 2021, 8:27 PM

97 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 7/29: You Play to Win the Game

ZviJul 29, 2021, 4:10 PM

97 points

25 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We have some evidence that masks work

technicalitiesJul 11, 2021, 6:36 PM

97 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Slack Has Positive Externalities For Groups

johnswentworthJul 29, 2021, 3:03 PM

96 points

11 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

The shoot-the-moon strategy

jchanJul 21, 2021, 4:19 PM

90 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Funds are available to support LessWrong groups, among others

Buck and ClaireZabel

Jul 21, 2021, 1:11 AM

88 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

My Marriage Vows

Vanessa KosoyJul 21, 2021, 10:48 AM

84 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

One Study, Many Results (Matt Clancy)

aarongertlerJul 18, 2021, 11:10 PM

84 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(mattsclancy.substack.com)

Intermittent Distillations #4: Semiconductors, Economics, Intelligence, and Technological Progress.

Mark XuJul 8, 2021, 10:14 PM

81 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Benchmarking an old chess engine on new hardware

hippkeJul 16, 2021, 7:58 AM

74 points

4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Winston Churchill, futurist and EA

jasoncrawfordJul 12, 2021, 2:07 AM

74 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 7/8: Delta Takes Over

ZviJul 8, 2021, 1:00 PM

72 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] Musk’s non-missing mood

jimrandomhJul 12, 2021, 10:09 PM

71 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(lukemuehlhauser.com)

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming

konstell and gilch

Jul 4, 2021, 3:29 AM

67 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 7/22: Error Correction

ZviJul 22, 2021, 2:20 PM

66 points

45 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/15: Rates of Change

ZviJul 15, 2021, 5:10 PM

64 points

63 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Order Without Law

philhJul 10, 2021, 9:50 PM

64 points

5 comments49 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Academic Rationality Research

ChristianKlJul 25, 2021, 1:59 PM

63 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Generalizing Koopman-Pitman-Darmois

johnswentworthJul 15, 2021, 10:33 PM

62 points

14 comments11 min readLW link

Answering questions honestly instead of predicting human answers: lots of problems and some solutions

evhubJul 13, 2021, 6:49 PM

62 points

24 comments31 min readLW link

(Brainstem, Neocortex) ≠ (Base Motivations, Honorable Motivations)

Steven ByrnesJul 12, 2021, 4:39 PM

62 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects

abergal and ClaireZabel

Jul 16, 2021, 9:19 PM

61 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Improving capital gains taxes

paulfchristianoJul 9, 2021, 5:20 AM

60 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

[Question] What does knowing the heritability of a trait tell me in practice?

Kaj_SotalaJul 26, 2021, 4:29 PM

58 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot

Josh JacobsonJul 10, 2021, 5:38 PM

58 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near?

Tomás B.Jul 12, 2021, 3:22 PM

56 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

BASALT: A Benchmark for Learning from Human Feedback

Rohin ShahJul 8, 2021, 5:40 PM

56 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(bair.berkeley.edu)

Chess and cheap ways to check day to day variance in cognition

KPierJul 7, 2021, 12:08 AM

56 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements

Mark Xu and CarlShulman

Jul 15, 2021, 6:43 PM

55 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Covid 7/1: Don’t Panic

ZviJul 1, 2021, 12:30 PM

53 points

35 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Online LessWrong Community Weekend

EGIJul 1, 2021, 7:28 PM

53 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Research Facilitation Invitation

LoganStrohlJul 10, 2021, 1:04 AM

53 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew BarnettJul 27, 2021, 5:46 PM

52 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

A (somewhat beta) site for embedding betting odds in your writing

Optimization ProcessJul 2, 2021, 1:10 AM

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(biatob.com)

Re: Competent Elites

lsusrJul 15, 2021, 5:16 AM

50 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful

KatjaGraceJul 13, 2021, 1:40 AM

50 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A closer look at chess scalings (into the past)

hippkeJul 15, 2021, 8:13 AM

50 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

New Dementia Trial Results

PeterMcCluskeyJul 2, 2021, 11:04 PM

49 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

How to Sleep Better

Marius HobbhahnJul 16, 2021, 12:00 AM

49 points

49 comments15 min readLW link

The SIA population update can be surprisingly small

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 8, 2021, 10:45 AM

48 points

12 comments10 min readLW link