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The 2021 Less Wrong Darwin Game

lsusrSep 24, 2021, 9:16 PM

162 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

Secure homes for digital people

paulfchristianoOct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM

161 points

37 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(sideways-view.com)

My research methodology

paulfchristianoMar 22, 2021, 9:20 PM

159 points

38 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Curing insanity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 4, 2021, 2:28 AM

159 points

8 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 1, 2021, 10:35 PM

158 points

142 comments65 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 1/7: The Fire of a Thousand Suns

ZviJan 7, 2021, 5:00 PM

157 points

56 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About Social Media

ElizabethDec 7, 2021, 12:40 AM

157 points

19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Omicron Post #7

ZviDec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM

155 points

41 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Potential Bottlenecks to Taking Over The World

johnswentworthJul 6, 2021, 7:34 PM

154 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

154 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

The Death of Behavioral Economics

habrykaAug 22, 2021, 10:39 PM

154 points

24 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(www.thebehavioralscientist.com)

The Apprentice Experiment

johnswentworthJun 10, 2021, 3:29 AM

153 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Omicron Post #4

ZviDec 6, 2021, 5:00 PM

153 points

66 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century

jasoncrawfordNov 28, 2021, 5:22 PM

151 points

36 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality

Scott AlexanderMar 12, 2021, 8:02 PM

151 points

33 comments14 min readLW link 3 reviews

Cryonics signup guide #1: Overview

mingyuanJan 6, 2021, 12:25 AM

150 points

34 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

An Intuitive Guide to Garrabrant Induction

Mark XuJun 3, 2021, 10:21 PM

149 points

20 comments24 min readLW link

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

dynomightJun 4, 2021, 6:14 PM

149 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Reply to Eliezer on Biological Anchors

HoldenKarnofskyDec 23, 2021, 4:15 PM

149 points

46 comments15 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets

Scott GarrabrantMay 23, 2021, 8:52 PM

149 points

95 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

jasoncrawfordApr 16, 2021, 4:49 PM

148 points

50 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Selection Has A Quality Ceiling

johnswentworthJun 2, 2021, 6:25 PM

148 points

18 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild

HoldenKarnofskySep 3, 2021, 8:19 PM

147 points

37 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Fixing The Good Regulator Theorem

johnswentworthFeb 9, 2021, 8:30 PM

147 points

39 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Redwood Research’s current project

BuckSep 21, 2021, 11:30 PM

145 points

29 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Why I Am Not in Charge

ZviFeb 7, 2021, 6:20 PM

145 points

23 comments25 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Transformer Circuits

evhubDec 22, 2021, 9:09 PM

144 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 4, 2021, 5:27 PM

143 points

33 comments54 min readLW link

App and book recommendations for people who want to be happier and more productive

KatWoodsNov 6, 2021, 5:40 PM

142 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

Irrational Modesty

Tomás B.Jun 20, 2021, 7:38 PM

142 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI comments on Cotra’s “Case for Aligning Narrowly Superhuman Models”

Rob BensingerMar 5, 2021, 11:43 PM

142 points

13 comments26 min readLW link

The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness

RubyApr 13, 2021, 9:08 PM

142 points

37 comments23 min readLW link

MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion

Rob BensingerMay 8, 2021, 11:12 PM

141 points

163 comments12 min readLW link

Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers

lifelonglearner and Peter Hase

Apr 9, 2021, 7:19 PM

141 points

17 comments102 min readLW link

A review of Steven Pinker’s new book on rationality

Matthew BarnettSep 29, 2021, 1:29 AM

140 points

43 comments6 min readLW link

Coordination Schemes Are Capital Investments

RaemonSep 6, 2021, 11:27 PM

140 points

31 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Another RadVac Testing Update

johnswentworthMar 23, 2021, 5:29 PM

140 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Defending the non-central fallacy

Matthew BarnettMar 9, 2021, 9:42 PM

140 points

38 comments6 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphireMay 22, 2021, 8:09 PM

139 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Apprentice Thread

ZviJun 17, 2021, 1:10 PM

139 points

59 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Comments on Carlsmith’s “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

So8res13 Nov 2021 4:29 UTC

139 points

15 comments40 min readLW link 1 review

The theory-practice gap

Buck17 Sep 2021 22:51 UTC

138 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

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

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 22:03 UTC

137 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

EfficientZero: human ALE sample-efficiency w/MuZero+self-supervised

gwern2 Nov 2021 2:32 UTC

137 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

Zvi21 Jan 2021 16:40 UTC

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How do we become confident in the safety of a machine learning system?

evhub8 Nov 2021 22:49 UTC

134 points

5 comments31 min readLW link

The feeling of breaking an Overton window

AnnaSalamon17 Feb 2021 5:31 UTC

134 points

30 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

“AI and Compute” trend isn’t predictive of what is happening

alexlyzhov2 Apr 2021 0:44 UTC

133 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Demand offsetting

paulfchristiano21 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC

133 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

LessWrong is paying $500 for Book Reviews

Ruby14 Sep 2021 0:24 UTC

133 points

25 comments4 min readLW link