Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

ValentineOct 14, 2021, 4:39 AM
132 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben PaceApr 1, 2021, 6:34 AM
131 points
44 comments4 min readLW link

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on AI ca­pa­bil­ity gains

Nov 18, 2021, 10:19 PM
131 points
61 comments39 min readLW link1 review

Sci-Hub sued in India

Connor_FlexmanNov 13, 2021, 11:12 PM
131 points
19 comments7 min readLW link

Tales from Pre­dic­tion Markets

ikeApr 3, 2021, 11:38 PM
128 points
15 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

Selec­tion The­o­rems: A Pro­gram For Un­der­stand­ing Agents

johnswentworthSep 28, 2021, 5:03 AM
128 points
28 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Moore’s Law, AI, and the pace of progress

VeedracDec 11, 2021, 3:02 AM
128 points
38 comments24 min readLW link

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: A Bird’s Eye View

Neel NandaDec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM
127 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

COVID Skep­ti­cism Isn’t About Science

jaspaxDec 29, 2021, 5:53 PM
127 points
76 comments7 min readLW link

Tran­script: “You Should Read HPMOR”

TurnTroutNov 2, 2021, 6:20 PM
124 points
12 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Re­ward Is Not Enough

Steven ByrnesJun 16, 2021, 1:52 PM
124 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What will 2040 prob­a­bly look like as­sum­ing no sin­gu­lar­ity?

Daniel KokotajloMay 16, 2021, 10:10 PM
122 points
86 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
122 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Law of No Evidence

ZviDec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM
122 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book re­view: “A Thou­sand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

Steven ByrnesMar 4, 2021, 5:10 AM
122 points
18 comments19 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Check­list Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Sep 17, 2021, 11:09 PM
122 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Soares, Tal­linn, and Yud­kowsky dis­cuss AGI cognition

Nov 29, 2021, 7:26 PM
121 points
39 comments40 min readLW link1 review

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_FlexmanOct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM
121 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Per­pet­ual Dick­en­sian Poverty?

jefftkDec 21, 2021, 1:30 PM
120 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Omicron Var­i­ant Post #2

ZviNov 29, 2021, 4:30 PM
120 points
34 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Matt Lev­ine on “Fraud is no fun with­out friends.”

RaemonJan 19, 2021, 6:23 PM
120 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_SotalaFeb 11, 2021, 11:10 AM
119 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_FlexmanJul 28, 2021, 3:38 AM
119 points
60 comments16 min readLW link

Men­tal health benefits and down­sides of psychedelic use in ACX read­ers: sur­vey results

RationalElfOct 25, 2021, 10:55 PM
119 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

Chris­ti­ano, Co­tra, and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

Nov 25, 2021, 4:45 PM
119 points
95 comments66 min readLW link

[Question] How do we pre­pare for fi­nal crunch time?

Eli TyreMar 30, 2021, 5:47 AM
118 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Full-time AGI Safety!

Steven ByrnesMar 1, 2021, 12:42 PM
118 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pe­riences rais­ing chil­dren in shared housing

juliawiseDec 21, 2021, 5:09 PM
117 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Catch­ing the Spark

LoganStrohlJan 30, 2021, 11:23 PM
117 points
21 comments36 min readLW link1 review

AMA: Paul Chris­ti­ano, al­ign­ment researcher

paulfchristianoApr 28, 2021, 6:55 PM
117 points
197 comments1 min readLW link

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe CarlsmithJun 22, 2021, 2:10 AM
116 points
20 comments35 min readLW link

A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2021, 4:56 PM
116 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come & FAQ!

Aug 24, 2021, 8:14 PM
115 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Thirty-three ran­domly se­lected bioethics papers

Rob BensingerMar 22, 2021, 9:38 PM
115 points
46 comments50 min readLW link

The In­tense World The­ory of Autism

Steven ByrnesSep 27, 2021, 1:23 PM
115 points
40 comments15 min readLW link

In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115 points
43 commentsLW link2 reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

Monastery and Throne

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:00 PM
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

Why I’m ex­cited about Red­wood Re­search’s cur­rent project

paulfchristianoNov 12, 2021, 7:26 PM
114 points
6 comments7 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

In­fra-Bayesian phys­i­cal­ism: a for­mal the­ory of nat­u­ral­ized induction

Vanessa KosoyNov 30, 2021, 10:25 PM
114 points
23 comments42 min readLW link1 review

How much should you up­date on a COVID test re­sult?

mayleafOct 17, 2021, 7:49 PM
114 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Les­sons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkelJan 6, 2021, 10:40 PM
114 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

Less Real­is­tic Tales of Doom

Mark XuMay 6, 2021, 11:01 PM
113 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

I wanted to in­ter­view Eliezer Yud­kowsky but he’s busy so I simu­lated him instead

lsusrSep 16, 2021, 7:34 AM
113 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Jaan Tal­linn’s 2020 Philan­thropy Overview

jaanApr 27, 2021, 4:22 PM
113 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(jaan.online)

The 2020 Review

RaemonDec 2, 2021, 12:39 AM
112 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Effec­tive Evil

lsusrNov 2, 2021, 12:26 AM
112 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The Maker of MIND

Tomás B.Nov 20, 2021, 4:28 PM
112 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

Agency in Con­way’s Game of Life

Alex FlintMay 13, 2021, 1:07 AM
112 points
93 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

My take on Vanessa Kosoy’s take on AGI safety

Steven ByrnesSep 30, 2021, 12:23 PM
111 points
10 comments31 min readLW link