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Theories of Modularity in the Biological Literature

CallumMcDougall, Avery and Lucius Bushnaq

Apr 4, 2022, 12:48 PM

53 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

How Does The Finance Industry Generate Real Economic Value?

johnswentworthApr 1, 2022, 3:21 PM

53 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] A minimal viable product for alignment

janleikeApr 6, 2022, 3:38 PM

53 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

My least favorite thing

sudoApr 14, 2022, 10:33 PM

52 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

I discovered LessWrong… during Good Heart Week

identity.keyApr 7, 2022, 1:22 PM

52 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

How I repeatedly failed to use Tobit modelling on censored data

abstractapplicApr 2, 2022, 6:10 PM

51 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide

RobboApr 25, 2022, 12:09 PM

51 points

31 comments18 min readLW link

[NSFW Review] Interspecies Reviewers

lsusrApr 1, 2022, 11:09 AM

51 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The Game of Masks

SlimepriestessApr 27, 2022, 6:03 PM

50 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Noobs Need Rules

Jacob FalkovichApr 2, 2022, 5:56 PM

50 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Post-history is written by the martyrs

VeedracApr 11, 2022, 3:45 PM

50 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

(www.royalroad.com)

The Amish

PeterMcCluskeyApr 12, 2022, 2:54 AM

49 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

How Real Moral Mazes (in Bay Area startups)?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 3, 2022, 6:08 PM

48 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Different perspectives on concept extrapolation

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2022, 10:42 AM

48 points

8 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Calling for Student Submissions: AI Safety Distillation Contest

ArisApr 24, 2022, 1:53 AM

48 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

A Brief Excursion Into Molecular Neuroscience

JanApr 10, 2022, 5:55 PM

48 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

20 Modern Heresies

rogersbaconApr 2, 2022, 10:46 PM

48 points

40 comments16 min readLW link

(rogersbacon.substack.com)

AMA Conjecture, A New Alignment Startup

adamShimiApr 9, 2022, 9:43 AM

47 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Saying no to the Appleman

Johannes C. MayerApr 29, 2022, 10:39 AM

47 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

How Might an Alignment Attractor Look like?

ShmiApr 28, 2022, 6:46 AM

47 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

I Caught Covid And All I Got Was This Lousy Ambiguous Data

ElizabethApr 21, 2022, 7:30 PM

47 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Ukraine Post #10: Next Phase

ZviApr 12, 2022, 1:40 PM

47 points

13 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Regulatory Option: A response to near 0% survival odds

Matthew LowensteinApr 11, 2022, 10:00 PM

46 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

Entering At the 11th Hour (Babble & Anaylsis)

EdricBroadhurstApr 3, 2022, 12:52 AM

45 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

What is causality to an evidential decision theorist?

paulfchristianoApr 17, 2022, 4:00 PM

45 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 12. Two paths forward: “Controlled AGI” and “Social-instinct AGI”

Steven ByrnesApr 20, 2022, 12:58 PM

44 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

Alignment and Deep Learning

AiyenApr 17, 2022, 12:02 AM

44 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

General Thoughts on Less Wrong

Chris_LeongApr 3, 2022, 4:09 AM

44 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

DALL·E 2 by OpenAI

P.Apr 6, 2022, 2:17 PM

44 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Inner Ring as Adversary

BenquoApr 4, 2022, 8:36 PM

44 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Debtors’ Revolt

BenquoApr 6, 2022, 7:40 PM

44 points

5 comments41 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Duels & D.Sci March 2022: Evaluation and Ruleset

aphyerApr 5, 2022, 12:21 AM

43 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

21 on 21

Amir BolousApr 25, 2022, 6:22 PM

43 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmelApr 6, 2022, 11:11 PM

42 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

A Small Negative Result on Debate

Sam BowmanApr 12, 2022, 6:19 PM

42 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Feature proposal: Close comment as resolved

ViliamApr 15, 2022, 5:54 PM

41 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have

Holly_ElmoreApr 28, 2022, 4:52 AM

41 points

43 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 4/21/22: Variants Working Overtime

ZviApr 21, 2022, 3:10 PM

40 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Features that make a report especially helpful to me

lukeprogApr 14, 2022, 1:12 AM

40 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

New: use The Nonlinear Library to listen to the top LessWrong posts of all time

KatWoodsApr 9, 2022, 8:50 PM

39 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Software Engineering: Getting Hired and Promoted

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 4, 2022, 10:31 PM

38 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate

ZviApr 20, 2022, 1:50 PM

38 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[ASoT] Consequentialist models as a superset of mesaoptimizers

leogaoApr 23, 2022, 5:57 PM

38 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t be afraid of the thousand-year-old vampire

Ulisse MiniApr 18, 2022, 1:22 AM

38 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does the rationalist community have a membership funnel?

Alex_AltairApr 12, 2022, 6:44 PM

38 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Using Prediction Markets to Guide Government Policy

lsusrApr 1, 2022, 10:21 AM

38 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] sona ike lili

AprilSRApr 1, 2022, 6:57 PM

37 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS

CallumMcDougallApr 12, 2022, 8:28 AM

37 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

You get one story detail

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 5, 2022, 4:38 AM

37 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Manafold Markets is out of mana 🤭

Austin ChenApr 1, 2022, 10:07 PM

36 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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