My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms

Kaj_Sotala8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC

222 points

135 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Stoicism: Cautionary Advice

VivaLaPanda14 Nov 2018 23:18 UTC

40 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC

141 points

19 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

A voting theory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC

229 points

98 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Co-Proofs

abramdemski21 May 2018 21:10 UTC

40 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Meta-Honesty: Firming Up Honesty Around Its Edge-Cases

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 May 2018 0:59 UTC

134 points

152 comments27 min readLW link 4 reviews

Reflective AIXI and Anthropics

Diffractor24 Sep 2018 2:15 UTC

18 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Trust Me I’m Lying: A Summary and Review

quanticle13 Aug 2018 2:55 UTC

100 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

(quanticle.net)

The Utility of Human Atoms for the Paperclip Maximizer

avturchin2 Feb 2018 10:06 UTC

2 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Cause Awareness as a Factor against Cause Neutrality

Darmani13 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC

38 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited

drossbucket13 Dec 2018 7:16 UTC

69 points

30 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

Sleeping Beauty Resolved?

ksvanhorn22 May 2018 14:13 UTC

16 points

77 comments10 min readLW link

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC

187 points

28 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The 10% Improvement Problem

norswap2 Jul 2018 16:27 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Sacred Cash

Zvi3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC

27 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In Logical Time, All Games are Iterated Games

abramdemski20 Sep 2018 2:01 UTC

93 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

224 points

112 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

Iteration Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

22 Nov 2018 0:35 UTC

33 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Write a Thousand Roads to Rome

Screwtape8 Feb 2018 18:09 UTC

105 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

18 Nov 2018 0:31 UTC

40 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

Clarifying “AI Alignment”

paulfchristiano15 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC

65 points

83 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Latent Variables and Model Mis-Specification

jsteinhardt7 Nov 2018 14:48 UTC

24 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

Humans can be assigned any values whatsoever…

Stuart_Armstrong5 Nov 2018 14:26 UTC

54 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Robustness to Scale

Scott Garrabrant21 Feb 2018 22:55 UTC

128 points

23 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

AI Safety via Debate

ESRogs5 May 2018 2:11 UTC

27 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.openai.com)

Topological Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

17 Nov 2018 1:40 UTC

71 points

51 comments3 min readLW link

Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust

Martin Sustrik30 Apr 2018 6:15 UTC

88 points

10 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Bottle Caps Aren’t Optimisers

DanielFilan31 Aug 2018 18:30 UTC

97 points

22 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(danielfilan.com)

Book Review: Consciousness Explained

Charlie Steiner6 Mar 2018 3:32 UTC

48 points

20 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] What makes people intellectually active?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC

116 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2018 23:06 UTC

189 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Moderation Action List (warnings and bans)

Ben Pace6 Mar 2018 19:18 UTC

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge

Ben Pace15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC

194 points

31 comments19 min readLW link 2 reviews

Write

alkjash29 Jan 2018 2:11 UTC

43 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2018 4:25 UTC

194 points

67 comments13 min readLW link 5 reviews

Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game

Scott Garrabrant13 Jun 2018 23:34 UTC

111 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Noticing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC

203 points

81 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2018 21:28 UTC

161 points

49 comments12 min readLW link

Strategies for Personal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC

142 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Hammers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC

90 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The easy goal inference problem is still hard

paulfchristiano3 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC

59 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

More Babble

alkjash12 Jan 2018 1:41 UTC

70 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

296 points

66 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

Are ethical asymmetries from property rights?

KatjaGrace2 Jul 2018 3:00 UTC

108 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Logarithms and Total Utilitarianism

Pablo Villalobos9 Aug 2018 8:49 UTC

37 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

Douglas_Reay15 Mar 2018 8:07 UTC

5 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2018 1:40 UTC

91 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Crypto autopsy reply

alexei6 Feb 2018 10:32 UTC

19 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Realism about rationality

Richard_Ngo16 Sep 2018 10:46 UTC

184 points

146 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Demon Threads

Raemon7 Jan 2018 3:48 UTC

75 points

74 comments9 min readLW link

Being a Robust Agent

Raemon18 Oct 2018 7:00 UTC

145 points

32 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

Debt is an Anti-investment

Jacob Falkovich5 Jul 2018 20:00 UTC

46 points

42 comments6 min readLW link

A hundred Shakespeares

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 23:11 UTC

29 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

The advantage of not being open-ended

Douglas_Reay18 Mar 2018 13:50 UTC

7 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Optimum number of single points of failure

Douglas_Reay14 Mar 2018 13:30 UTC

7 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Embedded Agency (full-text version)

Scott Garrabrant and abramdemski

15 Nov 2018 19:49 UTC

180 points

17 comments54 min readLW link

Arguments about fast takeoff

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2018 4:53 UTC

89 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(sideways-view.com)

Iterated Distillation and Amplification

Ajeya Cotra30 Nov 2018 4:47 UTC

47 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Paul’s research agenda FAQ

zhukeepa1 Jul 2018 6:25 UTC

126 points

74 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

Editor Mini-Guide

Ben Pace11 Mar 2018 20:58 UTC

22 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Get Distracted by the Boilerplate

johnswentworth26 Jul 2018 2:15 UTC

58 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC

200 points

32 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Corrigibility

paulfchristiano27 Nov 2018 21:50 UTC

57 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Jobs Inside the API

Jacob Falkovich21 Aug 2018 21:45 UTC

64 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

New edition of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”

Rob Bensinger15 Dec 2018 21:33 UTC

84 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2018 19:10 UTC

155 points

38 comments7 min readLW link 4 reviews

(slatestarcodex.com)

How to Build a Lumenator

Raemon12 Aug 2018 5:11 UTC

75 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Trustworthy Computing

Douglas_Reay10 Apr 2018 7:55 UTC

9 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC

216 points

129 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander11 Jul 2018 17:40 UTC

119 points

16 comments15 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Decisions are not about changing the world, they are about learning what world you live in

shminux28 Jul 2018 8:41 UTC

39 points

71 comments11 min readLW link

OpenAI releases functional Dota 5v5 bot, aims to beat world champions by August

habryka26 Jun 2018 22:40 UTC

53 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.openai.com)

Prosaic AI alignment

paulfchristiano20 Nov 2018 13:56 UTC

46 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Confounded No Longer: Insights from ‘All of Statistics’

TurnTrout3 May 2018 22:56 UTC

21 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

Hammertime Day 1: Bug Hunt

alkjash30 Jan 2018 6:40 UTC

105 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Rationality of demonstrating & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 0:09 UTC

24 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

Clarifying Consequentialists in the Solomonoff Prior

Vlad Mikulik11 Jul 2018 2:35 UTC

20 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

A Sketch of Good Communication

Ben Pace31 Mar 2018 22:48 UTC

198 points

35 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

103 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

Circling

Unreal16 Feb 2018 23:26 UTC

72 points

275 comments9 min readLW link 3 reviews

Interactive Bayes Theorem Visualization

Allen Kim3 Mar 2018 4:00 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(allenkim67.github.io)

Alignment Newsletter #24

Rohin Shah17 Sep 2018 16:20 UTC

10 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior

Rohin Shah3 Dec 2018 3:26 UTC

123 points

69 comments7 min readLW link 3 reviews

Preliminary thoughts on moral weight

lukeprog13 Aug 2018 23:45 UTC

93 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Affordance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC

67 points

53 comments4 min readLW link 6 reviews

(A → B) → A

Scott Garrabrant11 Sep 2018 22:38 UTC

70 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Probability is Real, and Value is Complex

abramdemski20 Jul 2018 5:24 UTC

79 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

Arbital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

227 points

110 comments19 min readLW link

Problem Solving with Mazes and Crayon

johnswentworth19 Jun 2018 6:15 UTC

149 points

28 comments7 min readLW link

Naming the Nameless

sarahconstantin22 Mar 2018 0:35 UTC

120 points

43 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

On Doing the Improbable

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2018 20:09 UTC

128 points

36 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Gwern about centaurs: there is no chance that any useful man+machine combination will work together for more than 10 years, as humans soon will be only a liability

avturchin15 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

A Simple Two-Axis Model of Subjective States, with Possible Applications to Utilitarian Problems

moridinamael2 Jan 2018 18:07 UTC

10 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

“Just Suffer Until It Passes”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)12 Feb 2018 4:01 UTC

90 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Possible Dangers of the Unrestricted Value Learners

avturchin23 Oct 2018 9:15 UTC

11 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Three Miniatures

alkjash25 Feb 2018 5:40 UTC

22 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

What are Trigger-Action Plans (TAPs)?

Lulie7 May 2018 18:28 UTC

18 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

The Kelly Criterion

Zvi15 Oct 2018 21:20 UTC

101 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Decision theory and zero-sum game theory, NP and PSPACE

jessicata24 May 2018 8:03 UTC

56 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

Criticism Scheduling and Privacy

Lulie29 Sep 2018 13:50 UTC

40 points

8 comments14 min readLW link