Yes Requires the Possibility of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC

261 points

55 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

342 points

41 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

sarahconstantin25 Feb 2019 20:40 UTC

186 points

35 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

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Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra

Benquo10 Apr 2019 21:27 UTC

53 points

40 comments6 min readLW link 5 reviews

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Noticing Frame Differences

Raemon30 Sep 2019 1:24 UTC

208 points

39 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

97 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 6 reviews

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC

221 points

67 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

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Asymmetric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC

230 points

101 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

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Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

31 May 2019 23:44 UTC

184 points

42 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2019 21:33 UTC

148 points

81 comments26 min readLW link 3 reviews

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC

158 points

19 comments25 min readLW link 2 reviews

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Understanding “Deep Double Descent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC

148 points

51 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

405 points

57 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC

179 points

40 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

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Rest Days vs Recovery Days

Unreal19 Mar 2019 22:37 UTC

195 points

35 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Blackmail

Zvi19 Feb 2019 3:50 UTC

127 points

55 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

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Two explanations for variation in human abilities

Matthew Barnett25 Oct 2019 22:06 UTC

87 points

28 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

S-Curves for Trend Forecasting

Matt Goldenberg23 Jan 2019 18:17 UTC

112 points

23 comments7 min readLW link 4 reviews

“Other people are wrong” vs “I am right”

Buck22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC

247 points

20 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

Thoughts on Human Models

Ramana Kumar and Scott Garrabrant

21 Feb 2019 9:10 UTC

126 points

32 comments10 min readLW link 1 review