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Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
549 points
82 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Mak­ing Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
567 points
250 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

A Sketch of Good Communication

Ben Pace31 Mar 2018 22:48 UTC
163 points
35 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Lo­cal Val­idity as a Key to San­ity and Civilization

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2018 4:25 UTC
163 points
65 comments13 min readLW link5 reviews

The Loud­est Alarm Is Prob­a­bly False

orthonormal2 Jan 2018 16:38 UTC
131 points
29 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Va­ri­eties Of Ar­gu­men­ta­tive Experience

Scott Alexander8 May 2018 8:20 UTC
80 points
11 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC
172 points
32 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Nam­ing the Nameless

sarahconstantin22 Mar 2018 0:35 UTC
101 points
43 comments13 min readLW link3 reviews

Toolbox-think­ing and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2018 21:28 UTC
141 points
48 comments12 min readLW link

Prune

alkjash12 Jan 2018 22:50 UTC
61 points
10 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Towards a New Im­pact Measure

TurnTrout18 Sep 2018 17:21 UTC
100 points
159 comments33 min readLW link2 reviews

Be­ing a Ro­bust Agent

Raemon18 Oct 2018 7:00 UTC
134 points
32 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Notic­ing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
182 points
80 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

The Tails Com­ing Apart As Me­taphor For Life

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2018 19:10 UTC
140 points
38 comments7 min readLW link4 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 May 2018 0:59 UTC
120 points
150 comments27 min readLW link4 reviews

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

Kaj_Sotala8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC
189 points
133 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Anti-so­cial Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC
266 points
65 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

The Costly Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism of Com­mon Knowledge

Ben Pace15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC
183 points
30 comments19 min readLW link2 reviews

The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
206 points
115 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets: When Do They Work?

Zvi26 Jul 2018 12:30 UTC
151 points
18 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC
147 points
25 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

On the Loss and Preser­va­tion of Knowledge

Samo Burja8 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
55 points
20 comments10 min readLW link
(medium.com)

A vot­ing the­ory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC
209 points
97 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC
222 points
13 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria vs. Gover­nance of the Commons

Martin Sustrik25 May 2018 13:17 UTC
178 points
18 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Is Science Slow­ing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC
122 points
77 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Re­search: Res­cuers dur­ing the Holocaust

Martin Sustrik30 Apr 2018 6:15 UTC
77 points
9 comments9 min readLW link1 review

An Un­trol­lable Mathematician

abramdemski23 Jan 2018 18:46 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Why did ev­ery­thing take so long?

KatjaGrace29 Dec 2017 1:00 UTC
30 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Is Click­bait De­stroy­ing Our Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2018 23:06 UTC
176 points
59 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
102 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Open ques­tion: are min­i­mal cir­cuits dae­mon-free?

paulfchristiano5 May 2018 22:40 UTC
82 points
70 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Beyond Astro­nom­i­cal Waste

Wei_Dai7 Jun 2018 21:04 UTC
126 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal math­e­mat­i­ci­ans ex­hibit a birth or­der effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC
121 points
18 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Birth or­der effect found in No­bel Lau­re­ates in Physics

Bucky4 Sep 2018 12:17 UTC
61 points
25 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Ar­gu­ments about fast takeoff

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2018 4:53 UTC
78 points
64 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing ex­am­ples in AI

Vika3 Apr 2018 12:30 UTC
43 points
9 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

The Rocket Align­ment Problem

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2018 0:38 UTC
199 points
42 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

Embed­ded Agents

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant
29 Oct 2018 19:53 UTC
201 points
41 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

Paul’s re­search agenda FAQ

zhukeepa1 Jul 2018 6:25 UTC
126 points
73 comments19 min readLW link1 review

Challenges to Chris­ti­ano’s ca­pa­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion proposal

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 May 2018 18:18 UTC
116 points
54 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Ro­bust­ness to Scale

Scott Garrabrant21 Feb 2018 22:55 UTC
116 points
22 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments do not en­tail goal-di­rected behavior

Rohin Shah3 Dec 2018 3:26 UTC
105 points
69 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC
170 points
62 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Gears vs Behavior

johnswentworth19 Sep 2019 6:50 UTC
89 points
12 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: The Se­cret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC
155 points
19 comments25 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Rea­son isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC
147 points
19 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

Buck22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
232 points
19 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

In My Culture

Duncan_Sabien7 Mar 2019 7:22 UTC
59 points
58 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(medium.com)

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhub1 Nov 2019 20:13 UTC
198 points
38 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Un­der­stand­ing “Deep Dou­ble Des­cent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC
137 points
51 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC
282 points
72 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
156 points
6 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC
276 points
39 comments21 min readLW link3 reviews

Notic­ing Frame Differences

Raemon30 Sep 2019 1:24 UTC
190 points
38 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Prop­a­gat­ing Facts into Aesthetics

Raemon19 Dec 2019 4:09 UTC
93 points
33 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Do you fear the rock or the hard place?

Ruby20 Jul 2019 22:01 UTC
63 points
10 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

Men­tal Mountains

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC
126 points
14 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Steel­man­ning Divination

Vaniver5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC
182 points
48 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Book Re­view: De­sign Prin­ci­ples of Biolog­i­cal Circuits

johnswentworth5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
199 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Refram­ing Su­per­in­tel­li­gence: Com­pre­hen­sive AI Ser­vices as Gen­eral Intelligence

Rohin Shah8 Jan 2019 7:12 UTC
119 points
75 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

Kaj_Sotala26 Jan 2019 12:25 UTC
239 points
84 comments28 min readLW link2 reviews

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
344 points
54 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

The Schel­ling Choice is “Rab­bit”, not “Stag”

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC
150 points
55 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Liter­a­ture Re­view: Distributed Teams

Elizabeth16 Apr 2019 1:19 UTC
105 points
37 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

johnswentworth22 Nov 2019 22:41 UTC
150 points
30 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Evolu­tion of Modularity

johnswentworth14 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
161 points
12 comments2 min readLW link1 review

You Get About Five Words

Raemon12 Mar 2019 20:30 UTC
164 points
73 comments1 min readLW link6 reviews

Co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2019 21:33 UTC
142 points
81 comments26 min readLW link3 reviews

Align­ment Re­search Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC
251 points
9 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei_Dai30 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC
139 points
42 comments3 min readLW link1 review

The Credit As­sign­ment Problem

abramdemski8 Nov 2019 2:50 UTC
95 points
41 comments17 min readLW link1 review

Asym­met­ric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
208 points
100 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Un­con­scious Economics

jacobjacob27 Feb 2019 12:58 UTC
121 points
30 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC
165 points
75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Seek­ing Power is Often Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs
5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC
154 points
38 comments16 min readLW link2 reviews
(arxiv.org)

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC
198 points
52 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Mis­takes with Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

abramdemski8 Jun 2019 23:07 UTC
189 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selec­tive Re­port­ing and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC
260 points
40 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews
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