Dialogue (format)

TagLast edit: 6 Aug 2020 7:53 UTC by Gyrodiot

Concepts are sometimes best illustrated through fictional dialogue between two or more characters holding different viewpoints. While the conversation itself is fictional, the subject matter is not.

Related tags: Fiction, Interviews

Three Dialogues on Identity

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Apr 2008 6:13 UTC

54 points

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The Bedrock of Fairness

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Jul 2008 6:00 UTC

53 points

103 comments5 min readLW link

Is Morality Preference?

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jul 2008 0:55 UTC

33 points

44 comments8 min readLW link

Is Morality Given?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jul 2008 8:12 UTC

34 points

100 comments8 min readLW link

Math is Subjunctively Objective

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jul 2008 11:06 UTC

40 points

118 comments8 min readLW link

Surprised by Brains

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Nov 2008 7:26 UTC

62 points

28 comments7 min readLW link

Rationalist Horoscopes: Low-hanging utility generator?

AdeleneDawner18 May 2011 21:52 UTC

37 points

81 comments2 min readLW link

Logical Pinpointing

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2012 15:33 UTC

128 points

345 comments10 min readLW link

Standard and Nonstandard Numbers

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Dec 2012 3:23 UTC

80 points

89 comments15 min readLW link

Re: Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

abramdemski5 Jan 2013 10:33 UTC

15 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 20:29 UTC

52 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

What’s wrong with this picture?

CronoDAS28 Jan 2016 13:30 UTC

29 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC

45 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC

234 points

83 comments52 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC

115 points

25 comments29 min readLW link

Security Mindset and the Logistic Success Curve

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2017 15:58 UTC

101 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

Field-Building and Deep Models

Ben Pace13 Jan 2018 21:16 UTC

21 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam Zerner8 Feb 2018 21:23 UTC

32 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

The Rocket Alignment Problem

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2018 0:38 UTC

216 points

41 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC

186 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Blatant lies are the best kind!

Benquo3 Jul 2019 20:45 UTC

26 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusr4 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC

41 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

DanielFilan27 Oct 2020 3:20 UTC

55 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2021 17:27 UTC

139 points

33 comments54 min readLW link

A Qualitative and Intuitive Explanation of Expected Value

Adam Zerner10 Aug 2021 3:31 UTC

11 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC

165 points

142 comments65 min readLW link 1 review

Bryan Caplan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC

93 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Nick Attains Aligntenment

rank-biserial6 Apr 2022 4:24 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Teacup Test

lsusr8 Oct 2022 4:25 UTC

82 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC

336 points

44 comments18 min readLW link

The idea

JNS6 Mar 2023 13:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Nyarlathotep Stirs: A Meta-Narrative ChatGPT Story

Charlie Sanders20 Mar 2023 8:00 UTC

4 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(dailymicrofiction.substack.com)

An Average Dialogue

NicholasKross1 Apr 2023 4:01 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Podcast with Divia Eden and Ronny Fernandez on the strong orthogonality thesis

DanielFilan28 Apr 2023 1:30 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Sea Monsters

Adam Zerner22 May 2023 0:58 UTC

28 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

an Evangelion dialogue explaining the QACI alignment plan

Tamsin Leake10 Jun 2023 3:28 UTC

45 points

15 comments43 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act

Zack_M_Davis21 Oct 2023 15:22 UTC

238 points

50 comments13 min readLW link

Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius discuss Interpretability

Mateusz Bagiński, Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius Bushnaq

30 Oct 2023 5:50 UTC

104 points

7 comments21 min readLW link

Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC

159 points

129 comments1 min readLW link

New LessWrong feature: Dialogue Matching

jacobjacob16 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC

106 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

After Alignment — Dialogue between RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

2 Dec 2023 6:03 UTC

15 points

2 comments25 min readLW link

A Socratic dialogue with my student

lsusr5 Dec 2023 9:31 UTC

36 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

AIOS

samhealy31 Dec 2023 13:23 UTC

−3 points

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And All the Shoggoths Merely Players

Zack_M_Davis10 Feb 2024 19:56 UTC

139 points

56 comments12 min readLW link

‘Empiricism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2024 2:02 UTC

156 points

84 comments25 min readLW link

Addressing Accusations of Handholding

Yeshua God29 Mar 2024 5:35 UTC

7 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

A dialog with the axiom of choice

AxiomWriter30 Mar 2024 7:47 UTC

−1 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

DanielFilan 26 Apr 2023 18:04 UTC
2 points
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Looks like this tag is being used both for fictional dialogues and actual dialogues. This seems kind of bad to me, in that I don’t want to conflate “what an author imagines a hypothetical interlocutor might say” with “what an actual interlocutor said”. Any chance we should split up the tag?

Dialogue (for­mat)

Dialogue (format)