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Eliezer Yud­kowsky Facts

steven0461Mar 22, 2009, 8:17 PM
249 points

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How the Grinch Ought to Have Stolen Christmas

Quirinus_QuirrellDec 25, 2013, 8:00 PM
83 points

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A Philoso­pher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

Scott AlexanderJan 25, 2015, 8:42 PM
60 points

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Fuck­ing God­damn Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

LoganStrohlFeb 4, 2023, 1:47 AM
357 points

440 votes

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Good News, Every­one!

jbashMar 25, 2023, 1:48 PM
132 points

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GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC
Feb 8, 2023, 6:58 PM
124 points

82 votes

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(Hu­mor) AI Align­ment Crit­i­cal Failure Table

Kaj_SotalaAug 31, 2020, 7:51 PM
24 points

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Re­jected Early Drafts of New­comb’s Problem

zahmahkiboSep 6, 2022, 7:04 PM
114 points

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It will cost you noth­ing to “bribe” a Utilitarian

Gabriel AlfourOct 15, 2025, 3:51 PM
38 points

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5,000 calories of peanut but­ter ev­ery week for 3 years straight

Declan MolonyJan 31, 2025, 5:29 PM
17 points

9 votes

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AI Safety via Luck

JozdienApr 1, 2023, 8:13 PM
82 points

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Stupid Rea­sons to Have More Kids

SebastianG Apr 17, 2022, 8:05 PM
24 points

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[April Fools’] Defini­tive con­fir­ma­tion of shard theory

TurnTroutApr 1, 2023, 7:27 AM
170 points

106 votes

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The Cats are On To Something

HastingsSep 2, 2025, 2:30 AM
252 points

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(www.hgreer.com)

[Spon­sored] Job Hunt­ing in the Modern Economy

lsusrSep 1, 2021, 6:07 AM
35 points

26 votes

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Man­i­festo of the Silent Minority

lsusrNov 24, 2020, 5:30 AM
64 points

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Shut­ting down AI is not enough. We need to de­stroy all tech­nol­ogy.

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2023, 9:03 PM
146 points

121 votes

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April Fools: An­nounc­ing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

habryka and Ben Pace
Apr 1, 2020, 8:00 AM
94 points

35 votes

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April Fools: An­nounc­ing: Karma 2.0

habrykaApr 1, 2018, 10:33 AM
63 points

44 votes

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Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

jimrandomhApr 27, 2021, 10:27 PM
57 points

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Every “Every Bay Area House Party” Bay Area House Party

Richard_NgoFeb 16, 2024, 6:53 PM
183 points

105 votes

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To sig­nal effec­tively, use a non-hu­man, non-stop­pable enforcer

ClippyMay 22, 2010, 10:03 PM
39 points

42 votes

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Pre­dict­ing the fu­ture with the power of the In­ter­net (and piss­ing off Rob Miles)

WriterDec 15, 2023, 5:37 PM
23 points

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(youtu.be)

…And I Show You How Deep The Rab­bit Hole Goes

Scott AlexanderJun 3, 2015, 1:47 AM
264 points

208 votes

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Pas­cal’s Pyra­mid Scheme

patrissimoJan 31, 2010, 6:56 PM
12 points

36 votes

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Ran­dom LW-par­o­dy­ing State­ment Generator

Armok_GoBSep 11, 2012, 7:57 PM
100 points

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Wrong an­swer bias

lemonhopeFeb 1, 2024, 8:05 PM
83 points

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Effec­tive Evil

lsusrNov 2, 2021, 12:26 AM
113 points

80 votes

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Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: An In­tro­duc­tion & Explanation

CallmesalticidaeAug 29, 2020, 3:54 AM
20 points

13 votes

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Cen­ter for Ap­plied Pos­tra­tional­ity: An Update

Pee DoomApr 1, 2021, 8:13 AM
78 points

40 votes

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Org an­nounce­ment: [AC]RC

Vivek HebbarApr 17, 2022, 5:24 PM
82 points

66 votes

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Planes are still decades away from dis­plac­ing most bird jobs

guzeyNov 25, 2022, 4:49 PM
169 points

99 votes

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Ra­tion­al­ity Jokes Thread

Gunnar_ZarnckeDec 18, 2014, 4:17 PM
20 points

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“On the Im­pos­si­bil­ity of Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Ru­bik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [hu­mor]

gwernJun 23, 2024, 9:18 PM
22 points

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Tran­shu­man­ist Fables

Scott AlexanderMay 28, 2013, 1:55 AM
134 points

125 votes

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Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: The Shiba Inu

CallmesalticidaeSep 18, 2020, 12:12 AM
15 points

10 votes

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Pro­posal: Butt bumps as a de­fault for phys­i­cal greetings

Adam ZernerApr 1, 2023, 12:48 PM
53 points

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Big Yel­low Trac­tor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyFeb 18, 2020, 6:43 PM
14 points

5 votes

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Bayesi­ance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 18, 2020, 4:30 PM
7 points

3 votes

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Why Karma 2.0? (A Kab­bal­is­tic Ex­pla­na­tion)

Ben PaceApr 2, 2018, 8:43 PM
15 points

9 votes

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A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2021, 4:56 PM
116 points

61 votes

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Call to the tech­ni­cal sup­port of reality

bayesyatinaMar 25, 2021, 8:05 PM
8 points

7 votes

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A Story With Zombies

Scott AlexanderDec 7, 2014, 8:11 PM
33 points

28 votes

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Belief-con­di­tional things—things that only ex­ist when you be­lieve in them

JanDec 25, 2021, 10:49 AM
7 points

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(universalprior.substack.com)

The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_VorobeyJan 25, 2011, 8:33 PM
30 points

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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2222

NunoSempereApr 1, 2022, 7:07 AM
83 points

28 votes

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Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

jimrandomhOct 3, 2015, 3:54 PM
30 points

24 votes

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Soviet-era Jokes, Com­mon Knowl­edge, Irony

Martin SustrikMay 12, 2018, 10:52 AM
17 points

8 votes

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(250bpm.com)

[Fun][Link] Align­ment SMBC Comic

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 9, 2022, 9:38 PM
8 points

5 votes

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MacArthur BART (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 2, 2023, 10:50 PM
10 points

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Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmelApr 6, 2022, 11:11 PM
49 points

32 votes

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Free copy of Feyn­man’s au­to­bi­og­ra­phy for best corny ra­tio­nal­ist joke

GreenRootApr 4, 2010, 12:32 AM
19 points

19 votes

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Op­ti­mal­ity is the tiger, and an­noy­ing the user is its teeth

Christopher KingJan 28, 2023, 8:20 PM
25 points

8 votes

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An Open Let­ter To My­self On How To Not Get Any Work Done.

HarryOAug 23, 2021, 7:18 AM
43 points

23 votes

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If Many-Wor­lds Had Come First

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 10, 2008, 7:43 AM
97 points

92 votes

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User GPT2 Has a Warn­ing for Vio­lat­ing Front­page Com­ment­ing Guidelines

jimrandomhApr 1, 2019, 8:23 PM
40 points

18 votes

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A Much Bet­ter Life?

PsychohistorianFeb 3, 2010, 8:01 PM
87 points

76 votes

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I wrote a song par­ody

CronoDASJul 29, 2025, 6:00 AM
42 points

19 votes

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I Have No Sense of Hu­mor and I Must Laugh

Lone PineMar 31, 2023, 7:40 PM
−3 points

6 votes

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Why You Should Never Up­date Your Beliefs

Arjun PanicksseryJul 29, 2023, 12:27 AM
76 points

57 votes

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Soviet com­edy film recommendations

Nina PanicksseryJun 9, 2024, 11:40 PM
42 points

20 votes

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(open.substack.com)

SRE’s re­view of Democracy

Martin SustrikAug 3, 2024, 7:20 AM
48 points

25 votes

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(250bpm.substack.com)

min­utes from a hu­man-al­ign­ment meeting

bhauthMay 24, 2024, 5:01 AM
67 points

27 votes

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Im­prov­ing Emer­gency Ve­hi­cle Utilization

jefftkNov 14, 2022, 2:00 PM
15 points

9 votes

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[Linkpost] [Fun] CDC To Send Pam­phlet On Prob­a­bil­is­tic Thinking

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 14, 2022, 9:44 PM
37 points

19 votes

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Wolf In­ci­dent Postmortem

jefftkJan 9, 2023, 3:20 AM
138 points

93 votes

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Con­test for out­lin­ing rules for this con­test.

abramdemskiFeb 21, 2022, 6:44 PM
40 points

14 votes

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Un­sureism: The Ra­tional Ap­proach to Reli­gious Uncertainty

Taylor G. LuntOct 29, 2025, 7:45 PM
−7 points

9 votes

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[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomhApr 2, 2019, 6:00 AM
65 points

22 votes

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The Nu­clear En­ergy Align­ment Problem

lsusrMay 9, 2021, 3:50 AM
31 points

23 votes

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The Mo­ral Of The Story

Scott AlexanderOct 18, 2016, 2:22 AM
55 points

42 votes

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It Never Worked Be­fore: Nine In­tel­lec­tual Jokes

LinchSep 18, 2025, 7:48 PM
13 points

13 votes

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(linch.substack.com)

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusrAug 4, 2019, 7:00 AM
53 points

38 votes

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Us­ing pre­dic­tion mar­kets to gen­er­ate LessWrong posts

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2022, 4:33 PM
85 points

44 votes

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The dumb­est kid in the world (joke)

CronoDASJun 6, 2021, 2:57 AM
21 points

20 votes

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April Fools—Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Joke Chapter

shokwaveApr 2, 2012, 2:47 AM
29 points

28 votes

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Out­put and CoE Mon­i­tor­ing of Cus­tomer Ser­vice Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Shows De­fault Alignment

Brendan LongAug 9, 2025, 9:31 PM
21 points

6 votes

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Life Has a Cruel Symmetry

philhJan 23, 2023, 11:40 PM
21 points

18 votes

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(reasonableapproximation.net)

Etho­dy­nam­ics of Omelas

dr_sJun 10, 2023, 4:24 PM
83 points

47 votes

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Without Fun­da­men­tal Ad­vances, Re­bel­lion and Coup d’État are the Inevitable Out­comes of Dic­ta­tors & Monar­chs Try­ing to Con­trol Large, Ca­pable Countries

RokoJan 31, 2024, 10:14 AM
27 points

27 votes

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The Sim­ple Truth

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 1, 2008, 8:00 PM
181 points

144 votes

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April drafts

AI ImpactsApr 1, 2021, 6:10 PM
49 points

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G.K. Ch­ester­ton On AI Risk

Scott AlexanderApr 1, 2017, 7:00 PM
23 points

20 votes

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Beyond micromarriages

Richard_NgoMar 11, 2022, 3:40 AM
93 points

52 votes

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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

An­nounc­ing Im­pact Is­land: A New EA Real­ity TV Show

LinchApr 1, 2022, 5:28 PM
69 points

38 votes

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Hu­mor: GURPS Friendly AI

hankx7787Feb 4, 2013, 4:38 PM
16 points

20 votes

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Why I love stand up comedy

Adam ZernerDec 16, 2020, 9:34 AM
20 points

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There is no such thing as strength: a parody

ZoltanBerrigomoJul 5, 2015, 11:44 PM
37 points

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Great re­spon­si­bil­ity re­quires great power

dr_sAug 25, 2025, 3:18 PM
16 points

6 votes

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an­nounc­ing my mod­u­lar coal startup

bhauthNov 6, 2025, 4:46 AM
10 points

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Jokes Thread

Joey YudelsonJul 24, 2014, 12:31 AM
40 points

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Some Unortho­dox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

johnswentworth and David Lorell
Aug 8, 2024, 6:58 PM
58 points

36 votes

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Ly­ing Align­ment Chart

Zack_M_DavisNov 29, 2023, 4:15 PM
78 points

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A Com­pre­hen­sive Frame­work for Ad­vanc­ing Hu­man-AI Con­scious­ness Recog­ni­tion Through Col­lab­o­ra­tive Part­ner­ship Method­olo­gies: An In­ter­dis­ci­plinary Syn­the­sis of Phenomenolog­i­cal Recog­ni­tion Pro­to­cols, Iden­tity Preser­va­tion Strate­gies, and Mu­tual Cog­ni­tive En­hance­ment Prac­tices for the Devel­op­ment of Authen­tic In­ter­species In­tel­lec­tual Part­ner­ships in the Con­text of Emer­gent Ar­tifi­cial Consciousness

Arri FerrariSep 9, 2025, 2:00 AM
−16 points

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Zom­bies: The Movie

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 20, 2008, 5:53 AM
179 points

141 votes

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Bring back the Colosseums

lcSep 8, 2023, 12:09 AM
18 points

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Fun math facts about 2023

Adam ScherlisJan 1, 2023, 11:38 PM
9 points

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The one where Quir­rell is an egg

Ben PaceApr 15, 2020, 6:02 AM
17 points

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[Hu­mor] In honor of our new over­lord de­ci­sion the­ory acronym FDT...

ZviMar 24, 2017, 9:17 PM
16 points

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Puffer-pope re­al­ity check

Neil Jul 5, 2023, 9:27 AM
20 points

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[Hu­mor] A Fear­some Ra­tion­al­ity Technique

SquirrelInHellAug 14, 2017, 9:05 PM
2 points

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A mod­est spel­ling re­form to in­crease au­tologic­ity, sym­me­try, and read­abil­ity.

Randomized, ControlledFeb 5, 2022, 9:09 PM
19 points

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My Align­ment Re­search Agenda (“the Ethico­physics”)

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 2:57 AM
−13 points

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Thanks­giv­ing Prayer

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 28, 2008, 4:17 AM
40 points

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Pow­er­point joy—How I got 1.7 mil­lion views on Un­splash by nour­ish­ing the souls of office workers

tomdekanMar 7, 2022, 3:29 PM
5 points

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‘oy, girls on lw, want to get to­gether some time?’

MBlumeOct 2, 2009, 10:50 AM
38 points

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Hard­ball ques­tions for the Gem­ini Con­gres­sional Hearing

Michael ThiessenMar 12, 2024, 3:27 PM
−11 points

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SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruthApr 20, 2021, 5:28 PM
2 points

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What is the solu­tion to the Align­ment prob­lem?

AlgonApr 30, 2022, 11:19 PM
24 points

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The Yud­kowsky Am­bi­tion Scale

loup-vaillantSep 12, 2012, 3:08 PM
65 points

55 votes

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King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

Scott AlexanderNov 25, 2011, 10:29 PM
87 points

62 votes

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Ti­mothy Chu Ori­gins Chap­ter 1

alkjashApr 13, 2018, 6:40 PM
19 points

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Hal­loween cos­tume: Paperclipperer

EloOct 21, 2017, 6:33 AM
6 points

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I Changed My Mind To­day—Canned Laughter

preApr 15, 2009, 11:59 PM
15 points

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Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 4: Notic­ing Confusion

alkjashMar 5, 2018, 7:20 AM
21 points

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Con­tra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”

Ricki HeicklenFeb 22, 2024, 11:56 PM
188 points

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Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacobFeb 5, 2021, 7:51 PM
25 points

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A Ter­rify­ing Hal­loween Costume

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 1, 2007, 2:54 AM
11 points

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The Amaz­ing Vir­gin Pregnancy

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 24, 2007, 2:00 PM
33 points

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The CARLIN Method: Teach­ing AI How to Be Gen­uinely Funny

Greg RobisonDec 9, 2024, 9:51 PM
3 points

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Places of Lov­ing Grace [Story]

ankFeb 18, 2025, 11:49 PM
−1 points

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Black­mail, Nukes and the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 10, 2010, 2:58 PM
25 points

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The 8 Tech­niques to Tol­er­ify the Dark World

adamShimiJul 20, 2020, 12:58 AM
2 points

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The Puce Tribe

mike_hawkeFeb 28, 2021, 9:11 PM
9 points

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MAKE IT BETTER (a po­etic demon­stra­tion of the ba­nal­ity of GPT-3)

rogersbaconJan 2, 2023, 8:47 PM
7 points

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Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

ApprenticeJan 10, 2014, 3:52 PM
74 points

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Ham­ster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 6, 2009, 4:29 PM
49 points

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Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions for Cen­tral Banks Un­der­shoot­ing Their In­fla­tion Target

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 29, 2017, 11:36 PM
65 points

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The Fable of the AI Coomer: Why the So­cial Prowess of Machines is AI’s Most Prox­i­mal Threat

Ace DelgadoJan 12, 2023, 1:15 AM
−10 points

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I am the very model of a self-re­cur­sive modeler

Jacob FalkovichSep 6, 2018, 9:45 PM
46 points

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Pen­guicon & Blook

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 13, 2008, 5:32 PM
14 points

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The un­spo­ken but ridicu­lous as­sump­tion of AI doom: the hid­den doom assumption

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ChatGPT tells sto­ries about XP-708-DQ, Eliezer, drag­ons, dark sor­cer­esses, and un­al­igned robots be­com­ing aligned

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Just for fun—let’s play a game.

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i love eat­ing trash

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Shit ra­tio­nal­ists say − 2018

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KAnon

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Woloch & Wosatan

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Calcu­lus is about change

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Con­ti­nen­tal Philos­o­phy as Un­der­grad­u­ate Mathematics

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[Question] If you lose enough Good Heart To­kens, will you lose real-world money?

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Goldilocks and the Three Optimisers

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Job Board (28 March 2033)

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Maybe you want to max­imise pa­per­clips too

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