Humor

TagLast edit: 17 Apr 2020 0:38 UTC by Ruby

Humor. This tag is a joke.

Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts

steven046122 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC

249 points

324 comments1 min readLW link

How the Grinch Ought to Have Stolen Christmas

Quirinus_Quirrell25 Dec 2013 20:00 UTC

83 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

Scott Alexander25 Jan 2015 20:42 UTC

60 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

357 points

104 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

Good News, Everyone!

jbash25 Mar 2023 13:48 UTC

132 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

8 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC

123 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(Humor) AI Alignment Critical Failure Table

Kaj_Sotala31 Aug 2020 19:51 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(sl4.org)

Rejected Early Drafts of Newcomb’s Problem

zahmahkibo6 Sep 2022 19:04 UTC

114 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

It will cost you nothing to “bribe” a Utilitarian

Gabriel Alfour15 Oct 2025 15:51 UTC

38 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

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

Declan Molony31 Jan 2025 17:29 UTC

17 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety via Luck

Jozdien1 Apr 2023 20:13 UTC

82 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Stupid Reasons to Have More Kids

SebastianG 17 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC

24 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Definitive confirmation of shard theory

TurnTrout1 Apr 2023 7:27 UTC

170 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The Cats are On To Something

Hastings2 Sep 2025 2:30 UTC

252 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

(www.hgreer.com)

[Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy

lsusr1 Sep 2021 6:07 UTC

35 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Manifesto of the Silent Minority

lsusr24 Nov 2020 5:30 UTC

64 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

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

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2023 21:03 UTC

145 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

April Fools: Announcing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

habryka and Ben Pace

1 Apr 2020 8:00 UTC

94 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

April Fools: Announcing: Karma 2.0

habryka1 Apr 2018 10:33 UTC

63 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 22:27 UTC

57 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2024 18:53 UTC

183 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

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

Clippy22 May 2010 22:03 UTC

39 points

167 comments2 min readLW link

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

Writer15 Dec 2023 17:37 UTC

23 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

Scott Alexander3 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC

264 points

15 comments21 min readLW link

Pascal’s Pyramid Scheme

patrissimo31 Jan 2010 18:56 UTC

12 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Random LW-parodying Statement Generator

Armok_GoB11 Sep 2012 19:57 UTC

100 points

221 comments1 min readLW link

Wrong answer bias

lemonhope1 Feb 2024 20:05 UTC

83 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Evil

lsusr2 Nov 2021 0:26 UTC

113 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Objective Dog Ratings: An Introduction & Explanation

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 3:54 UTC

20 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Center for Applied Postrationality: An Update

Pee Doom1 Apr 2021 8:13 UTC

78 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Org announcement: [AC]RC

Vivek Hebbar17 Apr 2022 17:24 UTC

82 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs

guzey25 Nov 2022 16:49 UTC

169 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Rationality Jokes Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Dec 2014 16:17 UTC

20 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwern23 Jun 2024 21:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Transhumanist Fables

Scott Alexander28 May 2013 1:55 UTC

133 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Objective Dog Ratings: The Shiba Inu

Callmesalticidae18 Sep 2020 0:12 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal: Butt bumps as a default for physical greetings

Adam Zerner1 Apr 2023 12:48 UTC

53 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Big Yellow Tractor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Feb 2020 18:43 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesiance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why Karma 2.0? (A Kabbalistic Explanation)

Ben Pace2 Apr 2018 20:43 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A new acausal trading platform: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC

116 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Call to the technical support of reality

bayesyatina25 Mar 2021 20:05 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2014 20:11 UTC

33 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

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

Jan25 Dec 2021 10:49 UTC

7 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_Vorobey25 Jan 2011 20:33 UTC

30 points

96 comments2 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: April 2222

NunoSempere1 Apr 2022 7:07 UTC

83 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh3 Oct 2015 15:54 UTC

30 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Soviet-era Jokes, Common Knowledge, Irony

Martin Sustrik12 May 2018 10:52 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

[Fun][Link] Alignment SMBC Comic

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Sep 2022 21:38 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.smbc-comics.com)

MacArthur BART (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2023 22:50 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmel6 Apr 2022 23:11 UTC

49 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

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

GreenRoot4 Apr 2010 0:32 UTC

19 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

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

Christopher King28 Jan 2023 20:20 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

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

HarryO23 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC

43 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

If Many-Worlds Had Come First

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 May 2008 7:43 UTC

97 points

189 comments9 min readLW link

User GPT2 Has a Warning for Violating Frontpage Commenting Guidelines

jimrandomh1 Apr 2019 20:23 UTC

40 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

A Much Better Life?

Psychohistorian3 Feb 2010 20:01 UTC

87 points

174 comments2 min readLW link

I wrote a song parody

CronoDAS29 Jul 2025 6:00 UTC

42 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

I Have No Sense of Humor and I Must Laugh

Lone Pine31 Mar 2023 19:40 UTC

−3 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

Why You Should Never Update Your Beliefs

Arjun Panickssery29 Jul 2023 0:27 UTC

76 points

18 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Soviet comedy film recommendations

Nina Panickssery9 Jun 2024 23:40 UTC

42 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

SRE’s review of Democracy

Martin Sustrik3 Aug 2024 7:20 UTC

48 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

minutes from a human-alignment meeting

bhauth24 May 2024 5:01 UTC

67 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Improving Emergency Vehicle Utilization

jefftk14 Nov 2022 14:00 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Jan 2022 21:44 UTC

37 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Wolf Incident Postmortem

jefftk9 Jan 2023 3:20 UTC

138 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Contest for outlining rules for this contest.

abramdemski21 Feb 2022 18:44 UTC

40 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Unsureism: The Rational Approach to Religious Uncertainty

Taylor G. Lunt29 Oct 2025 19:45 UTC

−7 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC

65 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem

lsusr9 May 2021 3:50 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Moral Of The Story

Scott Alexander18 Oct 2016 2:22 UTC

55 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

It Never Worked Before: Nine Intellectual Jokes

Linch18 Sep 2025 19:48 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(linch.substack.com)

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusr4 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC

53 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Using prediction markets to generate LessWrong posts

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2022 16:33 UTC

85 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

The dumbest kid in the world (joke)

CronoDAS6 Jun 2021 2:57 UTC

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

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

shokwave2 Apr 2012 2:47 UTC

29 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Output and CoE Monitoring of Customer Service Representatives Shows Default Alignment

Brendan Long9 Aug 2025 21:31 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Life Has a Cruel Symmetry

philh23 Jan 2023 23:40 UTC

21 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Ethodynamics of Omelas

dr_s10 Jun 2023 16:24 UTC

83 points

18 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

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

Roko31 Jan 2024 10:14 UTC

27 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

The Simple Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 20:00 UTC

181 points

16 comments22 min readLW link

April drafts

AI Impacts1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC

49 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk

Scott Alexander1 Apr 2017 19:00 UTC

23 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Beyond micromarriages

Richard_Ngo11 Mar 2022 3:40 UTC

93 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Announcing Impact Island: A New EA Reality TV Show

Linch1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

69 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Humor: GURPS Friendly AI

hankx77874 Feb 2013 16:38 UTC

16 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Why I love stand up comedy

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 9:34 UTC

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

There is no such thing as strength: a parody

ZoltanBerrigomo5 Jul 2015 23:44 UTC

37 points

70 comments2 min readLW link

Great responsibility requires great power

dr_s25 Aug 2025 15:18 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Jokes Thread

Joey Yudelson24 Jul 2014 0:31 UTC

40 points

87 comments1 min readLW link

Some Unorthodox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

johnswentworth and David Lorell

8 Aug 2024 18:58 UTC

58 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Lying Alignment Chart

Zack_M_Davis29 Nov 2023 16:15 UTC

78 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

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 Ferrari9 Sep 2025 2:00 UTC

−16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Zombies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC

179 points

82 comments3 min readLW link

Bring back the Colosseums

lc8 Sep 2023 0:09 UTC

18 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Fun math facts about 2023

Adam Scherlis1 Jan 2023 23:38 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The one where Quirrell is an egg

Ben Pace15 Apr 2020 6:02 UTC

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

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

Zvi24 Mar 2017 21:17 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Puffer-pope reality check

Neil 5 Jul 2023 9:27 UTC

20 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Humor] A Fearsome Rationality Technique

SquirrelInHell14 Aug 2017 21:05 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

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

Randomized, Controlled5 Feb 2022 21:09 UTC

19 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

My Alignment Research Agenda (“the Ethicophysics”)

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 2:57 UTC

−13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Thanksgiving Prayer

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Nov 2008 4:17 UTC

40 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

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

tomdekan7 Mar 2022 15:29 UTC

5 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

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

MBlume2 Oct 2009 10:50 UTC

38 points

184 comments1 min readLW link

Hardball questions for the Gemini Congressional Hearing

Michael Thiessen12 Mar 2024 15:27 UTC

−11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruth20 Apr 2021 17:28 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What is the solution to the Alignment problem?

Algon30 Apr 2022 23:19 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale

loup-vaillant12 Sep 2012 15:08 UTC

66 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

King Under The Mountain: Adventure Log + Soundtrack

Scott Alexander25 Nov 2011 22:29 UTC

87 points

36 comments23 min readLW link

Timothy Chu Origins Chapter 1

alkjash13 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Halloween costume: Paperclipperer

Elo21 Oct 2017 6:33 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

I Changed My Mind Today—Canned Laughter

pre15 Apr 2009 23:59 UTC

15 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 4: Noticing Confusion

alkjash5 Mar 2018 7:20 UTC

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

Ricki Heicklen22 Feb 2024 23:56 UTC

188 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

Three Stories about not Thinking too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC

25 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

A Terrifying Halloween Costume

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Nov 2007 2:54 UTC

11 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Dec 2007 14:00 UTC

33 points

271 comments2 min readLW link

The CARLIN Method: Teaching AI How to Be Genuinely Funny

Greg Robison9 Dec 2024 21:51 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Places of Loving Grace [Story]

ank18 Feb 2025 23:49 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Stuart_Armstrong10 Mar 2010 14:58 UTC

25 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The 8 Techniques to Tolerify the Dark World

adamShimi20 Jul 2020 0:58 UTC

2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

The Puce Tribe

mike_hawke28 Feb 2021 21:11 UTC

9 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

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

rogersbacon2 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Dr. Jubjub predicts a crisis

Apprentice10 Jan 2014 15:52 UTC

74 points

65 comments2 min readLW link

Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Nov 2009 16:29 UTC

49 points

73 comments2 min readLW link

Frequently Asked Questions for Central Banks Undershooting Their Inflation Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Oct 2017 23:36 UTC

65 points

30 comments35 min readLW link

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

Ace Delgado12 Jan 2023 1:15 UTC

−10 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler

Jacob Falkovich6 Sep 2018 21:45 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Penguicon & Blook

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2008 17:32 UTC

14 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

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

Christopher King1 Jun 2023 17:01 UTC

−9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

I turned decision theory problems into memes about trolleys

Tapatakt30 Oct 2024 20:13 UTC

105 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Cards Against Rationality

fubarobfusco16 Jun 2012 2:23 UTC

41 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Generating the Funniest Joke with RL (according to GPT-4.1)

agg16 May 2025 5:09 UTC

103 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Missives from China

alkjash17 Feb 2018 12:30 UTC

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

If rationality skills were Harry Potter spells...

lifelonglearner9 Mar 2018 15:36 UTC

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bill Benzon8 Jan 2023 23:21 UTC

6 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas

TurnTrout and Garrett Baker

9 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC

222 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

An Epistemological Nightmare

Ariel Cheng21 Nov 2024 2:08 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.mit.edu)

My search for a reliable breakfast

tomdekan18 Oct 2022 9:42 UTC

6 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(www.tomdekan.com)

Infinite money hack

Filip Sondej24 Jun 2025 9:39 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

lukeprog2 Oct 2011 7:40 UTC

41 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

The rational rationalist’s guide to rationally using “rational” in rational post titles

Vaniver27 May 2012 19:13 UTC

131 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

Some lesser-known megaproject ideas

Linch2 Apr 2023 1:14 UTC

19 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Just for fun—let’s play a game.

CronoDAS17 Apr 2009 23:13 UTC

12 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

i love eating trash

Ace Delgado13 Jul 2023 11:23 UTC

−6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjash8 Mar 2018 5:30 UTC

19 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC

137 points

616 comments2 min readLW link

The manifest manifesto

dkl924 Feb 2025 22:13 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

SIGMI Certification Criteria

a littoral wizard20 Jan 2025 2:41 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Newcomb’s Grandfather

Yair Halberstadt28 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Crossword Halloween 2025: Manmade Horrors

jchan31 Oct 2025 16:19 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Countess and Baron attempt to define blackmail, fail

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jul 2013 10:07 UTC

20 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Son of Shit Rationalists Say

Eneasz1 Jun 2012 13:47 UTC

82 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

An open job application to AI labs

Hruss25 May 2025 12:57 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Just a bit of humor...

CronoDAS24 Apr 2009 4:21 UTC

−8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Shit Rationalists Say?

Eneasz25 Jan 2012 21:51 UTC

55 points

119 comments1 min readLW link

Satire: Sam Altman get’s grilled by the Financial Times for his kitchen and his cooking skills + what this might say about him

Marius Adrian Nicoară13 May 2025 9:38 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Usefulness Paradigm

Aprillion26 Dec 2022 13:23 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Spherical cow

dkl911 Nov 2024 3:10 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Objective Dog Ratings: The Irish Wolfhound

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Write the Worst Post on LessWrong!

Johannes C. Mayer23 Jun 2023 19:17 UTC

−9 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

“On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines”

crmflynn31 Mar 2017 23:32 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

Extropy magazine review

Peter lawless 27 Dec 2023 18:37 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Shit rationalists say − 2018

ChristianKl20 Feb 2018 21:26 UTC

16 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

KAnon

jefftk15 Feb 2021 20:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Two Cult Koans

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2007 5:45 UTC

145 points

100 comments2 min readLW link

five ways to say “Almost Always” and actually mean it

Yudhister Kumar22 Apr 2023 10:38 UTC

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.ykumar.org)

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf L4 Nov 2024 2:29 UTC

387 points

29 comments15 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

The Holy Algorithm

Malmesbury3 Apr 2021 18:09 UTC

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

xkcd on the AI box experiment

FiftyTwo21 Nov 2014 8:26 UTC

28 points

234 comments1 min readLW link

Woloch & Wosatan

JackOfAllTrades22 Dec 2024 15:46 UTC

−11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Ethical dilemmas for paperclip maximizers

CronoDAS1 Aug 2011 5:31 UTC

14 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons!

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2008 19:00 UTC

73 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

The human problem

PhilGoetz1 Apr 2010 19:41 UTC

35 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2008 5:45 UTC

81 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Calculus is about change

dkl91 Apr 2025 19:44 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

A&I (Rihanna ‘S&M’ parody lyrics)

nahoj21 May 2023 22:34 UTC

−2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Spiders and Moral Good

soycarts10 Sep 2025 19:23 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Crossword puzzle: LessWrong Halloween 2022

jchan21 Oct 2022 12:41 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

17 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

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

Yitz1 Apr 2022 21:11 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 1: Exposure Therapy

alkjash4 Mar 2018 4:50 UTC

28 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Hard Problem of Magic

enaumov4 Dec 2020 18:51 UTC

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future

Wei Dai24 Nov 2009 22:29 UTC

40 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

The Fall of Rationality—The Senate of Admins

Ace Delgado26 Jun 2023 1:49 UTC

−10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Announcing the Center for Applied Postrationality

Pee Doom2 Apr 2019 1:17 UTC

110 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Goldilocks and the Three Optimisers

dkl917 Aug 2023 18:15 UTC

−10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Friendly Drunk Fool Alignment Strategy

JenniferRM3 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC

31 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

Job Board (28 March 2033)

dr_s28 Mar 2023 22:44 UTC

20 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Maybe you want to maximise paperclips too

dougclow30 Oct 2014 21:40 UTC

70 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

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