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18 Jan 2021 14:35 UTC
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Yoav Ravid
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Mazes Sequence Summary
Zvi
23 May 2020 16:40 UTC
81
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse
LoganStrohl
4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC
320
points
100
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality: Abridged
Quaerendo
6 Jan 2018 0:20 UTC
100
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Partial summary of debate with Benquo and Jessicata [pt 1]
Raemon
14 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC
89
points
63
comments
22
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Fake Frameworks for Zen Meditation (Summary of Sekida’s Zen Training)
Gordon Seidoh Worley
6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
54
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Maps of Meaning: Abridged and Translated
Vaniver
11 Oct 2018 0:27 UTC
53
points
14
comments
10
min read
LW
link
A summary of every “Highlights from the Sequences” post
Akash
15 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC
97
points
7
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Quantum Physics Revealed As Non-Mysterious
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jun 2008 5:20 UTC
13
points
26
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Bring up Genius
Viliam
8 Jun 2017 17:44 UTC
104
points
62
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain
Kaj_Sotala
16 Jan 2019 14:43 UTC
170
points
20
comments
26
min read
LW
link
1
review
The Equation of Knowledge
Lê Nguyên Hoang
7 Jul 2020 16:09 UTC
58
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Reading the ethicists: A review of articles on AI in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics
Charlie Steiner
18 May 2022 20:52 UTC
50
points
8
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(Summary) Sequence Highlights—Thinking Better on Purpose
qazzquimby
2 Aug 2022 17:45 UTC
33
points
3
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Potential factors in Bell Labs’ intellectual progress, Pt. 1
Ruby
12 Feb 2021 19:26 UTC
50
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory
Yoav Ravid
12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC
86
points
26
comments
49
min read
LW
link
1
review
“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt
Callmesalticidae
28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC
20
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Notes on notes on virtues
David Gross
30 Dec 2020 17:47 UTC
71
points
11
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Insights from “All of Statistics”: Probability
Rafael Harth
8 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC
7
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Insights from “All of Statistics”: Statistical Inference
Rafael Harth
8 Apr 2021 17:49 UTC
8
points
0
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Outline of Galef’s “Scout Mindset”
Rob Bensinger
10 Aug 2021 0:16 UTC
163
points
17
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Summary] “Introduction to Electrodynamics” by David Griffiths—Part 1
lsusr
22 Sep 2021 22:22 UTC
23
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Extrapolating from Five Words
Gordon Seidoh Worley
15 Nov 2023 23:21 UTC
40
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts
Adam Zerner
18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC
48
points
3
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review
VipulNaik
20 Nov 2021 22:39 UTC
70
points
15
comments
33
min read
LW
link
How To Get Startup Ideas: A Brief Lit Review and Analysis
Adam Zerner
30 Mar 2023 20:33 UTC
21
points
10
comments
43
min read
LW
link
Summaries of top forum posts (27th March to 16th April)
Zoe Williams
17 Apr 2023 0:28 UTC
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Spoiler-Free Review: Monster Train
Zvi
2 Jun 2020 13:40 UTC
13
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Summary and Lessons from “On Combat”
Gunnar_Zarncke
22 Mar 2015 1:48 UTC
28
points
63
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell
Gentzel
12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC
35
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
Fake Fake Utility Functions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Dec 2007 6:30 UTC
42
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jun 2008 3:45 UTC
18
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
And the Winner is… Many-Worlds!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jun 2008 6:05 UTC
28
points
12
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jun 2008 7:13 UTC
14
points
28
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Book Review: The Captured Economy
Zvi
11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
14
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Making a Difference Tempore: Insights from ‘Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction’
TurnTrout
5 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC
33
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Continuous Improvement: Insights from ‘Topology’
TurnTrout
22 Feb 2020 21:58 UTC
30
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Great Books of Failure
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Apr 2009 0:59 UTC
32
points
53
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness
Tesseract
15 Aug 2011 0:05 UTC
42
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What I got out of ‘Algorithms to Live By’
rk
11 Apr 2018 16:35 UTC
28
points
1
comment
19
min read
LW
link
Highlights from the Blackmail Debate (Robin Hanson vs Zvi Mowshowitz)
Ben Pace
20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48
points
37
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Brief summary of ai-plans.com
Iknownothing
28 Jun 2023 0:33 UTC
9
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(ai-plans.com)
“Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)
Callmesalticidae
20 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC
5
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
“The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” by Thomas Ligotti
Callmesalticidae
13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
19
points
4
comments
15
min read
LW
link
“How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read”, by Pierre Bayard
Callmesalticidae
3 Sep 2020 13:05 UTC
11
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
A Short Summary of “Focus Your Uncertainty”
Stephen James
14 Jul 2023 11:18 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“In the Dust of This Planet,” by Eugene Thacker
Callmesalticidae
10 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC
2
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Read More Books but Pretend to Read Even More
Arjun Panickssery
5 Aug 2023 0:07 UTC
23
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
How I internalized my achievements to better deal with negative feelings
Raymond Koopmanschap
27 Feb 2024 15:10 UTC
42
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
GPT-powered EA/LW weekly summary
smallsilo
25 Aug 2023 18:19 UTC
18
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Rationality in the Media: Don’t (New Yorker, May 2009)
12 May 2009 13:32 UTC
7
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My 1st month at a “neurodivergent gifted school” called Minerva University
exanova
10 Oct 2023 3:34 UTC
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(inawe.substack.com)
Common Sense Atheism summarizing the Sequences
Alexandros
19 Nov 2010 12:55 UTC
19
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Notes: Scaling, Why is Animal Size so Important?
ketchupduck
7 Mar 2021 20:16 UTC
19
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Menstrual cycle effects—Clue study summary and commentary
just_browsing
31 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC
79
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Existential Risk and Growth
jkim2
11 Oct 2021 1:07 UTC
9
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Summary of “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
Cosmos
30 Jun 2012 20:49 UTC
26
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ Chapter Summaries / Notes [link]
Lightwave
15 Apr 2012 9:14 UTC
26
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Summary Of Anthropic’s First Paper
Sam Ringer
30 Dec 2021 0:48 UTC
85
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Summary: “How to write a thesis” by Umberto Eco
Pablo Repetto
25 Mar 2022 21:40 UTC
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary: “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler
Pablo Repetto
29 Mar 2022 0:34 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen
Pablo Repetto
8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC
12
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary: “How to Write Quickly...” by John Wentworth
Pablo Repetto
11 Apr 2022 23:26 UTC
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary: “How to Do Research” by OSP’s Red
Pablo Repetto
13 Apr 2022 19:46 UTC
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary: “How to Read Books and Write Essays” by OSP’s Blue
Pablo Repetto
15 Apr 2022 21:17 UTC
8
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Summary of “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities”
Stephen McAleese
10 Jun 2022 22:35 UTC
44
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Summaries: Alignment Fundamentals Curriculum
Leon Lang
18 Sep 2022 13:08 UTC
44
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(docs.google.com)
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)
Zoe Williams
10 Oct 2022 23:58 UTC
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Article Review: Discovering Latent Knowledge (Burns, Ye, et al)
Robert_AIZI
22 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC
13
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(aizi.substack.com)
Book Summary: Willpower by Baumeister, Tierney
Dorikka
24 May 2012 23:34 UTC
36
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers
Louie
9 Jan 2013 14:33 UTC
96
points
112
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Martin Seligman’s “Authentic Happiness”
David Gross
27 Dec 2020 5:06 UTC
10
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
Nietzsche’s Morality in Plain English
Arjun Panickssery
4 Dec 2023 0:57 UTC
84
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
[LINK] Yudkowsky’s Abridged Guide to Intelligent Characters
katydee
30 Dec 2014 6:37 UTC
21
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Kaj_Sotala
8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC
326
points
48
comments
21
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Trust Me I’m Lying: A Summary and Review
quanticle
13 Aug 2018 2:55 UTC
100
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(quanticle.net)
Productivity: Working towards a summary of what we know
Adam Zerner
9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC
81
points
22
comments
26
min read
LW
link
Coronavirus Justified Practical Advice Summary
Elizabeth
and
habryka
15 Mar 2020 22:25 UTC
87
points
53
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Set Up for Success: Insights from ‘Naïve Set Theory’
TurnTrout
28 Feb 2018 2:01 UTC
31
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mini-review: The Book of Why
Brian Slesinsky
21 May 2018 23:11 UTC
21
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let’s Read: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker
Yuxi_Liu
14 Jul 2019 6:22 UTC
56
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Summary of “The Straw Vulcan”
alexvermeer
26 Dec 2011 16:29 UTC
51
points
27
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Psycho-cybernetics: experimental notes
romeostevensit
18 Sep 2018 19:21 UTC
54
points
2
comments
13
min read
LW
link
The simple picture on AI safety
Alex Flint
27 May 2018 19:43 UTC
31
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser
Kaj_Sotala
2 Jul 2010 18:38 UTC
67
points
38
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (by Bostrom)
Ben Pace
6 Nov 2018 20:05 UTC
50
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(nickbostrom.com)
Book Recommendations: An Everyone Culture and Moral Mazes
sarahconstantin
10 Jan 2019 21:40 UTC
45
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Confounded No Longer: Insights from ‘All of Statistics’
TurnTrout
3 May 2018 22:56 UTC
21
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Insights from Linear Algebra Done Right
Rafael Harth
13 Jul 2019 18:24 UTC
53
points
18
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Human-Aligned AI Summer School: A Summary
Michaël Trazzi
11 Aug 2018 8:11 UTC
39
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Reasoning isn’t about logic (it’s about arguing)
Morendil
14 Mar 2010 4:42 UTC
66
points
31
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Learning preferences by looking at the world
Rohin Shah
12 Feb 2019 22:25 UTC
43
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(bair.berkeley.edu)
Turning Up the Heat: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis II’
TurnTrout
24 Aug 2018 17:54 UTC
36
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
And My Axiom! Insights from ‘Computability and Logic’
TurnTrout
16 Jan 2019 19:48 UTC
42
points
17
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Insights from Munkres’ Topology
Rafael Harth
17 Mar 2019 16:52 UTC
30
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Megaproject management
ryan_b
11 Jan 2019 17:08 UTC
55
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
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