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World Optimization

Core TagLast edit: 11 Mar 2024 1:03 UTC by jimrandomh

World Optimization is the full use of our agency. It is extending the reach of human civilization. It is building cities and democracies and economic systems and computers and flight and science and space rockets and the internet. World optimization is about adding to that list.

But it’s not just about growth, it’s also about preservation. We are still in the dawn of civilization, with most of civilization in the billions of years ahead. We mustn’t let this light go out.


World Optimization Sub-Topics

Moral Theory

Altruism
Consequentialism
Deontology
Ethics & Morality
Metaethics
Moral Uncertainty

Causes /​ Interventions

Aging
Animal Welfare
Existential Risk
Futurism
Mind Uploading
Life Extension
S-risks
Transhumanism
Voting Theory

Working with Humans

Coalitional Instincts
Common Knowledge
Coordination /​ Cooperation
Game Theory
Group Rationality
Institution Design
Moloch
Signaling
Simulacrum Levels
Social Status

Applied Topics

Blackmail
Censorship
Chesterton’s Fence
Death
Deception
Honesty
Hypocrisy
Information Hazards
Meta-Honesty
Pascal’s Mugging
War

Value & Virtue

Ambition
Art
Aesthetics
Complexity of Value
Courage
Fun Theory
Principles
Suffering
Superstimuli
Wireheading

Meta

Cause Prioritization
Center for Long-term Risk
Effective Altruism
Heroic Responsibility


Content which describes how the world is that directly bears upon choices one makes to optimize the world fall under this tag. Examples include discussion of the moral patienthood of different animals, the potential of human civilization, and the most effective interventions against a global health threat.

Some material has both immediate relevance to world optimization decisions but also can inform broader world models. This material might be included under both World Modeling tag and this tag.

Some­thing to Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2008 17:52 UTC
205 points
81 comments6 min readLW link

Per­son­al­ized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC
213 points
16 comments5 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

On Caring

So8res15 Oct 2014 1:59 UTC
223 points
276 comments10 min readLW link

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworth9 May 2020 18:47 UTC
58 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC
205 points
322 comments6 min readLW link

Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
276 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

Beyond the Reach of God

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2008 15:42 UTC
225 points
280 comments11 min readLW link

Inad­e­quacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC
130 points
77 comments18 min readLW link

Tran­shu­man­ism as Sim­plified Humanism

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC
170 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Ei­genKarma: trust at scale

Henrik Karlsson8 Feb 2023 18:52 UTC
181 points
50 comments5 min readLW link

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2020 20:00 UTC
50 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How can non­prof­its gain the ad­van­tages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawford6 May 2020 1:15 UTC
37 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

Scott Alexander30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC
176 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

What an ac­tu­ally pes­simistic con­tain­ment strat­egy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC
667 points
138 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Mov­able Hous­ing for Scal­able Cities

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2020 21:21 UTC
122 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

[Se­quence an­nounce­ment] In­tro­duc­tion to Mechanism Design

badger30 Apr 2014 16:21 UTC
94 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Re­view of Cur­rent and Near-Fu­ture Meth­ods of Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith10 Apr 2021 19:16 UTC
81 points
33 comments15 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
401 points
54 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David Hornbein13 Apr 2020 22:48 UTC
86 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

In fa­vor of ac­cel­er­at­ing prob­lems you’re try­ing to solve

Christopher King11 Apr 2023 18:15 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC
50 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC
21 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC
264 points
38 comments34 min readLW link1 review

6. The Mutable Values Prob­lem in Value Learn­ing and CEV

RogerDearnaley4 Dec 2023 18:31 UTC
12 points
0 comments49 min readLW link

4. A Mo­ral Case for Evolved-Sapi­ence-Chau­vinism

RogerDearnaley24 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ineffec­tive Altruism

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:07 UTC
86 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

5. Mo­ral Value for Sen­tient An­i­mals? Alas, Not Yet

RogerDearnaley27 Dec 2023 6:42 UTC
35 points
41 comments23 min readLW link

De­con­struct­ing 321 Voting

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 3:35 UTC
40 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How can I bet on short timelines?

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Nov 2020 12:44 UTC
43 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Dan Luu on “You can only com­mu­ni­cate one top pri­or­ity”

Raemon18 Mar 2023 18:55 UTC
145 points
17 comments3 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Con­sider Ap­ply­ing to the Fu­ture Fel­low­ship at MIT

jefftk25 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Read­ing the ethi­cists 2: Hunt­ing for AI al­ign­ment papers

Charlie Steiner6 Jun 2022 15:49 UTC
24 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Propin­quity Cities So Far

mako yass16 Nov 2020 23:12 UTC
24 points
48 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] What are some real life Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria?

Eli Tyre29 Jan 2021 12:17 UTC
50 points
63 comments3 min readLW link

Some AI re­search ar­eas and their rele­vance to ex­is­ten­tial safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC
204 points
37 comments50 min readLW link2 reviews

Reflec­tions on the cry­on­ics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC
100 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Iter­ated Trust Kickstarters

Raemon20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
74 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

The True Face of the Enemy

Space L Clottey12 Jan 2021 10:03 UTC
30 points
77 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Coron­avirus: Jus­tified Key In­sights Thread

Ben Pace13 Apr 2020 22:40 UTC
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Land Ho!

Zvi20 Jan 2022 13:30 UTC
120 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Scal­able Ur­ban De­sign and the Sin­gle Build­ing City

Edward Swernofsky25 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC
22 points
21 comments17 min readLW link

On Nice­ness: Look­ing for Pos­i­tive Externalities

Neel Nanda14 Sep 2020 18:03 UTC
31 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Three rea­sons to cooperate

paulfchristiano24 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC
82 points
14 comments10 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Do your­self a FAVAR: se­cu­rity mindset

lukehmiles18 Jun 2022 2:08 UTC
20 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

ship_shlap7 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC
3 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

When can Fic­tion Change the World?

Timothy Underwood24 Aug 2020 13:47 UTC
79 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on Ar­gu­ing about Politics

Pontor13 Apr 2020 17:33 UTC
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Player vs. Char­ac­ter: A Two-Level Model of Ethics

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 19:40 UTC
88 points
27 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Life and ex­pand­ing steer­able consequences

Alex Flint7 May 2021 18:33 UTC
46 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Me­dia Bias

lsusr22 Feb 2021 21:14 UTC
34 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Act­ing Wholesomely

owencb26 Feb 2024 21:49 UTC
57 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble take­aways from the coro­n­avirus pan­demic for slow AI takeoff

Vika31 May 2020 17:51 UTC
135 points
36 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Effec­tive al­tru­ism and crit­i­cism to­ward ac­tivism: An­swer to a paradox

ArthurRainbow17 May 2020 21:15 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why max­i­mize hu­man life?

lise7 Jan 2022 14:11 UTC
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Isn’t Tesla stock highly un­der­val­ued?

Liron18 May 2020 1:56 UTC
30 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Share In­for­ma­tion Exfo­haz­ardous on Others’ AI-Risk Models

Thane Ruthenis19 Dec 2023 20:09 UTC
67 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Chang­ing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:11 UTC
256 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Why I’m Not Vegan

jefftk9 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
30 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC
371 points
176 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Multi-Win­ner 3-2-1 Voting

Yoav Ravid30 Oct 2023 3:31 UTC
12 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Models of Value of Learning

johnswentworth7 Jul 2020 19:08 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Des­per­a­tion ham­ster wheels

Nicole Ross28 Oct 2020 2:32 UTC
97 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

B Jacobs7 Sep 2020 17:38 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Taymon Beal18 Jun 2020 1:48 UTC
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Proso­cial Capitalism

scafaria2 Oct 2021 17:06 UTC
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(prosocialcapitalism.com)

The World Ac­cord­ing to Do­minic Cummings

Chris_Leong14 Apr 2020 5:05 UTC
69 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Le­gal­ize bu­tanol?

bhauth20 Dec 2023 14:24 UTC
39 points
20 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Men­tor­ship, Man­age­ment, and Mys­te­ri­ous Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
81 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cow­er­ing To Geno­cide: Uighur Per­se­cu­tion And The World’s Last Hope

willbobaggins1 Nov 2020 21:01 UTC
9 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

The Eco­nomics of the As­teroid Deflec­tion Prob­lem (Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tracts)

moyamo29 Aug 2023 18:28 UTC
77 points
70 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your best al­ter­nate his­tory utopia?

Kaj_Sotala22 Feb 2021 8:17 UTC
25 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing money seriously

dominicq28 Jan 2021 12:53 UTC
83 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Pre­dic­tion Markets

Annapurna14 Jun 2021 16:43 UTC
9 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

On Rais­ing Awareness

Tomás B.17 Nov 2021 17:12 UTC
21 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Pay­ing peo­ple to vote for good poli­cies.

Matteodimaio15 Oct 2021 1:00 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Wire­head your Chickens

shminux20 Jun 2018 5:49 UTC
86 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

Against Aug­men­ta­tion of In­tel­li­gence, Hu­man or Other­wise (An Anti-Natal­ist Ar­gu­ment)

Benjamin Bourlier1 Mar 2024 18:45 UTC
−26 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Guided Con­sump­tion The­ory: A Vir­tu­ous Dance be­tween Altru­is­tic Agents, Eco­nomic Discrim­i­na­tors, and Op­por­tunis­tic Helpers

Brad West 19 Aug 2022 17:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments11 min readLW link

How would you gov­ern Mars?

Bernhard31 Dec 2020 2:32 UTC
5 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawford19 Aug 2022 0:22 UTC
32 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

An­nounc­ing Balsa Research

Zvi25 Sep 2022 22:50 UTC
235 points
64 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Nearcast-based “de­ploy­ment prob­lem” analysis

HoldenKarnofsky21 Sep 2022 18:52 UTC
85 points
2 comments26 min readLW link

Kelly Bet on Everything

Jacob Falkovich10 Jul 2020 2:48 UTC
101 points
20 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC
145 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

Tetraspace14 Jun 2020 0:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: The Ir­ish Wolfhound

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
71 points
10 comments18 min readLW link

Redi­rect­ing one’s own taxes as an effec­tive al­tru­ism method

David Gross13 Nov 2023 15:17 UTC
1 point
34 comments16 min readLW link

Con­crete pos­i­tive vi­sions for a fu­ture with­out AGI

Max H8 Nov 2023 3:12 UTC
41 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

The value of x-risk reduction

NathanBarnard22 May 2022 7:44 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

De­sign thoughts for build­ing a bet­ter kind of so­cial space with many webs of trust

mako yass6 Sep 2020 2:08 UTC
54 points
41 comments11 min readLW link
(makopool.com)

The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC
50 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Can we re­ally pre­vent all warm­ing for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geo­eng­ineer­ing tech­nique of Marine Cloud Bright­en­ing?

mako yass5 Aug 2019 0:12 UTC
94 points
55 comments2 min readLW link

Moloch and multi-level selection

thoughtfulmadison11 Aug 2020 7:08 UTC
19 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Fu­ture Of Work

specbug19 Jul 2021 23:16 UTC
−1 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(sixeleven.in)

Swiss Poli­ti­cal Sys­tem: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.)

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC
171 points
39 comments24 min readLW link2 reviews

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: An In­tro­duc­tion & Explanation

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 3:54 UTC
20 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Use­less knowl­edge; why peo­ple re­sist ed­u­ca­tion improvement

Andrew Vlahos26 Feb 2021 3:43 UTC
11 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Needn’t Gen­er­al­ize to Ra­tional Consensus

Akshat Mahajan4 May 2020 22:53 UTC
42 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t take bad op­tions away from people

Dumbledore's Army26 Mar 2023 20:12 UTC
43 points
100 comments5 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing lo­cal gov­er­nance in frag­ile states—prac­ti­cal les­sons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC
16 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

How to have Poly­geni­cally Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC
333 points
107 comments27 min readLW link

Child­hoods of ex­cep­tional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC
321 points
62 comments15 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

the quan­tum am­pli­tude ar­gu­ment against ethics deduplication

Tamsin Leake12 Mar 2023 13:02 UTC
11 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

So, I Want to Be a “Think­fluencer”

DragonGod20 Aug 2022 18:39 UTC
4 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2022 5:19 UTC
29 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

On Mo­ral­ity, Ethics, and all that Jazz

Delen Heisman20 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(delen.substack.com)

Moloch and the sand­pile catastrophe

Eric Raymond2 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC
120 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing crop plant­ing with mixed in­te­ger lin­ear pro­gram­ming in Stardew Valley

hapanin5 Apr 2022 18:42 UTC
28 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Tech­nolog­i­cal Re­s­ur­rec­tion: Two Pos­si­ble Approaches

Alex Polischuk14 Mar 2022 17:53 UTC
−3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Build­ing cars we don’t understand

pchvykov7 Feb 2022 16:55 UTC
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Good books about over­com­ing co­or­di­na­tion prob­lems?

Sean Aubin2 Feb 2022 19:09 UTC
22 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to pre­vent au­thor­i­tar­ian re­volts?

lc20 Mar 2022 10:01 UTC
21 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Par­li­a­ments with­out the Parties

Yair Halberstadt19 Jun 2022 14:06 UTC
17 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are the limi­ta­tions on poli­ti­cally mo­ti­vated re­lo­ca­tion?

Asgård4 Dec 2021 15:16 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC
114 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

A fate worse than death?

RomanS13 Dec 2021 11:05 UTC
−25 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Com­bin­ing the best of Ge­or­gian and Har­berger taxes

Yair Halberstadt12 Aug 2021 5:55 UTC
23 points
30 comments10 min readLW link

A gen­tle apoc­a­lypse

pchvykov16 Aug 2021 5:03 UTC
3 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Con­verg­ing to­ward a Million Worlds

Joe Kwon24 Dec 2021 21:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

A Primer on United States Treasuries

Annapurna10 Mar 2021 3:08 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Triumph & Hope: How Far Hu­man­ity Has Come

Ruby21 Feb 2021 18:07 UTC
23 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(jesswhittlestone.com)

Your Cheer­ful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
262 points
82 comments17 min readLW link6 reviews

[Question] Read­ing recom­men­da­tions on so­cial tech­nol­ogy: look­ing for the third way be­tween tech­noc­racy and populism

Quinn24 Feb 2021 11:48 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

Erich_Grunewald12 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC
26 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Col­lAc­tion his­tory and les­sons learned

Ron17 Jan 2021 15:01 UTC
34 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Notes on “Bioter­ror and Biowar­fare” (2006)

MichaelA2 Mar 2021 0:43 UTC
10 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Does mak­ing un­steady in­cre­men­tal progress work?

peterbarnett5 Mar 2021 7:23 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(peterbarnett.org)

Mini thoughts on mintheism

CraigMichael11 Jan 2021 5:14 UTC
14 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Utopic Nightmares

Jozdien14 May 2021 21:24 UTC
10 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Eight Hun­dred Slightly Poi­soned Word Games

Scott Alexander9 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC
109 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

From Manch­ester to Beirut: The power of ed­u­ca­tion to change lives

gareth26 Sep 2021 11:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] How to mea­sure (hu­man) im­pact?

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz27 Sep 2021 2:32 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

An Un­ex­pected Vic­tory: Con­tainer Stack­ing at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC
298 points
41 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tak­ing Clones Seriously

Raymond D1 Dec 2021 17:29 UTC
58 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

How to solve the ar­gu­ment about what the al­gorithm should do

Yoav Ravid15 Jan 2021 6:08 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How a billion­aire could spend their money to help the dis­ad­van­taged: 7 ideas from the top of my head

Yitz4 Dec 2020 6:09 UTC
12 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

De­sign­ing en­vi­ron­ments to se­lect designs

pchvykov12 Feb 2022 17:54 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Christo­pher Alexan­der’s ar­chi­tec­ture for learning

Henrik Karlsson24 Mar 2022 9:11 UTC
43 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC
19 points
3 comments22 min readLW link

[Question] Fore­stal­ling At­mo­spheric Ignition

Lone Pine9 Jun 2022 20:49 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Unforgivable

Novalis25 Jun 2022 20:57 UTC
−9 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(novalis.blog)

[Job ad] Lead an am­bi­tious COVID-19 fore­cast­ing pro­ject [Dead­line ex­tended: June 10th]

jacobjacob27 May 2020 16:38 UTC
54 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

“The Con­spir­acy against the Hu­man Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
20 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

How I buy things when Light­cone wants them fast

jacobjacob26 Sep 2022 5:02 UTC
218 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

In­vest­ment, Work, and Vi­sion: Who is re­spon­si­ble for cre­at­ing value?

Sable16 Jan 2023 1:57 UTC
0 points
10 comments8 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

The Kids are Not Okay

Zvi8 Mar 2023 13:30 UTC
85 points
43 comments32 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spend twice as much effort ev­ery time you at­tempt to solve a problem

Jsevillamol15 Nov 2020 18:37 UTC
55 points
11 comments2 min readLW link1 review

The Flow-Through Fallacy

Chris_Leong13 Sep 2023 4:28 UTC
20 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Bring back the Colosseums

lc8 Sep 2023 0:09 UTC
9 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Anti-EMH Ev­i­dence (and a plea for help)

Wei Dai5 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC
94 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

Core Path­ways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC
260 points
123 comments22 min readLW link1 review

Utopianism

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz4 Jan 2021 18:40 UTC
1 point
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pro­posal for im­prov­ing the global on­line dis­course through per­son­al­ised com­ment or­der­ing on all websites

Roman Leventov6 Dec 2023 18:51 UTC
35 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

A Brief Chat on World Government

eapache13 Sep 2020 18:33 UTC
4 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Helping peo­ple to solve their problems

Neel Nanda31 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
18 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

On R0

Zvi7 Apr 2020 23:20 UTC
63 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Com­pet­i­tive Univer­sal Ba­sic Ser­vices?

Gentzel9 Nov 2020 3:20 UTC
13 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

In­cen­tive Prob­lems With Cur­rent Fore­cast­ing Com­pe­ti­tions.

9 Nov 2020 16:20 UTC
44 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is cor­rup­tion a valuable an­ti­dote to over­reg­u­la­tion?

ChristianKl8 Nov 2020 12:15 UTC
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Nu­clear war is un­likely to cause hu­man extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC
123 points
47 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

The small­est pos­si­ble but­ton (or: moth traps!)

Neil 2 Sep 2023 15:24 UTC
111 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(neilwarren.substack.com)

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arse­nals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevin4 Sep 2023 19:02 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on Reverence

David Gross4 Nov 2020 1:35 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Three Open Prob­lems in Aging

johnswentworth7 Nov 2020 19:39 UTC
48 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Sur­face Thoughts Suck

Dach2 Nov 2020 13:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Why you, per­son­ally, should want a larger hu­man population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC
32 points
32 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Oc­to­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Michael Niel­sen re­marks on ‘Op­pen­heimer’

22tom31 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC
78 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(michaelnotebook.com)

De­fund­ing My Mistake

ymeskhout4 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
167 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What are good elec­tion bet­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 7:19 UTC
32 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

AI risk hub in Sin­ga­pore?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Oct 2020 11:45 UTC
57 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Prob­a­bil­ity of Suc­cess?

Peter Wildeford1 Aug 2013 11:42 UTC
35 points
146 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What risks con­cern you which don’t seem to have been se­ri­ously con­sid­ered by the com­mu­nity?

plex28 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
17 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

The Su­per­star Effect

Adam Zerner3 Jan 2015 6:11 UTC
12 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

A Rant on Calcu­lus III

Wofsen25 Apr 2023 14:51 UTC
−5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Models pre­dict­ing sig­nifi­cant vi­o­lence in the US?

kdbscott25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
54 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Should we use qual­ifiers in speech?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
35 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga Babeeva20 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Pow­er­less Mo­ral Evaluation

SocratesDissatisfied23 Oct 2020 10:44 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Liber­tar­i­anism, Ne­oliber­al­ism and Med­i­care for All?

Logan Zoellner14 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC
5 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much to worry about the US elec­tion un­rest?

AspiringRationalist12 Oct 2020 3:39 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Elec­tion Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

jefftk30 Aug 2023 16:40 UTC
103 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What Would Ad­vanced So­cial Tech­nol­ogy Look Like?

johnswentworth10 Nov 2020 17:55 UTC
44 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Up­side de­cay—why some peo­ple never get lucky

brianlui8 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
42 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Can we hold in­tel­lec­tu­als to similar pub­lic stan­dards as ath­letes?

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC
84 points
48 comments3 min readLW link1 review

[Question] If GPT-6 is hu­man-level AGI but costs $200 per page of out­put, what would hap­pen?

Daniel Kokotajlo9 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
28 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Forc­ing Freedom

vlad.proex6 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

The Benev­olent Ruler’s Hand­book (Part 1): The Policy Problem

FCCC6 Aug 2023 3:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Open Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the Days of Mal­i­cious On­line Actors

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 16:30 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

How to Price a Fu­tures Contract

lsusr9 Oct 2020 7:37 UTC
15 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on shar­ing in­for­ma­tion about lan­guage model capabilities

paulfchristiano31 Jul 2023 16:04 UTC
191 points
34 comments11 min readLW link

Whole­some­ness and Effec­tive Altruism

owencb28 Feb 2024 20:28 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

How to not be an alarmist

DirectedEvolution30 Sep 2020 21:35 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment as a trans­la­tion problem

Roman Leventov5 Feb 2024 14:14 UTC
21 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk?

Jia29 Sep 2020 19:31 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Life Ex­ten­sion Ad­vo­cacy Foundation

emanuele ascani30 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
7 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Killing Socrates

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien11 Apr 2023 10:28 UTC
172 points
143 comments8 min readLW link

AI Risk US Pres­i­den­tial Candidate

Simon Berens11 Apr 2023 19:31 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­straints from nat­u­ral­ized ethics.

Charlie Steiner25 Jul 2020 14:54 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

SSA vs. SIA: how fu­ture pop­u­la­tion may provide ev­i­dence for or against the foun­da­tions of poli­ti­cal liberalism

j30 Jul 2023 20:18 UTC
−6 points
10 comments55 min readLW link

Les­sons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkel6 Jan 2021 22:40 UTC
113 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

On Car­ing about our AI Progeny

PeterMcCluskey14 Apr 2023 19:32 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Stomach Ulcers and Den­tal Cavities

Metacelsus5 Aug 2023 14:08 UTC
56 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Weird Things About Money

abramdemski3 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC
79 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

The Rise and Fall of Amer­i­can Growth: A summary

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2020 21:41 UTC
58 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An EA used de­cep­tive mes­sag­ing to ad­vance their pro­ject; we need mechanisms to avoid de­on­tolog­i­cally du­bi­ous plans

Mikhail Samin13 Feb 2024 23:15 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Buy­ing micro-biostasis

Mati_Roy7 Oct 2020 10:55 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

On the Lat­est TikTok Bill

Zvi13 Mar 2024 18:50 UTC
52 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Would we even want AI to solve all our prob­lems?

So8res21 Apr 2023 18:04 UTC
97 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Have the lock­downs been worth it?

12 Oct 2020 23:35 UTC
70 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy and its side effects

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2020 20:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

It’s hard to use util­ity max­i­miza­tion to jus­tify cre­at­ing new sen­tient beings

dynomight19 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
10 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] What is the most effec­tive anti-tyranny char­ity?

lc15 Aug 2023 15:26 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

Zvi21 Oct 2020 18:10 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The bads of ads

KatjaGrace23 Oct 2020 5:50 UTC
105 points
38 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

A $10k retroac­tive grant for VaccinateCA

Austin Chen27 Jul 2023 18:14 UTC
80 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(manifund.org)

In­creas­ing Iso­la­tion Again

jefftk25 Oct 2020 13:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Whence the symp­toms of so­cial me­dia?

KatjaGrace27 Oct 2020 7:30 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seed27 Oct 2020 19:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] For­bid­den Technology

lsusr25 Apr 2020 7:20 UTC
22 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we be re­assess­ing the ar­gu­ment for global­iza­tion?

jmh26 Apr 2020 13:52 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­ket-shap­ing ap­proaches to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 re­sponse: a role for op­tion-based guaran­tees?

27 Apr 2020 22:43 UTC
38 points
2 comments6 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Who can most re­duce X-Risk?

sudhanshu_kasewa28 Aug 2023 14:38 UTC
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­wa­ter Tor­ture Cham­bers: The Hor­ror Of Fish Farming

omnizoid26 Jul 2023 0:27 UTC
80 points
49 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC
22 points
2 comments17 min readLW link

Should stu­dents be al­lowed to give good teach­ers a bonus?

DirectedEvolution2 Nov 2020 0:19 UTC
25 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:54 UTC
42 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

A spec­u­la­tive in­cen­tive de­sign: self-de­ter­mined price com­mit­ments as a way of avert­ing monopoly

mako yass28 Apr 2020 7:44 UTC
5 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Rawls’s Veil of Ig­no­rance Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Arjun Panickssery24 Feb 2024 13:18 UTC
9 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Jus­tice (as a virtue)

David Gross5 Nov 2020 20:27 UTC
6 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

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

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC
157 points
52 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Healthy Competition

Raemon20 Oct 2019 20:55 UTC
56 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Assess­ment of AI safety agen­das: think about the down­side risk

Roman Leventov19 Dec 2023 9:00 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How peo­ple stopped dy­ing from di­ar­rhea so much (& other life-sav­ing de­ci­sions)

Writer16 Mar 2024 16:00 UTC
44 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

When Hind­sight Isn’t 20/​20: In­cen­tive De­sign With Im­perfect Credit Allocation

johnswentworth8 Nov 2020 19:16 UTC
72 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

Mo­ral in­tu­itions are sur­pris­ingly variable

Bob Baker26 Dec 2020 19:50 UTC
21 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

lukeprog24 Aug 2013 5:57 UTC
26 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Techno-hu­man­ism is techno-op­ti­mism for the 21st century

Richard_Ngo27 Oct 2023 18:37 UTC
88 points
5 comments14 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Sanc­tu­ary for Humans

nikola27 Oct 2023 18:08 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­vacy in a Digi­tal World

Faustify27 Jul 2023 10:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

“Is There Any­thing That’s Worth More”

Zack_M_Davis2 Aug 2023 3:28 UTC
64 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is liber­tar­i­anism un­sus­tain­able? Why?

Vishrut Arya10 Oct 2020 2:09 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Against Victimhood

Jacob Falkovich18 Sep 2020 1:58 UTC
85 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­pan­sive trans­la­tions: con­sid­er­a­tions and possibilities

ozziegooen18 Sep 2020 15:39 UTC
43 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Fore­cast­ing Thread: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Amandango22 Sep 2020 3:44 UTC
43 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Votes-per-Dollar

Adam Golding10 Apr 2023 2:20 UTC
−20 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(adamgolding.substack.com)

The proper re­sponse to mis­takes that have harmed oth­ers?

Ruby31 Dec 2023 4:06 UTC
61 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

The Ax­iolog­i­cal Treadmill

eapache15 Sep 2020 18:36 UTC
6 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are there non-AI pro­jects fo­cused on defeat­ing Moloch globally?

eapache14 Sep 2020 2:13 UTC
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Progress: Fluke or trend?

jasoncrawford13 Sep 2020 0:21 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] If Star­ship works, how much would it cost to cre­ate a sys­tem of rotable space mir­rors that re­duces tem­per­a­tures on earth by 1° C?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2020 18:46 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

trentbrick10 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC
21 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
101 points
3 comments14 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

OpenAI, Deep­Mind, An­thropic, etc. should shut down.

Tamsin Leake17 Dec 2023 20:01 UTC
36 points
48 comments3 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC
69 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

sen26 Sep 2020 13:41 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, Ped­a­gogy, and “Vibes”: Quick Thoughts

NicholasKross15 Jul 2023 2:09 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Per­sua­sion Tournament

PeterMcCluskey17 Jul 2023 18:04 UTC
71 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Luna First, But Not To Live There

NathanielMRouth8 Sep 2020 3:14 UTC
21 points
21 comments5 min readLW link
(nathanielmrouth.wordpress.com)

Do we get bet­ter or worse at adapt­ing to change?

jasoncrawford6 Apr 2023 14:42 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How AI Will Change Education

robotelvis28 Feb 2024 5:30 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

AI, Con­scious­ness, and the prob­lem of Mo­ral Considerability

stultus16 Jul 2023 19:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Loneli­ness and the para­dox of choice

DirectedEvolution9 Sep 2020 16:30 UTC
17 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Poll: ask any­thing to an all-know­ing de­mon edition

aiiixiii22 Apr 2020 16:28 UTC
6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC
64 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJules29 Feb 2024 23:08 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“On Liv­ing in an Atomic Age”, by C.S. Lewis (1948)

tjaffee5 Apr 2023 18:34 UTC
17 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(hebrew-streams.org)

Wanted: Men­tal Health Pro­gram Man­ager at Re­think Wel­lbe­ing

Inga G.4 Apr 2023 11:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Plans /​ prep­ping for pos­si­ble poli­ti­cal vi­o­lence from up­com­ing US elec­tion?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The ethics of breed­ing to kill

George3d66 Sep 2020 20:12 UTC
−4 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

Distributed pub­lic goods provision

paulfchristiano26 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC
26 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

The pur­pose of the (Mo­saic) law

mruwnik4 Sep 2023 23:38 UTC
7 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] In­vest­ment is a use­ful so­cietal mechanism for get­ting new things made. Stock trad­ing shares some func­tion­al­ity with in­vest­ment, but seems very very in­effi­cient, at that?

mako yass24 Aug 2020 1:18 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Aligned AI is dual use technology

lc27 Jan 2024 6:50 UTC
50 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

The Best Toy In The Park

jefftk25 Aug 2020 14:30 UTC
25 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Planecrash Podcast

planecrashpodcast3 Apr 2023 4:34 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­tel’s Prin­ci­ple as Mo­ral Aphorism

eapache23 Aug 2020 19:36 UTC
15 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Split-a-Dol­lar Game

Martin Sustrik24 Aug 2020 4:54 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Are We Right about How Effec­tive Mock­ery Is?

Ronny Fernandez27 Aug 2020 10:48 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

wis­domism: an un­der­rated moral theory

Peter lawless 5 Jul 2023 17:39 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Fore­sight In­sti­tute: 2023 Progress & 2024 Plans for fund­ing benefi­cial tech­nol­ogy development

Allison Duettmann22 Nov 2023 22:09 UTC
24 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Why have ex­po­sure no­tifi­ca­tion apps been (mostly) dis­con­tinued?

VipulNaik9 Jul 2023 19:07 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] The liter­a­ture on alu­minum ad­ju­vants is very sus­pi­cious. Small IQ tax is plau­si­ble—can any ex­perts help me es­ti­mate it?

mikes4 Jul 2023 9:33 UTC
58 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Sur­vival in the im­moral maze of college

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2020 21:27 UTC
39 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­sons for Hu­mans in the Age of X-Risk

Damin Curtis4 Jul 2023 18:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Op­ti­mized for Some­thing other than Win­ning or: How Cricket Re­sists Moloch and Good­hart’s Law

A.H.5 Jul 2023 12:33 UTC
53 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situ­a­tion?

Q Home8 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC
186 points
49 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Cri­sis Boot Camp: les­sons learned and im­pli­ca­tions for EA

Nicole Ross24 Jun 2023 6:28 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Grant ap­pli­ca­tions and grand narratives

Elizabeth2 Jul 2023 0:16 UTC
188 points
20 comments6 min readLW link

Ex­po­sure to Lizard­man is Lethal

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien2 Apr 2023 18:57 UTC
70 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t peo­ple talk about the Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment more of­ten?

sam31 Mar 2023 17:52 UTC
−1 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What is progress?

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2024 16:28 UTC
10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Another med­i­cal miracle

Dentin25 Jun 2023 20:43 UTC
177 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

Mar­ket Misconceptions

gilch20 Aug 2020 4:46 UTC
27 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Re­la­tional Speaking

jefftk21 Jun 2023 14:40 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Na­tional Defense Autho­riza­tion Act Con­tains AI Provisions

ryan_b5 Jan 2021 15:51 UTC
30 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

In­sti­tu­tional Senescence

Martin Sustrik26 Jun 2020 4:40 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

The Dial of Progress

Zvi13 Jun 2023 13:40 UTC
159 points
117 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Light­cone In­fras­truc­ture/​LessWrong is look­ing for funding

habryka14 Jun 2023 4:45 UTC
202 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Donate Now vs Donate Later—Rel­a­tive Value of Dona­tions to AI Alignment

AlignmentOptimizer24 Jun 2023 17:20 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AGI x An­i­mal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Op­por­tu­nity?

simeon_c28 Jun 2023 20:44 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Utilons vs. Hedons

Psychohistorian10 Aug 2009 19:20 UTC
39 points
119 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] im­pli­ca­tions of NN de­sign for education

bhauth4 Jun 2023 20:50 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

I wrote this be­cause of watermelon

Arti8 Jun 2023 3:55 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

De­scrip­tive vs. speci­fi­able values

TsviBT26 Mar 2023 9:10 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t En­dorse the Idea of Mar­ket Failure

Maxwell Tabarrok1 Mar 2024 14:04 UTC
14 points
22 comments4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Ages Sur­vey: Results

jefftk5 Jun 2023 2:10 UTC
57 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Public Choice and the Altru­ist’s Burden

Roko22 Jul 2010 21:34 UTC
35 points
101 comments3 min readLW link

AI should be used to find bet­ter morality

Jorterder2 Jun 2023 20:38 UTC
−20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Our val­ues are un­der­defined, change­able, and manipulable

Stuart_Armstrong2 Nov 2017 11:09 UTC
26 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Nice Things

Zvi31 Mar 2018 12:30 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How “Pause AI” ad­vo­cacy could be net harmful

Tamsin Leake26 Dec 2023 16:19 UTC
32 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

[Re­quest]: Use “Epi­lo­gen­ics” in­stead of “Eu­gen­ics” in most circumstances

GeneSmith1 Jun 2023 15:36 UTC
39 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkoc16 Jun 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
329 points
1,274 comments29 min readLW link

List of pre­vi­ous pre­dic­tion mar­ket projects

jacobjacob22 Oct 2018 0:45 UTC
32 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(jacoblagerros.wordpress.com)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC
412 points
35 comments5 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Why I’m Skep­ti­cal About Un­proven Causes (And You Should Be Too)

Peter Wildeford29 Jul 2013 9:09 UTC
42 points
98 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good pub­lic con­tri­bu­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties? (100$ bounty)

Gurkenglas18 Jun 2020 14:47 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Most Peo­ple Don’t Real­ize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work

Thane Ruthenis21 Dec 2023 20:02 UTC
137 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

“Slightly Evil” AI Apps

intellectronica24 Mar 2023 22:52 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readLW link
(intellectronica.net)

[Question] Col­lab­o­ra­tors for Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject wanted

DavidJanku19 Jun 2020 20:38 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[not on­go­ing] Thoughts on Pro­por­tional vot­ing methods

Jameson Quinn22 Jul 2020 2:46 UTC
32 points
53 comments46 min readLW link

[Question] ‘Max­i­mum’ level of suffer­ing?

Anirandis20 Jun 2020 14:05 UTC
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?

eapache20 Jun 2020 18:23 UTC
44 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are Hu­mans Fun­da­men­tally Good?

Nyarlathotep21 Jun 2020 16:29 UTC
1 point
24 comments1 min readLW link

You have be­come the supreme dic­ta­tor of the United States.

Nyarlathotep22 Jun 2020 1:45 UTC
−11 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t pun­ish your­self for bad luck

Sherrinford24 Jun 2020 21:52 UTC
16 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What do benefi­cial TDT trades for hu­man­ity con­cretely look like?

Stephen Fowler10 Jun 2023 6:50 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­dus­try and workers

smaslennikov25 Jun 2020 20:03 UTC
−3 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(smaslennikov.com)

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

JoshuaFox13 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Atem­po­ral Eth­i­cal Obligations

eapache26 Jun 2020 19:52 UTC
13 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Self-sac­ri­fice is a scarce resource

mingyuan28 Jun 2020 5:08 UTC
129 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

The Illu­sion of Eth­i­cal Progress

lsusr28 Jun 2020 9:33 UTC
0 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

On Mean­ing and Machines

meanderingmoose5 Jan 2021 15:51 UTC
6 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

Devel­op­ing a tech­nol­ogy with safety in mind: Les­sons from the Wright Brothers

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
30 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

High­lights from the Black­mail De­bate (Robin Han­son vs Zvi Mow­show­itz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

What should we do about net­work-effect mo­nop­o­lies?

benkuhn6 Jul 2020 0:40 UTC
49 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

When Does Altru­ism Strengthen Altru­ism?

jefftk21 Jan 2024 18:50 UTC
44 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
125 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli Tyre14 Jun 2020 1:38 UTC
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Cor­rectly Cal­ibrated Trust

habryka24 Jun 2023 19:48 UTC
36 points
3 comments11 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Does 3-2-1 Vot­ing work us­ing a six point scale?

TGetschman7 Jul 2020 21:06 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­mal­iza­tion of Deviance

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2020 22:58 UTC
62 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Nega­tivity en­hances positivity

Adam Zerner2 Jul 2023 2:47 UTC
12 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Sport­ing vs. Herd­ing: two styles of discourse

Suspended Reason25 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
5 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Nar­row your an­swer space

Vaniver28 Dec 2010 11:38 UTC
33 points
110 comments8 min readLW link

My Men­tal Model of Infohazards

MadHatter23 Nov 2023 2:37 UTC
7 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Sur­viv­ing and Shap­ing Long-Term Com­pe­ti­tions: Les­sons from Net Assessment

24 Nov 2023 18:18 UTC
4 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Some lesser-known megapro­ject ideas

Linch2 Apr 2023 1:14 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Long Now, and Cul­ture vs Artifacts

Raemon3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC
26 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[Geo: Cal­ifor­nia/​Bay Area] Mini-Re­search of 2020 Fire Situation

Ruby23 Aug 2020 5:13 UTC
71 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Would you have a baby in 2024?

martinkunev25 Dec 2023 1:52 UTC
24 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Chart­ing Is Mostly Superstition

gilch23 Aug 2020 20:26 UTC
33 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

Given the Restrict Act, Don’t Ban TikTok

Zvi4 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC
97 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Black Box Biology

GeneSmith29 Nov 2023 2:27 UTC
61 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] [Re­source Re­quest] What are good re­sources for best prac­tice for cre­at­ing bu­reau­cracy?

ChristianKl9 Jul 2020 12:05 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sto­ries About Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2019 18:40 UTC
34 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Distinc­tions when Dis­cussing Utility Functions

ozziegooen9 Mar 2024 20:14 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

AI Re­search Con­sid­er­a­tions for Hu­man Ex­is­ten­tial Safety (ARCHES)

habryka9 Jul 2020 2:49 UTC
60 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

jefftk22 Mar 2023 18:40 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How likely is the COVID-19 apoc­a­lyp­tic sce­nario?

Roko Jelavić22 Apr 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is Ac­ci­den­tal & Self-Congratulatory

ymeskhout29 May 2023 0:40 UTC
25 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter Sum­mer 2020

avturchin1 Sep 2020 14:06 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A Fresh FAQ on GiveWiki and Im­pact Mar­kets Generally

Dawn Drescher6 Apr 2023 14:02 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(impactmarkets.substack.com)

Against ac­cus­ing peo­ple of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC
42 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Abun­dance (Nan­otech­nol­ogy)

Isnasene14 Oct 2018 23:57 UTC
45 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

As Few As Possible

Decius10 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
1 point
13 comments2 min readLW link

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

Cullen7 Apr 2023 1:06 UTC
82 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Your Pri­ori­ti­za­tion is Underspecified

romeostevensit10 Jul 2020 20:48 UTC
82 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

The God­dess of Every­thing Else—The Animation

Writer13 Jul 2023 16:26 UTC
142 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Med­i­ta­tions on Mot

Richard_Ngo4 Dec 2023 0:19 UTC
52 points
11 comments8 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Sto­ries About Progress

Ben Pace8 Sep 2019 23:07 UTC
28 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Bench­mark­ing Bowtie2 Threading

jefftk1 Dec 2023 20:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Paus­ing AI Devel­op­ments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC
238 points
38 comments12 min readLW link

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC
67 points
65 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

An­a­lyz­ing the His­tor­i­cal Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardt5 Dec 2023 6:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What does “tor­ture vs. dust specks” im­ply for in­sect suffer­ing?

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

S-risks: Why they are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC
31 points
106 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

Flex­i­bil­ity and the Singularity

Jonathan Moregård18 Jan 2024 15:29 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Ureshiku Naritai

Alicorn8 Apr 2010 20:08 UTC
217 points
157 comments6 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormal1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
138 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

We’ve built Con­nected Papers—a vi­sual tool for re­searchers to find and ex­plore aca­demic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC
209 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] For what X would you be in­differ­ent be­tween liv­ing X days, but for­get­ting your day at the end of ev­ery­day, or liv­ing 10 days? (ter­mi­nally)

Mati_Roy18 Sep 2020 4:05 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Could some­one please start a bright home light­ing com­pany?

lincolnquirk26 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
91 points
41 comments6 min readLW link
(www.lincolnquirk.com)

[Question] How big of an is­sue are patent trolls to the av­er­age startup?

ChristianKl16 Jul 2020 11:31 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to Save the World

Louie1 Dec 2010 17:17 UTC
102 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

The “hard” prob­lem of con­scious­ness is the least in­ter­est­ing prob­lem of consciousness

Hazard8 Jun 2020 19:00 UTC
17 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

The de­spair of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 23:07 UTC
30 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

Sen­tience matters

So8res29 May 2023 21:25 UTC
139 points
93 comments2 min readLW link

The Rube Gold­berg Ma­chine of Morality

DirectedEvolution6 Jan 2021 20:24 UTC
11 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
173 points
32 comments11 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Ineffi­cient doesn’t mean in­differ­ent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Memo on some ne­glected topics

Lukas Finnveden11 Nov 2023 2:01 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC
84 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

No Ul­ti­mate Goal and a Small Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

Logan Riggs24 Jul 2020 18:39 UTC
12 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Accidents

Rodrigo Fernandes6 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
0 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Drown­ing Child

Tomás B.22 Oct 2023 16:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The UBI dystopia: a glimpse into the fu­ture via pre­sent-day abuses

Solenoid_Entity12 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC
52 points
73 comments4 min readLW link

As­set Prices Con­sis­tently Vio­late Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

Liron28 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(lt3000.blogspot.com)

[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC
22 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC
160 points
36 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Ba­sic Mindsets

ExCeph6 Jun 2020 0:44 UTC
2 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any met­ric mea­sur­ing ~”pro­por­tion of peo­ple cre­at­ing ex­tra value”?

Amal 3 Aug 2023 22:54 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing Virus Rel­a­tive Abun­dance in Wastewater

jefftk10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(naobservatory.org)

Jobs, Re­la­tion­ships, and Other Cults

13 Mar 2024 5:58 UTC
37 points
9 comments35 min readLW link

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Fix­ing sci­ence via a ba­sic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
30 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

AI race con­sid­er­a­tions in a re­port by the U.S. House Com­mit­tee on Armed Services

NunoSempere4 Oct 2020 12:11 UTC
42 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Is ethics a memetic trap ?

George3d623 Apr 2020 10:49 UTC
6 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA20 Apr 2020 1:08 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Case for Brain-Only Preservation

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2023 22:01 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(biostasis.substack.com)

[Question] How wor­ried are the rele­vant ex­perts about a mag­netic pole re­ver­sal?

Sunny from QAD7 Oct 2020 16:19 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

What does your philos­o­phy max­i­mize?

Antb1 Mar 2024 16:10 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The fun­nel of hu­man experience

eukaryote10 Oct 2018 2:46 UTC
83 points
31 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More—The Animation

Writer21 Apr 2023 15:48 UTC
47 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

fin7 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Seek­ing (Paid) Case Stud­ies on Standards

HoldenKarnofsky26 May 2023 17:58 UTC
69 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Can you gain weird­ness points?

NicholasKross31 Jul 2020 3:41 UTC
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Com­mis­sion for Stop­ping Fur­ther Im­prove­ments: A let­ter of note from Isam­bard K. Brunel

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
39 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

“Now here’s why I’m punch­ing you...”

philh16 Oct 2018 21:30 UTC
28 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] Recom­mended book for a bal­anced take and les­sons learned from covid pan­demic response

Martin Hare Robertson13 Mar 2024 18:14 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Po­lice vi­o­lence: The veil of darkness

dynomight12 Oct 2020 21:32 UTC
4 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

Light­ness and Unease

TurnTrout21 Mar 2018 5:24 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

JonahS8 Jun 2013 2:31 UTC
16 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Click­bait Soapboxing

DaystarEld13 Mar 2024 14:09 UTC
22 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(daystareld.com)

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

Ruby21 Jun 2014 16:32 UTC
26 points
20 comments9 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Effi­cient Mar­kets in Poli­ti­cal Power

johnswentworth1 Aug 2020 4:49 UTC
42 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Ca­ma­raderie at scale: in search of shared identity

eq24 Apr 2023 16:46 UTC
8 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Short­est Path Between Scylla and Charybdis

Thane Ruthenis18 Dec 2023 20:08 UTC
50 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

I’d also take $7 trillion

bhauth19 Feb 2024 3:31 UTC
43 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween GAI and a gov­ern­ment?

DirectedEvolution21 Oct 2020 23:04 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Re­ply to a fer­til­ity doc­tor con­cern­ing poly­genic em­bryo screening

GeneSmith29 May 2023 21:50 UTC
58 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

An at­tempt to list out my core val­ues and virtues

Ruby9 Jun 2019 20:02 UTC
26 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

Scott Alexander8 Aug 2009 22:57 UTC
84 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Why Hunt­ing­ton-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why didn’t vi­rol­o­gists run the stud­ies nec­es­sary to de­ter­mine which viruses are air­borne?

ChristianKl20 Jun 2023 11:58 UTC
28 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

FUTARCHY NOW BABY

sapphire17 Feb 2024 0:03 UTC
−21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

On the Dangers of Time Travel

lsusr27 Oct 2020 3:57 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC
49 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC
147 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is a near-term, self-sus­tain­ing Mars colony im­pos­si­ble?

ESRogs3 Jun 2020 22:43 UTC
13 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Who reg­u­lates the reg­u­la­tors? We need to go be­yond the re­view-and-ap­proval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC
122 points
29 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tear­ing down the Ch­ester­ton’s Fence principle

DirectedEvolution2 Aug 2020 4:56 UTC
35 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­tinc­tion-level Good­hart’s Law as a Prop­erty of the Environment

21 Feb 2024 17:56 UTC
23 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Do you work at an AI lab? Please quit

Nik Samoylov5 May 2023 23:41 UTC
−29 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

jacobjacob4 Jun 2020 21:06 UTC
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC
78 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

What’s wrong with be­ing dumb?

Adam Zerner7 May 2023 18:31 UTC
14 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Emer­gency Cen­tral Planning

jefftk28 Apr 2020 0:50 UTC
16 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Re­peat Un­til Broke

gilch13 Aug 2020 7:19 UTC
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing as a tool for teach­ing the gen­eral pub­lic to make bet­ter judge­ments?

Dominik Hajduk | České priority9 May 2023 17:35 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Sum­maries of top fo­rum posts (1st to 7th May 2023)

Zoe Williams9 May 2023 9:30 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

To­tal horse takeover

KatjaGrace5 Nov 2019 0:10 UTC
98 points
14 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.com)

Team Co­he­sion and Ex­clu­sion­ary Egalitarianism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)17 Sep 2018 4:48 UTC
31 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Beyond the Data: Why aid to poor doesn’t work

Lyrongolem25 Oct 2023 5:03 UTC
2 points
31 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How should one feel morally about us­ing chat­bots?

Adam Zerner11 May 2023 1:01 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Max­ipok — good re­flec­tive gov­er­nance as a tar­get for action

owencb15 Mar 2024 22:22 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Golden Age of Build­ing? Ex­cerpts and les­sons from Em­pire State, Pen­tagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

jacobjacob1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC
181 points
23 comments24 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
45 points
7 comments32 min readLW link

Ret­ro­spec­tive: Les­sons from the Failed Align­ment Startup AISafety.com

Søren Elverlin12 May 2023 18:07 UTC
104 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Oc­clu­sions of Mo­ral Knowledge

herschel25 Dec 2023 5:55 UTC
−1 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(brothernin.substack.com)

RT-LAMP is the right way to scale di­ag­nos­tic test­ing for the coronavirus

Kevin4 Aug 2020 10:05 UTC
35 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­for­ma­tive trust­build­ing via ad­vance­ments in de­cen­tral­ized lie detection

trevor16 Mar 2024 5:56 UTC
14 points
7 comments38 min readLW link
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

Philosophistry4 Aug 2020 6:48 UTC
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Prop­erty as Co­or­di­na­tion Minimization

Vaniver4 Aug 2020 19:24 UTC
38 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

Open Agency model can solve the AI reg­u­la­tion dilemma

Roman Leventov8 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, Ped­a­gogy, and “Vibes”: Quick Thoughts

NicholasKross15 Jul 2023 2:09 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The Army of Jakoths (a parable)

MikkW21 May 2023 22:48 UTC
−6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral in­tu­itions are sur­pris­ingly variable

Bob Baker26 Dec 2020 19:50 UTC
21 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

lukeprog24 Aug 2013 5:57 UTC
26 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

AISC5 Ret­ro­spec­tive: Mechanisms for Avoid­ing Tragedy of the Com­mons in Com­mon Pool Re­source Problems

27 Sep 2021 16:46 UTC
8 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Some re­cent in­ter­views with AI/​math lu­mi­nar­ies.

fowlertm4 Mar 2021 1:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

High Challenge

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Dec 2008 0:51 UTC
67 points
75 comments4 min readLW link

Sanc­tu­ary for Humans

nikola27 Oct 2023 18:08 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

On R0

Zvi7 Apr 2020 23:20 UTC
63 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Selec­tive Breed­ing is a Bad Way to do Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith5 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC
12 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

02/​28/​2021 - Myan­mar Diaries; Context

Tim Liptrot28 Feb 2021 20:00 UTC
33 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

When Does Altru­ism Strengthen Altru­ism?

jefftk21 Jan 2024 18:50 UTC
44 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC
223 points
86 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

The ethics of breed­ing to kill

George3d66 Sep 2020 20:12 UTC
−4 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli Tyre14 Jun 2020 1:38 UTC
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC
233 points
52 comments11 min readLW link

Links for Feb 2021

ike1 Mar 2021 5:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

Sub­jec­tivism and moral authority

Joe Carlsmith1 Mar 2021 9:02 UTC
22 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

Take­aways from one year of lockdown

mingyuan1 Mar 2021 3:53 UTC
191 points
86 comments6 min readLW link

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

jefftk22 Mar 2023 18:40 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

When I left Google

jefftk28 Feb 2021 21:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A For­mula for the Value of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Reduction

harsimony2 Mar 2021 18:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Question] What does “tor­ture vs. dust specks” im­ply for in­sect suffer­ing?

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Flex­i­bil­ity and the Singularity

Jonathan Moregård18 Jan 2024 15:29 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

[Question] “New EA cause area: vot­ing”; or, “what’s wrong with this calcu­la­tion?”

Optimization Process26 Feb 2021 16:50 UTC
18 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

We’ve built Con­nected Papers—a vi­sual tool for re­searchers to find and ex­plore aca­demic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC
209 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

The “hard” prob­lem of con­scious­ness is the least in­ter­est­ing prob­lem of consciousness

Hazard8 Jun 2020 19:00 UTC
17 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

The de­spair of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 23:07 UTC
30 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

[Question] Can you be 100% con­fi­dent in your moral be­liefs?

MaxG27 Feb 2021 0:23 UTC
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Memo on some ne­glected topics

Lukas Finnveden11 Nov 2023 2:01 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Accidents

Rodrigo Fernandes6 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
0 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Drown­ing Child

Tomás B.22 Oct 2023 16:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Texas Freeze Ret­ro­spec­tive & Emer­gency Plan­ning (Non-Tex­ans Wel­come!)

jchan25 Feb 2021 0:05 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Above the Narrative

Jacob Falkovich25 Feb 2021 4:37 UTC
23 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Never Go Full Kelly

SimonM25 Feb 2021 12:53 UTC
49 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

What is the VIX?

Annapurna26 Feb 2021 1:05 UTC
21 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter win­ter 2020-2021: free vac­cines for for­eign­ers, bird flu out­break, one more nu­clear near-miss in the past and one now, new AGI in­sti­tute.

avturchin1 Mar 2021 16:35 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Texas Freeze Ret­ro­spec­tive: meetup notes

jchan3 Mar 2021 14:48 UTC
68 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

My at­tempt to find the mean­ing of existence

PeterL13 Mar 2021 17:13 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could de­googling be a prac­tice run for some­thing more im­por­tant?

Quinn17 Apr 2021 0:03 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC
49 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Cer­e­mony In­tro + ] Darkness

Ruby21 Feb 2021 18:06 UTC
26 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC
78 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

In­tro to the Wed­ding Sequence

Ruby21 Feb 2021 18:06 UTC
54 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

I’m a 19-year-old Ter­mi­nal Pa­tient. Med­i­cal Brain Preser­va­tion Should not be Difficult to Dis­cuss or Adopt

oge23 Feb 2021 0:42 UTC
37 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.brainpreservation.org)

[Question] What are the most pow­er­ful lo­tuses?

ForensicOceanography20 Feb 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­clu­sions of Mo­ral Knowledge

herschel25 Dec 2023 5:55 UTC
−1 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(brothernin.substack.com)

Re­marks on moral­ity, shud­der­ing, judg­ing, friend­ship and the law

KatjaGrace21 Feb 2021 8:10 UTC
22 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Utili­tar­ian dop­pel­gangers vs. mak­ing ev­ery­thing smell like bananas

Rob Bensinger20 Feb 2021 23:57 UTC
22 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

AGI x An­i­mal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Op­por­tu­nity?

simeon_c28 Jun 2023 20:44 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Do You Want the Com­plex­ity in the Tools or in Their Usage?

mxshn31 Dec 2020 10:58 UTC
7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Prin­ci­ples of Agile Rationalism

DirectedEvolution21 Feb 2021 1:47 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kelly isn’t (just) about log­a­r­ith­mic utility

SimonM23 Feb 2021 12:12 UTC
34 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Oliver Sipple

KatjaGrace19 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
105 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

In­ter­net En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy on Ethics of Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Kaj_Sotala20 Feb 2021 13:54 UTC
15 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(iep.utm.edu)

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 22:04 UTC
17 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

One sys­temic failure in particular

MoritzG28 May 2020 5:25 UTC
−3 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Us­ing Bet­ting Mar­kets to Make Decisions

pku19 Feb 2021 19:39 UTC
8 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

On the Na­ture of Reputation

Martin Sustrik20 Feb 2021 12:50 UTC
18 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Cor­rectly Cal­ibrated Trust

habryka24 Jun 2023 19:48 UTC
36 points
3 comments11 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Pre­dicted Land Value Tax: a bet­ter tax than an unim­proved land value tax

michaelcohen27 May 2020 13:40 UTC
21 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are we pre­pared for So­lar Storms?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel17 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­ket Misconceptions

gilch20 Aug 2020 4:46 UTC
27 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

AMA: Earn­ing to Give

jefftk7 Nov 2023 16:20 UTC
52 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Stock mar­ket hints for 2021 from past crashes

bfinn30 Dec 2020 20:05 UTC
19 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The Ul­ti­ma­tum Game

thetwelve18 Feb 2021 18:36 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Coffee trucks: a brilli­ant idea that some­one should do?

KatjaGrace20 Feb 2021 7:50 UTC
17 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Gran­d­est Vi­sion for Hu­man­ity (Light)

Ruby24 Feb 2021 7:15 UTC
27 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(hackernoon.com)

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal Models of Progress?

abramdemski16 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
28 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Amiability

David Gross15 Feb 2021 19:34 UTC
16 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2007 3:02 UTC
70 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

The Me­dian is Less than the Average

lsusr15 Feb 2021 2:28 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Gaia Net­work: a prac­ti­cal, in­cre­men­tal path­way to Open Agency Architecture

20 Dec 2023 17:11 UTC
15 points
8 comments16 min readLW link

Con­tact with reality

Joe Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC
28 points
3 comments21 min readLW link

Re­mem­ber that to value some­thing in­finitely is usu­ally to give it a finite dol­lar value

KatjaGrace16 Feb 2021 6:40 UTC
24 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Dem­i­na­tal­ist To­tal Utilitarianism

Vanessa Kosoy16 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC
71 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA14 Feb 2021 8:40 UTC
17 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Public Choice and the Altru­ist’s Burden

Roko22 Jul 2010 21:34 UTC
35 points
101 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What can cur­rently be done about the “flood­ing the zone” is­sue?

the gears to ascension20 May 2020 1:02 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

I wrote this be­cause of watermelon

Arti8 Jun 2023 3:55 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Progress Stud­ies for Young Schol­ars, an on­line sum­mer pro­gram in the his­tory of technology

jasoncrawford20 May 2020 0:52 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Biose­cu­rity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Steve Newman27 Feb 2024 18:45 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(www.safe.ai)

The Fu­ture of Nu­clear Arms Con­trol?

Gentzel15 Feb 2021 1:50 UTC
28 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Don’t en­courage pris­on­ers dilemmas

Yair Halberstadt16 Feb 2021 6:33 UTC
8 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Utilons vs. Hedons

Psychohistorian10 Aug 2009 19:20 UTC
39 points
119 comments6 min readLW link

Why I’m Skep­ti­cal About Un­proven Causes (And You Should Be Too)

Peter Wildeford29 Jul 2013 9:09 UTC
42 points
98 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What do benefi­cial TDT trades for hu­man­ity con­cretely look like?

Stephen Fowler10 Jun 2023 6:50 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why didn’t vi­rol­o­gists run the stud­ies nec­es­sary to de­ter­mine which viruses are air­borne?

ChristianKl20 Jun 2023 11:58 UTC
28 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Utility is not the se­lec­tion target

tailcalled4 Nov 2023 22:48 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Dial of Progress

Zvi13 Jun 2023 13:40 UTC
159 points
117 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

100 Tips for a Bet­ter Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC
422 points
130 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Light­cone In­fras­truc­ture/​LessWrong is look­ing for funding

habryka14 Jun 2023 4:45 UTC
202 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Help wanted: Im­prov­ing COVID-19 con­tact-trac­ing by es­ti­mat­ing res­pi­ra­tory droplets

Steven Byrnes22 May 2020 14:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Re­la­tional Speaking

jefftk21 Jun 2023 14:40 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Devel­op­ing a tech­nol­ogy with safety in mind: Les­sons from the Wright Brothers

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
30 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Mo­ral­ity as “Co­or­di­na­tion”, vs “Do-Good­ing”

Raemon29 Dec 2020 2:37 UTC
75 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

What is democ­racy for?

Johnstone7 Nov 2023 18:17 UTC
−5 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Semaglu­tide is cool, but no one wants to talk about b. an­i­malis ssp. lac­tis?

CraigMichael15 Feb 2021 9:50 UTC
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Things a Katja-so­ciety might try (Part 2)

KatjaGrace13 Feb 2021 9:20 UTC
14 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

High­lights from the Black­mail De­bate (Robin Han­son vs Zvi Mow­show­itz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

The Eco­nomics of Media

lsusr13 Feb 2021 23:11 UTC
63 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­ply to Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds now

Jonas Vollmer13 Feb 2021 13:36 UTC
26 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Donate Now vs Donate Later—Rel­a­tive Value of Dona­tions to AI Alignment

AlignmentOptimizer24 Jun 2023 17:20 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­sis Boot Camp: les­sons learned and im­pli­ca­tions for EA

Nicole Ross24 Jun 2023 6:28 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Grant ap­pli­ca­tions and grand narratives

Elizabeth2 Jul 2023 0:16 UTC
188 points
20 comments6 min readLW link

Another med­i­cal miracle

Dentin25 Jun 2023 20:43 UTC
177 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

SpaceX will have mas­sive im­pact in the next decade

ChristianKl31 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
36 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Man­i­fund: 2023 in Review

Austin Chen18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(manifund.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Drug-Ap­proval Denationalization

ChristianKl30 Dec 2020 22:09 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Good job op­por­tu­ni­ties for helping with the most im­por­tant century

HoldenKarnofsky18 Jan 2024 17:30 UTC
34 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Our Need for Need

eapache29 May 2020 11:12 UTC
31 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The Glory Sys­tem: A Model For Mo­ral Cur­rency And Distributed Self-Moderation

Darklight19 Feb 2021 16:42 UTC
7 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Land Recla­ma­tion is in the 9th Cir­cle of Stag­na­tion Hell

Maxwell Tabarrok12 Jan 2024 13:36 UTC
54 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Trust-Build­ing: The New Ra­tion­al­ity Project

DirectedEvolution28 May 2020 22:53 UTC
39 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Open Agency model can solve the AI reg­u­la­tion dilemma

Roman Leventov8 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

my the­ory of the in­dus­trial revolution

bhauth28 Feb 2024 21:07 UTC
13 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Nega­tivity en­hances positivity

Adam Zerner2 Jul 2023 2:47 UTC
12 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The ecol­ogy of conviction

KatjaGrace14 Feb 2021 1:30 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­sons for Hu­mans in the Age of X-Risk

Damin Curtis4 Jul 2023 18:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] The liter­a­ture on alu­minum ad­ju­vants is very sus­pi­cious. Small IQ tax is plau­si­ble—can any ex­perts help me es­ti­mate it?

mikes4 Jul 2023 9:33 UTC
58 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

jacobjacob4 Jun 2020 21:06 UTC
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

[Question] Is a near-term, self-sus­tain­ing Mars colony im­pos­si­ble?

ESRogs3 Jun 2020 22:43 UTC
13 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­mized for Some­thing other than Win­ning or: How Cricket Re­sists Moloch and Good­hart’s Law

A.H.5 Jul 2023 12:33 UTC
53 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] im­pli­ca­tions of NN de­sign for education

bhauth4 Jun 2023 20:50 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

wis­domism: an un­der­rated moral theory

Peter lawless 5 Jul 2023 17:39 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC
412 points
35 comments5 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Ex­po­nen­tial growth is the baseline

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2021 2:08 UTC
27 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA20 Apr 2020 1:08 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

What does your philos­o­phy max­i­mize?

Antb1 Mar 2024 16:10 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ba­sic Mindsets

ExCeph6 Jun 2020 0:44 UTC
2 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Why have ex­po­sure no­tifi­ca­tion apps been (mostly) dis­con­tinued?

VipulNaik9 Jul 2023 19:07 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ages Sur­vey: Results

jefftk5 Jun 2023 2:10 UTC
57 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situ­a­tion?

Q Home8 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Geo: Cal­ifor­nia/​Bay Area] Mini-Re­search of 2020 Fire Situation

Ruby23 Aug 2020 5:13 UTC
71 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Pos­tel’s Prin­ci­ple as Mo­ral Aphorism

eapache23 Aug 2020 19:36 UTC
15 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Chart­ing Is Mostly Superstition

gilch23 Aug 2020 20:26 UTC
33 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

In bal­ance and flux

KatjaGrace11 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Split-a-Dol­lar Game

Martin Sustrik24 Aug 2020 4:54 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In­vest­ment is a use­ful so­cietal mechanism for get­ting new things made. Stock trad­ing shares some func­tion­al­ity with in­vest­ment, but seems very very in­effi­cient, at that?

mako yass24 Aug 2020 1:18 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Nice Things

Zvi31 Mar 2018 12:30 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Best Toy In The Park

jefftk25 Aug 2020 14:30 UTC
25 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Are We Right about How Effec­tive Mock­ery Is?

Ronny Fernandez27 Aug 2020 10:48 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Why you should min­i­max in two-player zero-sum games

Nisan17 May 2020 20:48 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics p(suc­cess) es­ti­mates are only weakly as­so­ci­ated with in­ter­est in pur­su­ing cry­on­ics in the LW 2023 Survey

Andy_McKenzie29 Feb 2024 14:47 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

AI should be used to find bet­ter morality

Jorterder2 Jun 2023 20:38 UTC
−20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on Neu­ral­ink up­date?

NoUsernameSelected29 Aug 2020 22:59 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duce a Speed Maximum

jefftk11 Jan 2024 2:50 UTC
35 points
28 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Plans /​ prep­ping for pos­si­ble poli­ti­cal vi­o­lence from up­com­ing US elec­tion?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would you have a baby in 2024?

martinkunev25 Dec 2023 1:52 UTC
24 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter Sum­mer 2020

avturchin1 Sep 2020 14:06 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Class con­scious­ness for those against the class system

TekhneMakre8 Dec 2023 1:02 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

“PR” is cor­ro­sive; “rep­u­ta­tion” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
308 points
93 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Se­cond Ci­ti­zen­ships, Res­i­den­cies, and/​or Tem­po­rary Relocation

Josh Jacobson16 Feb 2021 19:24 UTC
72 points
30 comments39 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

AI, Con­scious­ness, and the prob­lem of Mo­ral Considerability

stultus16 Jul 2023 19:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Our val­ues are un­der­defined, change­able, and manipulable

Stuart_Armstrong2 Nov 2017 11:09 UTC
26 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Per­sua­sion Tournament

PeterMcCluskey17 Jul 2023 18:04 UTC
71 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

JoshuaFox13 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The God­dess of Every­thing Else—The Animation

Writer13 Jul 2023 16:26 UTC
142 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

List of pre­vi­ous pre­dic­tion mar­ket projects

jacobjacob22 Oct 2018 0:45 UTC
32 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(jacoblagerros.wordpress.com)

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC
194 points
86 comments19 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkoc16 Jun 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
329 points
1,274 comments29 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Loneli­ness and the para­dox of choice

DirectedEvolution9 Sep 2020 16:30 UTC
17 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Bring Back Free-Flow Valves

jefftk7 Feb 2021 3:50 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

trentbrick10 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC
21 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC
69 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Mas­sive consequences

KatjaGrace7 Feb 2021 5:30 UTC
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Progress: Fluke or trend?

jasoncrawford13 Sep 2020 0:21 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Re­quest]: Use “Epi­lo­gen­ics” in­stead of “Eu­gen­ics” in most circumstances

GeneSmith1 Jun 2023 15:36 UTC
39 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

An at­tempt to list out my core val­ues and virtues

Ruby9 Jun 2019 20:02 UTC
26 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] If Star­ship works, how much would it cost to cre­ate a sys­tem of rotable space mir­rors that re­duces tem­per­a­tures on earth by 1° C?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2020 18:46 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­space optima

Chris van Merwijk15 May 2020 12:38 UTC
61 points
7 comments1 min readLW link1 review

The Ax­iolog­i­cal Treadmill

eapache15 Sep 2020 18:36 UTC
6 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[not on­go­ing] Thoughts on Pro­por­tional vot­ing methods

Jameson Quinn22 Jul 2020 2:46 UTC
32 points
53 comments46 min readLW link

[Question] For what X would you be in­differ­ent be­tween liv­ing X days, but for­get­ting your day at the end of ev­ery­day, or liv­ing 10 days? (ter­mi­nally)

Mati_Roy18 Sep 2020 4:05 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pan­sive trans­la­tions: con­sid­er­a­tions and possibilities

ozziegooen18 Sep 2020 15:39 UTC
43 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Against Victimhood

Jacob Falkovich18 Sep 2020 1:58 UTC
85 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Fore­cast­ing Thread: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Amandango22 Sep 2020 3:44 UTC
43 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?

eapache20 Jun 2020 18:23 UTC
44 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

sen26 Sep 2020 13:41 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Care and demandingness

Joe Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 7:03 UTC
25 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

Distributed pub­lic goods provision

paulfchristiano26 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC
26 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Don’t pun­ish your­self for bad luck

Sherrinford24 Jun 2020 21:52 UTC
16 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

A $10k retroac­tive grant for VaccinateCA

Austin Chen27 Jul 2023 18:14 UTC
80 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(manifund.org)

Un­der­wa­ter Tor­ture Cham­bers: The Hor­ror Of Fish Farming

omnizoid26 Jul 2023 0:27 UTC
80 points
49 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk?

Jia29 Sep 2020 19:31 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Life Ex­ten­sion Ad­vo­cacy Foundation

emanuele ascani30 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
7 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

In­sti­tu­tional Senescence

Martin Sustrik26 Jun 2020 4:40 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Ex­ploit­ing Crypto Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets for Fun and Profit

Srdjan Miletic13 Mar 2021 2:31 UTC
31 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Atem­po­ral Eth­i­cal Obligations

eapache26 Jun 2020 19:52 UTC
13 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Phys­i­cal­ism im­plies ex­pe­rience never dies. So what am I go­ing to ex­pe­rience af­ter it does?

Szymon Kucharski14 Mar 2021 14:45 UTC
−1 points
1 comment30 min readLW link

Pri­vacy in a Digi­tal World

Faustify27 Jul 2023 10:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

SSA vs. SIA: how fu­ture pop­u­la­tion may provide ev­i­dence for or against the foun­da­tions of poli­ti­cal liberalism

j30 Jul 2023 20:18 UTC
−6 points
10 comments55 min readLW link

The Illu­sion of Eth­i­cal Progress

lsusr28 Jun 2020 9:33 UTC
0 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­tional Defense Autho­riza­tion Act Con­tains AI Provisions

ryan_b5 Jan 2021 15:51 UTC
30 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on shar­ing in­for­ma­tion about lan­guage model capabilities

paulfchristiano31 Jul 2023 16:04 UTC
191 points
34 comments11 min readLW link

How to not be an alarmist

DirectedEvolution30 Sep 2020 21:35 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

“Is There Any­thing That’s Worth More”

Zack_M_Davis2 Aug 2023 3:28 UTC
64 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Poli­tics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
282 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Is there any met­ric mea­sur­ing ~”pro­por­tion of peo­ple cre­at­ing ex­tra value”?

Amal 3 Aug 2023 22:54 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing Virus Rel­a­tive Abun­dance in Wastewater

jefftk10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(naobservatory.org)

Con­spicu­ous saving

Matthew Barnett20 Mar 2021 20:59 UTC
49 points
42 comments2 min readLW link
(matthewbarnett.substack.com)

The Perver­sity of High Standards

SocratesDissatisfied27 Dec 2020 14:37 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

What should we do about net­work-effect mo­nop­o­lies?

benkuhn6 Jul 2020 0:40 UTC
49 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective Altruism10 Jan 2024 5:55 UTC
46 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

What is progress?

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2024 16:28 UTC
10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Creat­ing AGI Safety Interlocks

Koen.Holtman5 Feb 2021 12:01 UTC
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

The Benev­olent Ruler’s Hand­book (Part 1): The Policy Problem

FCCC6 Aug 2023 3:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
125 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

Money Buys Happiness

XxX25 Mar 2021 21:02 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC
143 points
23 comments25 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vio­lat­ing the EMH—Pre­dic­tion Markets

sapphire28 Mar 2021 4:05 UTC
40 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Weird Things About Money

abramdemski3 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC
79 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

AI race con­sid­er­a­tions in a re­port by the U.S. House Com­mit­tee on Armed Services

NunoSempere4 Oct 2020 12:11 UTC
42 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Does 3-2-1 Vot­ing work us­ing a six point scale?

TGetschman7 Jul 2020 21:06 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Rise and Fall of Amer­i­can Growth: A summary

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2020 21:41 UTC
58 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Nor­mal­iza­tion of Deviance

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2020 22:58 UTC
62 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Forc­ing Freedom

vlad.proex6 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Open Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the Days of Mal­i­cious On­line Actors

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 16:30 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] How wor­ried are the rele­vant ex­perts about a mag­netic pole re­ver­sal?

Sunny from QAD7 Oct 2020 16:19 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing micro-biostasis

Mati_Roy7 Oct 2020 10:55 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Can we hold in­tel­lec­tu­als to similar pub­lic stan­dards as ath­letes?

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC
84 points
48 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

fin7 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Up­side de­cay—why some peo­ple never get lucky

brianlui8 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
42 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] If GPT-6 is hu­man-level AGI but costs $200 per page of out­put, what would hap­pen?

Daniel Kokotajlo9 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
28 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Nar­row your an­swer space

Vaniver28 Dec 2010 11:38 UTC
33 points
110 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Is liber­tar­i­anism un­sus­tain­able? Why?

Vishrut Arya10 Oct 2020 2:09 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

My Men­tal Model of Infohazards

MadHatter23 Nov 2023 2:37 UTC
7 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Fore­sight In­sti­tute: 2023 Progress & 2024 Plans for fund­ing benefi­cial tech­nol­ogy development

Allison Duettmann22 Nov 2023 22:09 UTC
24 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] How much to worry about the US elec­tion un­rest?

AspiringRationalist12 Oct 2020 3:39 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Po­lice vi­o­lence: The veil of darkness

dynomight12 Oct 2020 21:32 UTC
4 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

Sto­ries About Progress

Ben Pace8 Sep 2019 23:07 UTC
28 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

[Question] Have the lock­downs been worth it?

12 Oct 2020 23:35 UTC
70 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
162 points
33 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Tech­nol­ogy and its side effects

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2020 20:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Planecrash Podcast

planecrashpodcast3 Apr 2023 4:34 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

Quinn8 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Elec­tion Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Given the Restrict Act, Don’t Ban TikTok

Zvi4 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC
97 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

It’s hard to use util­ity max­i­miza­tion to jus­tify cre­at­ing new sen­tient beings

dynomight19 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
10 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] What is the most effec­tive anti-tyranny char­ity?

lc15 Aug 2023 15:26 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The ir­rele­vance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomight15 Apr 2021 14:15 UTC
111 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga Babeeva20 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

Zvi21 Oct 2020 18:10 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween GAI and a gov­ern­ment?

DirectedEvolution21 Oct 2020 23:04 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The bads of ads

KatjaGrace23 Oct 2020 5:50 UTC
105 points
38 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Should we use qual­ifiers in speech?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
35 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Pow­er­less Mo­ral Evaluation

SocratesDissatisfied23 Oct 2020 10:44 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Sto­ries About Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2019 18:40 UTC
34 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Why Hunt­ing­ton-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­creas­ing Iso­la­tion Again

jefftk25 Oct 2020 13:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Models pre­dict­ing sig­nifi­cant vi­o­lence in the US?

kdbscott25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
54 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Whence the symp­toms of so­cial me­dia?

KatjaGrace27 Oct 2020 7:30 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

On the Dangers of Time Travel

lsusr27 Oct 2020 3:57 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seed27 Oct 2020 19:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How likely is the COVID-19 apoc­a­lyp­tic sce­nario?

Roko Jelavić22 Apr 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What risks con­cern you which don’t seem to have been se­ri­ously con­sid­ered by the com­mu­nity?

plex28 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
17 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light in Public Spaces to Fight Pan­demic is a Good Idea but Premature

Kirby Sikes14 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC
42 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Early ca­reer choices to max­imise learn­ing?

Eugleo4 Feb 2021 13:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are clini­cal tri­als so ex­pen­sive?

ChristianKl5 Feb 2021 0:10 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Fresh FAQ on GiveWiki and Im­pact Mar­kets Generally

Dawn Drescher6 Apr 2023 14:02 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(impactmarkets.substack.com)

How AI Will Change Education

robotelvis28 Feb 2024 5:30 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

Against ac­cus­ing peo­ple of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC
42 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Bet­ter air is the eas­iest way not to die

digital_carver28 Apr 2021 10:24 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] Who can most re­duce X-Risk?

sudhanshu_kasewa28 Aug 2023 14:38 UTC
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are good elec­tion bet­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 7:19 UTC
32 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Prob­a­bil­ity of Suc­cess?

Peter Wildeford1 Aug 2013 11:42 UTC
35 points
146 comments1 min readLW link

As Few As Possible

Decius10 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
1 point
13 comments2 min readLW link

Long Now, and Cul­ture vs Artifacts

Raemon3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC
26 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

jefftk30 Aug 2023 16:40 UTC
103 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Notes on Awe

David Gross4 Mar 2024 20:23 UTC
20 points
1 comment31 min readLW link

Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC
22 points
2 comments17 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Oc­to­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Should stu­dents be al­lowed to give good teach­ers a bonus?

DirectedEvolution2 Nov 2020 0:19 UTC
25 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on Mot

Richard_Ngo4 Dec 2023 0:19 UTC
52 points
11 comments8 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Sur­face Thoughts Suck

Dach2 Nov 2020 13:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
101 points
3 comments14 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

[Linkpost] Michael Niel­sen re­marks on ‘Op­pen­heimer’

22tom31 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC
78 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(michaelnotebook.com)

Mo­ral­ity is Ac­ci­den­tal & Self-Congratulatory

ymeskhout29 May 2023 0:40 UTC
25 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

Dumb di­chotomies in ethics, part 2: in­stru­men­tal vs. in­trin­sic values

Aaron Bergman7 May 2021 2:31 UTC
7 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Paus­ing AI Devel­op­ments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC
238 points
38 comments12 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald8 May 2021 11:44 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC
67 points
65 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Notes on Reverence

David Gross4 Nov 2020 1:35 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

A Golden Age of Build­ing? Ex­cerpts and les­sons from Em­pire State, Pen­tagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

jacobjacob1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC
181 points
23 comments24 min readLW link

Notes on Jus­tice (as a virtue)

David Gross5 Nov 2020 20:27 UTC
6 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

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

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC
157 points
52 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Con­cern­ing not get­ting lost

Alex Flint14 May 2021 19:38 UTC
50 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Three Open Prob­lems in Aging

johnswentworth7 Nov 2020 19:39 UTC
48 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Re­ply to a fer­til­ity doc­tor con­cern­ing poly­genic em­bryo screening

GeneSmith29 May 2023 21:50 UTC
58 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Nu­clear war is un­likely to cause hu­man extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC
123 points
47 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

Speak­ing of the effi­ciency of utopia

KatjaGrace3 Feb 2021 17:10 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Is cor­rup­tion a valuable an­ti­dote to over­reg­u­la­tion?

ChristianKl8 Nov 2020 12:15 UTC
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

The small­est pos­si­ble but­ton (or: moth traps!)

Neil 2 Sep 2023 15:24 UTC
111 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(neilwarren.substack.com)

Com­pet­i­tive Univer­sal Ba­sic Ser­vices?

Gentzel9 Nov 2020 3:20 UTC
13 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

The Story of the Reichstag

Martin Sustrik5 Feb 2021 5:51 UTC
94 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arse­nals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevin4 Sep 2023 19:02 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Mak­ing Ex­per­tise Leg­ible: Be­ing right should make you re­spected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC
6 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

De­fund­ing My Mistake

ymeskhout4 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
167 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS prox­ies with Starlink

ChristianKl17 May 2021 15:05 UTC
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What Would Ad­vanced So­cial Tech­nol­ogy Look Like?

johnswentworth10 Nov 2020 17:55 UTC
44 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

The pur­pose of the (Mo­saic) law

mruwnik4 Sep 2023 23:38 UTC
7 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

The Illu­sion of Univer­sal Mo­ral­ity: A Dy­namic Per­spec­tive on Ge­netic Fit­ness and Eth­i­cal Complexity

George3605 Sep 2023 17:47 UTC
−9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How big of an is­sue are patent trolls to the av­er­age startup?

ChristianKl16 Jul 2020 11:31 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Tweet mar­kets for im­per­sonal truth track­ing?

KatjaGrace10 Nov 2020 7:10 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Are the so­cial sci­ences challeng­ing be­cause of fun­da­men­tal difficul­ties or be­cause of im­posed ones?

ozziegooen10 Nov 2020 4:56 UTC
56 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Re: Some Heroes

lsusr12 May 2020 9:30 UTC
43 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Sen­tience matters

So8res29 May 2023 21:25 UTC
139 points
93 comments2 min readLW link

How can we lobby to get a vac­cine dis­tributed faster?

Tim Liptrot11 Nov 2020 21:01 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble Diver­gence in AGI Risk Tol­er­ance be­tween Selfish and Altru­is­tic agents

Brad West 9 Sep 2023 0:23 UTC
1 point
1 comment2 min readLW link

The World is Full of Wasted Motion

Neel Nanda2 Feb 2021 19:02 UTC
27 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Book re­view: Age Later

PeterMcCluskey27 Oct 2020 4:21 UTC
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

[Question] What would flour­ish­ing look like in Con­way’s Game of Life?

sudhanshu_kasewa12 May 2020 11:22 UTC
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing (Paid) Case Stud­ies on Standards

HoldenKarnofsky26 May 2023 17:58 UTC
69 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

The Rube Gold­berg Ma­chine of Morality

DirectedEvolution6 Jan 2021 20:24 UTC
11 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
173 points
32 comments11 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter spring 21

avturchin1 Jun 2021 12:10 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient doesn’t mean in­differ­ent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment as a trans­la­tion problem

Roman Leventov5 Feb 2024 14:14 UTC
21 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Scrap­ing web­sites cur­rently free due to coronavirus

emmab14 Apr 2020 7:37 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Nat­u­ral Disaster Forecasting

GeoVane16 Sep 2023 17:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

Co­hab­itive Games so Far

mako yass28 Sep 2023 15:41 UTC
102 points
110 comments19 min readLW link
(makopool.com)

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC
84 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

No Ul­ti­mate Goal and a Small Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

Logan Riggs24 Jul 2020 18:39 UTC
12 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Whole­some­ness and Effec­tive Altruism

owencb28 Feb 2024 20:28 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has there been any work done on the ethics of chang­ing peo­ple’s minds?

mcorvin3 Feb 2021 1:03 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

A book re­view for “An­i­mal Weapons” and cross-ap­ply­ing the les­sons to x-risk

Habeeb Abdulfatah30 May 2023 0:58 UTC
−6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.super-linear.org)

Spend­ing Up­date 2020

jefftk18 Aug 2020 1:40 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A lat­eral way of think­ing about Cause X: barely visi­ble but po­ten­tially enor­mous cat­e­gories of value

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:44 UTC
6 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is your coro­n­avirus pre­dic­tion for Is­rael?

Yair Halberstadt17 Jun 2021 19:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The UBI dystopia: a glimpse into the fu­ture via pre­sent-day abuses

Solenoid_Entity12 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC
52 points
73 comments4 min readLW link

As­sume long serv­ing poli­ti­ci­ans are ra­tio­nally max­i­miz­ing their careers

Tim Liptrot18 Jun 2021 15:15 UTC
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

As­set Prices Con­sis­tently Vio­late Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

Liron28 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(lt3000.blogspot.com)

Les­sons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkel6 Jan 2021 22:40 UTC
113 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC
22 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost/​Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World

g-w123 Sep 2023 1:18 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC
160 points
36 comments13 min readLW link1 review

On Car­ing about our AI Progeny

PeterMcCluskey14 Apr 2023 19:32 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Does davi­dad’s up­load­ing moon­shot work?

3 Nov 2023 2:21 UTC
145 points
32 comments25 min readLW link

Ex­tor­tion beats brinks­man­ship, but the au­di­ence matters

Stuart_Armstrong16 Nov 2020 21:13 UTC
27 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Honor

David Gross17 Nov 2020 5:25 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on Vot­ing Methods

abramdemski17 Nov 2020 20:23 UTC
61 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the af­ter­math of the US in­tel­li­gence lab leak re­port?

ChristianKl26 Jun 2021 20:33 UTC
20 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Jobs, Re­la­tion­ships, and Other Cults

13 Mar 2024 5:58 UTC
37 points
9 comments35 min readLW link

Can group iden­tity be a force for good?

Eric Neyman4 Jul 2021 17:16 UTC
22 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The topic is not the content

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC
178 points
24 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Fix­ing sci­ence via a ba­sic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
30 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Re: Com­pe­tent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC
49 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

The Wrong Side of Risk

gilch16 Aug 2020 3:50 UTC
22 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Longter­mism vs short-ter­mism for per­sonal life extension

Mati_Roy17 Jul 2021 3:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Why a Mars colony would lead to a first strike situation

Remmelt4 Oct 2023 11:29 UTC
−56 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(mflb.com)

Is ethics a memetic trap ?

George3d623 Apr 2020 10:49 UTC
6 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy for Hu­man Beings

lukeprog25 Jul 2011 7:27 UTC
49 points
86 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage Intuition

arxhy18 Nov 2020 1:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Introduction

lsusr18 Nov 2020 8:23 UTC
48 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Normativity

abramdemski18 Nov 2020 16:52 UTC
46 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

2020 Elec­tion: Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets ver­sus Pol­ling/​Model­ing Assess­ment and Postmortem

Zvi18 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC
71 points
17 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Help im­prove rea­son­ing eval­u­a­tion in in­tel­li­gence organisations

LThorburn11 May 2020 20:26 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

Slimepriestess14 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do you eval­u­ate whether a $500 dona­tion to a pro­ject that you know well is a good idea?

ChristianKl19 Nov 2020 12:42 UTC
34 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sua­sion Tools: AI takeover with­out AGI or agency?

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Nov 2020 16:54 UTC
75 points
25 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Epistemic Progress

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 19:58 UTC
61 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More—The Animation

Writer21 Apr 2023 15:48 UTC
47 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fire Law Incentives

jefftk22 Jul 2021 12:30 UTC
32 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

It’s not eco­nom­i­cally in­effi­cient for a UBI to re­duce re­cip­i­ent’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC
93 points
60 comments4 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Man­i­festo of the Silent Minority

lsusr24 Nov 2020 5:30 UTC
57 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Re­peat Un­til Broke

gilch13 Aug 2020 7:19 UTC
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Trans­par­ent Technologies

lsusr25 Nov 2020 2:19 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Squig­gle: Tech­ni­cal Overview

ozziegooen25 Nov 2020 20:51 UTC
18 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Can you gain weird­ness points?

NicholasKross31 Jul 2020 3:41 UTC
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Tomb­stone Men­tal­ity

SuperDaveWhite13 Aug 2020 13:46 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Nash Score for Vot­ing Techniques

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 19:29 UTC
20 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The­ory Of Change As A Hy­poth­e­sis: Choos­ing A High-Im­pact Path When You’re Uncertain

lynettebye28 Nov 2020 4:38 UTC
19 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Bostrom Buckle: Vi­su­al­is­ing the Vuln­er­a­ble World Hypothesis

Rosco-Hunter10 Oct 2023 18:29 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Giv­ing Tues­day 2020

jefftk30 Nov 2020 22:30 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Non-Book Re­view: Pat­terns of Conflict

johnswentworth30 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC
38 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Eth2 Stak­ing ex­plained as a Fi­nan­cial Instrument

Annapurna2 Dec 2020 3:33 UTC
18 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Light­ness and Unease

TurnTrout21 Mar 2018 5:24 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are in­dex funds still a good in­vest­ment?

Kaj_Sotala2 Dec 2020 21:31 UTC
38 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] The Sa­mu­rai and the Daimyo: A Use­ful Dy­namic?

Slimepriestess13 Apr 2020 22:38 UTC
35 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

AI Prob­lems Shared by Non-AI Systems

VojtaKovarik5 Dec 2020 22:15 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: In­creas­ing Intelligence

GeneSmith5 Dec 2020 22:06 UTC
36 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Pre-Hind­sight Prompt: Why did 2021 NOT bring a re­turn to nor­malcy?

mike_hawke6 Dec 2020 17:35 UTC
22 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Toward A Cul­ture of Persuasion

DirectedEvolution7 Dec 2020 2:42 UTC
17 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC
147 points
13 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Parable of the Dammed

johnswentworth10 Dec 2020 0:08 UTC
114 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What tech­nolo­gies could cause world GDP dou­bling times to be <8 years?

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Dec 2020 15:34 UTC
43 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal Blin­ders from Work­ing Within Systems

abramdemski10 Dec 2020 19:09 UTC
53 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Epistemic Warfare

Gentzel11 Dec 2020 3:50 UTC
55 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Death Pos­i­tive Movement

lejuletre11 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The Good Life Quantified

Jacob Falkovich11 Dec 2020 17:52 UTC
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Flynn Effect Clarified

PeterMcCluskey12 Dec 2020 5:18 UTC
34 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

On the stag­na­tion of en­ergy tech­nol­ogy and the Ca­bal of Scientists

df fd12 Dec 2020 4:24 UTC
5 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC
349 points
37 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(www.benkuhn.net)

Self polic­ing for self doubt

KatjaGrace7 Nov 2019 23:10 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Why quan­ti­ta­tive meth­ods are heartwarming

KatjaGrace12 Dec 2020 21:50 UTC
110 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to Lose a Fair Game

gilch14 Aug 2020 18:41 UTC
36 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

The Su­per­star Effect

Adam Zerner3 Jan 2015 6:11 UTC
12 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing the Roadmap to Whole Brain Emu­la­tion Part 6: NEURAL MODELING—Pa­tient Spe­cific Selec­tion, Fit­ting and Validation

oge15 Dec 2020 1:26 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(carboncopies.org)

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

Scott Alexander8 Aug 2009 22:57 UTC
84 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tion in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:18 UTC
39 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Might in­tel­li­gence de­crease among hu­man­ity?

throwawayaccount11112 Aug 2021 0:05 UTC
−3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC
24 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid

MikkW18 Dec 2020 0:56 UTC
21 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

FUTARCHY NOW BABY

sapphire17 Feb 2024 0:03 UTC
−21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pe­dophile Problems

rogersbacon15 Aug 2021 18:23 UTC
11 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

So­ci­aLLM: pro­posal for a lan­guage model de­sign for per­son­al­ised apps, so­cial sci­ence, and AI safety research

Roman Leventov19 Dec 2023 16:49 UTC
17 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

How to par­ti­tion teams to move fast? De­bat­ing “low-di­men­sional cuts”

13 Oct 2023 21:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Re­dun­dant Research

eg17 Aug 2021 12:17 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC
76 points
27 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Question] For­bid­den Technology

lsusr25 Apr 2020 7:20 UTC
22 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC
147 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

Bet­ter Pass­word Peppering

Yoav Ravid24 Aug 2021 10:19 UTC
6 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Should we be re­assess­ing the ar­gu­ment for global­iza­tion?

jmh26 Apr 2020 13:52 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Could you have stopped Ch­er­nobyl?

Carlos Ramirez27 Aug 2021 1:48 UTC
29 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

philh13 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC
41 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Is the Wave non-dis­par­age­ment thingy okay?

14 Oct 2023 5:31 UTC
29 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

We des­per­ately need to talk more about hu­man challenge tri­als.

DirectedEvolution19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC
29 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Who reg­u­lates the reg­u­la­tors? We need to go be­yond the re­view-and-ap­proval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC
122 points
29 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tear­ing down the Ch­ester­ton’s Fence principle

DirectedEvolution2 Aug 2020 4:56 UTC
35 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Geno­cide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC
26 points
19 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

How to Erad­i­cate Global Ex­treme Poverty [RA video with fundraiser!]

18 Oct 2023 15:51 UTC
50 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Grat­i­tude: Data and Anecdata

Dan Weinand20 Dec 2020 20:24 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice 2020

jefftk20 Dec 2020 23:20 UTC
81 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On Robin Han­son’s “So­cial Proof, but of What?”

Zvi20 Dec 2020 22:20 UTC
33 points
7 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Bab­ble Challenge: Not-So-Fu­ture Co­or­di­na­tion Tech

abramdemski21 Dec 2020 16:48 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Hard Would It Be To Make A COVID Vac­cine For One­self?

johnswentworth21 Dec 2020 16:19 UTC
117 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Should peo­ple build pro­duc­ti­za­tions of open source AI mod­els?

lc2 Nov 2023 1:26 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

When life was liter­ally full of crap

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2020 21:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

Joe Carlsmith23 Dec 2020 2:21 UTC
36 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Mo­ral moralizing

KatjaGrace23 Dec 2020 6:50 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Plan­ning Attacks

lsusr23 Dec 2020 21:52 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Change My View: In­cum­bent re­li­gions still get too much leeway

mike_hawke7 Jan 2021 19:44 UTC
34 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with the Tar­get­ing Aging with Met­formin (TAME) trial?

ChristianKl7 Jan 2021 23:31 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why the out­side view sug­gests that longevity es­cape ve­loc­ity is a long time away and cry­on­ics is a much more fea­si­ble op­tion for those al­ive to­day: sig­nal-boost­ing a com­ment by Calm-Meet9916 on Reddit

Synaptic8 Jan 2021 17:20 UTC
32 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Dumb Di­chotomies in Ethics, Part 1: In­ten­tions vs Consequences

Aaron Bergman29 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC
24 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Prac­ti­cal post on 4 #ProRep meth­ods (Pro­por­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tion)

Jameson Quinn9 Jan 2021 14:56 UTC
35 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

The Case for a Jour­nal of AI Alignment

adamShimi9 Jan 2021 18:13 UTC
45 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing as a tool for teach­ing the gen­eral pub­lic to make bet­ter judge­ments?

Dominik Hajduk | České priority9 May 2023 17:35 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How should you go about valu­ing your time?

Adam Zerner10 Jan 2021 6:54 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Utility func­tions with­out a maximum

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir11 Aug 2020 12:58 UTC
3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Shouldn’t it mat­ter to the vic­tim?

Joe Carlsmith11 Jan 2021 7:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Effi­ciency Wages: A Dou­ble-Edged Sword

Aaron Bergman11 Jan 2021 4:43 UTC
6 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
54 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Team Co­he­sion and Ex­clu­sion­ary Egalitarianism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)17 Sep 2018 4:48 UTC
31 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

The im­pact merge

Joe Carlsmith13 Jan 2021 7:26 UTC
48 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

What is the cur­rency of the fu­ture? 5 sug­ges­tions.

ViktorThink13 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC
18 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: How would you change your DNA?

Felix Karg14 Jan 2021 11:43 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Alie­na­tion and meta-ethics (or: is it pos­si­ble you should max­i­mize he­lium?)

Joe Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:07 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

AMA on EA Fo­rum: Ajeya Co­tra, re­searcher at Open Phil

Ajeya Cotra29 Jan 2021 23:05 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] What char­i­ties can I donate to for pre­vent­ing an­other pan­demic?

calsem15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Biolog­i­cal Warfare

lsusr15 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Ci­ti­zen­ship in a Republic

Theodore Roosevelt16 Jan 2021 1:33 UTC
12 points
3 comments29 min readLW link
(theodoreroosevelt.org)

To Spread Science, Keep It Secret

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2008 5:47 UTC
73 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you mea­sure con­for­mity?

lsusr17 Jan 2021 9:35 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
87 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

Kids and Mo­ral Agency

jefftk8 May 2020 12:50 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Ecolog­i­cal Perspective

Chris_Leong18 Jan 2021 1:19 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sta­tus as a Ser­vice (Done Quick)

GuySrinivasan16 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC
44 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

For Bet­ter Com­ment­ing, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution20 Jan 2021 1:11 UTC
76 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

A few thought on the in­ner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC
77 points
23 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A Sim­ple Ethics Model

Ideopunk22 Jan 2021 2:56 UTC
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­er­cise: Ta­boo “Should”

johnswentworth22 Jan 2021 21:02 UTC
96 points
28 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

Philosophistry4 Aug 2020 6:48 UTC
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Help your ri­vals when they are numerous

lsusr22 Jan 2021 20:51 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the In­ter­net Beats a Year in the Courtroom

komponisto13 Dec 2009 4:16 UTC
57 points
649 comments12 min readLW link

Care and demandingness

Joe Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 7:03 UTC
25 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

Even In­fla­tion­ary Cur­ren­cies Should Have Fixed To­tal Supply

MikkW10 Mar 2021 5:41 UTC
0 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the low hang­ing fruit of things we could be do­ing to im­prove so­ciety?

davidgasquez10 Mar 2021 13:03 UTC
5 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Re­s­olu­tions to the Challenge of Re­solv­ing Forecasts

Davidmanheim11 Mar 2021 19:08 UTC
58 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Killing Moloch with “Nudge tech”?

nathanlippi11 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ri­gor­ous poli­ti­cal sci­ence?

abramdemski12 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How I come up with ideas

lsusr12 Mar 2021 9:01 UTC
38 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

My at­tempt to find the mean­ing of existence

PeterL13 Mar 2021 17:13 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ploit­ing Crypto Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets for Fun and Profit

Srdjan Miletic13 Mar 2021 2:31 UTC
31 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Direct effects mat­ter!

Aaron Bergman14 Mar 2021 4:33 UTC
104 points
28 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Phys­i­cal­ism im­plies ex­pe­rience never dies. So what am I go­ing to ex­pe­rience af­ter it does?

Szymon Kucharski14 Mar 2021 14:45 UTC
−1 points
1 comment30 min readLW link

The non-cen­tral fal­lacy and Law

ThomasMore14 Mar 2021 15:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

AI x-risk re­duc­tion: why I chose academia over industry

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)14 Mar 2021 17:25 UTC
56 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tions for fu­ture dis­po­si­tions to­ward Twitter

mike_hawke14 Mar 2021 22:10 UTC
14 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives

Joe Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:55 UTC
40 points
8 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Clubhouse

lsusr15 Mar 2021 3:38 UTC
41 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Can an econ­omy keep on grow­ing?

invertedpassion16 Mar 2021 9:55 UTC
1 point
12 comments6 min readLW link

An An­tropic Ar­gu­ment for Post-sin­gu­lar­ity Antinatalism

monkaap16 Mar 2021 17:40 UTC
3 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Poli­tics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
282 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

As Few As Possible

Decius10 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
1 point
13 comments2 min readLW link

The EMH is False—Spe­cific Strong Evidence

sapphire18 Mar 2021 18:38 UTC
60 points
83 comments6 min readLW link

Con­spicu­ous saving

Matthew Barnett20 Mar 2021 20:59 UTC
49 points
42 comments2 min readLW link
(matthewbarnett.substack.com)

A dash­board for progress

jasoncrawford21 Mar 2021 3:51 UTC
24 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Book Re­view] Destiny Disrupted

lsusr21 Mar 2021 7:09 UTC
58 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Pro­cess Orientation

lincolnquirk21 Mar 2021 15:21 UTC
31 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Burmese Days, Mar 22; Rules of the Game and Prefer­ence Falsifi­ca­tion in the Army

Tim Liptrot22 Mar 2021 0:12 UTC
17 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

On fu­ture peo­ple, look­ing back at 21st cen­tury longtermism

Joe Carlsmith22 Mar 2021 8:23 UTC
39 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Dem­i­na­tal­ist To­tal Utilitarianism

Vanessa Kosoy16 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC
71 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Your Pri­ori­ti­za­tion is Underspecified

romeostevensit10 Jul 2020 20:48 UTC
82 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Write a busi­ness plan already

bfinn25 Mar 2021 0:13 UTC
17 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Money Buys Happiness

XxX25 Mar 2021 21:02 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Where did the idea of x-risk come from?

fowlertm26 Mar 2021 15:39 UTC
−8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria in Liti­ga­tion Set­tle­ment Ne­go­ti­a­tion in the U.S.A.

supposedlyfun27 Mar 2021 23:26 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Vio­lat­ing the EMH—Pre­dic­tion Markets

sapphire28 Mar 2021 4:05 UTC
40 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Im­prove­ment for pun­dit pre­dic­tion comparisons

orthonormal28 Mar 2021 18:50 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC
35 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Bureau­cracy is a world of magic

dominicq29 Mar 2021 12:41 UTC
73 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Some Com­plaint-Ac­tion Gaps

mike_hawke29 Mar 2021 21:15 UTC
40 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do we pre­pare for fi­nal crunch time?

Eli Tyre30 Mar 2021 5:47 UTC
117 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Ju­lia Galef and Matt Ygle­sias on bioethics and “ethics ex­per­tise”

Rob Bensinger30 Mar 2021 3:06 UTC
45 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

In­fo­haz­ard Dis­cus­sion with An­ders Sandberg

Linda Linsefors30 Mar 2021 10:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions Con­cern­ing the First Free-ish Pre­dic­tion Market

mike_hawke31 Mar 2021 3:20 UTC
29 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion, spec­u­la­tions on the X and only X prob­lem.

Donald Hobson30 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

AI and the Prob­a­bil­ity of Conflict

tonyoconnor1 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC
8 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of Acausal Trade with an Alien Uni­verse?

MikkW1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC
114 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

2 in­no­va­tive life ex­ten­sion ap­proaches us­ing cry­on­ics technology

Mati_Roy2 Apr 2021 0:54 UTC
41 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Peo­ple are gath­er­ing 2 mil­lion USD to save a kid with a rare dis­ease. I feel weird about it. Why?

hookdump2 Apr 2021 23:00 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral Golems

Erich_Grunewald3 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

dominicq3 Apr 2021 20:16 UTC
81 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal Ex­am­ples of Op­po­si­tion to Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Avert­ing suffer­ing with sen­tience throt­tlers (pro­posal)

Quinn5 Apr 2021 10:54 UTC
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
162 points
33 comments61 min readLW link1 review

100 Tips for a Bet­ter Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC
422 points
130 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Prevent­ing over­charg­ing by prosecutors

ChristianKl6 Apr 2021 11:13 UTC
29 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC
115 points
41 comments10 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on Mot

Richard_Ngo4 Dec 2023 0:19 UTC
52 points
11 comments8 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
101 points
3 comments14 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

Quinn8 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chw8 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
29 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

The con­se­quen­tial­ist case for so­cial con­ser­vatism, or “Against Cul­tural Su­per­stim­uli”

Sophronius14 Apr 2021 21:50 UTC
27 points
50 comments6 min readLW link

How & when to write a busi­ness plan

bfinn15 Apr 2021 15:45 UTC
13 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

The ir­rele­vance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomight15 Apr 2021 14:15 UTC
111 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Are there op­por­tu­ni­ties for small in­vestors un­available to big ones?

DirectedEvolution15 Apr 2021 9:13 UTC
25 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Hell is wasted on the evil

lsusr15 Apr 2021 8:52 UTC
37 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Bench­mark­ing Bowtie2 Threading

jefftk1 Dec 2023 20:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[ACX Linkpost] Prospec­tus on Próspera

mike_hawke15 Apr 2021 22:48 UTC
39 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Why has nu­clear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC
144 points
49 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What are some in­ter­est­ing ex­am­ples of risks mea­sured in micro­morts?

skybrian16 Apr 2021 5:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ra­tional Agents Kelly Bet In­fluence!

abramdemski16 Apr 2021 22:08 UTC
47 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Could de­googling be a prac­tice run for some­thing more im­por­tant?

Quinn17 Apr 2021 0:03 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any good ways to place a bet on Rad­i­calXChange and/​or re­lated ideas/​mechanisms tak­ing off in a big way? e.g. is there some­thing to in­vest $$$ in?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)17 Apr 2021 6:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ris­ing rents and ap­pro­pri­ate responses

dominicq18 Apr 2021 14:05 UTC
10 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­lems of evil

Joe Carlsmith19 Apr 2021 8:06 UTC
28 points
16 comments17 min readLW link

the fat baker principle

faint reminder19 Apr 2021 7:58 UTC
−6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we vac­ci­nate peo­ple against smal­l­pox any more?

maximkazhenkov21 Apr 2021 0:08 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What am I fight­ing for?

Quinn20 Apr 2021 23:27 UTC
12 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Where are in­ten­tions to be found?

Alex Flint21 Apr 2021 0:51 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity as “Co­or­di­na­tion”, vs “Do-Good­ing”

Raemon29 Dec 2020 2:37 UTC
75 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Prin­ci­plesYou—Seems to be a new per­son­al­ity as­sess­ment tool

jmh22 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC
67 points
65 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Bet­ter air is the eas­iest way not to die

digital_carver28 Apr 2021 10:24 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

We need a ca­reer path for invention

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2021 18:11 UTC
51 points
18 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on Robert McIn­tyre’s Brain Preser­va­tion Talk at the Long Now Foundation

JohnGreer28 Apr 2021 20:47 UTC
8 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Mo­ral Privilege

ACrackedPot30 Apr 2021 14:54 UTC
13 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] A Modest Pro­posal for Republicans

mike_hawke30 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 4:55 UTC
157 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Con­sis­ten­cies as (meta-)preferences

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2021 15:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Why I Work on Ads

jefftk3 May 2021 21:00 UTC
82 points
93 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Si­mu­la­tion the­ol­ogy: prac­ti­cal as­pect.

Just Learning5 May 2021 2:20 UTC
11 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing the His­tor­i­cal Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardt5 Dec 2023 6:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

De­con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing Morality

ACrackedPot5 May 2021 20:25 UTC
0 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What ques­tions should we ask our­selves when try­ing to im­prove some­thing?

weathersystems6 May 2021 19:03 UTC
3 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Vot­ing Assistants

Wiona6 May 2021 7:52 UTC
4 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Dumb di­chotomies in ethics, part 2: in­stru­men­tal vs. in­trin­sic values

Aaron Bergman7 May 2021 2:31 UTC
7 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Zero to One: A Min­i­mum Vi­able Review

dominicq7 May 2021 17:45 UTC
11 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald8 May 2021 11:44 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Crowd­fund­ing Vac­cine Development

River8 May 2021 4:10 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

Academia as Com­pany Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC
72 points
40 comments18 min readLW link

Stock mar­ket hints for 2021 from past crashes

bfinn30 Dec 2020 20:05 UTC
19 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Restricted Anti­na­tal­ism on Subagents

Josephine13 May 2021 1:48 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

We can un­der­stand value only through end­less self-reflection

Riccardo Volpato13 May 2021 10:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link
(volpato.io)

Con­cern­ing not get­ting lost

Alex Flint14 May 2021 19:38 UTC
50 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan Zoellner16 May 2021 18:19 UTC
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Sup­pose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent?

hunterglenn15 May 2021 23:24 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How Can One Tell What Is Beau­tiful?

Erich_Grunewald15 May 2021 12:55 UTC
5 points
3 comments15 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Why Democ­racy?

sxae14 May 2021 11:02 UTC
14 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Can Bit­coin tran­si­tion from PoW to PoS?

mukashi14 May 2021 3:43 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikos17 May 2021 17:29 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS prox­ies with Starlink

ChristianKl17 May 2021 15:05 UTC
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Are PS5 scalpers ac­tu­ally bad?

willbradshaw18 May 2021 12:27 UTC
23 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Se­ri­ously?

ejacob18 May 2021 21:36 UTC
5 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What should we ex­pect from ARPA-H?

ChristianKl19 May 2021 12:21 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

S-risks: Why they are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC
31 points
106 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

Book re­view: Sub­tract: The Un­tapped Science of Less

Aaron Bergman23 May 2021 20:21 UTC
27 points
3 comments22 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Is nu­clear war in­deed un­likely?

Just Learning23 May 2021 23:14 UTC
2 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If in­di­vi­d­ual perfor­mance is Pareto dis­tributed, how should we re­form ed­u­ca­tion?

yhoiseth24 May 2021 12:22 UTC
25 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Ques­tions are tools to help an­swer­ers op­ti­mize utility

ozziegooen24 May 2021 19:30 UTC
31 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichael26 May 2021 23:26 UTC
8 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

An­tifrag­ility in Games of Chance, Re­search, and Debate

DirectedEvolution26 May 2021 17:51 UTC
13 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Against Be­ing Against Growth

Alex Hollow29 May 2021 2:18 UTC
−1 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

The San­ity Water­line Bul­ges at the Middle

matejsuchy29 May 2021 3:15 UTC
−7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

Which an­i­mals can suffer?

Just Learning1 Jun 2021 3:42 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter spring 21

avturchin1 Jun 2021 12:10 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Selec­tion Has A Qual­ity Ceiling

johnswentworth2 Jun 2021 18:25 UTC
144 points
18 comments4 min readLW link1 review

April 2021 Gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern3 Jun 2021 15:13 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Book Re­view] Blueprint for Revolution

lsusr7 Jun 2021 18:14 UTC
28 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Ureshiku Naritai

Alicorn8 Apr 2010 20:08 UTC
217 points
157 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] ML is now au­tomat­ing parts of chip R&D. How big a deal is this?

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Jun 2021 9:51 UTC
45 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Am I anti-so­cial if I get vac­ci­nated now?

FlorianH11 Jun 2021 15:42 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

May 2021 Gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern11 Jun 2021 14:13 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

A sys­tem­atic er­ror that lead to a bad policy re­sponse to COVID-19

ChristianKl12 Jun 2021 19:56 UTC
23 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why do pa­tients in men­tal in­sti­tu­tions get so lit­tle at­ten­tion in the pub­lic dis­course?

ChristianKl12 Jun 2021 17:37 UTC
41 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormal1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
138 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Shall we count the liv­ing or the dead?

Anders_H14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
30 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

A lat­eral way of think­ing about Cause X: barely visi­ble but po­ten­tially enor­mous cat­e­gories of value

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:44 UTC
6 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX will have mas­sive im­pact in the next decade

ChristianKl31 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
36 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

The ad­u­canumab approval

ChristianKl17 Jun 2021 14:05 UTC
18 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(blogs.sciencemag.org)

[Question] Pros and cons of work­ing on near-term tech­ni­cal AI safety and assurance

Aryeh Englander17 Jun 2021 20:17 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What is your coro­n­avirus pre­dic­tion for Is­rael?

Yair Halberstadt17 Jun 2021 19:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Rea­son to Ex­pect Repub­lics to Perform Bet­ter than Ab­solute Monar­chies in the Long-Term

MikkW17 Jun 2021 22:22 UTC
9 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

As­sume long serv­ing poli­ti­ci­ans are ra­tio­nally max­i­miz­ing their careers

Tim Liptrot18 Jun 2021 15:15 UTC
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of the op­po­site of per­verse in­cen­tives?

JohnGreer18 Jun 2021 16:04 UTC
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why did no LessWrong dis­course on gain of func­tion re­search de­velop in 2013/​2014?

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 23:35 UTC
56 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

10 Deadly Viruses And Bac­te­ria Created In Labs − 6 SARS 2.0

ChristianKl19 Jun 2021 22:29 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(listverse.com)

Idea: Give the No­bel peace prize to in­sti­tu­tion designers

Tim Liptrot21 Jun 2021 17:22 UTC
29 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

An an­i­mated in­tro­duc­tion to longter­mism (feat. Robert Miles)

Writer21 Jun 2021 19:24 UTC
18 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

[Question] Is there work look­ing at the im­pli­ca­tions of many wor­lds QM for ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Quintin Pope22 Jun 2021 6:06 UTC
−2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:10 UTC
111 points
20 comments35 min readLW link

[Question] How do you deal with peo­ple cargo cult­ing COVID-19 defense?

ChristianKl23 Jun 2021 19:59 UTC
16 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Two non-ob­vi­ous les­sons from micro­covid.org

catherio24 Jun 2021 2:35 UTC
195 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] ELI12: how do liber­tar­i­ans want wages to work?

TekhneMakre24 Jun 2021 7:00 UTC
3 points
57 comments2 min readLW link

War on Cancer II

ChristianKl24 Jun 2021 14:59 UTC
36 points
12 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the af­ter­math of the US in­tel­li­gence lab leak re­port?

ChristianKl26 Jun 2021 20:33 UTC
20 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Nu­clear Strat­egy in a Semi-Vuln­er­a­ble World

Jackson Wagner27 Jun 2021 8:17 UTC
7 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Op­ti­mism about So­cial Technology

mike_hawke27 Jun 2021 23:35 UTC
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

New De­men­tia Trial Results

PeterMcCluskey2 Jul 2021 23:04 UTC
49 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Can group iden­tity be a force for good?

Eric Neyman4 Jul 2021 17:16 UTC
22 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

We Still Don’t Know If Masks Work

Mike Harris5 Jul 2021 4:52 UTC
21 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

The topic is not the content

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC
178 points
24 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Po­ten­tial Bot­tle­necks to Tak­ing Over The World

johnswentworth6 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC
146 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Rea­sons for Punishment

Yair Halberstadt12 Jul 2021 14:53 UTC
7 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Could some­one please start a bright home light­ing com­pany?

lincolnquirk26 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
91 points
41 comments6 min readLW link
(www.lincolnquirk.com)

Re: Com­pe­tent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC
49 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

16 Jul 2021 21:19 UTC
61 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Large cor­po­ra­tions can unilat­er­ally ban/​tax ran­somware pay­ments via bets

ryan_greenblatt17 Jul 2021 12:56 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Longter­mism vs short-ter­mism for per­sonal life extension

Mati_Roy17 Jul 2021 3:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for ambition

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2021 6:13 UTC
19 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Some thoughts on David Rood­man’s GWP model and its re­la­tion to AI timelines

Tom Davidson19 Jul 2021 22:59 UTC
31 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Pu­n­ish­ing the good

KatjaGrace20 Jul 2021 23:30 UTC
28 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The shoot-the-moon strategy

jchan21 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC
90 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is Kleros val­ued so low?

ChristianKl21 Jul 2021 13:50 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a rea­son­able read­ing ac­cord­ing to which Baric, Shi et al 2015 isn’t gain-of-func­tion re­search?

ChristianKl21 Jul 2021 8:19 UTC
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Walk­ing Dead

Logan Zoellner22 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Fire Law Incentives

jefftk22 Jul 2021 12:30 UTC
32 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What is the net effect of memes that call out the huge im­pact of big play­ers in cli­mate change?

hookdump23 Jul 2021 2:46 UTC
7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

The biolog­i­cal in­tel­li­gence explosion

Rob Lucas25 Jul 2021 13:08 UTC
8 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How much do vari­a­tions in diet qual­ity de­ter­mine in­di­vi­d­ual pro­duc­tivity?

Natália28 Jul 2021 3:05 UTC
37 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC
119 points
60 comments16 min readLW link

Risk Premiums vs Pre­dic­tion Markets

SimonM28 Jul 2021 23:03 UTC
33 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Slack Has Pos­i­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC
90 points
11 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Do we have a term for the is­sue with quan­tify­ing policy effect Scott Alexan­der stum­bled on mul­ti­ple times?

yhoiseth29 Jul 2021 8:45 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Violent Un­rav­el­ing: Suici­dal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Brief thoughts on in­effi­cient writ­ing systems

Srdjan Miletic29 Jul 2021 20:20 UTC
22 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC
11 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Tor­ture vs Specks: Sadist version

andrew sauer31 Jul 2021 23:33 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Im­pacts of Co­caine Use

Xodarap31 Jul 2021 21:53 UTC
25 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Who de­cides what should be worked on?

Aglaya Ivanovna1 Aug 2021 17:26 UTC
39 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

How Many Afford­able Units?

jefftk2 Aug 2021 16:20 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cur­ing in­san­ity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 2:28 UTC
159 points
8 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: Scien­tific Free­dom by Don Braben

willbobaggins4 Aug 2021 1:38 UTC
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Con­tri­bu­tion-Ad­justed Utility Max­i­miza­tion Funds: An Early Proposal

ozziegooen4 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Should doc­tors be neu­tral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Train­ing Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ists?

Davis_Kingsley5 Aug 2021 11:13 UTC
42 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Mov­ing Away From The GPL

jefftk6 Aug 2021 11:50 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some good pieces on civ­i­liza­tional de­cay /​ civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse /​ weak­en­ing of so­cietal fabric?

Eli Tyre6 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Re­cent Haitian Assassination

Tim Liptrot6 Aug 2021 15:00 UTC
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

A map: “Global Catas­trophic Risks of Scien­tific Ex­per­i­ments”

avturchin7 Aug 2021 15:35 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

There are trans­par­ent mon­sters in the world—part 1

Writer8 Aug 2021 19:47 UTC
6 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

[Question] How big of an is­sue are patent trolls to the av­er­age startup?

ChristianKl16 Jul 2020 11:31 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­est in Biosta­sis: Much More Than You Wanted to Know. (Re­sults from the ACX 2021 Biosta­sis/​Cry­on­ics Sur­vey)

Synaptic11 Aug 2021 0:43 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(synopticz.github.io)

Danger­ous Vir­tual Worlds

Davis_Kingsley11 Aug 2021 12:53 UTC
9 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Might in­tel­li­gence de­crease among hu­man­ity?

throwawayaccount11112 Aug 2021 0:05 UTC
−3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

A deeper look at dox­epin and the FDA

DirectedEvolution13 Aug 2021 18:59 UTC
22 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Coase’s “Na­ture of the Firm” on Polyamory

1a3orn13 Aug 2021 13:15 UTC
101 points
34 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

Tran­si­tive Tol­er­ance Means Intolerance

orthonormal14 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC
39 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Pe­dophile Problems

rogersbacon15 Aug 2021 18:23 UTC
11 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Utili­tar­i­anism Ex­pressed in Julia

Erich_Grunewald15 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC
12 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Chas­ing Infinities

Michael Bateman16 Aug 2021 1:19 UTC
2 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Re­dun­dant Research

eg17 Aug 2021 12:17 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Modest Pro­posal: Log­ging for Environmentalists

localdeity18 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Bet­ter Web is Coming

matto21 Aug 2021 20:46 UTC
34 points
20 comments6 min readLW link

Is top-down ve­g­anism un­eth­i­cal?

Malmesbury22 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC
13 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Cry­on­ics prices were more com­pli­cated when I dou­ble-clicked

tcelferact23 Aug 2021 1:26 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Bet­ter Pass­word Peppering

Yoav Ravid24 Aug 2021 10:19 UTC
6 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] [Deleted]

Final_Plans898926 Aug 2021 17:02 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Amy­loid Plaques: Chem­i­cal Streetlight, Med­i­cal Goodhart

J Bostock26 Aug 2021 21:25 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Could you have stopped Ch­er­nobyl?

Carlos Ramirez27 Aug 2021 1:48 UTC
29 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

Altru­ism Un­der Ex­treme Uncertainty

lsusr27 Aug 2021 6:58 UTC
37 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral Golems As­sume Uncertainty

Erich_Grunewald28 Aug 2021 14:05 UTC
4 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[ACX Linkpost] High­lights From The Com­ments On Miss­ing School

mike_hawke29 Aug 2021 8:01 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

How to Save the World

Louie1 Dec 2010 17:17 UTC
102 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

Hu­man­ity is Win­ning the Fight Against In­fec­tious Disease

lsusr30 Aug 2021 1:31 UTC
60 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

A Small Vacation

DanB29 Aug 2021 19:55 UTC
44 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

An­ti­dotes to Num­ber Numbness

Collisteru30 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

US Mili­tary Global In­for­ma­tion Dom­i­nance Experiments

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 13:34 UTC
25 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.defense.gov)

We are failing to see how much bet­ter off hu­man­ity could be (trans­par­ent mon­sters part 2)

Writer2 Sep 2021 10:52 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

A lost 80s/​90s metaphor: play­ing the demo

CraigMichael2 Sep 2021 8:45 UTC
35 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

All Pos­si­ble Views About Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture Are Wild

HoldenKarnofsky3 Sep 2021 20:19 UTC
146 points
37 comments8 min readLW link1 review

The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury: Se­quence Introduction

HoldenKarnofsky3 Sep 2021 20:19 UTC
69 points
5 comments4 min readLW link1 review

The Co­or­di­na­tion Fron­tier: Se­quence Intro

Raemon4 Sep 2021 22:11 UTC
161 points
22 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Co­or­di­na­tion Schemes Are Cap­i­tal Investments

Raemon6 Sep 2021 23:27 UTC
139 points
31 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The Du­pli­ca­tor: In­stant Clon­ing Would Make the World Econ­omy Explode

HoldenKarnofsky8 Sep 2021 0:06 UTC
61 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

Plea­sure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusr9 Sep 2021 5:10 UTC
38 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

[linkpost] Poli­ti­cal Cap­i­tal Flow Man­age­ment and the Im­por­tance of Yutting

mike_hawke10 Sep 2021 7:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Digi­tal Peo­ple FAQ

HoldenKarnofsky13 Sep 2021 15:24 UTC
28 points
13 comments16 min readLW link

Digi­tal Peo­ple Would Be An Even Big­ger Deal

HoldenKarnofsky13 Sep 2021 15:23 UTC
34 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

Com­ments on Ja­cob Falkovich on loneliness

Alex Flint16 Sep 2021 22:04 UTC
29 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Let Us Do Our Work As Well

jsteinhardt17 Sep 2021 0:40 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Great Power Conflict

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Sep 2021 15:00 UTC
11 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Check­list Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 17 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC
122 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Norm In­no­va­tion and The­ory of Mind

Raemon18 Sep 2021 21:38 UTC
91 points
14 comments7 min readLW link1 review

This Can’t Go On

HoldenKarnofsky18 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
72 points
55 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Or­di­nary Peo­ple and Ex­traor­di­nary Evil: A Re­port on the Beguil­ings of Evil

David Gross20 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC
56 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Drug-Ap­proval Denationalization

ChristianKl30 Dec 2020 22:09 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

jefftk21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Weird mod­els of coun­try de­vel­op­ment?

Connor_Flexman22 Sep 2021 17:39 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?

HoldenKarnofsky24 Sep 2021 0:46 UTC
17 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

Schools prob­a­bly do do something

Yair Halberstadt26 Sep 2021 7:21 UTC
25 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

100 Years Of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

jdp27 Sep 2021 0:31 UTC
79 points
12 comments33 min readLW link
(www.wrestlinggnon.com)

The Trol­ley Problem

lsusr27 Sep 2021 8:26 UTC
31 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

AISC5 Ret­ro­spec­tive: Mechanisms for Avoid­ing Tragedy of the Com­mons in Com­mon Pool Re­source Problems

27 Sep 2021 16:46 UTC
8 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

EA Han­gout Pri­son­ers’ Dilemma

Jeffrey Ladish27 Sep 2021 23:15 UTC
55 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­lems with us­ing ap­proval vot­ing to elect to a multi-in­di­vi­d­ual body?

RyanCarey28 Sep 2021 11:03 UTC
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Is­sues with Giv­ing Multiplier

jefftk29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
28 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Do­minic Cum­mings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Sili­con Valley

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC
68 points
73 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.substack.com)

En­gag­ing with hy­po­thet­i­cals as they are defined

damiensnyder3 Oct 2021 5:22 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

An­drew Yang on “The Priests of the De­cline”

Timothy Johnson4 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.andrewyang.com)

Ap­pro­pri­ately Gray Products

Adam Zerner6 Oct 2021 0:56 UTC
20 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

The­ory: The Poli­ti­cal In­cen­tives for Pro­gres­sive Policy Pro­mote Policy Failure

BDay6 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC
−2 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Cheap food causes co­op­er­a­tive ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC
70 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Safety-ca­pa­bil­ities trade­off di­als are in­evitable in AGI

Steven Byrnes7 Oct 2021 19:03 UTC
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Ques­tions about YIMBY

Sam Enright8 Oct 2021 12:48 UTC
18 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Do You Want the Com­plex­ity in the Tools or in Their Usage?

mxshn31 Dec 2020 10:58 UTC
7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one have an anki deck on age­ing /​ re­ju­ve­na­tion biotech­nol­ogy that they could share?

freedomandutility10 Oct 2021 16:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristiano10 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC
161 points
37 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

Book Re­view: Open Borders

Sam Enright10 Oct 2021 12:27 UTC
24 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth

jkim211 Oct 2021 1:07 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Is nuk­ing women and chil­dren cheaper than fire­bomb­ing them?

lsusr14 Oct 2021 8:25 UTC
25 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 UTC
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “Suffer­ing-fo­cused Ethics” by Mag­nus Vinding

KStub28 Dec 2021 5:58 UTC
14 points
3 comments24 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
173 points
32 comments11 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient doesn’t mean in­differ­ent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

NATO: Cog­ni­tive War­fare Project

ChristianKl21 Oct 2021 9:57 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.innovationhub-act.org)

How to es­ti­mate my prob­a­bil­ity of get­ting a (com­pet­i­tive) job in Academia

Tim Liptrot22 Oct 2021 23:58 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Where are the quick, easy wins?

Barry_Cotter23 Oct 2021 0:27 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Frank­furt Dec­la­ra­tion on the Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] No, re­ally, can “dead” time be sal­vaged?

NicholasKross26 Oct 2021 0:02 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

X-Risk, An­throp­ics, & Peter Thiel’s In­vest­ment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:50 UTC
21 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Every­thing Stud­ies on Cyn­i­cal Theories

DanielFilan27 Oct 2021 1:31 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Selfish­ness, prefer­ence falsifi­ca­tion, and AI alignment

jessicata28 Oct 2021 0:16 UTC
52 points
28 comments13 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Save the kid, ruin the suit; Ac­cept­able util­ity ex­change rates; Distributed util­ity calcu­la­tions; Civic du­ties matter

spkoc28 Oct 2021 11:51 UTC
2 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

A sys­tem of in­finite ethics

Chantiel29 Oct 2021 19:37 UTC
2 points
60 comments8 min readLW link

A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Economy

lorepieri30 Oct 2021 9:04 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

Rob Bensinger30 Oct 2021 18:05 UTC
37 points
46 comments21 min readLW link

Effec­tive Evil

lsusr2 Nov 2021 0:26 UTC
97 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Both or Nothing

Chris_Leong31 Oct 2021 7:33 UTC
29 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Notes on Shame

David Gross2 Nov 2021 4:33 UTC
21 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] Can homo-sapi­ens sus­tain an econ­omy par­allel to AI’s?

qbolec2 Nov 2021 7:03 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Tran­script: “You Should Read HPMOR”

TurnTrout2 Nov 2021 18:20 UTC
122 points
12 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Paths For­ward: Scal­ing the Shar­ing of In­for­ma­tion and Solutions

Zvi2 Nov 2021 23:50 UTC
64 points
20 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Y2K: Suc­cess­ful Prac­tice for AI Alignment

Darmani5 Nov 2021 6:09 UTC
49 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Con­cen­tra­tion of Force

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien6 Nov 2021 8:20 UTC
235 points
23 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Night­clubs in Heaven?

J Bostock5 Nov 2021 23:28 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

There Meat Come A Scan­dal...

NicholasKross7 Nov 2021 20:52 UTC
31 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

[Question] Is there a clearly laid-out write-up of the case to drop Covid pre­cau­tions?

AspiringRationalist9 Nov 2021 2:46 UTC
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Erase button

Astor9 Nov 2021 9:39 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion with Eliezer Yud­kowsky on AGI interventions

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC
328 points
251 comments34 min readLW link1 review

Avoid­ing Nega­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities—a the­ory with spe­cific ex­am­ples—Part 1

M. Y. Zuo12 Nov 2021 4:09 UTC
2 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[linkpost] Crypto Cities

mike_hawke12 Nov 2021 21:26 UTC
25 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(vitalik.ca)

Co­or­di­na­tion Skills I Wish I Had For the Pandemic

Raemon13 Nov 2021 23:32 UTC
85 points
9 comments6 min readLW link1 review

An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altru­ists (sec­ond ver­sion)

bice14 Nov 2021 18:28 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion on My Homeworld

lsusr14 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC
37 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

What the fu­ture will look like

avantika.mehra15 Nov 2021 5:14 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Why Save The Drown­ing Child: Ethics Vs Theory

Raymond D16 Nov 2021 19:07 UTC
17 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[linkpost] Pro­ject Blueprint: ‘Mea­sur­ing and then max­i­mally re­vers­ing the quan­tified biolog­i­cal age of my or­gans’

matteodimaio16 Nov 2021 2:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Greedy Doc­tor Problem

Jan16 Nov 2021 22:06 UTC
6 points
10 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Quadratic Vot­ing and Collusion

leogao17 Nov 2021 0:19 UTC
41 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Am­bi­tious Altru­is­tic Soft­ware Eng­ineer­ing Efforts: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Benefits

ozziegooen19 Nov 2021 17:55 UTC
42 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Awe­some-github Post-Scarcity List

lorepieri20 Nov 2021 8:47 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Eat the cute an­i­mals instead

Andrew Vlahos21 Nov 2021 1:06 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Vi­talik: Cryp­toe­co­nomics and X-Risk Re­searchers Should Listen to Each Other More

Emerson Spartz21 Nov 2021 18:53 UTC
47 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Slightly ad­vanced de­ci­sion the­ory 102: Four rea­sons not to be a (naive) util­ity maximizer

Jan23 Nov 2021 11:02 UTC
10 points
1 comment15 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Co­or­di­nat­ing the Unequal Treaties

lsusr25 Nov 2021 10:47 UTC
32 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

First Strike and Se­cond Strike

lsusr25 Nov 2021 9:23 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Al­most ev­ery­one should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavance27 Nov 2021 2:06 UTC
196 points
18 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Tears Must Flow

sapphire30 Nov 2021 18:37 UTC
21 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 1 - Small Molecules

George3d61 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC
26 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

“In­fo­haz­ard” is a pre­dom­i­nantly con­flict-the­o­retic concept

jessicata2 Dec 2021 17:54 UTC
44 points
17 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Where in the world will a UBI de­velop first?

Asgård3 Dec 2021 15:54 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter fall 2021

avturchin3 Dec 2021 13:06 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond-or­der se­lec­tion against the immortal

Malmesbury3 Dec 2021 5:01 UTC
44 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC
84 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] What would be the pros and cons of a gov­ern­ment-backed, prop­erty-based cryp­tocur­rency?

Asgård5 Dec 2021 17:57 UTC
−3 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

No Ul­ti­mate Goal and a Small Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

Logan Riggs24 Jul 2020 18:39 UTC
12 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­trin­sic and In­trin­sic Mo­ral Frameworks

lsusr11 Dec 2021 5:28 UTC
14 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

For and Against Lot­ter­ies in Elite Univer­sity Admissions

Sam Enright12 Dec 2021 13:41 UTC
10 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Sub­way Slides

jefftk16 Dec 2021 19:30 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ven­ture Gran­ters, The VCs of pub­lic goods, in­cen­tiviz­ing good dreams

mako yass17 Dec 2021 8:57 UTC
12 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Univer­sal coun­ter­ar­gu­ment against “bad­ness of death” is wrong

avturchin18 Dec 2021 16:02 UTC
27 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

A Tree of Light

Jarred Filmer18 Dec 2021 0:36 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Falsify­ing Eth­i­cal Values

lsusr19 Dec 2021 1:44 UTC
5 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ma­nipu­la­tion re­sis­tance of futarchy

harper owen21 Dec 2021 0:33 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Two (very differ­ent) kinds of donors

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien22 Dec 2021 1:43 UTC
101 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

“A Harm­ful Idea”

philosophytorres14 Jan 2022 22:09 UTC
−42 points
7 comments25 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 1

Joe Carlsmith22 Dec 2021 8:47 UTC
20 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

Specialization

DirectedEvolution23 Dec 2021 3:23 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Physics Erotica

lsusr23 Dec 2021 11:01 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

An in­ter­view with Dan­ica Remy on pro­tect­ing the Earth from as­ter­oids.

fowlertm26 Dec 2021 21:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­creased Availa­bil­ity and Willing­ness for De­ploy­ment of Re­sources for Effec­tive Altru­ism and Long-Termism

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Dec 2021 20:30 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

2021/​2022 Prin­ci­ple-driven Reflec­tion/​Plan­ning Workshop

ti_guo1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

An Ob­ser­va­tion of Vav­ilov Day

Elizabeth3 Jan 2022 21:10 UTC
233 points
42 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How do you turn an idea into a re­al­ity? (warn­ing: in­volves poli­tics)

Nicole Dieker4 Jan 2022 19:29 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

Rob Bensinger5 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
37 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

How To Raise Others’ Aspira­tions in 17 Easy Steps

chanamessinger6 Jan 2022 0:14 UTC
99 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Un­con­tro­ver­sially good legislation

braces10 Jan 2022 2:26 UTC
32 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 2

Joe Carlsmith12 Jan 2022 1:42 UTC
12 points
0 comments29 min readLW link

Progress, hu­man­ism, agency: An in­tel­lec­tual core for the progress movement

jasoncrawford12 Jan 2022 0:06 UTC
12 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC
227 points
79 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Paper claims: “Ra­tion­al­ity” fla­vored words rose since 1850, be­gan de­clin­ing ~1980

Raemon12 Jan 2022 23:11 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(phys.org)

On Virtue

Midnight_Analyst13 Jan 2022 16:36 UTC
12 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Con­straints from nat­u­ral­ized ethics.

Charlie Steiner25 Jul 2020 14:54 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

2020 Re­view Article

Vaniver14 Jan 2022 4:58 UTC
74 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Value No­tion—Ques­tions to Ask

aysajan17 Jan 2022 15:35 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Be­ing the Hero is hard with the void

Johannes C. Mayer17 Jan 2022 11:27 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

How to Build New Coun­tries à la 1729?

jdcampolargo17 Jan 2022 22:53 UTC
−1 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] The un­falsifi­able be­lief in (dooms­day) su­per­in­tel­li­gence sce­nar­ios?

Hickey17 Jan 2022 21:02 UTC
−5 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

The Liar and the Scold

Tomás B.20 Jan 2022 20:31 UTC
94 points
13 comments12 min readLW link

The ig­no­rance of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2022 5:26 UTC
43 points
6 comments35 min readLW link1 review

De­scrip­tive vs. pre­scrip­tive optimism

jasoncrawford22 Jan 2022 19:50 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why ra­tio­nal­ists should care (more) about free software

RichardJActon23 Jan 2022 17:31 UTC
66 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

Hyper­palat­able Food Hy­poth­e­sis: A LessWrong Study?

BDay23 Jan 2022 5:43 UTC
23 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Vav­ilov Day Starts Tomorrow

Elizabeth25 Jan 2022 18:00 UTC
34 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Why do we need a NEW philos­o­phy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC
75 points
26 comments8 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ad­ver­tis­ing as a Par­a­site on the Se­man­tic Commons

ThomasMore28 Jan 2022 17:38 UTC
34 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

De­sign policy to be testable

Yair Halberstadt31 Jan 2022 6:04 UTC
40 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

On in­finite ethics

Joe Carlsmith31 Jan 2022 7:04 UTC
124 points
70 comments51 min readLW link1 review

Can we grow cars in­stead of build­ing them?

pchvykov30 Jan 2022 21:05 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

As­set Prices Con­sis­tently Vio­late Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

Liron28 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(lt3000.blogspot.com)

Au­topi­lot Ethics And The Illu­sory Self

George3d62 Feb 2022 10:11 UTC
9 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

On Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 14:50 UTC
135 points
19 comments56 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Do I Think I Have Values?

J Bostock3 Feb 2022 13:35 UTC
22 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Blog ded­i­cated to re­build­ing tech­nol­ogy from civ col­lapse?

Zahima4 Feb 2022 23:28 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Bryan Ca­plan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC
93 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Why I want to make a log­i­cal language

Zmavli Caimle5 Feb 2022 11:52 UTC
20 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Paradigm-build­ing from first prin­ci­ples: Effec­tive al­tru­ism, AGI, and alignment

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 16:12 UTC
26 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

“Mo­ral progress” vs. the sim­ple pas­sage of time

HoldenKarnofsky9 Feb 2022 2:50 UTC
33 points
30 comments3 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] How to Le­gally Con­duct “Ra­tion­al­ist Bets” in Cal­ifor­nia?

Davis_Kingsley9 Feb 2022 8:16 UTC
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Bet on Rare Un­de­sir­able Out­comes when Seed­ing a Pre­dic­tion Market

lsusr10 Feb 2022 0:20 UTC
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why ra­tio­nal­ists are not much con­cerned about mor­tal­ity?

SurvivalBias10 Feb 2022 0:11 UTC
18 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Your Ene­mies Can Use Your Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Against You

lsusr10 Feb 2022 10:37 UTC
42 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Ri­tu­als and symbolism

TsviBT10 Feb 2022 16:00 UTC
33 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

To Match the Greats, Don’t Fol­low In Their Footsteps

HoldenKarnofsky11 Feb 2022 19:20 UTC
47 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Sim­plify EA Pitches to “Holy Shit, X-Risk”

Neel Nanda11 Feb 2022 1:59 UTC
57 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

World’s First Oc­to­pus Farm—Linkpost to a Linkpost

Pattern12 Feb 2022 23:31 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Defend­ing One-Di­men­sional Ethics

HoldenKarnofsky15 Feb 2022 17:20 UTC
16 points
9 comments17 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Why Doesn’t Health­care Im­prove Health?

George3d616 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC
63 points
19 comments12 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Monks of Magnitude

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien18 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
107 points
50 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Im­pos­si­bil­ity re­sults for un­bounded utilities

paulfchristiano2 Feb 2022 3:52 UTC
166 points
109 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Mechanism de­sign /​ queue­ing the­ory for gov­ern­ment to sell visas

RyanCarey19 Feb 2022 12:33 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC
22 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view: G.E.M. An­scombe’s “Modern Mo­ral Philos­o­phy”

David Gross20 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Con­test for out­lin­ing rules for this con­test.

abramdemski21 Feb 2022 18:44 UTC
40 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing mod­els of LW’s aver­sion to religion

Visible_Ignorance21 Feb 2022 18:54 UTC
24 points
52 comments7 min readLW link

Direct Observation

LoganStrohl21 Feb 2022 20:51 UTC
40 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Harms and pos­si­bil­ities of schooling

TsviBT22 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
119 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

How satis­fied should you ex­pect to be with your part­ner?

Vaniver22 Feb 2022 23:27 UTC
100 points
7 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

In­ter­view with Nec­tome CEO Robert McIn­tyre—Brain Preser­va­tion, Per­sonal Iden­tity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Some Tech­ni­cal Prob­lems With Mea­sur­ing Hap­piness (and some solu­tions)

Alexander de Vries23 Feb 2022 15:02 UTC
16 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

What would a thriv­ing progress move­ment look like?

jasoncrawford24 Feb 2022 17:58 UTC
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Myth of the Blue Sun­light

ship_shlap26 Feb 2022 21:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing an in­di­vi­d­ual al­ign­ment grantmaker

A_donor28 Feb 2022 20:02 UTC
64 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are some low-cog­ni­tive -work­load tasks that can help im­prove the world?

Yitz1 Mar 2022 17:47 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The Age of Over-pop­u­la­tion (Chap­ter 4)

Justin Bullock1 Mar 2022 14:10 UTC
6 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

The Wicked Prob­lem Experience

HoldenKarnofsky2 Mar 2022 17:50 UTC
124 points
6 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(www.cold-takes.com)

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 2 - Ho­mo­gene­ity Assumptions

George3d62 Mar 2022 16:45 UTC
15 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Sum­mit-Seek­ing as Distinct From Mountaineering

Sable2 Mar 2022 10:40 UTC
16 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Con­clu­sion of the Re­plac­ing Guilt series

So8res28 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Self-sig­nal­ing the abil­ity to do what you want

So8res26 Oct 2014 2:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Mov­ing to­wards the goal

So8res7 Dec 2014 2:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

How we will be measured

So8res21 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Recklessness

So8res2 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Desperation

So8res24 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Dark, not colorless

So8res16 Nov 2015 2:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

The best you can

So8res10 Nov 2015 2:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Trans­mute guilt into resolve

So8res1 Nov 2015 2:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Come to your terms

So8res26 Oct 2015 2:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Sim­ply lo­cate yourself

So8res11 Oct 2015 3:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

De­tach the grim-o-meter

So8res5 Oct 2015 3:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Choose with­out suffering

So8res27 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

See the dark world

So8res20 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Be­ing un­able to despair

So8res13 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Re­sid­ing in the mor­tal realm

So8res6 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

There are no “bad peo­ple”

So8res30 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Self compassion

So8res25 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Where coulds go

So8res17 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Not yet gods

So8res9 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Be a new homunculus

So8res26 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Up­date from the suckerpunch

So8res19 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Shift­ing guilt

So8res5 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Rest in motion

So8res28 Jun 2015 3:00 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Not be­cause you “should”

So8res30 May 2015 7:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Don’t steer with guilt

So8res12 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Stop try­ing to try and try

So8res21 Nov 2015 8:00 UTC
25 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Defiance

So8res13 Feb 2016 8:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

The Value of a Life

So8res17 Feb 2015 8:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Pro­duc­tivity through self-loyalty

So8res2 Nov 2014 7:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Sacri­fice for the Big Crunch

Cerdon4 Mar 2022 21:05 UTC
1 point
6 comments2 min readLW link

Ukraine Si­tu­a­tion Re­port 2022/​03/​04

lsusr5 Mar 2022 6:44 UTC
71 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is the war in Ukraine par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous for the world?

mikbp6 Mar 2022 13:38 UTC
28 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad

mako yass7 Mar 2022 1:24 UTC
28 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Ukraine up­date 06/​03/​2022

ViktoriaMalyasova6 Mar 2022 21:49 UTC
22 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a good solu­tion for doc­u­ments that need to be signed with a bal­l­point pen un­der suicide watch?

ChristianKl8 Mar 2022 15:58 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Against Think­ing About The Unactionable

George3d69 Mar 2022 11:55 UTC
20 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Be­ing Mo­ral is an end goal.

Yair Halberstadt9 Mar 2022 16:37 UTC
10 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming note

HoldenKarnofsky9 Mar 2022 21:20 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] In­fo­haz­ards, hack­ing, and Brick­ing—how to for­mal­ize these con­cepts?

Yitz10 Mar 2022 16:42 UTC
6 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best ra­tio for Afri­cans to starve com­pared to Ukraini­ans not dy­ing in the war?

ChristianKl10 Mar 2022 18:52 UTC
9 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Dona­tions, The First Year

jenn10 Mar 2022 3:57 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

Book re­view of “Mengzi”

Anonymous12 Mar 2022 4:54 UTC
32 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Ways to in­vest your wealth if you be­lieve in a high-var­i­ance fu­ture?

Alex_Altair11 Mar 2022 16:07 UTC
51 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Is There a Valley of Bad Civ­i­liza­tional Ad­e­quacy?

lbThingrb11 Mar 2022 19:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Alex Tabar­rok ad­vo­cates for crowd­fund­ing sys­tems with *Re­fund Bonuses*. I think this might be a nat­u­ral oc­cur­rence of a money pump against Causal De­ci­sion The­ory pledgers

mako yass14 Mar 2022 7:27 UTC
17 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(marginalrevolution.com)

Eth­i­cal­ity Be­hind Break­ing the Glass Ceiling

foxacc14 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
31 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

The Mean­ingless­ness of it all

foxacc14 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
−9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

My cur­rent thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC
128 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Who is do­ing Cry­on­ics-rele­vant re­search?

Wuschel Schulz15 Mar 2022 10:26 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Crowd­fund­ing with Re­fund Bonuses

Yoav Ravid16 Mar 2022 16:29 UTC
37 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Max­i­mize in a limited do­main. Hope for the fu­ture.

Dacyn17 Mar 2022 14:05 UTC
4 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The One Who Says, “Enough”

Sable17 Mar 2022 6:17 UTC
5 points
20 comments8 min readLW link

Notes on So­cial Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC
17 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Civ­i­liza­tion as Self-Restraint

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Mar 2022 0:31 UTC
60 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Search­ing for outliers

benkuhn21 Mar 2022 2:40 UTC
169 points
16 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(www.benkuhn.net)

Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
59 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
39 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Differ­ent Is The Gen­er­a­tor, Not A Side Effect

George3d623 Mar 2022 9:31 UTC
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Fly­wheels of progress

jasoncrawford23 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC
160 points
36 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Ch­ester­ton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish

Joel Burget24 Mar 2022 21:20 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Jour­nal Club proposal

gwern25 Mar 2022 14:23 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Com­pute Gover­nance: The Role of Com­mod­ity Hardware

Jan26 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC
14 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

You must on av­er­age be im­prov­ing to not guaran­tee failure.

eeegnu26 Mar 2022 5:28 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ist ve­g­anism

tslarm28 Mar 2022 1:48 UTC
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Hinges and crises

29 Mar 2022 11:11 UTC
44 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

De­bat­ing my­self on whether “ex­tra lives lived” are as good as “deaths pre­vented”

HoldenKarnofsky29 Mar 2022 18:30 UTC
34 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Meta wants to use AI to write Wikipe­dia ar­ti­cles; I am Ner­vous™

Yitz30 Mar 2022 19:05 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Re­plac­ing Karma with Good Heart To­kens (Worth $1!)

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC
224 points
173 comments4 min readLW link

Us­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets to Guide Govern­ment Policy

lsusr1 Apr 2022 10:21 UTC
38 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Ir­re­sistible At­trac­tion of De­sign­ing Your Own Utopia

David Udell1 Apr 2022 1:34 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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)

Ques­tions about ″for­mal­iz­ing in­stru­men­tal goals”

Mark Neyer1 Apr 2022 18:52 UTC
7 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

The real rea­son Futarchists are doomed

lc1 Apr 2022 18:37 UTC
19 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What words should be shorter in the ra­tio­nal dic­tio­nary?

brook2 Apr 2022 16:46 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[In­visi­ble Net­works] Psy­che-Sort

Kaj_Sotala2 Apr 2022 15:40 UTC
24 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Mo­ral Anti-Real­ism: In­tro­duc­tion & Summary

Lukas_Gloor2 Apr 2022 14:29 UTC
15 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

How Money Fails to Track Value

JustinShovelain2 Apr 2022 12:32 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

I’m writ­ing a novel to pro­mote Effec­tive Altruism

Timothy Underwood2 Apr 2022 8:50 UTC
21 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

20 Modern Heresies

rogersbacon2 Apr 2022 22:46 UTC
47 points
40 comments16 min readLW link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

En­ter­ing At the 11th Hour (Bab­ble & Anayl­sis)

EdricBroadhurst3 Apr 2022 0:52 UTC
45 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are some ways in which we can die with more dig­nity?

Chris_Leong3 Apr 2022 5:32 UTC
14 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] Why Great­ness Can­not Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Bart Bussmann3 Apr 2022 17:45 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Should we push for ban­ning mak­ing hiring de­ci­sions based on AI?

ChristianKl3 Apr 2022 19:46 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion and Death with Dignity

amitlevy494 Apr 2022 16:19 UTC
7 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Case for emer­gency re­sponse teams

5 Apr 2022 12:45 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The case for Do­ing Some­thing Else (if Align­ment is doomed)

Rafael Harth5 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC
93 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal gov­er­nance (for com­pa­nies, coun­tries and more)

HoldenKarnofsky5 Apr 2022 18:30 UTC
108 points
63 comments14 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Over-Or­ga­ni­za­tion (Chap­ter 5)

Justin Bullock4 Apr 2022 20:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Don’t die with dig­nity; in­stead play to your outs

Jeffrey Ladish6 Apr 2022 7:53 UTC
268 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What Twit­ter fixes should we ad­vo­cate, now that Elon is on the board?

Jackson Wagner6 Apr 2022 16:54 UTC
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC
78 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What would the cre­ation of al­igned AGI look like for us?

Perhaps8 Apr 2022 18:05 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Emo­tion­ally Con­fronting a Prob­a­bly-Doomed World: Against Mo­ti­va­tion Via Dig­nity Points

TurnTrout10 Apr 2022 18:45 UTC
151 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA20 Apr 2020 1:08 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

What can peo­ple not smart/​tech­ni­cal/​”com­pe­tent” enough for AI re­search/​AI risk work do to re­duce AI-risk/​max­i­mize AI safety? (which is most peo­ple?)

Alex K. Chen (parrot)11 Apr 2022 14:05 UTC
7 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Self-Help

Ben Williamson12 Apr 2022 15:01 UTC
18 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] How path-de­pen­dent are hu­man val­ues?

Ege Erdil15 Apr 2022 9:34 UTC
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

My least fa­vorite thing

sudo14 Apr 2022 22:33 UTC
51 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Why Go is a Bet­ter Game than Chess

monkymind15 Apr 2022 13:32 UTC
9 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tra Alexan­der on the Virtue of Silence

benjaminalt16 Apr 2022 8:15 UTC
30 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Modect Englich Cpel­ling Reformc

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Apr 2022 23:38 UTC
5 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Org an­nounce­ment: [AC]RC

Vivek Hebbar17 Apr 2022 17:24 UTC
82 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Rea­sons to Have More Kids

JohnBuridan17 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC
24 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

The in­ter­net makes it eas­ier to co­op­er­ate, that’s the problem

David Hugh-Jones19 Apr 2022 15:25 UTC
54 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Should I buy roofies from the dark­net?

Malmesbury22 Apr 2022 15:40 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Fix­ing sci­ence via a ba­sic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
30 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] Has any­one writ­ten a re­duc­tion­ist the­ory of cre­ativity?

Grant Demaree23 Apr 2022 22:05 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI safety rais­ing aware­ness re­sources bleg

iivonen24 Apr 2022 17:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m Not a Utili­tar­ian in Modern America

DanB24 Apr 2022 21:43 UTC
5 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

In­tu­itions about solv­ing hard problems

Richard_Ngo25 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC
102 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Quadratic vot­ing with au­to­matic col­lu­sion?

GuySrinivasan25 Apr 2022 16:15 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Drown­ing Child

Tomás B.22 Oct 2023 16:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The de­spair of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 23:07 UTC
30 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

Doom sooner

Flaglandbase28 Apr 2022 7:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Let­ter to my Squire

lsusr28 Apr 2022 4:16 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­creas­ing De­mand­ing­ness in EA

jefftk29 Apr 2022 1:20 UTC
61 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Do FDT (or similar) recom­mend repa­ra­tions?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)29 Apr 2022 17:34 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Nu­clear En­ergy—Good but not the silver bul­let we were hop­ing for

Marius Hobbhahn30 Apr 2022 15:41 UTC
64 points
33 comments15 min readLW link1 review

We tran­shu­man­ists want im­mor­tal­ity… But is it re­ally pos­si­ble?

superads9130 Apr 2022 13:01 UTC
0 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Nar­ra­tive Syncing

AnnaSalamon1 May 2022 1:48 UTC
117 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

My thoughts on nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­search as an EA cause area

Ben_Snodin2 May 2022 17:57 UTC
34 points
0 comments42 min readLW link

Most prob­lems don’t differ dra­mat­i­cally in tractabil­ity (un­der cer­tain as­sump­tions)

Thomas Kwa4 May 2022 0:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What are the best ex­am­ples of catas­trophic re­source short­ages?

jasoncrawford4 May 2022 14:37 UTC
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What We Owe the Past

Austin Chen5 May 2022 11:46 UTC
49 points
37 comments5 min readLW link

Re­peal the For­eign Dredge Act of 1906

Zvi5 May 2022 15:20 UTC
158 points
16 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A rea­son be­hind bad sys­tems, and moral im­pli­ca­tions of see­ing this reason

Edward Pascal9 May 2022 3:16 UTC
4 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Dath Ilani Rule of Law

David Udell10 May 2022 6:17 UTC
18 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Crises Don’t Need Your Software

GabrielExists10 May 2022 21:06 UTC
59 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Stuff I might do if I had covid

KatjaGrace11 May 2022 0:00 UTC
39 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

jefftk22 Mar 2023 18:40 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The fun­nel of hu­man experience

eukaryote10 Oct 2018 2:46 UTC
83 points
31 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

My Morality

UtilityMonster15 May 2022 16:34 UTC
3 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

So­ci­aLLM: pro­posal for a lan­guage model de­sign for per­son­al­ised apps, so­cial sci­ence, and AI safety research

Roman Leventov19 Dec 2023 16:49 UTC
17 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Twit­ter dis­like button

KatjaGrace17 May 2022 19:40 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

For­mula for Dy­ing Babies

Zvi17 May 2022 16:50 UTC
88 points
12 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pop­u­lar ed­u­ca­tion in Swe­den: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik Karlsson17 May 2022 20:07 UTC
116 points
3 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

On sav­ing one’s world

Rob Bensinger17 May 2022 19:53 UTC
192 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How has the to­tal amount of gain-of-func­tion re­search wor­ld­wide grown/​shrunk over time?

johnswentworth19 May 2022 15:57 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Most Peo­ple Don’t Real­ize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work

Thane Ruthenis21 Dec 2023 20:02 UTC
137 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

How cur­ing ag­ing could help progress

jasoncrawford22 May 2022 22:43 UTC
51 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
329 points
1,274 comments29 min readLW link

End­point Speci­fi­ca­tion, or Good Help is Hard to Find

ACrackedPot24 May 2022 21:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Benign Boundary Violations

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien26 May 2022 6:48 UTC
202 points
84 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Lit­tle Planets

ExCeph27 May 2022 1:24 UTC
15 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

The mis­guided pur­suit of ex­is­ten­tial­ism and ab­sur­dism in com­bat­ting nihilism

Sundae26 May 2022 21:17 UTC
−3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The im­pact you might have work­ing on AI safety

Fabien Roger29 May 2022 16:31 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] How would you build Dath Ilan on earth?

Yair Halberstadt29 May 2022 7:26 UTC
35 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Will work­ing here ad­vance AGI? Help us not de­stroy the world!

Yonatan Cale29 May 2022 11:42 UTC
30 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Wield­ing civilization

dominicq1 Jun 2022 7:11 UTC
29 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing “Why Global Poverty”

jefftk1 Jun 2022 20:20 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

fin2 Jun 2022 20:27 UTC
17 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The STEM Attractor

David Udell3 Jun 2022 22:21 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Talent

Zvi3 Jun 2022 20:10 UTC
70 points
19 comments79 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Monthly Shorts 5/​22

Celer3 Jun 2022 13:10 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(keller.substack.com)

On effec­tive al­tru­ism, util­i­tar­i­anism and localness

David Hugh-Jones3 Jun 2022 10:34 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Silliness

lsusr3 Jun 2022 4:59 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Longter­mist Con­se­quences of a New Dark Age?

David Udell3 Jun 2022 23:00 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Just Say No to Utilitarianism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 22:59 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

[Question] Can you gain weird­ness points?

NicholasKross31 Jul 2020 3:41 UTC
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Eter­nal youth as eter­nal suffering

shminux4 Jun 2022 1:48 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Bur­den of Worldbuilding

lsusr4 Jun 2022 1:15 UTC
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

Filip Sondej5 Jun 2022 13:55 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter May 2022 + short his­tory of “method­ol­o­gists”

avturchin5 Jun 2022 11:50 UTC
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Tran­script of a Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi6 Jun 2022 13:50 UTC
85 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Op­ti­miza­tion and Ad­e­quacy in Five Bullets

james.lucassen6 Jun 2022 5:48 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

We haven’t quit evolu­tion [short]

the gears to ascension6 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Why it’s bad to kill Grandma

dynomight9 Jun 2022 18:12 UTC
27 points
14 comments8 min readLW link
(dynomight.substack.com)

Leav­ing Google, Join­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Observatory

jefftk10 Jun 2022 17:00 UTC
114 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why has no per­son /​ group ever taken over the world?

Aryeh Englander11 Jun 2022 20:51 UTC
25 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Pure Altruism

UtilityMonster12 Jun 2022 15:53 UTC
2 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Code Qual­ity and Rule Consequentialism

Adam Zerner13 Jun 2022 3:12 UTC
17 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Ge­or­gism, in theory

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jun 2022 15:20 UTC
40 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

Con­tex­tual Evil

ACrackedPot15 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC
1 point
12 comments2 min readLW link

Lifeguards

Akash15 Jun 2022 23:03 UTC
12 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Against Ac­tive Shooter Drills

Zvi16 Jun 2022 13:40 UTC
91 points
30 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What if LaMDA is in­deed sen­tient /​ self-aware /​ worth hav­ing rights?

RomanS16 Jun 2022 9:10 UTC
22 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject ideas: Epistemics

Lukas Finnveden5 Jan 2024 23:41 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

An Ap­proach to Land Value Taxation

harsimony17 Jun 2022 15:53 UTC
4 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is civ­i­liza­tional al­ign­ment on the table?

Aleksi Liimatainen17 Jun 2022 8:27 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Unified The­ory of Nor­ma­tive Ethics

Thane Ruthenis17 Jun 2022 19:55 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

What are our outs to play to?

Hastings18 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Malthu­sian Trap: An Ex­tremely Short Introduction

Davis Kedrosky19 Jun 2022 15:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

“Now here’s why I’m punch­ing you...”

philh16 Oct 2018 21:30 UTC
28 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Non­profit Boards are Weird

HoldenKarnofsky23 Jun 2022 14:40 UTC
154 points
26 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(www.cold-takes.com)

How do states re­spond to changes in nu­clear risk

NathanBarnard23 Jun 2022 12:42 UTC
8 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics p(suc­cess) es­ti­mates are only weakly as­so­ci­ated with in­ter­est in pur­su­ing cry­on­ics in the LW 2023 Survey

Andy_McKenzie29 Feb 2024 14:47 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Worked Ex­am­ples of Shap­ley Values

lalaithion24 Jun 2022 17:13 UTC
70 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence in Com­mit­ment Races

David Udell24 Jun 2022 14:30 UTC
23 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] “Science Cathe­drals”

Alex Vermillion24 Jun 2022 3:30 UTC
15 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Magna Alta Doctrina

jacob_cannell11 Dec 2021 21:54 UTC
58 points
7 comments28 min readLW link

Co­op­er­at­ing with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

24 Feb 2024 22:58 UTC
53 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­ples For Product Li­a­bil­ity (With Ap­pli­ca­tion To AI)

johnswentworth10 Dec 2023 21:27 UTC
36 points
55 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Do web­sites and apps ac­tu­ally gen­er­ally get worse af­ter up­dates, or is it just an effect of the fear of change?

lillybaeum10 Dec 2023 17:26 UTC
33 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Ideoculture

elv11 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

On plans for a func­tional society

12 Dec 2023 0:07 UTC
41 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

Se­condary Risk Markets

Vaniver11 Dec 2023 21:52 UTC
35 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

AI In­sti­tu­tion De­sign Hackathon (EAG Bay Area Satel­lite Event)

12 Dec 2023 13:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Am I eth­i­cally obli­gated to ex­tend the life of my dog with life-ex­ten­sion treat­ments about to hit the mar­ket?

TrudosKudos11 Dec 2023 19:41 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC
398 points
162 comments33 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing The ‘From Big Ideas To Real-World Re­sults’: A Series for Effec­tive Per­sonal Development

Paul Rohde14 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(blog.paul-rohde.com)

Per­sonal Devel­op­ment Sys­tem: Win­ning Re­peat­edly and Grow­ing Effec­tively With The BIG4

Paul Rohde14 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC
12 points
0 comments33 min readLW link
(blog.paul-rohde.com)

[un­ti­tled post]

DrJuanDempere13 Dec 2023 13:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral Mountains

Adam Zerner14 Dec 2023 10:40 UTC
8 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions for EA Global are still open!

Eli_Nathan14 Dec 2023 19:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pope Fran­cis shares thoughts on re­spon­si­ble AI development

corruptedCatapillar16 Dec 2023 3:49 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.vatican.va)

Con­tra Scott on Abol­ish­ing the FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok15 Dec 2023 14:00 UTC
46 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Global Birth Rates will Con­tinue to De­cline as Tech­nol­ogy Accelerates

Declan Molony18 Dec 2023 8:54 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readLW link

Is the far fu­ture in­evitably zero sum?

Srdjan Miletic19 Dec 2023 1:45 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(dissent.blog)

Monthly Roundup #13: De­cem­ber 2023

Zvi19 Dec 2023 15:10 UTC
32 points
5 comments26 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How Would an Utopia-Max­i­mizer Look Like?

Thane Ruthenis20 Dec 2023 20:01 UTC
31 points
23 comments10 min readLW link

How Emer­gency Medicine Solves the Align­ment Problem

StrivingForLegibility26 Dec 2023 5:24 UTC
41 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Link Col­lec­tion: Im­pact Markets

Saul Munn26 Dec 2023 9:01 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Pi­casso in the Gallery of Babel

samhealy26 Dec 2023 16:25 UTC
12 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

So­cial Choice The­ory and Log­i­cal Handshakes

StrivingForLegibility29 Dec 2023 3:49 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Old man’s story

RomanS29 Dec 2023 14:37 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Act It­self: Ex­cep­tion­less Mo­ral Norms

JohnBuridan1 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC
5 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

1. A Sense of Fair­ness: De­con­fus­ing Ethics

RogerDearnaley17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC
15 points
8 comments15 min readLW link

A hermeneu­tic net for agency

TsviBT1 Jan 2024 8:06 UTC
56 points
4 comments30 min readLW link

[Question] What should a non-ge­nius do in the face of rapid progress in GAI to en­sure a de­cent life?

kaler1 Jan 2024 8:22 UTC
11 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Trad­ing off Lives

jefftk3 Jan 2024 3:40 UTC
53 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] The­o­ret­i­cally, could we bal­ance the bud­get painlessly?

Logan Zoellner3 Jan 2024 14:46 UTC
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

If I ran the zoo

Optimization Process5 Jan 2024 5:14 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy path de­pen­dence and eval­u­at­ing expertise

5 Jan 2024 19:21 UTC
24 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

A Land Tax For Britain

A.H.6 Jan 2024 15:52 UTC
6 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

A Challenge to Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Premises

False Name6 Jan 2024 18:46 UTC
−26 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

In­vest in ACX Grants pro­jects!

Saul Munn6 Mar 2024 20:27 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­cor­po­rat­ing Jus­tice The­ory into De­ci­sion Theory

StrivingForLegibility21 Jan 2024 19:17 UTC
13 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Gaia Net­work: An Illus­trated Primer

18 Jan 2024 18:23 UTC
1 point
2 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What Soft­ware Should Ex­ist?

Tomás B.19 Jan 2024 21:43 UTC
27 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Values Darwinism

pchvykov22 Jan 2024 10:44 UTC
11 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Refram­ing Acausal Trol­ling as Acausal Patronage

StrivingForLegibility23 Jan 2024 3:04 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A Paradigm Shift in Sustainability

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis23 Jan 2024 23:34 UTC
5 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jan 2024 13:31 UTC
42 points
28 comments4 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

[Re­post] The Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Ethics

mesaoptimizer25 Jan 2024 15:20 UTC
66 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(web.archive.org)

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mechanism Networks

StrivingForLegibility30 Jan 2024 20:30 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

To Boldly Code

StrivingForLegibility26 Jan 2024 18:25 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing ev­ery re­searcher seek grants is a bro­ken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC
150 points
41 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­cor­po­rat­ing Mechanism De­sign Into De­ci­sion Theory

StrivingForLegibility26 Jan 2024 18:25 UTC
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Low hang­ing fruit: an­a­lyz­ing your nutrition

Alexei5 May 2012 5:20 UTC
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

David Burns Thinks Psy­chother­apy Is a Learn­able Skill. Git Gud.

Morpheus27 Jan 2024 13:21 UTC
27 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(podcast.clearerthinking.org)

Nat­u­ral se­lec­tion for ingame char­ac­ter build optimisation

Kongo Landwalker29 Jan 2024 11:34 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing Im­pact Markets

Saul Munn31 Jan 2024 9:51 UTC
90 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Coun­ter­fac­tual Civ­i­liza­tion Si­mu­la­tion Ver­sion −1.0 aka my ap­pli­ca­tion to Jo­hannes Mayer’s SPAR project

Pi Rogers10 Mar 2024 10:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments14 min readLW link

Drone Wars Endgame

RussellThor1 Feb 2024 2:30 UTC
34 points
70 comments8 min readLW link

The Library of Scott Alexandria

Rob Bensinger14 Sep 2015 1:38 UTC
119 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

More Hyphenation

Arjun Panickssery7 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC
87 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

New so­cial credit formalizations

KatjaGrace11 Mar 2024 19:00 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Storable Votes with a Pay as you win mechanism: a con­tri­bu­tion for in­sti­tu­tional design

Arturo Macias11 Mar 2024 15:58 UTC
17 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

The Astro­nom­i­cal Sacri­fice Dilemma

Matthew McRedmond11 Mar 2024 19:58 UTC
13 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

“What if we could re­design so­ciety from scratch? The promise of char­ter cities.” [Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions video]

Jackson Wagner18 Feb 2024 0:57 UTC
39 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Some Thoughts On Us­ing Auc­tions For Land Valuation

harsimony22 Feb 2024 19:54 UTC
0 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

[Question] Where should I give spare com­put­ing power, as an as­piring ra­tio­nal­ist/​al­tru­ist?

[Error communicating with LW2 server]2 Apr 2020 15:31 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why con­sumerism is good actually

jasoncrawford24 Mar 2023 17:42 UTC
11 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Nudg­ing Polarization

jefftk24 Mar 2023 23:50 UTC
40 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Value Plu­ral­ism and AI

Göran Crafte19 Mar 2023 23:38 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Sur­vey on lifel­og­gers for a re­search project

Mati_Roy26 Mar 2023 0:02 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

100 Din­ners And A Work­shop: In­for­ma­tion Preser­va­tion And Goals

Stephen Fowler28 Mar 2023 3:13 UTC
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

New blog: Planned Obsolescence

Ajeya Cotra27 Mar 2023 19:46 UTC
96 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

Against an AI Re­search Moratorium

Eric Raymond31 Mar 2023 0:53 UTC
29 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Paus­ing AI Devel­op­ments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky

jacquesthibs29 Mar 2023 23:16 UTC
298 points
296 comments3 min readLW link
(time.com)

The frozen neutrality

ProgramCrafter1 Apr 2023 12:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What could EA’s new name be?

trevor2 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC
17 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Vir­tual Pro­grams Apr-May 2023

Yve Nichols-Evans3 Apr 2023 6:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Goal al­ign­ment with­out al­ign­ment on episte­mol­ogy, ethics, and sci­ence is futile

Roman Leventov7 Apr 2023 8:22 UTC
20 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Bit­coin and ESG Investing

Annapurna15 Feb 2021 21:01 UTC
3 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Near-mode cry­on­ics: A thought experiment

Mati_Roy9 Apr 2023 22:21 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ou­trage and Statis­tics into Policy

jefftk10 Apr 2023 14:00 UTC
39 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is this true? @tyler_m_john: [If we had started us­ing CFCs ear­lier, we would have ended most life on the planet]

tailcalled10 Apr 2023 14:22 UTC
73 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Grass Valley, Cal­ifor­nia, USA – ACX Mee­tups Every­where Spring 2023

Raelifin10 Apr 2023 22:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Repug­nant lev­els of violins

Solenoid_Entity12 Apr 2023 17:11 UTC
62 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Green goo is plausible

anithite18 Apr 2023 0:04 UTC
57 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

The Overem­ployed Via ChatGPT

Zvi18 Apr 2023 13:40 UTC
57 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

De­cep­tion Strategies

Thoth Hermes20 Apr 2023 15:59 UTC
−7 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(thothhermes.substack.com)

LLMs for on­line dis­cus­sion moderation

Dave Lindbergh25 Apr 2023 16:53 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Le­gal Sys­tems Very Differ­ent From Ours

jenn23 Oct 2023 18:57 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Timaeus

22 Oct 2023 11:59 UTC
186 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Should the US House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives adopt rank choice vot­ing for lead­er­ship po­si­tions?

jmh25 Oct 2023 11:16 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some fun ways to spend $100,000?

Sausage Vector Machine20 Apr 2020 22:45 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

1. Premise one: Values are malleable

Nora_Ammann26 Oct 2023 14:36 UTC
21 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Novem­ber Meetup – Degrowth

shaneebert27 Oct 2023 1:57 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

4. Risks from caus­ing ille­gi­t­i­mate value change (perfor­ma­tive pre­dic­tors)

Nora_Ammann26 Oct 2023 14:38 UTC
8 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

5. Risks from pre­vent­ing le­gi­t­i­mate value change (value col­lapse)

Nora_Ammann26 Oct 2023 14:38 UTC
13 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Bayesian Punishment

Rob Lucas27 Oct 2023 3:24 UTC
1 point
1 comment6 min readLW link

We’re Not Ready: thoughts on “paus­ing” and re­spon­si­ble scal­ing policies

HoldenKarnofsky27 Oct 2023 15:19 UTC
200 points
33 comments8 min readLW link

The Trans­par­ent So­ciety: A rad­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion that we should prob­a­bly undergo

mako yass3 Sep 2019 2:27 UTC
14 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional Ap­proaches to Pathogen Detection

jefftk1 Nov 2023 0:30 UTC
32 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Chi­nese sci­en­tists ac­knowl­edge xrisk & call for in­ter­na­tional reg­u­la­tory body [Linkpost]

Akash1 Nov 2023 13:28 UTC
44 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ft.com)

Com­men­sal Institutions

Sable1 Nov 2023 16:01 UTC
8 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

8 ex­am­ples in­form­ing my pes­simism on up­load­ing with­out re­verse engineering

Steven Byrnes3 Nov 2023 20:03 UTC
111 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

Se­cur­ing Civ­i­liza­tion Against Catas­trophic Pandemics

jefftk3 Nov 2023 19:33 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

As Many Ideas

Screwtape3 Nov 2023 22:47 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The 6D effect: When com­pa­nies take risks, one email can be very pow­er­ful.

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC
260 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing a Crow­dac­tion platform

B Jacobs16 May 2020 16:08 UTC
24 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

B Jacobs4 Feb 2020 20:24 UTC
10 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Nihilism doesn’t matter

B Jacobs21 May 2020 18:19 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

2023-12-03 hang­out, cry­on­ics and longevity montreal

Nicolas Lacombe6 Nov 2023 19:59 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

On the UK Summit

Zvi7 Nov 2023 13:10 UTC
66 points
6 comments30 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What will hap­pen with real es­tate prices dur­ing a slow take­off?

Ricardo Meneghin8 Nov 2023 11:58 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open-ended ethics of phe­nom­ena (a desider­ata with uni­ver­sal moral­ity)

Ryo 8 Nov 2023 20:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readLW link

In­ter­na­tional treaty for global com­pute caps

9 Nov 2023 18:17 UTC
22 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

How I Think, Part Three: Weigh­ing Cryonics

Richard Henage10 Nov 2023 22:21 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

5 Rea­sons Why Govern­ments/​Mili­taries Already Want AI for In­for­ma­tion Warfare

trevor30 Oct 2023 16:30 UTC
32 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your best util­i­tar­ian model for risk­ing your best kid­neys?

Ilio12 Nov 2023 23:01 UTC
−3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

​​ Open-ended/​Phenom­e­nal ​Ethics ​(TLDR)

Ryo 9 Nov 2023 16:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Op­tion­al­ity ap­proach to ethics

Ryo 13 Nov 2023 15:23 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­no­va­tion and Dependence

smaslennikov19 Jun 2020 19:39 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(smaslennikov.com)

Good busi­nesses cre­ate epistemic monopolies

Logan Kieller15 Nov 2023 14:04 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(logankieller.substack.com)

[Question] AI Safety orgs- what’s your biggest bot­tle­neck right now?

Kabir Kumar16 Nov 2023 2:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In favour of a sovereign state of Gaza

Yair Halberstadt19 Nov 2023 16:08 UTC
8 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

“Op­ti­mists always win!” is the biggest sur­vivor­ship bias

Yunfan Ye20 Nov 2023 8:53 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

For Civ­i­liza­tion and Against Niceness

Gabriel Alfour20 Nov 2023 10:56 UTC
46 points
14 comments8 min readLW link
(cognition.cafe)

Why not elec­tric trains and ex­ca­va­tors?

bhauth21 Nov 2023 0:07 UTC
67 points
39 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Scott Alexan­der is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]21 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC
−27 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

My first con­ver­sa­tion with An­nie Altman

Remmelt21 Nov 2023 21:58 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(open.spotify.com)

A few Su­per­hu­man ex­am­ples of Su­per­al­igned Su­per­in­tel­li­gence from Google Bard (Thanks­giv­ing 2023)

23 Nov 2023 19:06 UTC
−9 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Fer­til­ity as Metascience

Maxwell Tabarrok25 Nov 2023 15:42 UTC
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Paper out now on cre­a­tine and cog­ni­tive performance

Fabienne26 Nov 2023 10:58 UTC
57 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Wikipe­dia is not so great, and what can be done about it.

euserx26 Nov 2023 19:13 UTC
0 points
27 comments16 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC
0 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Up­date #2 to “Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tract Plat­form”: EnsureDone

moyamo28 Nov 2023 18:02 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cis fragility

[deactivated]30 Nov 2023 4:14 UTC
−51 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties: Seek­ing Ex­pres­sions of In­ter­est for Spe­cial Pro­jects Next Year

kierangreig29 Nov 2023 13:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Buy Noth­ing Day is a great idea with a ter­rible app— why has no­body built a kil­ler app for crowd­sourced ‘effec­tive com­mu­nism’ yet?

lillybaeum30 Nov 2023 13:47 UTC
8 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Some In­tu­itions for the Ethicophysics

30 Nov 2023 6:47 UTC
2 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

A For­mula for Violence (and Its An­ti­dote)

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC
−22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.simpleheart.org)

A Pro­posed Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease???

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC
4 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Why Did NEPA Peak in 2016?

Maxwell Tabarrok1 Dec 2023 16:18 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

jefftk2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC
66 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ac­cel­er­at­ing sci­ence through evolv­able institutions

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2023 23:21 UTC
19 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Min­i­mal Vi­able Par­adise: How do we get The Good Fu­ture(TM)?

Nathan Young6 Dec 2023 9:24 UTC
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Based Beff Je­zos and the Accelerationists

Zvi6 Dec 2023 16:00 UTC
88 points
29 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ed­u­ca­tion 2.0 — A brand new ed­u­ca­tion system

aryan15 Jul 2020 10:09 UTC
−8 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Call for sub­mis­sions: Choice of Fu­tures sur­vey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(airtable.com)

Swiss Poli­ti­cal Sys­tem: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)

Martin Sustrik22 Jul 2020 13:50 UTC
90 points
24 comments12 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

More Dakka

Zvi2 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
184 points
25 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ideas for an ac­tion co­or­di­na­tion website

Yoav Ravid8 Mar 2019 13:32 UTC
20 points
37 comments5 min readLW link

Ideas for a fact check­ing widget

Yoav Ravid18 Mar 2019 14:25 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Berkeley Com­mu­nity & The Rest Of Us: A Re­sponse to Zvi & Benquo

Evan_Gaensbauer20 May 2018 7:19 UTC
57 points
70 comments12 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavance14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC
179 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

Make more land

jefftk16 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC
158 points
36 comments2 min readLW link5 reviews
(www.jefftk.com)

Fun The­ory in EverQuest

moridinamael5 Feb 2018 20:26 UTC
31 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC
65 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

I Want To Live In A Baugruppe

Alicorn17 Mar 2017 1:36 UTC
105 points
195 comments3 min readLW link

So­cial­ist Demo­cratic-Repub­lic GAME: 12 Amend­ments to the Con­sti­tu­tions of the Free World

monkymind1 May 2023 13:13 UTC
−34 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerwe8 Mar 2020 21:20 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Billions of Dol­lars Re­duc­ing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC
59 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

The Art of the Overbet

Zvi19 Oct 2018 14:00 UTC
55 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LW 2.0 Strate­gic Overview

habryka15 Sep 2017 3:00 UTC
85 points
296 comments23 min readLW link

31 Laws of Fun

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jan 2009 10:13 UTC
94 points
36 comments8 min readLW link

Why Do You Keep Hav­ing This Prob­lem?

Davis_Kingsley20 Jan 2020 8:33 UTC
47 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Towards op­ti­mal play as Villager in a mixed game

Benquo7 May 2019 5:29 UTC
51 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Let’s cre­ate a mar­ket for cryonics

[deleted]10 Apr 2012 6:36 UTC
61 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

The YouTube Revolu­tion in Knowl­edge Transfer

Samo Burja17 Sep 2019 20:10 UTC
66 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Po­ten­tial Ways to Fight Mazes

Zvi28 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC
53 points
9 comments18 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Mo­ral Coper­ni­can Principle

Legionnaire2 May 2023 3:25 UTC
5 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Avert­ing Catas­tro­phe: De­ci­sion The­ory for COVID-19, Cli­mate Change, and Po­ten­tial Disasters of All Kinds

JakubK2 May 2023 22:50 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Direct Pri­mary Care

sarahconstantin25 Sep 2018 18:00 UTC
42 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Link] Can We Re­v­erse The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment?

daenerys14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC
66 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als about So­cial Media

Zvi22 Apr 2019 12:20 UTC
53 points
23 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pro­tect­ing Large Pro­jects Against Mazedom

Zvi3 Feb 2020 17:10 UTC
76 points
11 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some Ways Co­or­di­na­tion is Hard

Zvi13 Jun 2019 13:00 UTC
55 points
11 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ap­ply for Emer­gent Ventures

Zvi13 Sep 2018 21:50 UTC
40 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bio­di­ver­sity for heretics

eukaryote27 May 2018 13:37 UTC
14 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Strate­gic High Skill Immigration

Gentzel6 Dec 2017 1:15 UTC
32 points
8 comments21 min readLW link

Think­ing of Con­ve­nience as an Eco­nomic Term

ozziegooen7 May 2023 1:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Thriv­ing in the Weird Times: Prepar­ing for the 100X Economy

8 May 2023 13:44 UTC
23 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

The Bleak Har­mony of Diets and Sur­vival: A Glimpse into Na­ture’s Un­for­giv­ing Balance

bardstale9 May 2023 16:08 UTC
−16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Heaven

denisbider25 Jan 2010 23:22 UTC
26 points
246 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man­ity Align­ment Theory

Hubert Ulmanski17 May 2023 18:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If a “Kick­starter for Inad­e­quate Equlibria” was built, do you have a con­crete in­ad­e­quate equil­ibrium to fix?

Raemon21 Feb 2019 21:32 UTC
55 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons learned from offer­ing in-office nu­tri­tional testing

Elizabeth15 May 2023 23:20 UTC
84 points
11 comments14 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

We are mis­al­igned: the sad­den­ing idea that most of hu­man­ity doesn’t in­trin­si­cally care about x-risk, even on a per­sonal level

Christopher King19 May 2023 16:12 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Deon­tolog­i­cal Norms are Unimportant

omnizoid18 May 2023 9:33 UTC
−15 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Is Effec­tive Vol­un­teer­ing Pos­si­ble?

David Bravo19 May 2023 12:41 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Pri­vati­sa­tion—The Con­cep­tual vs Hu­man Memory

ben8627119 May 2023 18:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Idea: med­i­cal hy­pothe­ses app for mys­te­ri­ous chronic illnesses

riceissa19 May 2023 20:49 UTC
63 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Fix­ing sci­ence via a ba­sic income

Kaj_Sotala8 Dec 2017 14:20 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Elon Musk is wrong: Rob­o­taxis are stupid. We need stan­dard­ized rented au­tonomous tugs to move cus­tomized owned un­pow­ered wag­ons.

chaosmage4 Nov 2019 14:04 UTC
36 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Field-Build­ing and Deep Models

Ben Pace13 Jan 2018 21:16 UTC
21 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

The Neu­ro­science of Desire

lukeprog9 Apr 2011 19:08 UTC
71 points
30 comments10 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Your Dona­tions via a Job

Alexei5 May 2013 23:19 UTC
177 points
58 comments22 min readLW link

Nutri­tion is Satisficing

aaq16 Jul 2019 16:13 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Diet Crux

Jacob Falkovich2 Apr 2018 5:05 UTC
43 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Nutri­tion heuris­tic: Cy­cle healthy options

aaq17 Jul 2019 12:44 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How to use hu­man his­tory as a nu­tri­tional prior?

CasioTheSane10 Mar 2012 0:47 UTC
8 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­mal eat­ing (or rather, a step in the right di­rec­tion)

c_edwards19 Jan 2015 1:35 UTC
8 points
65 comments7 min readLW link

Fast­ing Mimick­ing Diet Looks Pretty Good

sarahconstantin4 Oct 2018 19:50 UTC
81 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Church vs. Taskforce

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2009 9:23 UTC
78 points
88 comments5 min readLW link

How would you take over Rome?

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2012 16:24 UTC
48 points
202 comments1 min readLW link

Easy wins aren’t news

PhilGoetz19 Feb 2015 19:38 UTC
60 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What pro­jects and efforts are there to pro­mote AI safety re­search?

Christopher King24 May 2023 0:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ments on Power Law Distri­bu­tion of In­di­vi­d­ual Impact

Ben Pace29 Dec 2017 1:49 UTC
21 points
22 comments8 min readLW link

Com­pe­ti­tion for Power

Samo Burja4 Apr 2018 17:10 UTC
17 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Image vs. Im­pact: Can pub­lic com­mit­ment be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for achieve­ment?

patrissimo28 May 2009 23:18 UTC
54 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

What sci­ence needs

PhilGoetz2 Dec 2012 22:31 UTC
58 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

Ad­ver­tise while hon­or­ing the dead

KatjaGrace4 Jan 2010 5:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alex Hoek­stra talk on Open Source Vac­cines and the Mind First Foundation

delton13727 May 2023 16:06 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Who are the Ex­perts on Cry­on­ics?

Mati_Roy27 May 2023 19:24 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(biostasis.substack.com)

Tran­shu­man­ism 3 - LW/​ACX Meetup #239 (Wed­nes­day, May 31st 2023)

koreindian30 May 2023 17:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Ob­jec­tive Ethics, and a bit about boats

EndlessBlue31 May 2023 11:40 UTC
−7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ar­gu­ments Against Fos­sil Fu­ture?

Sable31 May 2023 13:41 UTC
11 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Change my mind: Ve­ganism en­tails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

Elizabeth1 Jun 2023 17:10 UTC
147 points
82 comments19 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Things I Learned by Spend­ing Five Thou­sand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC
377 points
34 comments8 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

Do You Really Want Effec­tive Altru­ism?

williamsae4 Jun 2023 8:06 UTC
−7 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

One Web­site To Rule Them All?

anna_macdonald11 Jan 2019 19:14 UTC
30 points
23 comments10 min readLW link

why I’m anti-YIMBY

bhauth12 Jun 2023 0:19 UTC
20 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

The In­trin­sic In­ter­play of Hu­man Values and Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: Nav­i­gat­ing the Op­ti­miza­tion Challenge

Joe Kwon5 Jun 2023 20:41 UTC
2 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

Is the 10% Giv­ing What We Can Pledge Core to EA’s Rep­u­ta­tion?

DirectedEvolution6 Jun 2023 6:21 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

An Eter­nal Company

moyamo6 Jun 2023 15:56 UTC
7 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Etho­dy­nam­ics of Omelas

dr_s10 Jun 2023 16:24 UTC
78 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

Why I am not a longter­mist (May 2022)

boazbarak6 Jun 2023 20:36 UTC
39 points
18 comments9 min readLW link
(windowsontheory.org)

Three Axes of Prohibitions

daenerys15 Feb 2013 7:34 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Rais­ing the waterline

Morendil7 Oct 2012 16:23 UTC
47 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Look­ing Back On Ads

jefftk15 Jun 2023 2:10 UTC
30 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why liber­tar­i­ans are ad­vo­cat­ing for reg­u­la­tion on AI

RobertM14 Jun 2023 20:59 UTC
35 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­ploit­ing the Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy for more ac­cu­rate ques­tion­ing?

Xachariah17 Jul 2012 0:46 UTC
47 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Tran­shu­man­ism 6 - LW/​ACX Meetup #242 (Wed­nes­day, June 21st 2023)

koreindian20 Jun 2023 18:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A few more ants and grasshoppers

c.trout17 Jun 2023 23:38 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Boundaries en­able pos­i­tive ma­te­rial-in­for­ma­tional feed­back loops

jessicata22 Dec 2018 2:46 UTC
36 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

A Pro­posal for Defeat­ing Moloch in the Pri­son In­dus­trial Complex

lululu2 Jun 2015 22:03 UTC
33 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

nu­clear costs are inflation

bhauth26 Jun 2023 22:30 UTC
6 points
42 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

[Question] What money-pumps ex­ist, if any, for de­on­tol­o­gists?

Daniel Kokotajlo28 Jun 2023 19:08 UTC
39 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­form­ing Democ­racy: A Unique Fund­ing Op­por­tu­nity for US Fed­eral Ap­proval Voting

Aaron Hamlin28 Jun 2023 22:07 UTC
25 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Do not miss the cut­off for im­mor­tal­ity! There is a prob­a­bil­ity that you will live for­ever as an im­mor­tal su­per­in­tel­li­gent be­ing and you can in­crease your odds by con­vinc­ing oth­ers to make achiev­ing the tech­nolog­i­cal sin­gu­lar­ity as quickly and safely as pos­si­ble the col­lec­tive goal/​pro­ject of all of hu­man­ity, Similar to “Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.”

Oliver--Klozoff29 Jun 2023 3:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments28 min readLW link

Brain­storm­ing new senses

lululu20 May 2015 19:53 UTC
42 points
92 comments2 min readLW link

[Per­sonal Ex­per­i­ment] Coun­ter­bal­anc­ing Risk-Aversion

lsusr15 Nov 2019 8:34 UTC
31 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sider giv­ing money to peo­ple, not pro­jects or organizations

Nina Rimsky2 Jul 2023 14:33 UTC
79 points
30 comments3 min readLW link
(ninarimsky.substack.com)

Marginal charity

Pat Myron3 Jul 2023 2:13 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A frame­work for speed reading

limerott16 Sep 2019 18:52 UTC
26 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(limerott.com)

Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tract Ex­per­i­ment #2: Berkeley House Dinners

Arjun Panickssery5 Jul 2023 0:13 UTC
60 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Seed­ing a pro­duc­tive cul­ture: a work­ing hypothesis

Benquo18 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC
11 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

In­cen­tives from a causal perspective

10 Jul 2023 17:16 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of stu­dent pro­grams for AI safety research

Dan H10 Jul 2023 18:28 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Aging and the gero­science hypothesis

DirectedEvolution12 Jul 2023 7:16 UTC
54 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Quick pro­posal: De­ci­sion mar­ket re­grantor us­ing man­i­fund (please im­prove)

Nathan Young9 Jul 2023 12:49 UTC
10 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the EA Archive

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2023 13:49 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

40 Million Cana­di­ans!

jenn11 Jul 2023 2:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Re­fu­ta­tion of (Global) “Hap­piness Max­i­miza­tion”

fare25 Aug 2020 20:33 UTC
−2 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Com­pres­sion of morbidity

DirectedEvolution12 Jul 2023 15:26 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

A sim­ple way of ex­ploit­ing AI’s com­ing eco­nomic im­pact may be highly-impactful

kuira16 Jul 2023 9:33 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tra Con­tra the So­cial Model of Disability

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2023 6:59 UTC
20 points
22 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Any sug­ges­tions for an im­pact­ful mas­ter’s the­sis in Poli­ti­cal Science?

Klara Helene Nielsen19 Jul 2023 17:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­nolog­i­cal solu­tions to the cli­mate crisis

dominicq19 Jul 2023 12:39 UTC
6 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(sundaystopwatch.eu)

Valuism—an ap­proach to life for you to consider

spencerg19 Jul 2023 15:23 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Paper di­ges­tion: “May We Have Your At­ten­tion Please? Hu­man-Rights NGOs and the Prob­lem of Global Com­mu­ni­ca­tion”

Klara Helene Nielsen20 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

“Jus­tice, Cher­ryl.”

Zack_M_Davis23 Jul 2023 16:16 UTC
71 points
19 comments9 min readLW link

So­cial Balance through Em­brac­ing So­cial Credit

dhruvv26 Jul 2023 20:07 UTC
−39 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

The cone of free­dom (or, free­dom might only be in­stru­men­tally valuable)

dkl924 Jul 2023 15:38 UTC
−10 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

So­cial­ism in large organizations

Adam Zerner30 Jul 2023 7:25 UTC
7 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Progress links di­gest, 2023-07-28: The deca­dent op­u­lence of mod­ern capitalism

jasoncrawford28 Jul 2023 14:36 UTC
16 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

ETFE windows

bhauth28 Jul 2023 0:46 UTC
30 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

What Is Child­hood Sup­posed To Be?

Sable1 Aug 2023 9:51 UTC
21 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov1 Aug 2023 9:32 UTC
25 points
71 comments13 min readLW link

so­lar-ther­mal and techno-eco­nomic analysis

bhauth2 Aug 2023 6:22 UTC
21 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Hous­ton Effec­tive Altru­ism Weekly Hangout

KW0001239 Aug 2023 18:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro to Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup—Hous­ton EA

KW0001239 Aug 2023 18:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s A “Mar­ket”?

johnswentworth8 Aug 2023 23:29 UTC
91 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

marine cloud brightening

bhauth9 Aug 2023 2:50 UTC
40 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

If I Was An Ec­cen­tric Trillionaire

niplav9 Aug 2023 7:56 UTC
6 points
8 comments26 min readLW link

Ne­cro­mancy’s un­in­tended con­se­quences.

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC
−6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional Thread Art

CallumMcDougall6 Aug 2023 21:42 UTC
75 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Model-Based Policy Anal­y­sis un­der Deep Uncertainty

Max Reddel6 Aug 2023 14:07 UTC
14 points
1 comment23 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

‘We’re chang­ing the clouds.’ An un­fore­seen test of geo­eng­ineer­ing is fuel­ing record ocean warmth

Annapurna6 Aug 2023 20:58 UTC
60 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.science.org)

Sat. Aug 12 @ 2-4pm—Lo­cal Vol­un­teer­ing Dis­cus­sion: Hous­ton Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup

KW0001239 Aug 2023 18:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID Strat­egy 101

Mike Harris5 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC
58 points
7 comments18 min readLW link

The Blue School

Voltairina16 Apr 2012 18:15 UTC
31 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search is polyg­a­mous! The im­por­tance of what you do needn’t be pro­por­tional to your awe­some­ness

diegocaleiro26 May 2013 22:29 UTC
35 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Not Tak­ing Over the World

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Dec 2008 22:18 UTC
39 points
97 comments4 min readLW link

Fund­ing Good Research

lukeprog27 May 2012 6:41 UTC
38 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Why the be­liefs/​val­ues di­chotomy?

Wei Dai20 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC
29 points
156 comments2 min readLW link

[Speech] Wor­lds That Never Were

mingyuan12 Jan 2019 19:53 UTC
23 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Son of low-hang­ing fruit

GLaDOS4 Apr 2013 12:43 UTC
34 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Knigh­tian Uncer­tainty and Am­bi­guity Aver­sion: Motivation

So8res21 Jul 2014 20:32 UTC
44 points
44 comments13 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tially rele­vant thought ex­per­i­ment: To kill or not to kill, a sniper, a man and a but­ton.

AlexFromSafeTransition14 Aug 2023 10:53 UTC
−18 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Pri­vate Biosta­sis & Cry­on­ics Social

Mati_Roy16 Aug 2023 2:34 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­finite Ethics: In­finite Problems

omnizoid16 Aug 2023 2:44 UTC
−2 points
25 comments23 min readLW link

Why in­door light­ing is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
194 points
53 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Separate the truth from your wishes

g-w123 Aug 2023 0:52 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(jacobgw.com)

The Hu­man Phase Hy­poth­e­sis (Why We Might Be Alone)

ifalpha25 Aug 2023 4:37 UTC
−4 points
6 comments20 min readLW link

Effi­ciency and re­source use scal­ing parity

Ege Erdil21 Aug 2023 0:18 UTC
47 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Allais Malaise

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2008 0:40 UTC
40 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Hous­ton Effec­tive Altru­ism Weekly Hangout

KW00012330 Aug 2023 17:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­visi­ble Frameworks

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2008 3:36 UTC
27 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

Aiming at the Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Oct 2008 16:47 UTC
40 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence in Economics

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2008 21:17 UTC
14 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Build­ing Some­thing Smarter

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2008 17:00 UTC
25 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

The Tree of Life, and a Note on Job

Bill Benzon31 Aug 2023 14:03 UTC
13 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

I’m con­fused. Could some­one help?

CronoDAS23 Mar 2009 5:26 UTC
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

The Thing That I Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Feb 2009 19:18 UTC
45 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Altru­ist Co­or­di­na­tion—Cen­tral Station

MBlume27 Mar 2009 22:24 UTC
7 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

ksvanhorn28 Dec 2011 21:42 UTC
31 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Food Fight

jenn5 Sep 2023 4:27 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion about paradigms, in­tel­lec­tual progress, so­cial con­sen­sus, and AI

5 Sep 2023 21:30 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Fea­ture pro­posal: Ex­port ACX meetups

Viliam10 Sep 2023 10:50 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

En­forc­ing Far-Fu­ture Con­tracts for Governments

FCCC26 Sep 2023 4:26 UTC
−7 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Re­solv­ing moral un­cer­tainty with randomization

29 Sep 2023 11:23 UTC
7 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Bari­a­tric surgery seems like a no-brainer for most mor­bidly obese people

lc27 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC
11 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive, 2023 (re: the most im­por­tant virtue of Petrov Day & unilat­er­ally pro­mot­ing it)

Ruby28 Sep 2023 2:48 UTC
64 points
73 comments6 min readLW link

Weigh­ing An­i­mal Worth

jefftk28 Sep 2023 13:50 UTC
25 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Eu­gen­ics Performed By A Blind, Idiot God

omnizoid17 Sep 2023 20:37 UTC
60 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

OC ACXLW Nu­clear Pro­lifer­a­tion his­tory/​Does sex be­long in sci­ence 9/​30/​23

Michael Michalchik29 Sep 2023 18:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Panel with Is­raeli Prime Minister on ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI

Michaël Trazzi18 Sep 2023 23:16 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(x.com)

Com­pila­tion of Profit for Good Redteam­ing and Responses

Brad West 19 Sep 2023 13:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments9 min readLW link

Protest against Meta’s ir­re­versible pro­lifer­a­tion (Sept 29, San Fran­cisco)

Holly_Elmore19 Sep 2023 23:40 UTC
50 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Care­less talk on US-China AI com­pe­ti­tion? (and crit­i­cism of CAIS cov­er­age)

Oliver Sourbut20 Sep 2023 12:46 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(www.oliversourbut.net)

Es­says on Ethics by Brian D. Earp—LW/​ACX Meetup #255 (Wed­nes­day, Septem­ber 20th 2023)

koreindian20 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

There should be more AI safety orgs

Marius Hobbhahn21 Sep 2023 14:53 UTC
175 points
25 comments17 min readLW link

Mon­treal cry­on­ics and longevity hang­out 2023-10-01

Nicolas Lacombe21 Sep 2023 22:52 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Fund Tran­sit With Development

jefftk22 Sep 2023 11:10 UTC
47 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Up­date to “Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tract Plat­form”

moyamo21 Sep 2023 16:09 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Peo­ple who want to save the world

Giles15 May 2011 0:44 UTC
5 points
247 comments1 min readLW link

Musk, Star­link, and Crimea

NicholasKross23 Sep 2023 2:35 UTC
−12 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Would You Work Harder In The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World?

Firinn22 Sep 2023 5:17 UTC
69 points
93 comments9 min readLW link

Far-Fu­ture Com­mit­ments as a Policy Con­sen­sus Strategy

FCCC24 Sep 2023 6:34 UTC
7 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive YIMBYism

Sean Aubin24 Sep 2023 19:04 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists be Valuists in­stead of util­i­tar­i­ans?

25 Sep 2023 14:03 UTC
1 point
3 comments6 min readLW link

A Math­e­mat­i­cal Model for Simulators

lukemarks2 Oct 2023 6:46 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Pop­u­la­tion After a Catastrophe

Stan Pinsent2 Oct 2023 16:06 UTC
3 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

This Failing Earth

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 May 2009 16:09 UTC
50 points
166 comments5 min readLW link

en­ergy land­scapes of experts

bhauth2 Oct 2023 14:08 UTC
41 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Griffin Island

jefftk7 Oct 2023 18:40 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

jefftk2 Oct 2023 21:20 UTC
26 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why We Use Money? - A Walrasian View

Savio Coelho3 Oct 2023 12:02 UTC
4 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Game The­ory of Emo­tions; D.E.I. State­ments—LW/​ACX Meetup #257 (Wed­nes­day, Oc­to­ber 4th 2023)

koreindian4 Oct 2023 17:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence en­hance­ment as ex­is­ten­tial risk mitigation

Roko15 Jun 2009 19:35 UTC
21 points
244 comments3 min readLW link

Small Habits Shape Iden­tity: How I be­came some­one who exercises

adamShimi26 Nov 2020 14:55 UTC
46 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

How We Failed COVID-19

LukeOnline2 Dec 2020 21:29 UTC
16 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

EA Madrid social

Pablo Villalobos11 Oct 2023 15:34 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The CHOICE

Gabi QUENE12 Oct 2023 3:02 UTC
−29 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing Guide Dogs and Blind­ness Prevention

jefftk13 Oct 2023 2:30 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How can the world han­dle the HAMAS situ­a­tion?

Annapurna13 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC
6 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

FLI pod­cast se­ries, “Imag­ine A World”, about as­pira­tional fu­tures with AGI

Jackson Wagner13 Oct 2023 16:07 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Meta-Regulations

Sable13 Oct 2023 21:23 UTC
16 points
5 comments10 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

[Question] Liter­a­ture On Ex­is­ten­tial Risk From At­mo­spheric Con­tam­i­na­tion?

Yitz13 Oct 2023 22:27 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Will no one rid me of this tur­bu­lent pest?

Metacelsus14 Oct 2023 15:27 UTC
147 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

More or Fewer Fights over Prin­ci­ples and Values?

15 Oct 2023 21:35 UTC
24 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Markets

Yudhister Kumar14 Oct 2023 21:41 UTC
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

Mud­dling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey Heninger20 Oct 2023 21:25 UTC
81 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

The price is right

EJT16 Oct 2023 16:34 UTC
39 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

[Question] Dat­ing in 2023 sucks. Why isn’t AI helping?

Andreas Chrysopoulos16 Oct 2023 12:31 UTC
5 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Depth Confusion

Richard Henage17 Oct 2023 6:06 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fer­til­ity Roundup #2

Zvi17 Oct 2023 13:20 UTC
25 points
29 comments33 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] When build­ing an or­ga­ni­za­tion, there are lots of ways to pre­vent fi­nan­cial cor­rup­tion of per­son­nel. But what are the ways to pre­vent cor­rup­tion via so­cial sta­tus, poli­ti­cal power, etc.?

M. Y. Zuo17 Oct 2023 18:51 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing goals from chores

Amir Bolous10 Jan 2021 7:45 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

#2: Neu­ro­cry­op­reser­va­tion vs whole-body preservation

13 Jan 2021 1:18 UTC
59 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

#4: In­tro­duc­tion to life in­surance for cryonics

mingyuan22 Jan 2021 20:58 UTC
48 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Is the in­fluence of money per­va­sive, even on LessWrong?

shanen2 Feb 2021 20:22 UTC
−1 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

So­cietal Self-control

Aaron Bergman20 Feb 2021 3:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics in the In­finite Uni­verse. How can we re­deem our­selves if Mul­ti­verse Im­mor­tal­ity is real and sub­jec­tive death is im­pos­si­ble.

Szymon Kucharski24 Feb 2021 21:02 UTC
−2 points
4 comments70 min readLW link

Germs and Poli­tics

Savio Coelho1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC
1 point
1 comment10 min readLW link

How to end stag­na­tion?

jasoncrawford1 Mar 2021 19:42 UTC
36 points
35 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

On Lev­er­age Re­search’s plan for an op­ti­mal world

Mitchell_Porter10 Jan 2012 9:49 UTC
41 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

The Price Of Space Is Friendship

sxae24 Mar 2021 11:27 UTC
13 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Cu­ri­os­ity needs courage

Amir Bolous25 Mar 2021 3:38 UTC
24 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg90056 Apr 2021 21:28 UTC
−1 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Na­tional Dash­board and Hu­man Progress

maxa15 Apr 2021 19:21 UTC
6 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(max2c.com)

When Should the Fire Alarm Go Off: A model for op­ti­mal thresholds

peterbarnett28 Apr 2021 12:27 UTC
40 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(peterbarnett.org)

Thoughts on Ad Blocking

jefftk6 May 2021 2:50 UTC
19 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

So­cial host liability

CraigMichael9 May 2021 7:24 UTC
22 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Louisi­ana Gets Vac­cine Pass­ports Right

tkpwaeub12 May 2021 1:23 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Web is Turn­ing into Cable TV

matto21 May 2021 23:06 UTC
19 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Yield on US Dol­lar Pegged Coins

Annapurna8 Jun 2021 1:12 UTC
15 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The value of low-con­scien­tious­ness peo­ple on teams

CraigMichael14 Jun 2021 2:06 UTC
60 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon Gilbert26 May 2021 22:56 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC
5 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Is so­cial the­ory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron Bergman10 Aug 2021 23:52 UTC
19 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

The Gover­nance Prob­lem and the “Pretty Good” X-Risk

Zach Stein-Perlman29 Aug 2021 18:00 UTC
5 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini16 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Emo­tional microscope

pchvykov20 Sep 2021 21:37 UTC
3 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair Halberstadt4 Oct 2021 18:42 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a Bayesian model for Em­piri­cal Science

Yair Halberstadt7 Oct 2021 5:38 UTC
11 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik Karlsson9 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC
51 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

Axioms20 Oct 2021 8:56 UTC
−4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment­ing with An­droid Digi­tal Wellbeing

Yair Halberstadt21 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Re­s­ur­rect­ing all hu­mans ever lived as a tech­ni­cal problem

RomanS31 Oct 2021 18:08 UTC
48 points
36 comments7 min readLW link

The Learn­ing System

Henrik Karlsson3 Dec 2021 19:08 UTC
18 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Ex­ter­mi­nat­ing hu­mans might be on the to-do list of a Friendly AI

RomanS7 Dec 2021 14:15 UTC
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

A pro­posed sys­tem for ideas jumpstart

Just Learning14 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Do­ing “good”

pchvykov13 Jan 2022 19:52 UTC
9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Post­mortem on DIY Re­com­bi­nant Covid Vaccine

caffemacchiavelli22 Jan 2022 14:12 UTC
179 points
27 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Re­vis­it­ing Brave New World Re­vis­ited (Chap­ter 3)

Justin Bullock1 Feb 2022 17:17 UTC
5 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC
52 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What Should We Op­ti­mize—A Conversation

Johannes C. Mayer7 Apr 2022 3:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments14 min readLW link

Book Re­view: A PhD is Not Enough

ljh27 Apr 2022 5:15 UTC
22 points
4 comments23 min readLW link

God­shat­ter Ver­sus Leg­i­bil­ity: A Fun­da­men­tally Differ­ent Ap­proach To AI Alignment

LukeOnline9 Apr 2022 21:43 UTC
15 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What is the most effi­cient way to cre­ate more wor­lds in the many wor­lds in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics?

seank11 Apr 2022 0:26 UTC
4 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Should Win. Not Dy­ing with Dig­nity and Fund­ing WBE.

CitizenTen12 Apr 2022 2:14 UTC
32 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Long Re­view: Eco­nomic Hierarchies

JohnBuridan23 Apr 2022 12:43 UTC
13 points
4 comments31 min readLW link

Univer­sals of Mo­ral­ity: Toward Hu­man-Cen­tric Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Platforms

scafaria26 Apr 2022 21:15 UTC
−3 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(scafaria.com)

EU Max­i­miz­ing in a Gloomy World

David Udell27 Apr 2022 0:28 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI safety should be made more ac­cessible us­ing non text-based media

Massimog10 May 2022 3:14 UTC
2 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Wel­come to Ra­cional­i­dade SP [Edit With Your De­tails]

Gust17 Apr 2018 13:08 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Inequal­ity is in­sep­a­rable from mar­kets

NathanBarnard14 May 2022 13:39 UTC
22 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The “Adults in the Room”

David Udell17 May 2022 4:03 UTC
49 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A bridge to Dath Ilan? Im­proved gov­er­nance on the crit­i­cal path to AI al­ign­ment.

Jackson Wagner18 May 2022 15:51 UTC
24 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Re­shap­ing the AI Industry

Thane Ruthenis29 May 2022 22:54 UTC
147 points
35 comments21 min readLW link

Science for the Pos­si­ble World

Zechen Zhang23 May 2022 14:01 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

A Li­tany Miss­ing from the Canon

benwr17 Jun 2022 1:39 UTC
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.benwr.net)

Adap­ta­tion Ex­ecu­tors and the Telos Margin

Plinthist20 Jun 2022 13:06 UTC
2 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Fea­ture re­quest: vot­ing but­tons at the bot­tom?

Oliver Sourbut24 Jun 2022 14:41 UTC
70 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Refram­ing the AI Risk

Thane Ruthenis1 Jul 2022 18:44 UTC
26 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

When Giv­ing Peo­ple Money Doesn’t Help

Zvi7 Jul 2022 13:00 UTC
58 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Be­come a World His­tor­i­cal Figure (Péladan’s Dream)

rogersbacon7 Jul 2022 22:39 UTC
21 points
3 comments30 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Be­ing a donor for Fe­cal Micro­biota Trans­plants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/​y)

Anton Rodenhauser8 Jul 2022 6:17 UTC
36 points
26 comments8 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Which per­son­al­ities do we find in­tol­er­able?

weathersystems21 Jul 2022 15:56 UTC
10 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosig7 Aug 2022 7:50 UTC
70 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good ar­gu­ments against build­ing new nu­clear power plants?

RomanS12 Aug 2022 7:32 UTC
16 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

My thoughts on di­rect work (and join­ing LessWrong)

RobertM16 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC
57 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

ethics and an­throp­ics of ho­mo­mor­phi­cally en­crypted computations

Tamsin Leake9 Sep 2022 10:49 UTC
47 points
49 comments3 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Con­tem­po­rary Lin­guis­tics: A Per­spec­tive on Re­search and In­for­ma­tion Sharing

Miniman12 Sep 2022 19:02 UTC
1 point
5 comments3 min readLW link

The prob­lem with the me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion of “be­liev­ing in AI”

Roman Leventov14 Sep 2022 21:05 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Guidelines for Mad Entrepreneurs

David Udell16 Sep 2022 6:33 UTC
26 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

In a world with­out AI, we need gene-edit­ing to pro­tect Na­ture. (Not how you think)

Erlja Jkdf.16 Sep 2022 1:24 UTC
−11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If we have Hu­man-level chat­bots, won’t we end up be­ing ruled by pos­si­ble peo­ple?

Erlja Jkdf.20 Sep 2022 13:59 UTC
5 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

High-Im­pact Psy­chol­ogy (HIPsy): Pilot­ing a Global Network

Inga G.29 Sep 2022 18:16 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Village and the River Mon­sters… Or: Less Fight­ing, More Brainstorming

ExCeph3 Oct 2022 23:01 UTC
7 points
29 comments8 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

You are bet­ter at math (and al­ign­ment) than you think

trevor13 Oct 2022 3:07 UTC
48 points
7 comments22 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] If I asked for an ex­pla­na­tion of a perfect Utopia, could you give one?

Akkira19 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Le­gal Brief: Plu­ral­ity Vot­ing is Unconstitutional

c.trout21 Oct 2022 4:55 UTC
6 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(medium.com)

A Good Fu­ture (rough draft)

Michael Soareverix24 Oct 2022 20:45 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Anatomy of change

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis28 Oct 2022 1:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Democ­racy Is in Danger, but Not for the Rea­sons You Think

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC
−7 points
4 comments12 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

fully al­igned sin­gle­ton as a solu­tion to everything

Tamsin Leake12 Nov 2022 18:19 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Un­pack­ing “Shard The­ory” as Hunch, Ques­tion, The­ory, and Insight

Jacy Reese Anthis16 Nov 2022 13:54 UTC
31 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do peo­ple do re­mote re­search col­lab­o­ra­tions effec­tively?

Krieger16 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

SBF, Pas­cal’s Mug­ging, and a Pro­posed Solution

Cole Killian18 Nov 2022 18:39 UTC
−1 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(colekillian.com)

gen­er­al­ized wireheading

Tamsin Leake18 Nov 2022 20:18 UTC
23 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Value Created vs. Value Extracted

Sable18 Nov 2022 21:34 UTC
8 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

“Far Co­or­di­na­tion”

DragonGod23 Nov 2022 17:14 UTC
5 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

Ne­glected cause: au­to­mated fraud de­tec­tion in academia through image analysis

Lao Mein30 Nov 2022 5:52 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Reestab­lish­ing Reli­able Sources: A Sys­tem for Tag­ging URLs

Riley Mueller1 Dec 2022 2:27 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

De­con­fus­ing Direct vs Amor­tised Optimization

beren2 Dec 2022 11:30 UTC
100 points
17 comments10 min readLW link

Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC
285 points
53 comments7 min readLW link1 review

[Linkpost] The Story Of VaccinateCA

hath9 Dec 2022 23:54 UTC
103 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

pa­tio11′s “Ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort”

RobertM10 Dec 2022 0:27 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Mean­ingful things are those the uni­verse pos­sesses a se­man­tics for

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir12 Dec 2022 16:03 UTC
16 points
14 comments14 min readLW link

Or­di­nary hu­man life

David Hugh-Jones17 Dec 2022 16:46 UTC
24 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

An eas­ier(?) end to the elec­toral college

ejacob19 Dec 2022 2:09 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Is­sues with un­even AI re­source distribution

User_Luke24 Dec 2022 1:18 UTC
3 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(temporal.substack.com)

The case against AI alignment

andrew sauer24 Dec 2022 6:57 UTC
117 points
110 comments5 min readLW link

Ac­cu­rate Models of AI Risk Are Hyper­ex­is­ten­tial Exfohazards

Thane Ruthenis25 Dec 2022 16:50 UTC
30 points
38 comments9 min readLW link

ChatGPT is our Wright Brothers moment

Ron J25 Dec 2022 16:26 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Against Agents as an Ap­proach to Aligned Trans­for­ma­tive AI

DragonGod27 Dec 2022 0:47 UTC
12 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Hous­ing and Trans­porta­tion Roundup #2

Zvi27 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC
25 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Chat­bots as a Publi­ca­tion Format

derek shiller30 Dec 2022 14:11 UTC
6 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence on re­cur­sive self-im­prove­ment from cur­rent ML

beren30 Dec 2022 20:53 UTC
31 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Ba­sic Facts about Lan­guage Model Internals

4 Jan 2023 13:01 UTC
130 points
18 comments9 min readLW link

Col­lapse Might Not Be Desirable

Dzoldzaya5 Jan 2023 17:29 UTC
−3 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The In­vol­un­tary Pacifists

Capybasilisk6 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Kakistocuriosity

LVSN6 Jan 2023 7:38 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Foun­tain of Health: a First Prin­ci­ples Guide to Rejuvenation

PhilJackson7 Jan 2023 18:34 UTC
114 points
38 comments41 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

AI psy­chol­ogy should ground the the­o­ries of AI con­scious­ness and in­form hu­man-AI eth­i­cal in­ter­ac­tion design

Roman Leventov8 Jan 2023 6:37 UTC
19 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

GWWC Should Re­quire Public Char­ity Evaluations

jefftk9 Jan 2023 20:10 UTC
28 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Any per­son/​mind should have the right to suicide

askofa12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Have we re­ally for­saken nat­u­ral se­lec­tion?

KatjaGrace12 Jan 2023 0:10 UTC
34 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Non­stan­dard anal­y­sis in ethics

Alok Singh12 Jan 2023 5:58 UTC
−1 points
0 comments78 min readLW link
(nickbostrom.com)

[Question] Where do you find peo­ple who ac­tu­ally do things?

Ulisse Mini13 Jan 2023 6:57 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Wok­ism, re­think­ing pri­ori­ties and the Bostrom case

Arturo Macias14 Jan 2023 2:27 UTC
−32 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Money is a way of thank­ing strangers

DirectedEvolution13 Jan 2023 17:06 UTC
13 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Smal­lpox vac­cines are widely available, for now

David Hornbein13 Jan 2023 20:02 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dictable Out­come Payments

Tristan H14 Jan 2023 15:20 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A sim­ple pro­posal for pre­serv­ing free speech on twitter

Yair Halberstadt15 Jan 2023 9:42 UTC
−2 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Is “Earn­ing to Give” a Bad Frame­work?

clans16 Jan 2023 5:35 UTC
2 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(locationtbd.home.blog)

Build­ing a tran­shu­man­ist fu­ture: 15 years of hplus­roadmap, now Discord

kanzure17 Jan 2023 21:17 UTC
42 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

How many peo­ple are work­ing (di­rectly) on re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

Benjamin Hilton18 Jan 2023 8:46 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ama­zon clos­ing Ama­zonSmile to fo­cus its philan­thropic giv­ing to pro­grams with greater impact

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jan 2023 1:15 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has pri­vate AGI re­search made in­de­pen­dent safety re­search in­effec­tive already? What should we do about this?

Roman Leventov23 Jan 2023 7:36 UTC
43 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

This week in fashion

Jan23 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC
29 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

The Hu­man-AI Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Allison Duettmann24 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC
15 points
1 comment24 min readLW link

[Question] What sci-fi books are most rele­vant to a fu­ture with trans­for­ma­tive AI?

sid24 Jan 2023 15:30 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

GWWC Pledge History

jefftk24 Jan 2023 15:50 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Thatcher’s Axiom

Edward P. Könings24 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC
10 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohl25 Jan 2023 17:52 UTC
236 points
48 comments5 min readLW link

Spread­ing mes­sages to help with the most im­por­tant century

HoldenKarnofsky25 Jan 2023 18:20 UTC
75 points
4 comments18 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

The En­ergy Re­quire­ments and Fea­si­bil­ity of Off-World Mining

clans30 Jan 2023 15:07 UTC
31 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(locationtbd.home.blog)

Peter Thiel’s speech at Oxford De­bat­ing Union on tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion, Nu­clear weapons, COVID, En­vi­ron­ment, Align­ment, ‘anti-anti anti-anti-clas­si­cal liber­al­ism’, Bostrom, LW, etc.

M. Y. Zuo30 Jan 2023 23:31 UTC
8 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ware of Fake Alternatives

silentbob31 Jan 2023 10:21 UTC
50 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Can we “cure” can­cer?

jasoncrawford1 Feb 2023 22:03 UTC
41 points
31 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Hal­i­fax Monthly Meetup: In­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altruism

Ideopunk2 Feb 2023 21:10 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ta­boo P(doom)

NathanBarnard3 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC
13 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject Idea: Lots of Cause-area-spe­cific On­line Un­con­fer­ences

Linda Linsefors6 Feb 2023 11:05 UTC
27 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A multi-dis­ci­plinary view on AI safety research

Roman Leventov8 Feb 2023 16:50 UTC
43 points
4 comments26 min readLW link

Cu­rated blind auc­tion pre­dic­tion mar­kets and a rep­u­ta­tion sys­tem as an al­ter­na­tive to ed­i­to­rial re­view in news pub­li­ca­tion.

ciaran 9 Feb 2023 18:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Make Con­flict of In­ter­est Poli­cies Public

jefftk9 Feb 2023 19:30 UTC
33 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Nat­u­ral State is Goodhart

devansh20 Mar 2023 0:00 UTC
59 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Illu­sion of Sim­plic­ity: Mone­tary Policy as a Prob­lem of Com­plex­ity and Alignment

Edward P. Könings11 Feb 2023 15:04 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(edwardknings.substack.com)

North Oak­land: Board Games, Fe­bru­ary 28th

Czynski14 Feb 2023 8:16 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why Creat­ing Value is Pos­i­tive-Sum, and Ex­tract­ing it is Zero or Nega­tive-Sum

Sable15 Feb 2023 7:14 UTC
3 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Junk Fees, Bund­ing and Unbundling

Zvi15 Feb 2023 15:20 UTC
36 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Books and Booze

Bae's Theorem17 Feb 2023 0:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man de­ci­sion pro­cesses are not well factored

17 Feb 2023 13:11 UTC
32 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

I wanna Gan­dalf here

Igor Timofeev24 Feb 2023 1:22 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search pro­posal: Lev­er­ag­ing Jun­gian archetypes to cre­ate val­ues-based models

MiguelDev5 Mar 2023 17:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Pe­ti­tion on brain preser­va­tion: Allow global ac­cess to high-qual­ity brain preser­va­tion as an op­tion rapidly af­ter death

Mati_Roy26 Feb 2023 15:56 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.change.org)

Fer­til­ity Rate Roundup #1

Zvi27 Feb 2023 13:30 UTC
51 points
19 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA

jefftk27 Feb 2023 14:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ene­mies vs Malefactors

So8res28 Feb 2023 23:38 UTC
203 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

AI: Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice for the Worried

Zvi1 Mar 2023 12:30 UTC
153 points
43 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OC LW/​ACX Satur­day (3/​4/​23) Space Ge­or­gism and Mu­sic as Hu­man Aposematism

Michael Michalchik3 Mar 2023 23:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does polyamory at a work­place turn nepo­tism up to eleven?

Viliam5 Mar 2023 0:57 UTC
45 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Do hu­mans de­rive val­ues from fic­ti­tious im­puted co­her­ence?

TsviBT5 Mar 2023 15:23 UTC
42 points
8 comments14 min readLW link

Mi­ami ACX Meetup: Who Wants To Live For­ever? - A Con­ver­sa­tion About Longevity & Anti-Aging

Auspicious6 Mar 2023 6:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ed­u­cat­ing peo­ple about ra­tio­nal­ity: where are we?

plurple8 Mar 2023 1:59 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey Ladish16 Mar 2023 23:29 UTC
53 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

New eco­nomic sys­tem for AI era

ksme sho17 Mar 2023 17:42 UTC
−1 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

An Ap­peal to AI Su­per­in­tel­li­gence: Rea­sons to Pre­serve Humanity

James_Miller18 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC
30 points
72 comments12 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics com­pa­nies should let peo­ple make con­di­tions for reawakening

Andrew Vlahos18 Mar 2023 21:03 UTC
10 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Whither Pri­son Abo­li­tion?

MadHatter8 Dec 2023 5:27 UTC
−7 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(bittertruths.substack.com)
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