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The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC

247 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC

196 points

35 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

192 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

190 points

26 comments62 min readLW link 1 review

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC

170 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Contrite Strategies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantin24 Dec 2018 18:30 UTC

131 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior

Rohin Shah3 Dec 2018 3:26 UTC

129 points

69 comments7 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] What makes people intellectually active?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC

116 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

103 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

Ben Pace29 Dec 2018 23:37 UTC

99 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety

Wei Dai16 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC

98 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Playing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC

97 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Transhumanists Don’t Need Special Dispositions

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2018 22:24 UTC

96 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2018 1:40 UTC

91 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

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

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 19:40 UTC

89 points

27 comments7 min readLW link 3 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

New edition of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”

Rob Bensinger15 Dec 2018 21:33 UTC

84 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Prediction Markets Are About Being Right

Zvi8 Dec 2018 14:00 UTC

83 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

GraphQL tutorial for LessWrong and Effective Altruism Forum

riceissa8 Dec 2018 19:51 UTC

82 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Introducing the Longevity Research Institute

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 20:20 UTC

79 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Argue Politics* With Your Best Friends

sarahconstantin15 Dec 2018 19:00 UTC

75 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment

johnswentworth16 Dec 2018 8:10 UTC

70 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited

drossbucket13 Dec 2018 7:16 UTC

69 points

30 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

Three AI Safety Related Ideas

Wei Dai13 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC

68 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Why we need a theory of human values

Stuart_Armstrong5 Dec 2018 16:00 UTC

66 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

On Rationalist Solstice and Epistemic Caution

Raemon5 Dec 2018 20:39 UTC

63 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Multi-agent predictive minds and AI alignment

Jan_Kulveit12 Dec 2018 23:48 UTC

63 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Measly Meditation Measurements

justinpombrio9 Dec 2018 20:54 UTC

62 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

18-month follow-up on my self-concept work

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2018 17:40 UTC

60 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

LW Update 2018-12-06 – Table of Contents and Q&A

Raemon8 Dec 2018 0:47 UTC

55 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Intuitions about goal-directed behavior

Rohin Shah1 Dec 2018 4:25 UTC

54 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Internet Search Tips: how I use Google/Google Scholar/Libgen

gwern12 Dec 2018 14:50 UTC

51 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Worth keeping

KatjaGrace7 Dec 2018 4:50 UTC

51 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

In Defense of Finance

Jacob Falkovich17 Dec 2018 16:59 UTC

51 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Factored Cognition

stuhlmueller5 Dec 2018 1:01 UTC

45 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

Raemon10 Dec 2018 10:50 UTC

44 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Boston Solstice 2018 Retrospective

jefftk23 Dec 2018 20:04 UTC

44 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why Don’t Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

Jacob Falkovich23 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

42 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Reasons compute may not drive AI capabilities growth

Tristan H19 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC

42 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Isaac Asimov’s predictions for 2019 from 1984

Jan_Kulveit28 Dec 2018 9:51 UTC

39 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.thestar.com)

Solstice Album Crowdfunding

Raemon18 Dec 2018 20:51 UTC

39 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is “Social Reality?”

Raemon8 Dec 2018 17:41 UTC

38 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

New Ratfic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility

Alicorn9 Dec 2018 5:00 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

No option to report spam

Chris_Leong3 Dec 2018 13:40 UTC

37 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Kindergarten in NYC: Much More than You Wanted to Know

Laura B9 Dec 2018 15:36 UTC

36 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Boundaries enable positive material-informational feedback loops

jessicata22 Dec 2018 2:46 UTC

36 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2018 3:31 UTC

35 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Standing on a pile of corpses

Jsevillamol21 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC

35 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

November 2018 gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Dec 2018 13:57 UTC

35 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Book Review—Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Vaughn Papenhausen3 Dec 2018 8:00 UTC

34 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

Gwern about centaurs: there is no chance that any useful man+machine combination will work together for more than 10 years, as humans soon will be only a liability

avturchin15 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)