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There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Oct 2017 21:38 UTC

148 points

72 comments25 min readLW link

Inadequacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC

132 points

79 comments18 min readLW link

“Focusing,” for skeptics.

Conor Moreton14 Oct 2017 7:00 UTC

102 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Oct 2017 2:18 UTC

98 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Writing That Provokes Comments

Raemon4 Oct 2017 2:48 UTC

95 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Different Worlds

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC

73 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Yudkowsky on AGI ethics

Rob Bensinger19 Oct 2017 23:13 UTC

69 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Seek Fair Expectations of Others’ Models

Zvi17 Oct 2017 14:30 UTC

60 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Frequently Asked Questions for Central Banks Undershooting Their Inflation Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Oct 2017 23:36 UTC

60 points

30 comments35 min readLW link

Robustness as a Path to AI Alignment

abramdemski10 Oct 2017 8:14 UTC

45 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Leaders of Men

Zvi29 Oct 2017 18:10 UTC

44 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bring Back the Sabbath

Zvi7 Oct 2017 12:10 UTC

42 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Typical Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandias7 Oct 2017 21:48 UTC

41 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

Slack for your belief system

Unreal26 Oct 2017 8:19 UTC

40 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

HOWTO: Screw Up The LessWrong Survey and Bring Great Shame To Your Family

namespace8 Oct 2017 3:43 UTC

39 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Identities are [Subconscious] Strategies

Ruby15 Oct 2017 18:10 UTC

39 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

The Asshole Filter

DragonGod7 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(siderea.livejournal.com)

Logical Updatelessness as a Robust Delegation Problem

Scott Garrabrant27 Oct 2017 21:16 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Defense against discourse

Benquo17 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

38 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Tensions in Truthseeking

Raemon2 Oct 2017 0:54 UTC

38 points

42 comments7 min readLW link

What Evidence Is AlphaGo Zero Re AGI Complexity?

RobinHanson22 Oct 2017 2:28 UTC

37 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Distinctions in Types of Thought

sarahconstantin10 Oct 2017 3:36 UTC

37 points

24 comments13 min readLW link

You can never be universally inclusive

Kaj_Sotala14 Oct 2017 11:30 UTC

36 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Placing Yourself as an Instance of a Class

abramdemski3 Oct 2017 19:10 UTC

36 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Why no total winner?

Paul Crowley15 Oct 2017 22:01 UTC

36 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Contra double crux

Thrasymachus8 Oct 2017 16:29 UTC

35 points

67 comments8 min readLW link

Community Capital

weft9 Oct 2017 3:49 UTC

35 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Thrasymachus29 Oct 2017 20:00 UTC

31 points

20 comments36 min readLW link

Winning is for Losers

Jacob Falkovich11 Oct 2017 4:01 UTC

31 points

12 comments18 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Catalonia and the Overton Window

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2017 20:23 UTC

30 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Unofficial ESPR Post-mortem

lifelonglearner25 Oct 2017 2:05 UTC

29 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

Sabbath Commentary

Zvi7 Oct 2017 12:10 UTC

28 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Problematic Third Person Perspective

abramdemski5 Oct 2017 20:44 UTC

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

What would convince you you’d won the lottery?

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2017 13:45 UTC

28 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Multidimensional signaling

KatjaGrace16 Oct 2017 7:00 UTC

24 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Against naming things, and so on

whales15 Oct 2017 23:48 UTC

24 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Toy model of the AI control problem: animated version

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2017 11:06 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

On the construction of beacons

Benquo16 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

21 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Avoiding Selection Bias

the gears to ascension4 Oct 2017 19:10 UTC

20 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Four Scopes Of Advice

namespace23 Oct 2017 9:01 UTC

20 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Gnostic Rationality

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Oct 2017 21:44 UTC

19 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

Double Crux Example: Should HPMOR be on the Front Page?

Raemon9 Oct 2017 3:50 UTC

19 points

12 comments18 min readLW link

Guided Mental Change Requires High Trust

namespace27 Oct 2017 19:15 UTC

18 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Brief comment on featured

Ben Pace29 Oct 2017 17:12 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality 2: Planning 101

lifelonglearner6 Oct 2017 14:23 UTC

17 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Feedback on LW 2.0

Viliam1 Oct 2017 15:18 UTC

17 points

92 comments1 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality: Postmortem

lifelonglearner21 Oct 2017 6:23 UTC

17 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

The Just World Hypothesis

michael_vassar29 Oct 2017 6:03 UTC

17 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Humans can be assigned any values whatsoever...

Stuart_Armstrong13 Oct 2017 11:29 UTC

16 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality

ESRogs20 Oct 2017 8:09 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)