There’s No Fire Alarm for Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral Intelligence

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 13, 2017, 9:38 PM
150 points
72 comments25 min readLW link

Inad­e­quacy and Modesty

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 28, 2017, 9:51 PM
132 points
80 comments18 min readLW link

“Fo­cus­ing,” for skep­tics.

Conor MoretonOct 14, 2017, 7:00 AM
105 points
27 comments7 min readLW link
(medium.com)

AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 21, 2017, 2:18 AM
98 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Writ­ing That Pro­vokes Comments

RaemonOct 4, 2017, 2:48 AM
95 points
39 comments4 min readLW link

Differ­ent Worlds

Scott AlexanderOct 3, 2017, 4:10 AM
73 points
16 comments14 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Yud­kowsky on AGI ethics

Rob BensingerOct 19, 2017, 11:13 PM
69 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Seek Fair Ex­pec­ta­tions of Others’ Models

ZviOct 17, 2017, 2:30 PM
60 points
17 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions for Cen­tral Banks Un­der­shoot­ing Their In­fla­tion Target

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 29, 2017, 11:36 PM
56 points
30 comments35 min readLW link

Lead­ers of Men

ZviOct 29, 2017, 6:10 PM
51 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ro­bust­ness as a Path to AI Alignment

abramdemskiOct 10, 2017, 8:14 AM
45 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

The Typ­i­cal Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandiasOct 7, 2017, 9:48 PM
44 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

Bring Back the Sabbath

ZviOct 7, 2017, 12:10 PM
43 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slack for your be­lief system

UnrealOct 26, 2017, 8:19 AM
40 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

The Ass­hole Filter

DragonGodOct 7, 2017, 4:51 PM
40 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(siderea.livejournal.com)

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

namespaceOct 8, 2017, 3:43 AM
39 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Iden­tities are [Sub­con­scious] Strategies

RubyOct 15, 2017, 6:10 PM
39 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Defense against discourse

BenquoOct 17, 2017, 9:10 AM
38 points
15 comments6 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Log­i­cal Up­date­less­ness as a Ro­bust Del­e­ga­tion Problem

Scott GarrabrantOct 27, 2017, 9:16 PM
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ten­sions in Truth­seek­ing

RaemonOct 2, 2017, 12:54 AM
38 points
42 comments7 min readLW link

What Ev­i­dence Is AlphaGo Zero Re AGI Com­plex­ity?

RobinHansonOct 22, 2017, 2:28 AM
37 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Distinc­tions in Types of Thought

sarahconstantinOct 10, 2017, 3:36 AM
37 points
24 comments13 min readLW link

You can never be uni­ver­sally inclusive

Kaj_SotalaOct 14, 2017, 11:30 AM
36 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Plac­ing Your­self as an In­stance of a Class

abramdemskiOct 3, 2017, 7:10 PM
36 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Why no to­tal win­ner?

Paul CrowleyOct 15, 2017, 10:01 PM
36 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tra dou­ble crux

ThrasymachusOct 8, 2017, 4:29 PM
35 points
67 comments8 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity Capital

weftOct 9, 2017, 3:49 AM
35 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

In defence of epistemic modesty

ThrasymachusOct 29, 2017, 8:00 PM
31 points
20 comments36 min readLW link

Win­ning is for Losers

Jacob FalkovichOct 11, 2017, 4:01 AM
31 points
12 comments18 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Cat­alo­nia and the Over­ton Window

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 2, 2017, 8:23 PM
30 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial ESPR Post-mortem

lifelonglearnerOct 25, 2017, 2:05 AM
29 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

Sab­bath Commentary

ZviOct 7, 2017, 12:10 PM
28 points
9 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Prob­le­matic Third Per­son Perspective

abramdemskiOct 5, 2017, 8:44 PM
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

What would con­vince you you’d won the lot­tery?

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 10, 2017, 1:45 PM
28 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Mul­tidi­men­sional signaling

KatjaGraceOct 16, 2017, 7:00 AM
24 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Against nam­ing things, and so on

whalesOct 15, 2017, 11:48 PM
24 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Toy model of the AI con­trol prob­lem: an­i­mated version

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 10, 2017, 11:06 AM
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

On the con­struc­tion of beacons

BenquoOct 16, 2017, 9:10 AM
21 points
9 comments10 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Avoid­ing Selec­tion Bias

the gears to ascensionOct 4, 2017, 7:10 PM
20 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Four Scopes Of Advice

namespaceOct 23, 2017, 9:01 AM
20 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Gnos­tic Rationality

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 11, 2017, 9:44 PM
19 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

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

RaemonOct 9, 2017, 3:50 AM
19 points
12 comments18 min readLW link

Guided Men­tal Change Re­quires High Trust

namespaceOct 27, 2017, 7:15 PM
18 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Brief com­ment on featured

Ben PaceOct 29, 2017, 5:12 PM
17 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity 2: Plan­ning 101

lifelonglearnerOct 6, 2017, 2:23 PM
17 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

Feed­back on LW 2.0

ViliamOct 1, 2017, 3:18 PM
17 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Postmortem

lifelonglearnerOct 21, 2017, 6:23 AM
17 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

The Just World Hypothesis

michael_vassar2Oct 9, 2017, 6:03 AM
17 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Hu­mans can be as­signed any val­ues what­so­ever...

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 13, 2017, 11:29 AM
16 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

NSFW Con­tent on LW

ozymandiasOct 8, 2017, 2:31 PM
16 points
32 comments1 min readLW link