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Arbital postmortem

alexeiJan 30, 2018, 1:48 PM

230 points

110 comments19 min readLW link

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott AlexanderJan 28, 2018, 9:01 AM

218 points

129 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

Babble

alkjashJan 10, 2018, 9:56 PM

213 points

33 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False

orthonormalJan 2, 2018, 4:38 PM

185 points

28 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Hammertime Day 1: Bug Hunt

alkjashJan 30, 2018, 6:40 AM

117 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Why everything might have taken so long

KatjaGraceJan 1, 2018, 1:00 AM

113 points

16 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

“Taking AI Risk Seriously” (thoughts by Critch)

RaemonJan 29, 2018, 9:27 AM

110 points

68 comments13 min readLW link

Rationality: Abridged

QuaerendoJan 6, 2018, 12:20 AM

101 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Hammers and Nails

alkjashJan 23, 2018, 1:19 AM

100 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Announcement: AI alignment prize winners and next round

cousin_itJan 15, 2018, 2:33 PM

81 points

68 comments2 min readLW link

Demon Threads

RaemonJan 7, 2018, 3:48 AM

76 points

74 comments9 min readLW link

More Babble

alkjashJan 12, 2018, 1:41 AM

75 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Prune

alkjashJan 12, 2018, 10:50 PM

75 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Kenshō

ValentineJan 20, 2018, 12:12 AM

73 points

299 comments6 min readLW link

Roleplaying As Yourself

orthonormalJan 6, 2018, 6:48 AM

70 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

A model I use when making plans to reduce AI x-risk

Ben PaceJan 19, 2018, 12:21 AM

69 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

The different types (not sizes!) of infinity

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 28, 2018, 11:14 AM

60 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

moridinamaelJan 24, 2018, 4:52 PM

54 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Singularity Mindset

alkjashJan 19, 2018, 12:32 AM

52 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Insights from ‘The Strategy of Conflict’

DanielFilanJan 4, 2018, 5:05 AM

46 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Write

alkjashJan 29, 2018, 2:11 AM

44 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Beware of black boxes in AI alignment research

cousin_itJan 18, 2018, 3:07 PM

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Conversational Presentation of Why Automation is Different This Time

ryan_bJan 17, 2018, 10:11 PM

33 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Teaching Ladders

alkjashJan 24, 2018, 7:01 PM

29 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Biological humans and the rising tide of AI

cousin_itJan 29, 2018, 4:04 PM

29 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Have you felt exiert yet?

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 5, 2018, 5:03 PM

28 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Adequacy as Levels of Play

Davis_KingsleyJan 22, 2018, 8:57 PM

27 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Pareto improvements are rarer than they seem

philhJan 27, 2018, 10:23 PM

27 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjashJan 19, 2018, 11:50 PM

26 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Circumambulation

alkjashJan 15, 2018, 7:17 PM

26 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Magic Brain Juice

alkjashJan 26, 2018, 5:54 PM

26 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Solitaire Principle: Game Theory for One

alkjashJan 17, 2018, 12:14 AM

25 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Niceness Stealth-Bombing

things_which_are_not_on_fireJan 8, 2018, 10:16 PM

25 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Taking it Private: Short Circuiting Demon Threads (working example)

RaemonJan 22, 2018, 12:37 AM

24 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

Making Exceptions to General Rules

Chris_LeongJan 17, 2018, 11:47 PM

24 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

An Untrollable Mathematician

abramdemskiJan 23, 2018, 6:46 PM

23 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

On not getting swept away by mental content

Kaj_SotalaJan 25, 2018, 8:30 PM

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

An Apology is a Surrender

Zachary JacobiJan 18, 2018, 12:06 AM

22 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Understanding-1-2-3

ZviJan 23, 2018, 12:10 AM

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Field-Building and Deep Models

Ben PaceJan 13, 2018, 9:16 PM

21 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Video: The Phenomenology of Intentions

Matt GoldenbergJan 9, 2018, 3:40 AM

21 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Dispel your justification-monkey with a “HWA!”

MalcolmOceanJan 24, 2018, 4:51 AM

21 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Superhuman Meta Process

SquirrelInHellJan 3, 2018, 1:39 PM

21 points

18 comments LW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Myopia and Comfort Zones

alkjashJan 20, 2018, 11:11 PM

20 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Aliveness

ZizJan 18, 2018, 5:00 AM

20 points

9 comments LW link

(sinceriously.fyi)

The Tallest Pygmy Effect

ElizabethJan 21, 2018, 11:00 PM

20 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Book Review: The Secrets of Alchemy

namespaceJan 21, 2018, 7:01 PM

19 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

Boiling the Crab: Slow Changes (beneath Sensory Threshold) add up

RTiberiuJan 12, 2018, 8:44 PM

18 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

How the LW2.0 front page could be better at incentivizing good content

cousin_itJan 21, 2018, 4:11 PM

18 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

What are the Best Hammers in the Rationalist Community?

Bound_upJan 24, 2018, 2:43 PM

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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