15 Nov 2018 19:49 UTC

201 points

17 comments54 min readLW link

Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2018 23:06 UTC

191 points

65 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC

186 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Incorrect hypotheses point to correct observations

Kaj_Sotala20 Nov 2018 21:10 UTC

167 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Is Science Slowing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC

127 points

77 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2018 22:00 UTC

120 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Robust Delegation

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant

4 Nov 2018 16:38 UTC

116 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Subsystem Alignment

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant

6 Nov 2018 16:16 UTC

99 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Embedded World-Models

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant

2 Nov 2018 16:07 UTC

96 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Update the best textbooks on every subject list

ryan_b8 Nov 2018 20:54 UTC

92 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Embedded Curiosities

Scott Garrabrant and abramdemski

8 Nov 2018 14:19 UTC

91 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Sam Harris and the Is–Ought Gap

Tyrrell_McAllister16 Nov 2018 1:04 UTC

90 points

46 comments6 min readLW link

Double-Dipping in Dunning—Kruger

isovector28 Nov 2018 3:40 UTC

88 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage

Wei Dai28 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC

84 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

77 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

When does rationality-as-search have nontrivial implications?

nostalgebraist4 Nov 2018 22:42 UTC

72 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Topological Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

17 Nov 2018 1:40 UTC

71 points

51 comments3 min readLW link

Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers

ozziegooen9 Nov 2018 20:57 UTC

70 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Clarifying “AI Alignment”

paulfchristiano15 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC

66 points

84 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC

65 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

History of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said Achmiz16 Nov 2018 7:07 UTC

65 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant17 Nov 2018 1:39 UTC

64 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

Ruby24 Nov 2018 20:40 UTC

63 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser

Malo27 Nov 2018 5:30 UTC

60 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

The easy goal inference problem is still hard

paulfchristiano3 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC

59 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Competitive Markets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworth10 Nov 2018 16:47 UTC

59 points

10 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Corrigibility

paulfchristiano27 Nov 2018 21:50 UTC

57 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

What is ambitious value learning?

Rohin Shah1 Nov 2018 16:20 UTC

55 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Humans can be assigned any values whatsoever…

Stuart_Armstrong5 Nov 2018 14:26 UTC

54 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

On MIRI’s new research directions

Rob Bensinger22 Nov 2018 23:42 UTC

53 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

Winter Solstice 2018 Roundup

Raemon28 Nov 2018 3:09 UTC

50 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (by Bostrom)

Ben Pace6 Nov 2018 20:05 UTC

50 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Burnout: What it is and how to Treat it.

Elizabeth7 Nov 2018 22:02 UTC

50 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Future directions for ambitious value learning

Rohin Shah11 Nov 2018 15:53 UTC

48 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Prosaic AI alignment

paulfchristiano20 Nov 2018 13:56 UTC

47 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding

Davis_Kingsley22 Nov 2018 18:10 UTC

46 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Fixed Point Discussion

Scott Garrabrant24 Nov 2018 20:53 UTC

45 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Preface to the sequence on iterated amplification

paulfchristiano10 Nov 2018 13:24 UTC

44 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Prediction-Augmented Evaluation Systems

ozziegooen9 Nov 2018 10:55 UTC

44 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

The Steering Problem

paulfchristiano13 Nov 2018 17:14 UTC

43 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Upcoming: Open Questions

Raemon24 Nov 2018 1:39 UTC

41 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Speculative Evopsych, Ep. 1

Optimization Process22 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC

41 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

18 Nov 2018 0:31 UTC

40 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Stoicism: Cautionary Advice

VivaLaPanda14 Nov 2018 23:18 UTC

40 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Explore/Exploit for Conversations

Hazard15 Nov 2018 4:11 UTC

38 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Bodega Bay: workshop

KatjaGrace27 Nov 2018 3:20 UTC

38 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

No Really, Why Aren’t Rationalists Winning?

Sailor Vulcan4 Nov 2018 18:11 UTC

37 points

90 comments5 min readLW link

New GreaterWrong feature: image zoom + image slideshows

Said Achmiz4 Nov 2018 7:34 UTC

37 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

EA Funds: Long-Term Future fund is open to applications until November 24th (this Saturday)

habryka21 Nov 2018 3:39 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Formal Open Problem in Decision Theory

Scott Garrabrant29 Nov 2018 3:25 UTC

37 points

28 comments4 min readLW link