The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC
276 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC
210 points
37 comments3 min readLW link1 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 link1 review

Tran­shu­man­ism as Sim­plified Humanism

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC
173 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments do not en­tail goal-di­rected behavior

Rohin Shah3 Dec 2018 3:26 UTC
133 points
69 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews

Con­trite Strate­gies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantin24 Dec 2018 18:30 UTC
131 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
121 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC
107 points
32 comments10 min readLW link

Two Ne­glected Prob­lems in Hu­man-AI Safety

Wei Dai16 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC
102 points
25 comments2 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 link1 review

Play­ing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC
97 points
45 comments12 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Should ethi­cists be in­side or out­side a pro­fes­sion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2018 1:40 UTC
97 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Tran­shu­man­ists Don’t Need Spe­cial Dispositions

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2018 22:24 UTC
96 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

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

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 19:40 UTC
94 points
27 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

GraphQL tu­to­rial for LessWrong and Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

riceissa8 Dec 2018 19:51 UTC
88 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

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)

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 link2 reviews

Three AI Safety Re­lated Ideas

Wei Dai13 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC
69 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

On Ra­tion­al­ist Sols­tice and Epistemic Caution

Raemon5 Dec 2018 20:39 UTC
68 points
6 comments3 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

Multi-agent pre­dic­tive minds and AI alignment

Jan_Kulveit12 Dec 2018 23:48 UTC
63 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2018 17:40 UTC
62 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Measly Med­i­ta­tion Measurements

justinpombrio9 Dec 2018 20:54 UTC
62 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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

Rea­sons com­pute may not drive AI ca­pa­bil­ities growth

Tristan H19 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC
42 points
10 comments8 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

New Rat­fic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility

Alicorn9 Dec 2018 5:00 UTC
40 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sols­tice Album Crowdfunding

Raemon18 Dec 2018 20:51 UTC
39 points
7 comments2 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)

[Question] What is “So­cial Real­ity?”

Raemon8 Dec 2018 17:41 UTC
38 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2018 3:31 UTC
37 points
22 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

Novem­ber 2018 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Dec 2018 13:57 UTC
35 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Stand­ing on a pile of corpses

Jsevillamol21 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)