The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantinDec 20, 2018, 4:20 PM
280 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryoteDec 22, 2018, 5:29 AM
212 points
38 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Norms of Mem­ber­ship for Vol­un­tary Groups

sarahconstantinDec 11, 2018, 10:10 PM
192 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

2018 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 18, 2018, 4:46 AM
190 points
26 comments62 min readLW link1 review

Tran­shu­man­ism as Sim­plified Humanism

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 5, 2018, 8:12 PM
178 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments do not en­tail goal-di­rected behavior

Rohin ShahDec 3, 2018, 3:26 AM
134 points
69 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews

Con­trite Strate­gies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantinDec 24, 2018, 6:30 PM
131 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemskiDec 29, 2018, 10:29 PM
122 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

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

sarahconstantinDec 14, 2018, 7:40 PM
109 points
32 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Med­i­ta­tions on Momentum

Richard MeadowsDec 14, 2018, 10:53 AM
107 points
32 comments10 min readLW link

Two Ne­glected Prob­lems in Hu­man-AI Safety

Wei DaiDec 16, 2018, 10:13 PM
102 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How did academia en­sure pa­pers were cor­rect in the early 20th Cen­tury?

Ben PaceDec 29, 2018, 11:37 PM
99 points
17 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Play­ing Politics

sarahconstantinDec 5, 2018, 12:30 AM
97 points
45 comments12 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Should ethi­cists be in­side or out­side a pro­fes­sion?

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 12, 2018, 1:40 AM
97 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Tran­shu­man­ists Don’t Need Spe­cial Dispositions

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 7, 2018, 10:24 PM
96 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

GraphQL tu­to­rial for LessWrong and Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

riceissaDec 8, 2018, 7:51 PM
95 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

New edi­tion of “Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zom­bies”

Rob BensingerDec 15, 2018, 9:33 PM
84 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Are About Be­ing Right

ZviDec 8, 2018, 2:00 PM
83 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­tro­duc­ing the Longevity Re­search Institute

sarahconstantinDec 14, 2018, 8:20 PM
79 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Ar­gue Poli­tics* With Your Best Friends

sarahconstantinDec 15, 2018, 7:00 PM
75 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment

johnswentworthDec 16, 2018, 8:10 AM
70 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Bat and Ball Prob­lem Revisited

drossbucketDec 13, 2018, 7:16 AM
69 points
30 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

Three AI Safety Re­lated Ideas

Wei DaiDec 13, 2018, 9:32 PM
69 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

On Ra­tion­al­ist Sols­tice and Epistemic Caution

RaemonDec 5, 2018, 8:39 PM
68 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Why we need a *the­ory* of hu­man values

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 5, 2018, 4:00 PM
66 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Multi-agent pre­dic­tive minds and AI alignment

Jan_KulveitDec 12, 2018, 11:48 PM
63 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaDec 18, 2018, 5:40 PM
62 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Measly Med­i­ta­tion Measurements

justinpombrioDec 9, 2018, 8:54 PM
62 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-12-06 – Table of Con­tents and Q&A

RaemonDec 8, 2018, 12:47 AM
55 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

In­tu­itions about goal-di­rected behavior

Rohin ShahDec 1, 2018, 4:25 AM
54 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­net Search Tips: how I use Google/​Google Scholar/​Lib­gen

gwernDec 12, 2018, 2:50 PM
51 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Worth keeping

KatjaGraceDec 7, 2018, 4:50 AM
51 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

In Defense of Finance

Jacob FalkovichDec 17, 2018, 4:59 PM
51 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Fac­tored Cognition

stuhlmuellerDec 5, 2018, 1:01 AM
45 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] How Old is Smal­lpox?

RaemonDec 10, 2018, 10:50 AM
44 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Bos­ton Sols­tice 2018 Retrospective

jefftkDec 23, 2018, 8:04 PM
44 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Rea­sons com­pute may not drive AI ca­pa­bil­ities growth

Tristan HDec 19, 2018, 10:13 PM
42 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Why Don’t Creators Switch to their Own Plat­forms?

Jacob FalkovichDec 23, 2018, 4:46 AM
42 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

New Rat­fic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility

AlicornDec 9, 2018, 5:00 AM
40 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 20, 2018, 3:31 AM
39 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Sols­tice Album Crowdfunding

RaemonDec 18, 2018, 8:51 PM
39 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Isaac Asi­mov’s pre­dic­tions for 2019 from 1984

Jan_KulveitDec 28, 2018, 9:51 AM
39 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.thestar.com)

[Question] What is “So­cial Real­ity?”

RaemonDec 8, 2018, 5:41 PM
38 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

No op­tion to re­port spam

Chris_LeongDec 3, 2018, 1:40 PM
37 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Kin­der­garten in NYC: Much More than You Wanted to Know

Laura BDec 9, 2018, 3:36 PM
36 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Book Re­view—Other Minds: The Oc­to­pus, the Sea, and the Deep Ori­gins of Consciousness

Vaughn PapenhausenDec 3, 2018, 8:00 AM
36 points
18 comments16 min readLW link

Boundaries en­able pos­i­tive ma­te­rial-in­for­ma­tional feed­back loops

jessicataDec 22, 2018, 2:46 AM
36 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

Novem­ber 2018 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernDec 1, 2018, 1:57 PM
35 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Stand­ing on a pile of corpses

JsevillamolDec 21, 2018, 10:36 AM
35 points
0 comments2 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

avturchinDec 15, 2018, 9:32 PM
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)