The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
229 points
112 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

“Cheat to Win”: Eng­ineer­ing Pos­i­tive So­cial Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
189 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Ro­bust­ness to Scale

Scott Garrabrant21 Feb 2018 22:55 UTC
129 points
23 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Write a Thou­sand Roads to Rome

Screwtape8 Feb 2018 18:09 UTC
112 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments about fast takeoff

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2018 4:53 UTC
92 points
66 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

“Just Suffer Un­til It Passes”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)12 Feb 2018 4:01 UTC
89 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Toward a New Tech­ni­cal Ex­pla­na­tion of Tech­ni­cal Explanation

abramdemski16 Feb 2018 0:44 UTC
86 points
36 comments18 min readLW link1 review

In­con­ve­nience Is Qual­i­ta­tively Bad

Alicorn26 Feb 2018 23:27 UTC
83 points
52 comments2 min readLW link

Meta-tations on Moder­a­tion: Towards Public Archipelago

Raemon25 Feb 2018 3:59 UTC
78 points
176 comments23 min readLW link

What Are Mee­tups Ac­tu­ally Try­ing to Ac­com­plish?

mingyuan8 Feb 2018 5:30 UTC
77 points
17 comments12 min readLW link

Circling

Unreal16 Feb 2018 23:26 UTC
73 points
275 comments9 min readLW link3 reviews

Mythic Mode

Valentine23 Feb 2018 22:45 UTC
68 points
82 comments9 min readLW link

Two types of mathematician

drossbucket23 Feb 2018 19:26 UTC
64 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

A Proper Scor­ing Rule for Con­fi­dence Intervals

Scott Garrabrant13 Feb 2018 1:45 UTC
63 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ware So­cial Cop­ing Strategies

Lulie5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC
51 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

Fac­to­rio, Ac­celerando, Em­pathiz­ing with Em­pires and Moder­ate Takeoffs

Raemon4 Feb 2018 2:33 UTC
51 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

An al­ter­na­tive way to browse LessWrong 2.0

clone of saturn19 Feb 2018 1:52 UTC
48 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Day 10: Murphyjitsu

alkjash7 Feb 2018 18:40 UTC
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Les­sons from the Cold War on In­for­ma­tion Hazards: Why In­ter­nal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is Critical

Gentzel24 Feb 2018 23:34 UTC
47 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The abrupt­ness of nu­clear weapons

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2018 17:40 UTC
47 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Some con­cep­tual high­lights from “Disjunc­tive Sce­nar­ios of Catas­trophic AI Risk”

Kaj_Sotala12 Feb 2018 12:30 UTC
45 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Spam­ming Micro-In­ten­tions to Gen­er­ate Willpower

moridinamael13 Feb 2018 20:16 UTC
44 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

[Meta] New mod­er­a­tion tools and mod­er­a­tion guidelines

habryka18 Feb 2018 3:22 UTC
42 points
74 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

Qiaochu_Yuan13 Feb 2018 23:55 UTC
41 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Tune Your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

SquirrelInHell15 Feb 2018 17:54 UTC
40 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(bewelltuned.com)

Two Co­or­di­na­tion Styles

abramdemski7 Feb 2018 9:00 UTC
40 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

The Monthly Newslet­ter as Think­ing Tool

moridinamael2 Feb 2018 16:42 UTC
39 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Con­di­tion on no Catastrophes

Scott Garrabrant21 Feb 2018 21:50 UTC
37 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Are you the rider or the elephant?

Qiaochu_Yuan21 Feb 2018 7:25 UTC
36 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Bug Hunt 2

alkjash20 Feb 2018 5:00 UTC
35 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Prin­ci­pled In­tel­li­gence Hypothesis

KatjaGrace14 Feb 2018 1:00 UTC
34 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

In Defence of Con­flict Theory

Richard_Ngo17 Feb 2018 3:33 UTC
34 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.co.uk)

Ham­mer­time In­ter­mis­sion and Open Thread

alkjash7 Feb 2018 22:10 UTC
34 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Fun The­ory in EverQuest

moridinamael5 Feb 2018 20:26 UTC
33 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is Freedom

Scott Garrabrant9 Feb 2018 5:24 UTC
32 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam Zerner8 Feb 2018 21:23 UTC
32 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Day 4: Design

alkjash1 Feb 2018 19:00 UTC
31 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Re­plac­ing ex­pen­sive costly signals

KatjaGrace17 Feb 2018 0:50 UTC
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Models of moderation

habryka2 Feb 2018 23:29 UTC
30 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

On Build­ing The­o­ries of History

Samo Burja23 Feb 2018 23:40 UTC
30 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

AI Safety Re­search Camp—Pro­ject Proposal

David_Kristoffersson2 Feb 2018 4:25 UTC
29 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Whose rea­son­ing can you rely on when your own is faulty?

weft18 Feb 2018 22:41 UTC
29 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Day 8: Sunk Cost Faith

alkjash5 Feb 2018 1:00 UTC
28 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Yoda Timers 2

alkjash21 Feb 2018 7:40 UTC
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Will AI See Sud­den Progress?

KatjaGrace26 Feb 2018 0:41 UTC
27 points
11 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Goal Factoring

alkjash26 Feb 2018 23:30 UTC
27 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ham­mer­time Day 7: Aver­sion Factoring

alkjash4 Feb 2018 16:10 UTC
26 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Open-Source Monasticism

Nathan Rosquist25 Feb 2018 13:52 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­tive vs Pas­sive Distraction

squidious14 Feb 2018 22:14 UTC
26 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Cat­e­gories of Sacredness

Zvi27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC
26 points
35 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)