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My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms

Kaj_SotalaMar 8, 2018, 7:37 AM

237 points

140 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge

Ben PaceMar 15, 2018, 8:20 PM

204 points

31 comments20 min readLW link 2 reviews

An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated

abramdemskiMar 20, 2018, 12:00 AM

165 points

38 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Naming the Nameless

sarahconstantinMar 22, 2018, 12:35 AM

133 points

43 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

Making yourself small

HelenMar 8, 2018, 2:26 PM

131 points

54 comments11 min readLW link

The Epsilon Fallacy

johnswentworthMar 17, 2018, 12:08 AM

93 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Steampunk Aesthetic

RaemonMar 8, 2018, 9:06 AM

73 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

Caring less

eukaryoteMar 13, 2018, 10:53 PM

73 points

24 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge

Samo BurjaMar 8, 2018, 6:40 PM

71 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Jacob FalkovichMar 3, 2018, 7:49 PM

61 points

154 comments12 min readLW link

Silence

alkjashMar 18, 2018, 4:10 AM

60 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Prize for probable problems

paulfchristianoMar 8, 2018, 4:58 PM

60 points

63 comments4 min readLW link

Explicit and Implicit Communication

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Mar 21, 2018, 8:58 AM

60 points

23 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Leaving beta: Voting on moving to LessWrong.com

VaniverMar 11, 2018, 10:53 PM

57 points

65 comments2 min readLW link

Raising funds to establish a new AI Safety charity

nullMar 17, 2018, 12:09 AM

57 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

The Math Learning Experiment

Qiaochu_YuanMar 21, 2018, 9:59 PM

56 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

LW Migration Announcement

VaniverMar 22, 2018, 2:18 AM

55 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy

Scott AlexanderMar 5, 2018, 6:00 AM

54 points

43 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Extended Quote on the Institution of Academia

Ben PaceMar 1, 2018, 2:58 AM

54 points

23 comments9 min readLW link

Learn Bayes Nets!

abramdemskiMar 27, 2018, 10:00 PM

54 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Internal Double Crux

alkjashMar 19, 2018, 5:50 AM

50 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Consciousness Explained

Charlie SteinerMar 6, 2018, 3:32 AM

48 points

20 comments21 min readLW link

Misery Pits

AlicornMar 10, 2018, 11:50 PM

47 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Musings on LessWrong Peer Review

RaemonMar 18, 2018, 9:47 PM

47 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

Multiplicity of “enlightenment” states and contemplative practices

Wei DaiMar 12, 2018, 8:15 AM

46 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Argument, intuition, and recursion

paulfchristianoMar 5, 2018, 1:37 AM

44 points

13 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Quick Nate/Eliezer comments on discontinuity

Rob BensingerMar 1, 2018, 10:03 PM

44 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Ms. Blue, meet Mr. Green

alexeiMar 1, 2018, 1:43 PM

43 points

30 comments12 min readLW link

Hammertime Postmortem

alkjashMar 22, 2018, 6:10 PM

40 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Systemizing and Hacking

SatvikBeriMar 23, 2018, 6:01 PM

40 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Hammertime Final Exam

alkjashMar 22, 2018, 1:10 AM

40 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Funding for AI alignment research

paulfchristianoMar 3, 2018, 9:52 PM

39 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Inference & Empiricism

SatvikBeriMar 20, 2018, 3:47 PM

38 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Brains and backprop: a key timeline crux

Bird ConceptMar 9, 2018, 10:13 PM

37 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

The Strategic Level

alkjashMar 21, 2018, 5:00 AM

37 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

‘Trivial Inconvenience Day’ Retrospective

namespaceMar 28, 2018, 5:14 AM

32 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Resolving human values, completely and adequately

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 30, 2018, 3:35 AM

32 points

30 comments12 min readLW link

Lightness and Unease

TurnTroutMar 21, 2018, 5:24 AM

32 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

The Art of the Artificial: Insights from ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach’

TurnTroutMar 25, 2018, 6:55 AM

31 points

8 comments15 min readLW link

Sacred Cash

ZviMar 3, 2018, 1:20 PM

29 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Problems with Amplification/Distillation

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 27, 2018, 11:12 AM

29 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

[defunct] Moderation Action List (warnings and bans)

Ben PaceMar 6, 2018, 7:18 PM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: Open Access AI Safety Journal

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMar 23, 2018, 6:27 PM

28 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Request for “Tests” for the MIRI Research Guide

HazardMar 13, 2018, 11:22 PM

28 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

AI Alignment Prize: Round 2 due March 31, 2018

ZviMar 12, 2018, 12:10 PM

28 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LessWrong.com URL transfer complete, data import will run for the next few hours

habrykaMar 23, 2018, 2:40 AM

28 points

64 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Postmorterm

alkjashMar 11, 2018, 8:10 PM

28 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Bug Hunt 3

alkjashMar 13, 2018, 12:20 AM

26 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 1: Exposure Therapy

alkjashMar 4, 2018, 4:50 AM

26 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

On Defense Mechanisms

QuaerendoMar 4, 2018, 6:53 PM

25 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

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