Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria vs. Gover­nance of the Commons

Martin SustrikMay 25, 2018, 1:17 PM
184 points
17 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

De­cou­pling vs Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing Norms

Chris_LeongMay 14, 2018, 10:44 PM
170 points
51 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Ter­ror­ism, Tylenol, and dan­ger­ous information

Davis_KingsleyMay 12, 2018, 10:20 AM
149 points
47 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­pres­sive Vocabulary

AlicornMay 24, 2018, 6:59 AM
147 points
71 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Meta-Hon­esty: Firm­ing Up Hon­esty Around Its Edge-Cases

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 29, 2018, 12:59 AM
142 points
155 comments27 min readLW link4 reviews

Challenges to Chris­ti­ano’s ca­pa­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion proposal

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 19, 2018, 6:18 PM
124 points
54 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Critch on ca­reer ad­vice for ju­nior AI-x-risk-con­cerned researchers

Rob BensingerMay 12, 2018, 2:13 AM
120 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Va­ri­eties Of Ar­gu­men­ta­tive Experience

Scott AlexanderMay 8, 2018, 8:20 AM
101 points
11 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Of Two Minds

ValentineMay 17, 2018, 4:34 AM
94 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing is translation

cousin_itMay 28, 2018, 1:56 PM
92 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Open ques­tion: are min­i­mal cir­cuits dae­mon-free?

paulfchristianoMay 5, 2018, 10:40 PM
83 points
70 comments2 min readLW link1 review

When is un­al­igned AI morally valuable?

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2018, 1:57 AM
81 points
53 comments10 min readLW link

Affor­dance Widths

ialdabaothMay 10, 2018, 11:37 PM
67 points
53 comments4 min readLW link6 reviews

A Short Cel­e­bra­tory /​ Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Post

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)May 23, 2018, 12:02 AM
57 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The Berkeley Com­mu­nity & The Rest Of Us: A Re­sponse to Zvi & Benquo

Evan_GaensbauerMay 20, 2018, 7:19 AM
57 points
70 comments12 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory and zero-sum game the­ory, NP and PSPACE

jessicataMay 24, 2018, 8:03 AM
56 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Longevity Re­search Institute

sarahconstantinMay 8, 2018, 3:30 AM
54 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Turn­ing 30

VaniverMay 8, 2018, 5:37 AM
46 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Tech eco­nomics pat­tern: “Com­modi­tize Your Com­ple­ment”

gwernMay 10, 2018, 6:54 PM
41 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Per­sonal re­la­tion­ships with goodness

KatjaGraceMay 14, 2018, 6:50 PM
40 points
20 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Co-Proofs

abramdemskiMay 21, 2018, 9:10 PM
40 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A Self-Re­spect Feed­back Loop

ialdabaothMay 11, 2018, 11:09 PM
39 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

There is a war.

BenquoMay 24, 2018, 6:44 AM
39 points
31 comments14 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: Good­hart’s law

Said AchmizMay 3, 2018, 4:33 PM
37 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(blog.obormot.net)

Bayes’ Law is About Mul­ti­ple Hy­poth­e­sis Testing

abramdemskiMay 4, 2018, 5:31 AM
36 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Get­ting Started [warn­ing: not up-to-date]

RaemonMay 6, 2018, 11:28 PM
35 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on AI Safety via Debate

VaniverMay 9, 2018, 7:46 PM
35 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The sim­ple pic­ture on AI safety

Alex FlintMay 27, 2018, 7:43 PM
31 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Dun­can Sa­bien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_KingsleyMay 3, 2018, 8:26 AM
30 points
187 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Con­text is Conflict

Jacob FalkovichMay 18, 2018, 2:16 AM
29 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Fuzzy Boundaries, Real Concepts

orthonormalMay 7, 2018, 3:39 AM
27 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

AI Safety via Debate

ESRogsMay 5, 2018, 2:11 AM
27 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.openai.com)

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: In­cen­tives and rewards

Said AchmizMay 7, 2018, 6:44 AM
25 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(blog.obormot.net)

So­phie Grouchy on A Build-Break Model of Cooperation

weftMay 25, 2018, 2:55 PM
25 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(sophiegrouchy.wordpress.com)

The First Circle

ZviMay 18, 2018, 2:40 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Se­cond Circle

ZviMay 20, 2018, 1:40 PM
23 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vi­sions of Sum­mer Solstice

RaemonMay 21, 2018, 5:50 AM
23 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

$5m cryp­tocur­rency dona­tion to Al­cor by Brad Arm­strong in mem­ory of LWer Hal Finney

gwernMay 17, 2018, 8:31 PM
22 points
1 commentLW link
(www.alcor.org)

Upvotes, knowl­edge, stocks, and flows

Jameson QuinnMay 10, 2018, 2:18 PM
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­founded No Longer: In­sights from ‘All of Statis­tics’

TurnTroutMay 3, 2018, 10:56 PM
21 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Hy­po­thet­i­cals: The Direct Ap­pli­ca­tion Fallacy

Chris_LeongMay 9, 2018, 2:23 PM
21 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

GreaterWrong—even more new fea­tures & enhancements

Said AchmizMay 28, 2018, 5:08 AM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Brief com­ment on front­page/​per­sonal distinction

Ben PaceMay 1, 2018, 6:53 PM
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Mini-re­view: The Book of Why

Brian SlesinskyMay 21, 2018, 11:11 PM
21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

RaemonMay 16, 2018, 11:50 PM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Triv­ial in­con­ve­niences as an an­ti­dote to akrasia

Adam ZernerMay 18, 2018, 5:34 AM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Words, Lo­cally Defined

abramdemskiMay 3, 2018, 11:26 PM
19 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Talents

BenquoMay 18, 2018, 8:30 PM
18 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

What are Trig­ger-Ac­tion Plans (TAPs)?

LulieMay 7, 2018, 6:28 PM
18 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Soviet-era Jokes, Com­mon Knowl­edge, Irony

Martin SustrikMay 12, 2018, 10:52 AM
17 points
2 commentsLW link
(250bpm.com)