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Circling
Unreal
Feb 16, 2018, 11:26 PM
75
points
275
comments
9
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
What To Do If Nuclear War Seems Imminent
Ben_LandauTaylor
Sep 13, 2018, 7:35 PM
74
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(benlandautaylor.com)
Meetup Cookbook
maia
Jul 14, 2018, 10:26 PM
74
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(tigrennatenn.neocities.org)
Tactical vs. Strategic Cooperation
sarahconstantin
Aug 12, 2018, 4:41 PM
74
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Gym Gridworld Environment for the Treacherous Turn
Michaël Trazzi
Jul 28, 2018, 9:27 PM
74
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Kenshō
Valentine
Jan 20, 2018, 12:12 AM
73
points
299
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Worrying about the Vase: Whitelisting
TurnTrout
Jun 16, 2018, 2:17 AM
73
points
26
comments
11
min read
LW
link
The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
Mar 8, 2018, 9:06 AM
73
points
17
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Caring less
eukaryote
Mar 13, 2018, 10:53 PM
73
points
24
comments
4
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
5 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch
Jameson Quinn
Apr 13, 2018, 6:38 PM
73
points
16
comments
10
min read
LW
link
When does rationality-as-search have nontrivial implications?
nostalgebraist
Nov 4, 2018, 10:42 PM
72
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
LessWrong is hiring
Raemon
Jun 19, 2018, 1:38 AM
71
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Topological Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
and
SamEisenstat
Nov 17, 2018, 1:40 AM
71
points
51
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
Samo Burja
Mar 8, 2018, 6:40 PM
71
points
21
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment
johnswentworth
Dec 16, 2018, 8:10 AM
70
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Jobs Inside the API
Jacob Falkovich
Aug 21, 2018, 9:45 PM
70
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #13: 07/02/18
Rohin Shah
Jul 2, 2018, 4:10 PM
70
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Preface to the sequence on value learning
Rohin Shah
Oct 30, 2018, 10:04 PM
70
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Roleplaying As Yourself
orthonormal
Jan 6, 2018, 6:48 AM
70
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers
ozziegooen
Nov 9, 2018, 8:57 PM
70
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A model I use when making plans to reduce AI x-risk
Ben Pace
Jan 19, 2018, 12:21 AM
69
points
39
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited
drossbucket
Dec 13, 2018, 7:16 AM
69
points
30
comments
15
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Three AI Safety Related Ideas
Wei Dai
Dec 13, 2018, 9:32 PM
69
points
38
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Comment on decision theory
Rob Bensinger
Sep 9, 2018, 8:13 PM
69
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Book review: Pearl’s Book of Why
PeterMcCluskey
Jul 7, 2018, 5:30 PM
69
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
On the Chatham House Rule
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 13, 2018, 9:41 PM
68
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
Announcing AlignmentForum.org Beta
Raemon
Jul 10, 2018, 8:19 PM
68
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Mythic Mode
Valentine
Feb 23, 2018, 10:45 PM
68
points
82
comments
9
min read
LW
link
On Rationalist Solstice and Epistemic Caution
Raemon
Dec 5, 2018, 8:39 PM
68
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Clarifying “AI Alignment”
paulfchristiano
Nov 15, 2018, 2:41 PM
67
points
84
comments
3
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Player of Games
Jacob Falkovich
Aug 29, 2018, 9:26 PM
67
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Affordance Widths
ialdabaoth
May 10, 2018, 11:37 PM
67
points
53
comments
4
min read
LW
link
6
reviews
Things I Learned From Working With A Marketing Advisor
sarahconstantin
Oct 9, 2018, 12:10 AM
66
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Why we need a *theory* of human values
Stuart_Armstrong
Dec 5, 2018, 4:00 PM
66
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Is Rhetoric Worth Learning?
sarahconstantin
Apr 6, 2018, 10:03 PM
66
points
56
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Valley of Bad Theory
johnswentworth
Oct 6, 2018, 3:06 AM
66
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
History of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics
Said Achmiz
Nov 16, 2018, 7:07 AM
65
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know
Zvi
Nov 20, 2018, 7:30 PM
65
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A general model of safety-oriented AI development
Wei Dai
Jun 11, 2018, 9:00 PM
65
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Replace yourself before you stop organizing your community.
Raemon
Jul 22, 2018, 8:57 PM
65
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Announcement: AI alignment prize round 2 winners and next round
cousin_it
Apr 16, 2018, 3:08 AM
64
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Another take on agent foundations: formalizing zero-shot reasoning
zhukeepa
Jul 1, 2018, 6:12 AM
64
points
20
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 17, 2018, 1:39 AM
64
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Simplified Poker Conclusions
Zvi
Jun 9, 2018, 9:50 PM
64
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Tradition is Smarter Than You Are
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 19, 2018, 5:54 PM
64
points
10
comments
LW
link
(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
How To Use Bureaucracies
Samo Burja
Jul 17, 2018, 8:10 AM
64
points
37
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Two types of mathematician
drossbucket
23 Feb 2018 19:26 UTC
64
points
41
comments
4
min read
LW
link
We can all be high status
null
10 Oct 2018 16:54 UTC
63
points
24
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Proper Scoring Rule for Confidence Intervals
Scott Garrabrant
13 Feb 2018 1:45 UTC
63
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On exact mathematical formulae
daozaich
22 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
63
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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