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Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworthJun 24, 2019, 6:36 PM
474 points
60 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Wel­come to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka
Jun 14, 2019, 7:42 PM
461 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristianoMar 17, 2019, 8:18 PM
432 points
55 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

HazardJul 31, 2019, 1:34 PM
376 points
79 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

The Parable of Pre­dict-O-Matic

abramdemskiOct 15, 2019, 12:49 AM
359 points
43 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Kaj_SotalaOct 8, 2019, 7:11 PM
332 points
48 comments21 min readLW link3 reviews

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selec­tive Re­port­ing and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_DavisSep 24, 2019, 4:12 AM
307 points
40 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

Kaj_SotalaJan 26, 2019, 12:25 PM
289 points
86 comments28 min readLW link2 reviews

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott GarrabrantMay 17, 2019, 10:39 PM
286 points
55 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Align­ment Re­search Field Guide

abramdemskiMar 8, 2019, 7:57 PM
278 points
9 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

“Other peo­ple are wrong” vs “I am right”

BuckFeb 22, 2019, 8:01 PM
267 points
20 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Is Ra­tion­al­ist Self-Im­prove­ment Real?

Jacob FalkovichDec 9, 2019, 5:11 PM
263 points
78 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

You Get About Five Words

RaemonMar 12, 2019, 8:30 PM
244 points
81 comments1 min readLW link6 reviews

Asym­met­ric Justice

ZviApr 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
236 points
105 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott AlexanderFeb 27, 2019, 2:40 AM
235 points
67 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Mis­takes with Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

abramdemskiJun 8, 2019, 11:07 PM
232 points
29 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Rest Days vs Re­cov­ery Days

UnrealMar 19, 2019, 10:37 PM
222 points
36 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: De­sign Prin­ci­ples of Biolog­i­cal Circuits

johnswentworthNov 5, 2019, 6:49 AM
222 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

De­bate on In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence be­tween LeCun, Rus­sell, Ben­gio, Zador, and More

Ben PaceOct 4, 2019, 4:08 AM
221 points
61 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

The Zet­telkas­ten Method

abramdemskiSep 20, 2019, 1:15 PM
221 points
90 comments42 min readLW link3 reviews

Notic­ing Frame Differences

RaemonSep 30, 2019, 1:24 AM
218 points
40 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Per­son­al­ized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantinMar 4, 2019, 10:40 PM
214 points
16 comments5 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC
211 points
75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

The 3 Books Tech­nique for Learn­ing a New Skilll

Matt Goldenberg9 Jan 2019 12:45 UTC
208 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhub1 Nov 2019 20:13 UTC
208 points
38 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Steel­man­ning Divination

Vaniver5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC
206 points
49 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Hu­mans Who Are Not Con­cen­trat­ing Are Not Gen­eral Intelligences

sarahconstantin25 Feb 2019 20:40 UTC
191 points
35 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Risks from Learned Op­ti­miza­tion: Introduction

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant
31 May 2019 23:44 UTC
187 points
42 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC
186 points
40 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolu­tion of Modularity

johnswentworth14 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
185 points
12 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Book Sum­mary: Con­scious­ness and the Brain

Kaj_Sotala16 Jan 2019 14:43 UTC
177 points
20 comments26 min readLW link1 review

Why Subagents?

johnswentworth1 Aug 2019 22:17 UTC
175 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

johnswentworth22 Nov 2019 22:41 UTC
175 points
29 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Selec­tion vs Control

abramdemski2 Jun 2019 7:01 UTC
175 points
26 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

In­tegrity and ac­countabil­ity are core parts of rationality

habryka15 Jul 2019 20:22 UTC
171 points
68 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Jeff Hawk­ins on neu­ro­mor­phic AGI within 20 years

Steven Byrnes15 Jul 2019 19:16 UTC
170 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

Make more land

jefftk16 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC
167 points
36 comments2 min readLW link5 reviews
(www.jefftk.com)

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
165 points
6 comments4 min readLW link1 review

The Schel­ling Choice is “Rab­bit”, not “Stag”

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC
165 points
52 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Book Re­view: The Se­cret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC
164 points
20 comments25 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Seek­ing Power is Often Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs
5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC
162 points
39 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews
(arxiv.org)

RAISE post-mortem

null24 Nov 2019 16:19 UTC
161 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Rea­son isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC
161 points
19 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Com­mit­ment Races problem

Daniel Kokotajlo23 Aug 2019 1:58 UTC
159 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Men­tal Mountains

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC
156 points
14 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Some Thoughts on My Psy­chi­a­try Practice

Laura B16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC
154 points
43 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC
154 points
13 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

From Per­sonal to Pri­son Gangs: En­forc­ing Proso­cial Behavior

johnswentworth24 Jan 2019 18:07 UTC
153 points
26 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei Dai30 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC
152 points
45 comments3 min readLW link1 review

A Key Power of the Pres­i­dent is to Co­or­di­nate the Ex­e­cu­tion of Ex­ist­ing Con­crete Plans

Ben Pace16 Jul 2019 5:06 UTC
152 points
13 comments10 min readLW link