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Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

460 points

60 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

432 points

63 comments2 min readLW link

Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence

abramdemski8 Jun 2019 23:07 UTC

232 points

27 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Steelmanning Divination

Vaniver5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC

202 points

48 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Selection vs Control

abramdemski2 Jun 2019 7:01 UTC

172 points

26 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

Raemon8 Jun 2019 0:24 UTC

165 points

52 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC

163 points

20 comments25 min readLW link 2 reviews

(slatestarcodex.com)

Reason isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC

160 points

19 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Writing children’s picture books

jessicata25 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC

125 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Deceptive Alignment

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

5 Jun 2019 20:16 UTC

118 points

20 comments17 min readLW link

The Inner Alignment Problem

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

4 Jun 2019 1:20 UTC

103 points

17 comments13 min readLW link

LessWrong FAQ

Ruby14 Jun 2019 19:03 UTC

90 points

55 comments25 min readLW link

Tal Yarkoni: No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you

Zack_M_Davis11 Jun 2019 7:09 UTC

89 points

119 comments1 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.talyarkoni.org)

Arbital scrape

emmab6 Jun 2019 23:11 UTC

89 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Circle Games

sarahconstantin6 Jun 2019 16:40 UTC

84 points

15 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Conditions for Mesa-Optimization

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

1 Jun 2019 20:52 UTC

84 points

48 comments12 min readLW link

Risks from Learned Optimization: Conclusion and Related Work

evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vlad Mikulik, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant

7 Jun 2019 19:53 UTC

82 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC

80 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The Hacker Learns to Trust

Ben Pace22 Jun 2019 0:27 UTC

80 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Reasonable Explanations

Alicorn16 Jun 2019 5:29 UTC

78 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

FB/Discord Style Reacts

Raemon1 Jun 2019 21:34 UTC

77 points

95 comments5 min readLW link

Moral Mazes and Short Termism

Zvi2 Jun 2019 11:30 UTC

74 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Research Agenda v0.9: Synthesising a human’s preferences into a utility function

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC

70 points

26 comments33 min readLW link

Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien

philip_b18 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC

70 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AGI will drastically increase economies of scale

Wei Dai7 Jun 2019 23:17 UTC

65 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Conceptual Problems with UDT and Policy Selection

abramdemski28 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC

64 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

Recommendation Features on LessWrong

habryka and jimrandomh

15 Jun 2019 0:23 UTC

62 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantin28 Jun 2019 19:40 UTC

61 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

jp2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC

59 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

The LessWrong Team

Ruby1 Jun 2019 0:43 UTC

59 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Instead of “I’m anxious,” try “I feel threatened”

Holly_Elmore28 Jun 2019 5:24 UTC

56 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com)

[AN #58] Mesa optimization: what it is, and why we should care

Rohin Shah24 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

55 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

“But It Doesn’t Matter”

Zack_M_Davis1 Jun 2019 2:06 UTC

55 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

GreaterWrong Arbital Viewer

clone of saturn28 Jun 2019 6:32 UTC

55 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arbital.greaterwrong.com)

Some Ways Coordination is Hard

Zvi13 Jun 2019 13:00 UTC

55 points

11 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Aligning a toy model of optimization

paulfchristiano28 Jun 2019 20:23 UTC

53 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

“The Bitter Lesson”, an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI

the gears to ascension21 Jun 2019 17:24 UTC

52 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.incompleteideas.net)

Paternal Formats

abramdemski9 Jun 2019 1:26 UTC

51 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Machine Learning Projects on IDA

Owain_Evans, William_S and stuhlmueller

24 Jun 2019 18:38 UTC

49 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a guide to ‘Problems that are too fast to Google’?

Vaniver17 Jun 2019 5:04 UTC

48 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Should rationality be a movement?

Chris_Leong20 Jun 2019 23:09 UTC

48 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Does Bayes Beat Goodhart?

abramdemski3 Jun 2019 2:31 UTC

48 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?

abramdemski22 Jun 2019 3:42 UTC

46 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Let’s talk about “Convergent Rationality”

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)12 Jun 2019 21:53 UTC

44 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

On alien science

Richard_Ngo2 Jun 2019 14:50 UTC

44 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Do children lose ‘childlike curiosity?’ Why?

Raemon29 Jun 2019 22:42 UTC

44 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

On pointless waiting

Kaj_Sotala10 Jun 2019 8:58 UTC

43 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the “business cycle” an actual economic principle?

Liron18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC

43 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Modeling AGI Safety Frameworks with Causal Influence Diagrams

Ramana Kumar21 Jun 2019 12:50 UTC

43 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Major Update on Cost Disease

Max foobar5 Jun 2019 19:10 UTC

42 points

12 comments1 min readLW link