Real­ity-Re­veal­ing and Real­ity-Mask­ing Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC
264 points
57 comments13 min readLW link1 review

What cog­ni­tive bi­ases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC
253 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC
251 points
40 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

Co­or­di­na­tion as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC
246 points
22 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Have epistemic con­di­tions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC
210 points
106 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Mo­ral pub­lic goods

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 0:10 UTC
147 points
74 comments4 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

2018 Re­view: Vot­ing Re­sults!

Ben Pace24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC
135 points
59 comments6 min readLW link

AI Align­ment 2018-19 Review

Rohin Shah28 Jan 2020 2:19 UTC
126 points
6 comments35 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy Changes Constraints

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC
116 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

On hid­ing the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC
115 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Drain­ing the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC
99 points
1 comment11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

He­donic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC
98 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

The Road to Mazedom

Zvi18 Jan 2020 14:10 UTC
97 points
26 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AIRCS Work­shop: How I failed to be re­cruited at MIRI.

Arthur Milchior7 Jan 2020 1:03 UTC
93 points
15 comments23 min readLW link

Don’t Dou­ble-Crux With Suicide Rock

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2020 19:02 UTC
91 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Book re­view: Re­think­ing Consciousness

Steven Byrnes10 Jan 2020 20:41 UTC
89 points
56 comments8 min readLW link

Be­com­ing Unusu­ally Truth-Oriented

abramdemski3 Jan 2020 1:27 UTC
89 points
20 comments10 min readLW link

Homeosta­sis and “Root Causes” in Aging

johnswentworth5 Jan 2020 18:43 UTC
86 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

How Doomed are Large Or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Zvi21 Jan 2020 12:20 UTC
81 points
42 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ma­te­rial Goods as an Abun­dant Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:23 UTC
81 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Do­minic Cum­mings: “we’re hiring data sci­en­tists, pro­ject man­agers, policy ex­perts, as­sorted weirdos”

ESRogs3 Jan 2020 0:33 UTC
80 points
57 comments4 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.com)

How to Es­cape From Im­moral Mazes

Zvi16 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC
79 points
21 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bay Sols­tice 2019 Retrospective

mingyuan16 Jan 2020 17:15 UTC
75 points
36 comments15 min readLW link

Cir­cling as Cousin to Rationality

Vaniver1 Jan 2020 1:16 UTC
72 points
98 comments6 min readLW link1 review

What is Life in an Im­moral Maze?

Zvi5 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC
71 points
56 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The two-layer model of hu­man val­ues, and prob­lems with syn­the­siz­ing preferences

Kaj_Sotala24 Jan 2020 15:17 UTC
70 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

A rant against robots

Lê Nguyên Hoang14 Jan 2020 22:03 UTC
65 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Nor­mal­iza­tion of Deviance

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2020 22:58 UTC
65 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

How to Iden­tify an Im­moral Maze

Zvi12 Jan 2020 12:10 UTC
64 points
18 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mat­ing Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC
62 points
6 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Mod No­tice about Elec­tion Discussion

Vaniver29 Jan 2020 1:35 UTC
61 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Ten Causes of Mazedom

Zvi25 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC
59 points
6 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sub­script­ing Ty­po­graphic Con­ven­tion For Ci­ta­tions/​Dates/​Sources/​Ev­i­den­tials: A Proposal

gwern8 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
59 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Con­straints & Slack­ness as a Wor­ld­view Generator

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:18 UTC
55 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

High-pre­ci­sion claims may be re­futed with­out be­ing re­placed with other high-pre­ci­sion claims

jessicata30 Jan 2020 23:08 UTC
55 points
30 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Crit­i­cism as Entertainment

Elizabeth9 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
53 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Po­ten­tial Ways to Fight Mazes

Zvi28 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC
53 points
9 comments18 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ap­pendix: how a sub­agent could get powerful

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2020 15:28 UTC
53 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Of ar­gu­ments and wagers

paulfchristiano10 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
52 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Vot­ing Phase of 2018 LW Re­view

Ben Pace8 Jan 2020 3:35 UTC
51 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

On the on­tolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment of consciousness

jessicata25 Jan 2020 5:56 UTC
51 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

ACDT: a hack-y acausal de­ci­sion theory

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2020 17:22 UTC
50 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

As­sor­ta­tive Mat­ing And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC
50 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Epistea Sum­mer Ex­per­i­ment (ESE)

24 Jan 2020 10:49 UTC
49 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Strip­ping Away the Protections

Zvi8 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC
49 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­view: How to Read a Book (Mor­timer Adler, Charles Van Doren)

Elizabeth27 Jan 2020 21:10 UTC
48 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Heal­ing vs. ex­er­cise analo­gies for emo­tional work

Kaj_Sotala27 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC
48 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

(A → B) → A in Causal DAGs

johnswentworth22 Jan 2020 18:22 UTC
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Please Cri­tique Things for the Re­view!

Raemon11 Jan 2020 20:59 UTC
48 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Cas­sette Tape Thoughts

Elizabeth22 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC
48 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)