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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjashOct 26, 2020, 8:25 PM

299 points

69 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

A tale from Communist China

Wei DaiOct 18, 2020, 5:37 PM

281 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa Oct 28, 2020, 4:46 AM

212 points

54 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

The Treacherous Path to Rationality

Jacob FalkovichOct 9, 2020, 3:34 PM

207 points

116 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristianoOct 1, 2020, 6:54 PM

206 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark XuOct 14, 2020, 1:33 AM

179 points

52 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] What are some beautiful, rationalist artworks?

Bird ConceptOct 17, 2020, 6:32 AM

155 points

140 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Introduction to Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantOct 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

155 points

32 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

The Felt Sense: What, Why and How

Kaj_SotalaOct 5, 2020, 3:57 PM

153 points

23 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel KokotajloOct 22, 2020, 10:41 AM

150 points

32 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Message Length

Zack_M_DavisOct 20, 2020, 5:52 AM

134 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

Philosophy of Therapy

DaystarEldOct 10, 2020, 8:12 PM

121 points

27 comments16 min readLW link

(daystareld.com)

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Rohin ShahOct 6, 2020, 5:41 PM

120 points

7 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(www.amazon.com)

Launching Forecast, a community for crowdsourced predictions from Facebook

Rebecca KossnickOct 20, 2020, 6:20 AM

111 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

The bads of ads

KatjaGraceOct 23, 2020, 5:50 AM

108 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

The Darwin Game—Rounds 0 to 10

lsusrOct 24, 2020, 2:17 AM

107 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

Desperation hamster wheels

Nicole RossOct 28, 2020, 2:32 AM

97 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Postmortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben PaceOct 3, 2020, 9:30 PM

97 points

63 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 10/1: The Long Haul

ZviOct 1, 2020, 6:00 PM

95 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon

Bird ConceptOct 1, 2020, 4:20 AM

94 points

114 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

The Darwin Game

lsusrOct 9, 2020, 10:19 AM

92 points

131 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts on ADHD

romeostevensitOct 7, 2020, 8:46 PM

90 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What should experienced rationalists know?

sapphireOct 13, 2020, 5:32 PM

89 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Can we hold intellectuals to similar public standards as athletes?

ozziegooenOct 7, 2020, 4:22 AM

84 points

48 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 10/22: Europe in Crisis

ZviOct 22, 2020, 3:40 PM

80 points

13 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Moloch games

Chris van MerwijkOct 16, 2020, 3:19 PM

80 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Babble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemskiOct 15, 2020, 1:46 PM

80 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Weird Things About Money

abramdemskiOct 3, 2020, 5:13 PM

79 points

31 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 10/15: Playtime is Over

ZviOct 15, 2020, 2:30 PM

74 points

21 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI safety from first principles: Conclusion

Richard_NgoOct 4, 2020, 11:06 PM

71 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.

David GrossOct 15, 2020, 3:28 AM

71 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

A prior for technological discontinuities

NunoSempereOct 13, 2020, 4:51 PM

71 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Have the lockdowns been worth it?

Ben Pace and zhukeepa

Oct 12, 2020, 11:35 PM

70 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/8: October Surprise

ZviOct 8, 2020, 1:20 PM

66 points

17 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Msg Len

Zack_M_DavisOct 12, 2020, 3:35 AM

66 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Group debugging guidelines & thoughts

Kaj_SotalaOct 19, 2020, 11:02 AM

65 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Words and Implications

johnswentworthOct 1, 2020, 5:37 PM

62 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Additive Operations on Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantOct 26, 2020, 3:12 PM

62 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/29: All We Ever Talk About

ZviOct 29, 2020, 3:10 PM

61 points

50 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Boston?

jefftkOct 11, 2020, 2:40 AM

60 points

86 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AGI safety from first principles: Alignment

Richard_NgoOct 1, 2020, 3:13 AM

60 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge

Samo BurjaOct 30, 2020, 10:50 AM

60 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AGI safety from first principles: Control

Richard_NgoOct 2, 2020, 9:51 PM

60 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Box inversion hypothesis

Jan KulveitOct 20, 2020, 4:20 PM

59 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

COVID Strategy 101

Mike HarrisOct 5, 2020, 7:30 PM

58 points

7 comments18 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Round 1

lsusrOct 29, 2020, 9:56 PM

58 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: A summary

jasoncrawfordOct 5, 2020, 9:41 PM

58 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

AI risk hub in Singapore?

Daniel KokotajloOct 29, 2020, 11:45 AM

58 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

DanielFilanOct 27, 2020, 3:20 AM

55 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

[Question] Models predicting significant violence in the US?

kdbscottOct 25, 2020, 6:45 PM

54 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

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