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[Question] Models predicting significant violence in the US?

kdbscottOct 25, 2020, 6:45 PM

54 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Memory reconsolidation for self-affection

Kaj_SotalaOct 27, 2020, 10:10 AM

52 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] Brainstorming positive visions of AI

jungofthewonOct 7, 2020, 4:09 PM

52 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto

billmeiOct 20, 2020, 7:40 PM

52 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Things are allowed to be good and bad at the same time

Kaj_SotalaOct 17, 2020, 8:00 AM

52 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Functors and Coarse Worlds

Scott GarrabrantOct 30, 2020, 3:19 PM

52 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Dutch-Booking CDT: Revised Argument

abramdemskiOct 27, 2020, 4:31 AM

51 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

A simple device for indoor air management

Richard Korzekwa Oct 2, 2020, 1:02 AM

50 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalist Town Hall: Pandemic Edition

Ben PaceOct 21, 2020, 11:54 PM

50 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Stupid Questions October 2020

ChristianKlOct 21, 2020, 11:41 AM

48 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

Sunday October 25, 12:00PM (PT) — Scott Garrabrant on “Cartesian Frames”

Ben PaceOct 21, 2020, 3:27 AM

48 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Draft papers for REALab and Decoupled Approval on tampering

Jonathan Uesato and Ramana Kumar

Oct 28, 2020, 4:01 PM

47 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What posts do you want written?

Mark XuOct 19, 2020, 3:00 AM

47 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Attention to snakes not fear of snakes: evolution encoding environmental knowledge in peripheral systems

Kaj_SotalaOct 2, 2020, 11:50 AM

46 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Notes on Honesty

David GrossOct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM

46 points

6 comments20 min readLW link

Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

Wei DaiOct 11, 2020, 6:07 PM

44 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] Top Time Travel Interventions?

abramdemskiOct 26, 2020, 11:25 PM

44 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Forcing Freedom

vlad.proexOct 6, 2020, 6:15 PM

43 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Biextensional Equivalence

Scott GarrabrantOct 28, 2020, 2:07 PM

43 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Rule of Equal and Opposite Advice & Slack

tinyanonOct 10, 2020, 9:22 PM

42 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI race considerations in a report by the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services

NunoSempereOct 4, 2020, 12:11 PM

42 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Bet On Biden

sapphireOct 17, 2020, 10:03 PM

42 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

Upside decay—why some people never get lucky

brianluiOct 8, 2020, 8:45 AM

41 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Math That Clicks: Look for Two-Way Correspondences

TurnTroutOct 2, 2020, 1:22 AM

39 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_KingsleyOct 11, 2020, 10:21 AM

39 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Rationality and Climate Change

EmiyaOct 5, 2020, 10:21 AM

38 points

76 comments1 min readLW link

PredictIt: Presidential Market is Increasingly Wrong

ZviOct 18, 2020, 10:40 PM

37 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to reach 80% of your goals. Exactly 80%.

Bart BussmannOct 10, 2020, 5:33 PM

36 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating expertise: a clear box model

JustinShovelainOct 15, 2020, 2:18 PM

36 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Virtue ethics and why the rationalist community might care about it.

David GrossOct 22, 2020, 3:53 AM

36 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

My case for starting blogging

Neel NandaOct 22, 2020, 5:43 PM

36 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] What is the current bottleneck on genetic engineering of human embryos for improved IQ

Eli TyreOct 23, 2020, 2:36 AM

36 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we use qualifiers in speech?

Adam ZernerOct 23, 2020, 4:46 AM

35 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

Controllables and Observables, Revisited

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 4:38 PM

35 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Toy Problem: Detective Story Alignment

johnswentworthOct 13, 2020, 9:02 PM

34 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of solving a problem in your life

Bird ConceptOct 22, 2020, 4:49 AM

34 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Sunday October 18, 12:00PM (PT) — Garden Party

Ben Pace and Raemon

Oct 17, 2020, 7:36 PM

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Knowledge, manipulation, and free will

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 13, 2020, 5:47 PM

33 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Betting Thread

AmandangoOct 20, 2020, 2:17 AM

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

“Little glimpses of empathy” as the foundation for social emotions

Steven ByrnesOct 22, 2020, 11:02 AM

33 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] What are good election betting opportunities?

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 7:19 AM

32 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of hiding Einstein’s pen for fifty years

Bird ConceptOct 15, 2020, 7:23 AM

31 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

Reply to Jebari and Lundborg on Artificial Superintelligence

Richard_NgoOct 25, 2020, 1:50 PM

31 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Problems Involving Abstraction?

johnswentworthOct 20, 2020, 4:49 PM

30 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

“Cartesian Frames” Talk #2 this Sunday at 2pm (PT)

Rob BensingerOct 28, 2020, 1:59 PM

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Correspondence Theorem

johnswentworthOct 26, 2020, 11:28 PM

30 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways to escape a locked room

Bird ConceptOct 8, 2020, 5:13 AM

30 points

83 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If GPT-6 is human-level AGI but costs $200 per page of output, what would happen?

Daniel KokotajloOct 9, 2020, 12:00 PM

29 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Political Lottery in Switzerland

Martin SustrikOct 8, 2020, 5:03 AM

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Responses to Christiano on takeoff speeds?

Richard_NgoOct 30, 2020, 3:16 PM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link