Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
548 points
90 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

When Money Is Abun­dant, Knowl­edge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC
336 points
61 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

Embed­ded In­ter­ac­tive Pre­dic­tions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC
243 points
88 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Some AI re­search ar­eas and their rele­vance to ex­is­ten­tial safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC
204 points
37 comments50 min readLW link2 reviews

Gen­er­al­ized Heat Engine

johnswentworth5 Nov 2020 19:01 UTC
186 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 1

lsusr26 Nov 2020 3:02 UTC
152 points
31 comments3 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Where do (did?) sta­ble, co­op­er­a­tive in­sti­tu­tions come from?

AnnaSalamon3 Nov 2020 22:14 UTC
151 points
72 comments4 min readLW link

the scal­ing “in­con­sis­tency”: openAI’s new insight

nostalgebraist7 Nov 2020 7:40 UTC
148 points
14 comments9 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Work­ing in Vir­tual Real­ity: A Review

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 23:14 UTC
139 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

In­ner Align­ment in Salt-Starved Rats

Steven Byrnes19 Nov 2020 2:40 UTC
137 points
41 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Nu­clear war is un­likely to cause hu­man extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC
133 points
48 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

The Poin­t­ers Prob­lem: Hu­man Values Are A Func­tion Of Hu­mans’ La­tent Variables

johnswentworth18 Nov 2020 17:47 UTC
128 points
49 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

The 300-year jour­ney to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC
123 points
9 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 11/​26: Thanksgiving

Zvi26 Nov 2020 14:50 UTC
114 points
14 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Predictions

21 Nov 2020 3:46 UTC
112 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity vs Likelihood

abramdemski10 Nov 2020 21:28 UTC
110 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing in­ner al­ign­ment terminology

evhub9 Nov 2020 20:40 UTC
107 points
17 comments3 min readLW link1 review

A re­view of Where Is My Fly­ing Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC
103 points
23 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fi­nal Ver­sion Perfected: An Un­derused Ex­e­cu­tion Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC
102 points
34 comments7 min readLW link

Covid 11/​12: The Winds of Winter

Zvi12 Nov 2020 14:30 UTC
100 points
64 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Does SGD Pro­duce De­cep­tive Align­ment?

Mark Xu6 Nov 2020 23:48 UTC
96 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Be­ing Pro­duc­tive With Chronic Health Con­di­tions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC
96 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

My in­tel­lec­tual influences

Richard_Ngo22 Nov 2020 18:00 UTC
95 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Im­pos­tor Syn­drome as skill/​dom­i­nance mismatch

Viliam5 Nov 2020 20:05 UTC
94 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

It’s not eco­nom­i­cally in­effi­cient for a UBI to re­duce re­cip­i­ent’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC
93 points
60 comments4 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Gifts Which Money Can­not Buy

johnswentworth4 Nov 2020 19:37 UTC
90 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Per­sua­sion Tools: AI takeover with­out AGI or agency?

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Nov 2020 16:54 UTC
85 points
25 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Sny­der-Beat­tie, Sand­berg, Drexler & Bon­sall (2020): The Timing of Evolu­tion­ary Tran­si­tions Suggests In­tel­li­gent Life Is Rare

Kaj_Sotala24 Nov 2020 10:36 UTC
83 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(www.liebertpub.com)

The (Unoffi­cial) Less Wrong Com­ment Challenge

adamShimi11 Nov 2020 14:18 UTC
82 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: A Re­search Agenda

abramdemski11 Nov 2020 21:59 UTC
82 points
18 comments19 min readLW link

Com­men­tary on AGI Safety from First Principles

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 21:37 UTC
81 points
4 comments54 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Gear

johnswentworth16 Nov 2020 16:34 UTC
79 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

When Hind­sight Isn’t 20/​20: In­cen­tive De­sign With Im­perfect Credit Allocation

johnswentworth8 Nov 2020 19:16 UTC
79 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

Lo­ca­tion Dis­cus­sion Takeaways

mingyuan2 Nov 2020 21:14 UTC
77 points
15 comments13 min readLW link

A guide to Iter­ated Am­plifi­ca­tion & Debate

Rafael Harth15 Nov 2020 17:14 UTC
75 points
12 comments15 min readLW link

Be­ware Ex­per­i­ments Without Evaluation

Davis_Kingsley15 Nov 2020 8:18 UTC
75 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Non-Ob­struc­tion: A Sim­ple Con­cept Mo­ti­vat­ing Corrigibility

TurnTrout21 Nov 2020 19:35 UTC
74 points
20 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 11/​19: Don’t Do Stupid Things

Zvi19 Nov 2020 16:00 UTC
72 points
29 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 Elec­tion: Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets ver­sus Pol­ling/​Model­ing Assess­ment and Postmortem

Zvi18 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC
71 points
17 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to get the benefits of mov­ing with­out mov­ing (bab­ble)

mingyuan13 Nov 2020 20:17 UTC
71 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

The next AI win­ter will be due to en­ergy costs

hippke24 Nov 2020 16:53 UTC
70 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Heat Eng­ine II: Ther­mo­dy­namic Effi­ciency Limit

johnswentworth6 Nov 2020 17:30 UTC
69 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Fore­cast­ing In­no­va­tion Prize

15 Nov 2020 21:12 UTC
69 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Writ­ing to think

Adam Zerner17 Nov 2020 7:54 UTC
68 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

Con­tin­u­ing the take­offs debate

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 15:58 UTC
67 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 11/​5: Don’t Men­tion the War

Zvi5 Nov 2020 14:20 UTC
64 points
16 comments28 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Man­i­festo of the Silent Minority

lsusr24 Nov 2020 5:30 UTC
63 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ling & Simulacra

abramdemski14 Nov 2020 19:24 UTC
63 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

Evad­ing Mind Control

lsusr25 Nov 2020 5:01 UTC
62 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Suc­cess Buys Freedom

lsusr25 Nov 2020 13:53 UTC
62 points
4 comments6 min readLW link