What Money Can­not Buy

johnswentworthFeb 1, 2020, 8:11 PM
348 points
53 comments4 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Coron­avirus: Jus­tified Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Thread

Feb 28, 2020, 6:43 AM
218 points
337 comments1 min readLW link1 review

See­ing the Smoke

Jacob FalkovichFeb 28, 2020, 6:26 PM
197 points
29 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Ex­er­cises in Com­pre­hen­sive In­for­ma­tion Gathering

johnswentworthFeb 15, 2020, 5:27 PM
141 points
18 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Cat­e­gory The­ory Without The Baggage

johnswentworthFeb 3, 2020, 8:03 PM
139 points
51 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Will COVID-19 sur­vivors suffer last­ing dis­abil­ity at a high rate?

jimrandomhFeb 11, 2020, 8:23 PM
134 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Jan Bloch’s Im­pos­si­ble War

SlimepriestessFeb 17, 2020, 4:14 PM
112 points
30 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

De­mons in Im­perfect Search

johnswentworthFeb 11, 2020, 8:25 PM
110 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

What can the prin­ci­pal-agent liter­a­ture tell us about AI risk?

apcFeb 8, 2020, 9:28 PM
104 points
29 comments16 min readLW link

Wri­teup: Progress on AI Safety via Debate

Feb 5, 2020, 9:04 PM
103 points
18 comments33 min readLW link

The Ad­ven­ture: a new Utopia story

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 5, 2020, 4:50 PM
101 points
37 comments51 min readLW link

Tes­sel­lat­ing Hills: a toy model for demons in im­perfect search

DaemonicSigilFeb 20, 2020, 12:12 AM
97 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

How to Lurk Less (and benefit oth­ers while benefit­ing your­self)

romeostevensitFeb 17, 2020, 6:18 AM
95 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Mazes Se­quence Roundup: Fi­nal Thoughts and Paths Forward

ZviFeb 6, 2020, 4:10 PM
88 points
28 comments14 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dist­in­guish­ing defi­ni­tions of takeoff

Matthew BarnettFeb 14, 2020, 12:16 AM
79 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Pro­tect­ing Large Pro­jects Against Mazedom

ZviFeb 3, 2020, 5:10 PM
78 points
11 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Jaan Tal­linn’s Philan­thropic Pledge

jaanFeb 22, 2020, 10:03 AM
78 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] A ‘Prac­tice of Ra­tion­al­ity’ Se­quence?

abramdemskiFeb 14, 2020, 10:56 PM
78 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

“But that’s your job”: why or­gani­sa­tions can work

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 5, 2020, 12:25 PM
77 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

My slack bud­get: 3 sur­prise prob­lems per week

RaemonFeb 25, 2020, 9:52 PM
69 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Some quick notes on hand hygiene

willbradshawFeb 6, 2020, 2:47 AM
68 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Em­piri­cal Results

Feb 22, 2020, 12:38 AM
66 points
8 comments10 min readLW link1 review

The­ory and Data as Constraints

johnswentworthFeb 21, 2020, 10:00 PM
65 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Quaran­tine Preparations

jefftkFeb 25, 2020, 2:40 AM
58 points
38 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Cau­tion­ary Note on Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

eapacheFeb 8, 2020, 5:21 PM
55 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Bayes-Up: An App for Shar­ing Bayesian-MCQ

Louis FauconFeb 6, 2020, 7:01 PM
53 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

At­tain­able Utility Land­scape: How The World Is Changed

TurnTroutFeb 10, 2020, 12:58 AM
52 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

A point of clar­ifi­ca­tion on in­fo­haz­ard terminology

eukaryoteFeb 2, 2020, 5:43 PM
52 points
21 comments2 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The case for lifel­og­ging as life extension

Matthew BarnettFeb 1, 2020, 9:56 PM
51 points
17 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Sus­pi­ciously bal­anced evidence

gjmFeb 12, 2020, 5:04 PM
50 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Blog Post Day (Unoffi­cial)

Daniel KokotajloFeb 18, 2020, 7:05 PM
49 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Value of the Long Tail

johnswentworthFeb 26, 2020, 5:24 PM
48 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

The Re­la­tional Stance

RaemonFeb 11, 2020, 5:16 AM
48 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

How to Frame Nega­tive Feed­back as For­ward-Fac­ing Guidance

LironFeb 9, 2020, 2:47 AM
46 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Re­view­ing the Review

RaemonFeb 26, 2020, 2:51 AM
45 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

The Catas­trophic Con­ver­gence Conjecture

TurnTroutFeb 14, 2020, 9:16 PM
45 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Con­fir­ma­tion Bias As Mis­fire Of Nor­mal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott AlexanderFeb 13, 2020, 7:20 AM
43 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] Did AI pi­o­neers not worry much about AI risks?

lisperatiFeb 9, 2020, 7:58 PM
42 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Pes­simism About Un­known Un­knowns In­spires Conservatism

michaelcohenFeb 3, 2020, 2:48 PM
41 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

What are in­for­ma­tion haz­ards?

MichaelAFeb 18, 2020, 7:34 PM
41 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark XuFeb 14, 2020, 8:22 AM
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Con­clu­sion to ‘Refram­ing Im­pact’

TurnTroutFeb 28, 2020, 4:05 PM
40 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

More write­ups!

jefftkFeb 7, 2020, 3:10 AM
40 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Bayesian Evolv­ing-to-Extinction

abramdemskiFeb 14, 2020, 11:55 PM
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

On char­ac­ter­iz­ing heavy-tailedness

JsevillamolFeb 16, 2020, 12:14 AM
38 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Concepts

TurnTroutFeb 17, 2020, 5:20 AM
38 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Plau­si­bly, al­most ev­ery pow­er­ful al­gorithm would be manipulative

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 6, 2020, 11:50 AM
38 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the big-pic­ture im­pli­ca­tions of the coro­n­avirus, as­sum­ing it even­tu­ally in­fects >10% of the world?

Daniel KokotajloFeb 26, 2020, 2:19 PM
36 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

If I were a well-in­ten­tioned AI… I: Image classifier

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 26, 2020, 12:39 PM
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 4: Murphyjitsu

Mark XuFeb 18, 2020, 5:33 PM
34 points
0 comments7 min readLW link