An overview of 11 pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

evhubMay 29, 2020, 8:38 PM
220 points
37 comments38 min readLW link2 reviews

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard MeadowsMay 15, 2020, 8:44 PM
197 points
88 comments19 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture Re­view For Aca­demic Out­siders: What, How, and Why

namespaceMay 9, 2020, 10:58 PM
195 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Stud­ies On Slack

Scott AlexanderMay 13, 2020, 5:00 AM
165 points
34 comments24 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Com­ment on “En­doge­nous Epistemic Fac­tion­al­iza­tion”

Zack_M_DavisMay 20, 2020, 6:04 PM
158 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Assess­ing Kurzweil pre­dic­tions about 2019: the results

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 1:36 PM
146 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM
134 points
40 comments12 min readLW link

In­sights from Eu­clid’s ‘Ele­ments’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
126 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Bak­ing is Not a Ritual

Sisi ChengMay 25, 2020, 6:08 PM
125 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Mov­able Hous­ing for Scal­able Cities

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 15, 2020, 9:21 PM
124 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of “no-self” (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_SotalaMay 8, 2020, 10:37 AM
120 points
65 comments20 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What are your great­est one-shot life im­prove­ments?

Mark XuMay 16, 2020, 4:53 PM
118 points
171 comments1 min readLW link

Why Artists Study Anatomy

Sisi ChengMay 18, 2020, 6:44 PM
98 points
10 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Crav­ing, suffer­ing, and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_SotalaMay 15, 2020, 1:21 PM
96 points
56 comments19 min readLW link

A Taijitu sym­bol for Moloch and Slack

B JacobsMay 25, 2020, 8:03 PM
91 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Writ­ing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM
90 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adap­tive theories

willbradshawMay 26, 2020, 5:41 PM
89 points
22 comments11 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

[Question] Tips/​tricks/​notes on op­ti­miz­ing investments

Wei DaiMay 6, 2020, 11:21 PM
83 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Mazes Se­quence Summary

ZviMay 23, 2020, 4:40 PM
81 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How uniform is the neo­cor­tex?

zhukeepaMay 4, 2020, 2:16 AM
80 points
23 comments11 min readLW link1 review

The Oil Cri­sis of 1973

ElizabethMay 22, 2020, 3:50 PM
79 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

How to (not) do a liter­a­ture review

Katarina SlamaMay 30, 2020, 12:11 AM
79 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(katarinaslama.github.io)

Why Ra­tion­al­ists Shouldn’t be In­ter­ested in To­pos Theory

jollybardMay 25, 2020, 5:35 AM
77 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Narconomics

ketchupduckMay 3, 2020, 1:19 AM
77 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

On the con­struc­tion of the self

Kaj_SotalaMay 29, 2020, 1:04 PM
77 points
18 comments17 min readLW link

Zoom Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. vs. the Effi­cient Mar­kets Hypothesis

Zack_M_DavisMay 11, 2020, 6:00 AM
72 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI an­nounces GPT-3

gwernMay 29, 2020, 1:49 AM
67 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing: the flip side of AI ingenuity

May 6, 2020, 11:51 PM
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

GPT-3: a dis­ap­point­ing paper

nostalgebraistMay 29, 2020, 7:06 PM
65 points
43 comments8 min readLW link1 review

From self to crav­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_SotalaMay 22, 2020, 12:16 PM
63 points
21 comments11 min readLW link

Point­ing to a Flower

johnswentworthMay 18, 2020, 6:54 PM
61 points
18 comments9 min readLW link

Sub­space optima

Chris van MerwijkMay 15, 2020, 12:38 PM
61 points
7 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

jasoncrawfordMay 27, 2020, 9:25 PM
61 points
1 comment6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kib­itzer (hides com­ment au­thors and vote counts)

MarcelloMay 23, 2020, 11:44 PM
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworthMay 9, 2020, 6:47 PM
58 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

High­lights of Com­par­a­tive and Evolu­tion­ary Aging

johnswentworthMay 22, 2020, 5:01 PM
56 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Get It Done Now

ZviMay 22, 2020, 12:20 PM
56 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Wikipe­dia Edit War Update

jefftkMay 22, 2020, 11:30 AM
55 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What age­ing is and is not

willbradshawMay 24, 2020, 9:06 AM
55 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

[Job ad] Lead an am­bi­tious COVID-19 fore­cast­ing pro­ject [Dead­line ex­tended: June 10th]

Bird ConceptMay 27, 2020, 4:38 PM
54 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex 2020 Pre­dic­tions: Buy, Sell, Hold

ZviMay 1, 2020, 2:30 PM
53 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

eapacheMay 18, 2020, 5:25 PM
51 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Cop­ing and Cultures

SpiracularMay 6, 2020, 10:49 PM
50 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

“AI and Effi­ciency”, OA (44✕ im­prove­ment in CNNs since 2012)

gwernMay 5, 2020, 4:32 PM
48 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

“Star­wink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_DavisMay 18, 2020, 8:17 AM
47 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(alicorn.elcenia.com)

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

ZviMay 3, 2020, 5:00 PM
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In Search of Slack

Martin SustrikMay 23, 2020, 11:20 AM
47 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Question] Should I self-var­i­o­late to COVID-19

Eli TyreMay 25, 2020, 8:29 PM
46 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of Cruxes

Eli TyreMay 27, 2020, 5:25 PM
44 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Failures in tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing? A re­ply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelAMay 8, 2020, 12:41 PM
44 points
19 comments11 min readLW link