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Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

198 points

69 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on “The Anthropology of Childhood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC

184 points

10 comments45 min readLW link

Radical Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC

182 points

49 comments35 min readLW link 1 review

Inner Alignment: Explain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael Harth1 Aug 2020 15:24 UTC

181 points

47 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

microCOVID.org: A tool to estimate COVID risk from common activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

177 points

36 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(microcovid.org)

Alignment By Default

johnswentworth12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC

174 points

96 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC

154 points

87 comments5 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemski20 Aug 2020 0:08 UTC

143 points

21 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

The Fusion Power Generator Scenario

johnswentworth8 Aug 2020 18:31 UTC

142 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Forecasting Thread: AI Timelines

Amandango, Daniel Kokotajlo and Ben Pace

22 Aug 2020 2:33 UTC

134 points

98 comments2 min readLW link

Tools for keeping focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC

129 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

My Understanding of Paul Christiano’s Iterated Amplification AI Safety Research Agenda

Chi Nguyen15 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC

120 points

20 comments39 min readLW link

Measuring hardware overhang

hippke5 Aug 2020 19:59 UTC

115 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Introduction To The Infra-Bayesianism Sequence

Diffractor and Vanessa Kosoy

26 Aug 2020 20:31 UTC

109 points

62 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC

108 points

17 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(www.neelnanda.io)

Search versus design

Alex Flint16 Aug 2020 16:53 UTC

108 points

40 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 8/27: The Fall of the CDC

Zvi27 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC

85 points

16 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Unifying the Simulacra Definitions

Zvi3 Aug 2020 12:10 UTC

84 points

31 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Updates and additions to “Embedded Agency”

Rob Bensinger and abramdemski

29 Aug 2020 4:22 UTC

82 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Model splintering: moving from one imperfect model to another

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC

79 points

10 comments33 min readLW link

When can Fiction Change the World?

Timothy Underwood24 Aug 2020 13:47 UTC

79 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC

72 points

8 comments22 min readLW link

Meaningful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC

72 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation

Ruby23 Aug 2020 5:13 UTC

71 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Do we have updated data about the risk of ~ permanent chronic fatigue from COVID-19?

Eli Tyre14 Aug 2020 19:19 UTC

60 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Does crime explain the exceptional US incarceration rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC

60 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe Lying Can’t Exist?!

Zack_M_Davis23 Aug 2020 0:36 UTC

58 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 18:51 UTC

55 points

45 comments7 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC

55 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Multitudinous outside views

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC

55 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Three mental images from thinking about AGI debate & corrigibility

Steven Byrnes3 Aug 2020 14:29 UTC

55 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Tagging Progress at 100%! (Party & Celebratory Talk w/ Jason Crawford, Habryka on Sun, Aug 30th, 12pm PDT)

Ruby22 Aug 2020 16:45 UTC

54 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

nostalgebraist: Recursive Goodhart’s Law

Kaj_Sotala26 Aug 2020 11:07 UTC

53 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Covid 8/13: Same As It Ever Was

Zvi13 Aug 2020 15:40 UTC

53 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Will OpenAI’s work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI?

adamShimi11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC

53 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

Interpretability in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearner4 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC

53 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

Looking for adversarial collaborators to test our Debate protocol

Beth Barnes19 Aug 2020 3:15 UTC

52 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

“The Holy Grail” of portfolio management

Alexei22 Aug 2020 4:25 UTC

51 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Preface to the sequence on economic growth

Matthew Barnett27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC

51 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Case for Human Genetic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC

50 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Infinite Data/Compute Arguments in Alignment

johnswentworth4 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC

50 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

My paper was signalling the whole time—Robin Hanson wins again

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC

49 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Sunday, 20/8/30, 12pm PDT – Tagging Celebration: Habryka/Crawford + Party

Ruby25 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC

49 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC

48 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Online LessWrong Community Weekend, September 11th-13th

Linda Linsefors1 Aug 2020 14:55 UTC

48 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Highlights from the Blackmail Debate (Robin Hanson vs Zvi Mowshowitz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC

48 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 8/20: A Little Progress

Zvi20 Aug 2020 14:30 UTC

47 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

10 Fun Questions for LessWrongers

Ben Pace18 Aug 2020 3:28 UTC

47 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is Wirecutter still good?

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC

46 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Cryonics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC

46 points

8 comments32 min readLW link