Why haven’t we cel­e­brated any ma­jor achieve­ments lately?

jasoncrawfordAug 17, 2020, 8:34 PM
198 points
69 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on “The An­thro­pol­ogy of Child­hood”

juliawiseAug 27, 2020, 5:11 PM
185 points
10 comments45 min readLW link

In­ner Align­ment: Ex­plain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael HarthAug 1, 2020, 3:24 PM
184 points
47 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

Rad­i­cal Probabilism

abramdemskiAug 18, 2020, 9:14 PM
182 points
49 comments35 min readLW link1 review

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

catherioAug 29, 2020, 11:01 PM
176 points
36 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(microcovid.org)

Align­ment By Default

johnswentworthAug 12, 2020, 6:54 PM
174 points
96 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

The Fu­sion Power Gen­er­a­tor Scenario

johnswentworthAug 8, 2020, 6:31 PM
155 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam SchollAug 12, 2020, 7:47 AM
154 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemskiAug 20, 2020, 12:08 AM
143 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Fore­cast­ing Thread: AI Timelines

Aug 22, 2020, 2:33 AM
135 points
98 comments2 min readLW link

Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhnAug 5, 2020, 2:10 AM
130 points
26 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Chi NguyenAug 15, 2020, 8:02 PM
120 points
20 comments39 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing hard­ware overhang

hippkeAug 5, 2020, 7:59 PM
116 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion To The In­fra-Bayesi­anism Sequence

Aug 26, 2020, 8:31 PM
110 points
62 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

How to teach things well

Neel NandaAug 28, 2020, 4:44 PM
110 points
17 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Search ver­sus design

Alex FlintAug 16, 2020, 4:53 PM
109 points
40 comments36 min readLW link1 review

Covid 8/​27: The Fall of the CDC

ZviAug 27, 2020, 2:10 PM
85 points
16 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

ZviAug 3, 2020, 12:10 PM
84 points
31 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Up­dates and ad­di­tions to “Embed­ded Agency”

Aug 29, 2020, 4:22 AM
82 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

When can Fic­tion Change the World?

Timothy UnderwoodAug 24, 2020, 1:47 PM
79 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Model splin­ter­ing: mov­ing from one im­perfect model to another

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2020, 11:53 AM
79 points
10 comments33 min readLW link

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel NandaAug 29, 2020, 3:50 PM
73 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

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

Martin SustrikAug 11, 2020, 5:09 AM
72 points
8 comments22 min readLW link

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

RubyAug 23, 2020, 5:13 AM
71 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

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

Eli TyreAug 14, 2020, 7:19 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

bracesAug 15, 2020, 6:27 PM
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe Ly­ing Can’t Ex­ist?!

Zack_M_DavisAug 23, 2020, 12:36 AM
58 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control

abramdemskiAug 18, 2020, 6:51 PM
55 points
45 comments7 min readLW link

Mul­ti­tudi­nous out­side views

DavidmanheimAug 18, 2020, 6:21 AM
55 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilchAug 12, 2020, 6:16 AM
55 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Three men­tal images from think­ing about AGI de­bate & corrigibility

Steven ByrnesAug 3, 2020, 2:29 PM
55 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

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

RubyAug 22, 2020, 4:45 PM
54 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

nos­talge­braist: Re­cur­sive Good­hart’s Law

Kaj_SotalaAug 26, 2020, 11:07 AM
53 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

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

adamShimiAug 11, 2020, 6:16 PM
53 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­pretabil­ity in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearnerAug 4, 2020, 7:03 PM
53 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Covid 8/​13: Same As It Ever Was

ZviAug 13, 2020, 3:40 PM
53 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Look­ing for ad­ver­sar­ial col­lab­o­ra­tors to test our De­bate protocol

Beth BarnesAug 19, 2020, 3:15 AM
52 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

“The Holy Grail” of port­fo­lio management

AlexeiAug 22, 2020, 4:25 AM
51 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on eco­nomic growth

Matthew BarnettAug 27, 2020, 8:29 PM
51 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmithAug 28, 2020, 10:21 PM
51 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

In­finite Data/​Com­pute Ar­gu­ments in Alignment

johnswentworthAug 4, 2020, 8:21 PM
50 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

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

Tim LiptrotAug 4, 2020, 9:13 PM
49 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

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

RubyAug 25, 2020, 8:21 PM
49 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

MarcelloAug 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Week­end, Septem­ber 11th-13th

Linda LinseforsAug 1, 2020, 2:55 PM
48 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

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

Ben PaceAug 20, 2020, 12:49 AM
48 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 8/​20: A Lit­tle Progress

ZviAug 20, 2020, 2:30 PM
47 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

10 Fun Ques­tions for LessWrongers

Ben PaceAug 18, 2020, 3:28 AM
47 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is Wire­cut­ter still good?

Ben PaceAug 7, 2020, 9:54 PM
46 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplavAug 3, 2020, 5:30 PM
46 points
8 comments32 min readLW link