Sta­tus for sta­tus sake is a fact of poli­ti­cal life

Tim Liptrot18 Aug 2020 22:06 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Rad­i­cal Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC
182 points
49 comments35 min readLW link1 review

Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 18:51 UTC
55 points
45 comments7 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing My LW Com­ment­ing Policy

curi18 Aug 2020 16:48 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Bayesi­ance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

WordPress De­stroys Edit­ing Pro­cess, Seek­ing Alternatives

Zvi18 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
25 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Learn­ing hu­man prefer­ences: op­ti­mistic and pes­simistic scenarios

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2020 13:05 UTC
27 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

On Creativity—The joys of 5 minute timers

Neel Nanda18 Aug 2020 6:26 UTC
17 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Mul­ti­tudi­nous out­side views

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
55 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

10 Fun Ques­tions for LessWrongers

Ben Pace18 Aug 2020 3:28 UTC
47 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Spend­ing Up­date 2020

jefftk18 Aug 2020 1:40 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why haven’t we cel­e­brated any ma­jor achieve­ments lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
198 points
69 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] A way to beat su­per­ra­tional/​EDT agents?

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir17 Aug 2020 14:33 UTC
5 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3, be­lief, and consistency

skybrian16 Aug 2020 23:12 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-Direct­ed­ness: What Suc­cess Looks Like

adamShimi16 Aug 2020 18:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Search ver­sus design

Alex Flint16 Aug 2020 16:53 UTC
108 points
40 comments36 min readLW link1 review

On Sys­tems—Liv­ing a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
42 points
9 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Par­tially En­light­ened AMA

grumpyfreyr16 Aug 2020 9:36 UTC
−10 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Be­com­ing an EA-in­fluencer on YouTube etc.

culturechange16 Aug 2020 8:09 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Hu­man Condition

Martin Sustrik16 Aug 2020 5:23 UTC
25 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Wrong Side of Risk

gilch16 Aug 2020 3:50 UTC
22 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

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

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn Drescher15 Aug 2020 13:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Map­ping Out Alignment

15 Aug 2020 1:02 UTC
43 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Talk and Q&A—Dan Hendrycks—Paper: Align­ing AI With Shared Hu­man Values. On Dis­cord at Aug 28, 2020 8:00-10:00 AM GMT+8.

wassname14 Aug 2020 23:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Study Group for Progress

jasoncrawford14 Aug 2020 20:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Set­ting Up a Green Screen

jefftk14 Aug 2020 20:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[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

An In­vi­ta­tion to the Guild of the Rose — Alpha (formerly the Guild of Ser­vants)

moridinamael14 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Lose a Fair Game

gilch14 Aug 2020 18:41 UTC
36 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Sun­day Au­gust 16, 12pm (PDT) — talks by Ozzie Gooen, habryka, Ben Pace

14 Aug 2020 18:32 UTC
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC
24 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Room and Board for Peo­ple Self-Learn­ing ML or Do­ing In­de­pen­dent ML Research

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:19 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Best Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tion in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:18 UTC
41 points
13 comments9 min readLW link

How webs of mean­ing grow and change

Hazard14 Aug 2020 13:58 UTC
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

misc raw re­sponses to a tract of Crit­i­cal Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC
21 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2020 Vir­tual Celebration

konstell14 Aug 2020 8:03 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

“The Con­spir­acy against the Hu­man Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
19 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Apol­ogy of (a form of) au­thor­i­tar­i­anism and in­equal­ity from an egalitarian

jyby13 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Many-wor­lds ver­sus dis­crete knowledge

jessicata13 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC
20 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[AN #112]: Eng­ineer­ing a Safer World

Rohin Shah13 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC
26 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Covid 8/​13: Same As It Ever Was

Zvi13 Aug 2020 15:40 UTC
53 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tomb­stone Men­tal­ity

SuperDaveWhite13 Aug 2020 13:46 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­peat Un­til Broke

gilch13 Aug 2020 7:19 UTC
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Sen­tence by Sen­tence: “Why Most Pub­lished Re­search Find­ings are False”

DirectedEvolution13 Aug 2020 6:51 UTC
22 points
5 comments47 min readLW link

This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ike13 Aug 2020 0:30 UTC
7 points
197 comments7 min readLW link

Imag­ine a World Where Govern­ments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargo12 Aug 2020 22:52 UTC
−2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

In­vest­ment idea: bas­ket of tech stocks weighted to­wards AI

ioannes12 Aug 2020 21:30 UTC
19 points
7 comments3 min readLW link