Draft re­port on AI timelines

Ajeya CotraSep 18, 2020, 11:47 PM
215 points
56 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Most Pri­soner’s Dilem­mas are Stag Hunts; Most Stag Hunts are Schel­ling Problems

abramdemskiSep 14, 2020, 10:13 PM
176 points
36 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews

The ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity’s lo­ca­tion problem

mingyuanSep 23, 2020, 6:39 PM
169 points
142 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Work­ing With Contracts

johnswentworthSep 14, 2020, 11:22 PM
167 points
27 comments11 min readLW link

My com­pu­ta­tional frame­work for the brain

Steven ByrnesSep 14, 2020, 2:19 PM
157 points
26 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomightSep 12, 2020, 6:20 AM
145 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Introduction

Richard_NgoSep 28, 2020, 7:53 PM
128 points
18 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben PaceSep 26, 2020, 8:01 AM
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 9/​10: Vi­tamin D

ZviSep 10, 2020, 7:00 PM
113 points
50 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What’s Wrong with So­cial Science and How to Fix It: Reflec­tions After Read­ing 2578 Papers

habrykaSep 12, 2020, 1:46 AM
107 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(fantasticanachronism.com)

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 28, 2020, 6:48 AM
101 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing “What failure looks like”

Sam ClarkeSep 20, 2020, 8:40 PM
97 points
14 comments17 min readLW link

Covid 9/​24: Un­til Mo­rale Improves

ZviSep 24, 2020, 3:40 PM
95 points
16 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage is Not About Trade

johnswentworthSep 22, 2020, 6:43 PM
89 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Some thoughts on criticism

BuckSep 18, 2020, 4:58 AM
88 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Superintelligence

Richard_NgoSep 28, 2020, 7:53 PM
87 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

How To Fermi Model

Sep 9, 2020, 5:13 AM
86 points
9 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Against Victimhood

Jacob FalkovichSep 18, 2020, 1:58 AM
85 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

What hap­pens if you drink ace­tone?

dynomightSep 14, 2020, 2:22 PM
82 points
13 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(dyno-might.github.io)

On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_LeongSep 28, 2020, 7:38 AM
82 points
86 comments5 min readLW link

The Four Chil­dren of the Seder as the Si­mu­lacra Levels

ZviSep 7, 2020, 3:00 PM
82 points
17 comments16 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Numer­acy ne­glect—A per­sonal postmortem

vlad.proexSep 27, 2020, 3:12 PM
81 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Goals and Agency

Richard_NgoSep 29, 2020, 7:06 PM
77 points
15 comments15 min readLW link

Cap­tur­ing Ideas

abramdemskiSep 9, 2020, 9:20 PM
74 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: A Modern Ap­proach (4th edi­tion) on the Align­ment Problem

Zack_M_DavisSep 17, 2020, 2:23 AM
72 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aima.cs.berkeley.edu)

Com­par­ing Utilities

abramdemskiSep 14, 2020, 8:56 PM
72 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

The Wiki is Dead, Long Live the Wiki! [help wanted]

RubySep 12, 2020, 3:34 AM
70 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemskiSep 10, 2020, 6:44 PM
69 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Needed: AI in­fo­haz­ard policy

Vanessa KosoySep 21, 2020, 3:26 PM
68 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing GPT-N to Solve In­ter­pretabil­ity of Neu­ral Net­works: A Re­search Agenda

Sep 3, 2020, 6:27 PM
68 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Tips for the most im­mer­sive video calls

benkuhnSep 27, 2020, 8:36 PM
65 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Gems from the Wiki: Do The Math, Then Burn The Math and Go With Your Gut

Sep 17, 2020, 10:41 PM
60 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The new Editor

habrykaSep 23, 2020, 2:25 AM
58 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Puz­zle Games

Scott GarrabrantSep 27, 2020, 9:14 PM
57 points
70 comments7 min readLW link

“Learn­ing to Sum­ma­rize with Hu­man Feed­back”—OpenAI

[deleted]Sep 7, 2020, 5:59 PM
57 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dates Thread

Adam ZernerSep 9, 2020, 4:34 AM
56 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

johnswentworthSep 28, 2020, 5:20 PM
56 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Against boots theory

philhSep 14, 2020, 1:20 PM
55 points
15 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Why GPT wants to mesa-op­ti­mize & how we might change this

John_MaxwellSep 19, 2020, 1:48 PM
55 points
33 comments9 min readLW link

De­sign thoughts for build­ing a bet­ter kind of so­cial space with many webs of trust

mako yassSep 6, 2020, 2:08 AM
54 points
41 comments11 min readLW link
(makopool.com)

Covid 9/​17: It’s Worse

ZviSep 17, 2020, 3:10 PM
54 points
41 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are good ra­tio­nal­ity ex­er­cises?

Ben PaceSep 27, 2020, 9:25 PM
54 points
25 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Reflec­tions on AI Timelines Fore­cast­ing Thread

AmandangoSep 1, 2020, 1:42 AM
53 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity for Kids?

goose000Sep 16, 2020, 10:58 PM
51 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/​3: Meet the New CDC

ZviSep 3, 2020, 1:40 PM
49 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

RaemonSep 27, 2020, 9:55 PM
48 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Con­flict, the Rules of En­gage­ment, and Professionalism

habrykaSep 5, 2020, 5:04 AM
47 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Let the AI teach you how to flirt

DirectedEvolutionSep 17, 2020, 7:04 PM
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2020, 12:20 PM
47 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Stop press­ing the Try Harder button

Neel NandaSep 5, 2020, 9:10 AM
45 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)