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Draft report on AI timelines

Ajeya Cotra18 Sep 2020 23:47 UTC

214 points

56 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

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

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 22:13 UTC

177 points

36 comments10 min readLW link 3 reviews

The rationalist community’s location problem

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 18:39 UTC

169 points

142 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review: Working With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC

167 points

27 comments11 min readLW link

My computational framework for the brain

Steven Byrnes14 Sep 2020 14:19 UTC

157 points

26 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC

145 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

AGI safety from first principles: Introduction

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC

128 points

18 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC

117 points

100 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 9/10: Vitamin D

Zvi10 Sep 2020 19:00 UTC

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

habryka12 Sep 2020 1:46 UTC

107 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(fantasticanachronism.com)

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC

101 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Clarifying “What failure looks like”

Sam Clarke20 Sep 2020 20:40 UTC

97 points

14 comments17 min readLW link

Covid 9/24: Until Morale Improves

Zvi24 Sep 2020 15:40 UTC

95 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Comparative Advantage is Not About Trade

johnswentworth22 Sep 2020 18:43 UTC

89 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

Some thoughts on criticism

Buck18 Sep 2020 4:58 UTC

88 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC

87 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

How To Fermi Model

habryka and Eli Tyre

9 Sep 2020 5:13 UTC

86 points

9 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Against Victimhood

Jacob Falkovich18 Sep 2020 1:58 UTC

85 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

The Four Children of the Seder as the Simulacra Levels

Zvi7 Sep 2020 15:00 UTC

82 points

17 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What happens if you drink acetone?

dynomight14 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC

82 points

13 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(dyno-might.github.io)

On Destroying the World

Chris_Leong28 Sep 2020 7:38 UTC

82 points

86 comments5 min readLW link

Numeracy neglect—A personal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC

81 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Goals and Agency

Richard_Ngo29 Sep 2020 19:06 UTC

76 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

Capturing Ideas

abramdemski9 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC

74 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_Davis17 Sep 2020 2:23 UTC

72 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

(aima.cs.berkeley.edu)

Comparing Utilities

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 20:56 UTC

71 points

31 comments17 min readLW link

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

Ruby12 Sep 2020 3:34 UTC

70 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Social Capital Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC

69 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

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

Logan Riggs and Gurkenglas

3 Sep 2020 18:27 UTC

68 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Needed: AI infohazard policy

Vanessa Kosoy21 Sep 2020 15:26 UTC

66 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Tips for the most immersive video calls

benkuhn27 Sep 2020 20:36 UTC

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

habryka and riceissa

17 Sep 2020 22:41 UTC

60 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

The new Editor

habryka23 Sep 2020 2:25 UTC

58 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Puzzle Games

Scott Garrabrant27 Sep 2020 21:14 UTC

57 points

70 comments7 min readLW link

“Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback”—OpenAI

[deleted]7 Sep 2020 17:59 UTC

57 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Updates Thread

Adam Zerner9 Sep 2020 4:34 UTC

56 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

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

johnswentworth28 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC

56 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

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

John_Maxwell19 Sep 2020 13:48 UTC

55 points

33 comments9 min readLW link

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

mako yass6 Sep 2020 2:08 UTC

54 points

41 comments11 min readLW link

(makopool.com)

Covid 9/17: It’s Worse

Zvi17 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC

54 points

41 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are good rationality exercises?

Ben Pace27 Sep 2020 21:25 UTC

54 points

25 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Reflections on AI Timelines Forecasting Thread

Amandango1 Sep 2020 1:42 UTC

53 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Rationality for Kids?

goose00016 Sep 2020 22:58 UTC

51 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/3: Meet the New CDC

Zvi3 Sep 2020 13:40 UTC

49 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On “Not Screwing Up Ritual Candles”

Raemon27 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC

48 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2020 12:20 UTC

47 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Conflict, the Rules of Engagement, and Professionalism

habryka5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC

47 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Let the AI teach you how to flirt

DirectedEvolution17 Sep 2020 19:04 UTC

47 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Stop pressing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC

45 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

44 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)