The Ax­iolog­i­cal Treadmill

eapache15 Sep 2020 18:36 UTC
6 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Low hang­ing fruits (LWCW 2020)

Arthur Milchior15 Sep 2020 18:15 UTC
17 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

God in the Loop: How a Causal Loop Could Shape Existence

ChrisM15 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
1 point
4 comments17 min readLW link

AI Safety Dis­cus­sion Day

Linda Linsefors15 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gems from the Wiki: Para­noid Debating

15 Sep 2020 3:51 UTC
30 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Book Re­view: Work­ing With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC
167 points
27 comments11 min readLW link

A case study in simu­lacra lev­els and the Four Chil­dren of the Seder

DirectedEvolution14 Sep 2020 22:31 UTC
32 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

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 link3 reviews

Com­par­ing Utilities

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 20:56 UTC
71 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] If Star­ship works, how much would it cost to cre­ate a sys­tem of rotable space mir­rors that re­duces tem­per­a­tures on earth by 1° C?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2020 18:46 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Out­come Ter­minol­ogy?

Dach14 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Nice­ness: Look­ing for Pos­i­tive Externalities

Neel Nanda14 Sep 2020 18:03 UTC
31 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Link] Five Years and One Week of Less Wrong

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 16:49 UTC
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Free Money at Pre­dic­tIt: 2020 Gen­eral Election

Zvi14 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
18 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What hap­pens if you drink ace­tone?

dynomight14 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC
82 points
13 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(dyno-might.github.io)

My com­pu­ta­tional frame­work for the brain

Steven Byrnes14 Sep 2020 14:19 UTC
157 points
26 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC
44 points
15 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

SlateS­tarCodex on­line meetup: In­te­grat­ing evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy and behaviorism

Joshua_Fox14 Sep 2020 10:33 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there non-AI pro­jects fo­cused on defeat­ing Moloch globally?

eapache14 Sep 2020 2:13 UTC
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory is multifaceted

Michele Campolo13 Sep 2020 22:30 UTC
9 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Have you tried hiIQpro.com’s cog­ni­tive train­ing or coach­ing?

Randomized, Controlled13 Sep 2020 22:05 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Chat on World Government

eapache13 Sep 2020 18:33 UTC
4 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Egan’s The­o­rem?

johnswentworth13 Sep 2020 17:47 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does turn­ing on the shower help re­duce wild­fire smoke in the air?

cauliflower13 Sep 2020 2:39 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link

Gems from the Wiki: Acausal Trade

13 Sep 2020 0:23 UTC
42 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Progress: Fluke or trend?

jasoncrawford13 Sep 2020 0:21 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on good judge­ment and how to de­velop it (80,000 Hours)

habryka12 Sep 2020 17:51 UTC
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] The uni­ver­sal­ity of com­pu­ta­tion and mind de­sign space

alanf12 Sep 2020 14:58 UTC
1 point
7 comments1 min readLW link

How Much Com­pu­ta­tional Power Does It Take to Match the Hu­man Brain?

habryka12 Sep 2020 6:38 UTC
44 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC
145 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Ra­tion­al­ity and playfulness

DirectedEvolution12 Sep 2020 5:14 UTC
42 points
1 comment11 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

on “learn­ing to sum­ma­rize”

nostalgebraist12 Sep 2020 3:20 UTC
25 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.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)

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Map and Territory

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Sep 2020 0:45 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

‘Ugh fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task (Rob Wiblin)

habryka11 Sep 2020 20:31 UTC
26 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Short Case for Verificationism

ike11 Sep 2020 18:48 UTC
6 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Should some var­i­ant of longter­mism iden­tify as a re­li­gion?

mako yass11 Sep 2020 5:02 UTC
23 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Choose sim­plic­ity and struc­ture.

DirectedEvolution10 Sep 2020 21:45 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

“In the Dust of This Planet,” by Eu­gene Thacker

Callmesalticidae10 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Sun­day Septem­ber 13, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by John Went­worth, Liron and more

habryka10 Sep 2020 19:49 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/​10: Vi­tamin D

Zvi10 Sep 2020 19:00 UTC
113 points
50 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC
69 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Do mesa-op­ti­mizer risk ar­gu­ments rely on the train-test paradigm?

Ben Cottier10 Sep 2020 15:36 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

On Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

trentbrick10 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC
21 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] In 1 year and 5 years what do you see as “the nor­mal” world.

jmh10 Sep 2020 12:47 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam by efim

efim10 Sep 2020 10:18 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Safety via se­lec­tion for obedience

Richard_Ngo10 Sep 2020 10:04 UTC
31 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to view “read” LessWrong posts?

BeanSprugget10 Sep 2020 3:58 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­sist epistemic (and emo­tional) learned hel­pless­ness!

DirectedEvolution10 Sep 2020 2:58 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link