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Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftkJan 3, 2021, 9:20 PM

425 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTroutJan 23, 2021, 7:00 PM

360 points

76 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

DarmaniJan 25, 2021, 2:04 AM

310 points

38 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Science in a High-Dimensional World

johnswentworthJan 8, 2021, 5:52 PM

296 points

53 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Appeals to the Complexity/Mysteriousness/Efficiency of the Brain

Daniel KokotajloJan 18, 2021, 12:08 PM

196 points

86 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

jasoncrawfordJan 23, 2021, 10:05 PM

193 points

79 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategy

johnswentworthJan 26, 2021, 7:40 PM

183 points

37 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomhJan 21, 2021, 11:20 PM

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis

Eric NeymanJan 15, 2021, 6:24 AM

164 points

22 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Covid 1/7: The Fire of a Thousand Suns

ZviJan 7, 2021, 5:00 PM

157 points

56 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cryonics signup guide #1: Overview

mingyuanJan 6, 2021, 12:25 AM

150 points

34 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

ZviJan 21, 2021, 4:40 PM

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Matt Levine on “Fraud is no fun without friends.”

RaemonJan 19, 2021, 6:23 PM

120 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Catching the Spark

LoganStrohlJan 30, 2021, 11:23 PM

117 points

21 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Lessons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkelJan 6, 2021, 10:40 PM

114 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

Fourth Wave Covid Toy Modeling

ZviJan 6, 2021, 6:30 PM

108 points

22 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 1/14: To Launch a Thousand Shipments

ZviJan 14, 2021, 5:30 PM

108 points

35 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Imitative Generalisation (AKA ‘Learning the Prior’)

Beth BarnesJan 10, 2021, 12:30 AM

107 points

15 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

RaemonJan 11, 2021, 5:41 AM

106 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 1/28: Muddling Through

ZviJan 28, 2021, 4:50 PM

97 points

18 comments35 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

DALL-E by OpenAI

Daniel KokotajloJan 5, 2021, 8:05 PM

97 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Exercise: Taboo “Should”

johnswentworthJan 22, 2021, 9:02 PM

97 points

28 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

#3: Choosing a cryonics provider

mingyuanJan 20, 2021, 1:47 AM

95 points

22 comments18 min readLW link

RationalWiki on face masks

ViliamJan 15, 2021, 1:55 AM

92 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Tentative covid surface risk estimates

KatjaGraceJan 25, 2021, 9:40 AM

92 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A few thought on the inner ring

KatjaGraceJan 21, 2021, 3:40 AM

90 points

23 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

What is going on in the world?

KatjaGraceJan 17, 2021, 11:30 AM

90 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception

Zack_M_DavisJan 8, 2021, 8:54 PM

89 points

29 comments33 min readLW link 1 review

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe CarlsmithJan 18, 2021, 8:27 AM

86 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

A vastly faster vaccine rollout

KatjaGraceJan 12, 2021, 7:40 AM

86 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Taking money seriously

dominicqJan 28, 2021, 12:53 PM

85 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Review of Soft Takeoff Can Still Lead to DSA

Daniel KokotajloJan 10, 2021, 6:10 PM

85 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on being mortal

Joe CarlsmithJan 1, 2021, 7:17 PM

84 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Literature Review on Goal-Directedness

adamShimi, Michele Campolo and Joe Collman

Jan 18, 2021, 11:15 AM

80 points

21 comments31 min readLW link

Reflections on Larks’ 2020 AI alignment literature review

Alex FlintJan 1, 2021, 10:53 PM

79 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 13

lsusrJan 1, 2021, 8:01 AM

79 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

How to Write Like Kaj Sotala

Matt GoldenbergJan 7, 2021, 7:33 PM

79 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Eight claims about multi-agent AGI safety

Richard_NgoJan 7, 2021, 1:34 PM

79 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

For Better Commenting, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolutionJan 20, 2021, 1:11 AM

77 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Why I’m excited about Debate

Richard_NgoJan 15, 2021, 11:37 PM

75 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Covid: The Question of Immunity From Infection

ZviJan 20, 2021, 3:50 PM

68 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Group house norms really do seem toxic to many people.

sapphireJan 11, 2021, 11:42 PM

66 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

Retrospective on Teaching Rationality Workshops

Neel NandaJan 3, 2021, 5:15 PM

66 points

2 comments31 min readLW link

The Problem of the Criterion

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 21, 2021, 3:05 PM

64 points

63 comments10 min readLW link

Unpopularity of efficiency

KatjaGraceJan 28, 2021, 8:30 AM

64 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Overall numbers won’t show the English strain coming

Eric NeymanJan 1, 2021, 11:00 PM

63 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Everything Okay

ZviJan 23, 2021, 2:50 PM

62 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Productivity Systems Don’t Stick

Matt GoldenbergJan 16, 2021, 5:45 PM

62 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

On clinging

Joe CarlsmithJan 24, 2021, 11:25 PM

61 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

The Pointers Problem: Clarifications/Variations

abramdemskiJan 5, 2021, 5:29 PM

61 points

16 comments18 min readLW link