Why I’m ex­cited about Debate

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 23:37 UTC
75 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on faith

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 22:20 UTC
30 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Fu­ture of Biolog­i­cal Warfare

lsusr15 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Are there ex­am­ples of ra­tio­nal­ists get­ting cen­sored for COVID-19 re­lated com­mu­ni­ca­tion?

ChristianKl15 Jan 2021 18:46 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco outing

KatjaGrace15 Jan 2021 11:40 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

De­con­di­tion­ing Aver­sion to Dislike

lsusr15 Jan 2021 7:57 UTC
14 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Alie­na­tion and meta-ethics (or: is it pos­si­ble you should max­i­mize he­lium?)

Joe Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:07 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test: prizes, re­sults, and analysis

Eric Neyman15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC
158 points
22 comments20 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

How to solve the ar­gu­ment about what the al­gorithm should do

Yoav Ravid15 Jan 2021 6:08 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Karma Reckoning

habryka15 Jan 2021 5:19 UTC
50 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Grey Goo Re­quires AI

harsimony15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC
8 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Question] What char­i­ties can I donate to for pre­vent­ing an­other pan­demic?

calsem15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­alWiki on face masks

Viliam15 Jan 2021 1:55 UTC
92 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Any ra­tio­nal­ist judges?

kjz14 Jan 2021 23:31 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Thun­der­dome and Re­view Co-Vot­ing (Meetup Sun­day 12pm PT)

Raemon14 Jan 2021 23:04 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/​14: To Launch a Thou­sand Shipments

Zvi14 Jan 2021 17:30 UTC
108 points
35 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Thoughts on Ia­son Gabriel’s Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Values, and Alignment

Alex Flint14 Jan 2021 12:58 UTC
35 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: How would you change your DNA?

Felix Karg14 Jan 2021 11:43 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion on the choice of concepts

KatjaGrace14 Jan 2021 4:00 UTC
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Some re­cent sur­vey pa­pers on (mostly near-term) AI safety, se­cu­rity, and assurance

Aryeh Englander13 Jan 2021 21:50 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What is the cur­rency of the fu­ture? 5 sug­ges­tions.

MrThink13 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC
18 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to iden­tify “pivotal chap­ters” in HtRaB?

habitmelon13 Jan 2021 20:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Gratitude

David Gross13 Jan 2021 20:37 UTC
11 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

An Ex­plo­ra­tory Toy AI Take­off Model

niplav13 Jan 2021 18:13 UTC
10 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

[AN #133]: Build­ing ma­chines that can co­op­er­ate (with hu­mans, in­sti­tu­tions, or other ma­chines)

Rohin Shah13 Jan 2021 18:10 UTC
14 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Any ex­am­ples of peo­ple an­a­lyz­ing/​cri­tiquing sci­en­tific stud­ies or pa­pers?

warrenjordan13 Jan 2021 18:00 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What’s good about haikus?

KatjaGrace13 Jan 2021 8:10 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The im­pact merge

Joe Carlsmith13 Jan 2021 7:26 UTC
48 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

“If” is in the map

Chris_Leong13 Jan 2021 3:09 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Vot­ing Phase for 2019 Review

Raemon13 Jan 2021 1:33 UTC
53 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

#2: Neu­ro­cry­op­reser­va­tion vs whole-body preservation

13 Jan 2021 1:18 UTC
59 points
26 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How much harder is it to re­vive a neuro-only cry­on­ics pa­tient?

Mati_Roy12 Jan 2021 23:24 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Karma

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Jan 2021 20:56 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Align­ment Us­ing Re­v­erse Simulation

Sven Nilsen12 Jan 2021 20:48 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The True Face of the Enemy

Space L Clottey12 Jan 2021 10:03 UTC
35 points
77 comments10 min readLW link

A vastly faster vac­cine rollout

KatjaGrace12 Jan 2021 7:40 UTC
86 points
37 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Physi­cist’s dissociation

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz12 Jan 2021 4:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view of ‘De­bate on In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence be­tween LeCun, Rus­sell, Ben­gio, Zador, and More’

TurnTrout12 Jan 2021 3:57 UTC
40 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Base rate of RCT from de­vel­op­ing coun­tries find­ing un­ex­pected effects

MichaelLowe12 Jan 2021 1:57 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What skills or habits have last­ing value through time?

Duff12 Jan 2021 1:54 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci II: The Sorceror’s Per­sonal Shopper

abstractapplic12 Jan 2021 1:38 UTC
60 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Group house norms re­ally do seem toxic to many peo­ple.

sapphire11 Jan 2021 23:42 UTC
66 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Trans­parency and AGI safety

jylin0411 Jan 2021 18:51 UTC
54 points
12 comments30 min readLW link

In Defense of Twit­ter’s De­ci­sion to Ban Trump

ragintumbleweed11 Jan 2021 18:08 UTC
4 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

The time I got re­ally into poker

KatjaGrace11 Jan 2021 13:00 UTC
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Shouldn’t it mat­ter to the vic­tim?

Joe Carlsmith11 Jan 2021 7:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Avoid Un­nec­es­sar­ily Poli­ti­cal Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC
106 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Mini thoughts on mintheism

CraigMichael11 Jan 2021 5:14 UTC
14 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Effi­ciency Wages: A Dou­ble-Edged Sword

Aaron Bergman11 Jan 2021 4:43 UTC
6 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Pre­dic­tion: The Defense Depart­ment Will Blame Trump for the Slow Re­sponse on Jan. 7, 2021

Tim Liptrot11 Jan 2021 1:02 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readLW link