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Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 24, 2021, 8:57 PM

336 points

91 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 17, 2021, 2:47 AM

302 points

132 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

ZviOct 28, 2021, 2:40 PM

301 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!

habrykaOct 1, 2021, 1:20 AM

247 points

71 comments4 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research

Ilverin the Stupid and OffensiveOct 13, 2021, 4:44 AM

229 points

261 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years

niconiconiOct 1, 2021, 9:44 PM

224 points

87 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworthOct 7, 2021, 9:58 PM

222 points

64 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Shoulder Advisors 101

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 9, 2021, 5:30 AM

203 points

124 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Ruling Out Everything Else

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 27, 2021, 9:50 PM

196 points

51 comments21 min readLW link 2 reviews

Secure homes for digital people

paulfchristianoOct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM

161 points

37 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(sideways-view.com)

[$10k bounty] Read and compile Robin Hanson’s best posts

Richard_NgoOct 20, 2021, 10:03 PM

137 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Creating a truly formidable Art

ValentineOct 14, 2021, 4:39 AM

132 points

59 comments23 min readLW link 1 review

Cup-Stacking Skills (or, Reflexive Involuntary Mental Motions)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM

132 points

36 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings

Connor_FlexmanOct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM

121 points

75 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElfOct 25, 2021, 10:55 PM

119 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

How much should you update on a COVID test result?

mayleafOct 17, 2021, 7:49 PM

114 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Explaining Capitalism Harder

jefftkOct 17, 2021, 2:40 AM

111 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael HarthOct 9, 2021, 1:10 PM

110 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment

adamShimiOct 11, 2021, 8:20 AM

110 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

How much slower is remote work?

jsteinhardtOct 8, 2021, 2:00 AM

108 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

A very crude deception eval is already passed

Beth BarnesOct 29, 2021, 5:57 PM

108 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

ElizabethOct 22, 2021, 10:00 PM

104 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

I Really Don’t Understand Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Position on Consciousness

J BostockOct 29, 2021, 11:09 AM

104 points

120 comments4 min readLW link

Dating profiles from first principles: heterosexual male profile design

XodarapOct 25, 2021, 3:23 AM

99 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

Recommending Understand, a Game about Discerning the Rules

MondSemmelOct 28, 2021, 2:53 PM

98 points

55 comments4 min readLW link

My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR (inspired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of experiences at Leverage)

jessicataOct 16, 2021, 9:28 PM

95 points

950 comments22 min readLW link

True Stories of Algorithmic Improvement

johnswentworthOct 29, 2021, 8:57 PM

92 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Deliberate Play

jsteinhardtOct 24, 2021, 2:50 AM

91 points

4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Request for proposals for projects in AI alignment that work with deep learning systems

abergal and Nick_Beckstead

Oct 29, 2021, 7:26 AM

87 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav RavidOct 12, 2021, 11:27 AM

86 points

26 comments49 min readLW link 1 review

Goodhart’s Imperius

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 29, 2021, 8:19 PM

86 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review Review (end of the bounty program)

RubyOct 15, 2021, 3:23 AM

85 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie

Owain_Evans, owencb and Lukas Finnveden

Oct 18, 2021, 6:37 PM

82 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Petrov Day Retrospective: 2021

RubyOct 21, 2021, 9:50 PM

80 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Successful Mentoring on Parenting, Arranged Through LessWrong

supposedlyfun and Gunnar_Zarncke

Oct 21, 2021, 8:27 AM

78 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

weftOct 14, 2021, 6:56 AM

76 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life

Vika and Ramana Kumar

Oct 16, 2021, 8:51 PM

75 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Listen to top LessWrong posts with The Nonlinear Library

KatWoods19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC

74 points

27 comments8 min readLW link

What Selection Theorems Do We Expect/Want?

johnswentworth1 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC

71 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes cooperative ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC

71 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Contestants

lsusr3 Oct 2021 5:09 UTC

70 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/21: Rogan vs. Gupta

Zvi21 Oct 2021 15:10 UTC

70 points

62 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Safety Fundamentals curriculum and application

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC

69 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Dominic Cummings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Silicon Valley

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC

68 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.substack.com)

“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC

66 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Perceptual dexterity: a case study

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)7 Oct 2021 22:25 UTC

66 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Book Analysis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandias14 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC

64 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Postmodern Warfare

lsusr25 Oct 2021 9:02 UTC

64 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Coordination Motivation: The Pandemic

Raemon21 Oct 2021 21:57 UTC

64 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Forecasting progress in language models

Matthew Barnett and Metaculus

28 Oct 2021 20:40 UTC

62 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)