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Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

335 points

90 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

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

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

300 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)17 Oct 2021 2:47 UTC

298 points

132 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

habryka1 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC

247 points

71 comments4 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC

229 points

261 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

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

niconiconi1 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC

223 points

87 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworth7 Oct 2021 21:58 UTC

222 points

64 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Shoulder Advisors 101

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)9 Oct 2021 5:30 UTC

198 points

124 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Ruling Out Everything Else

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)27 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC

192 points

51 comments21 min readLW link 2 reviews

Secure homes for digital people

paulfchristiano10 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC

161 points

37 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(sideways-view.com)

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

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 22:03 UTC

137 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Creating a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC

131 points

59 comments23 min readLW link 1 review

Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC

121 points

75 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

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

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)11 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC

120 points

36 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

118 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

How much should you update on a COVID test result?

mayleaf17 Oct 2021 19:49 UTC

114 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

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

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC

110 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael Harth9 Oct 2021 13:10 UTC

110 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Explaining Capitalism Harder

jefftk17 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC

110 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How much slower is remote work?

jsteinhardt8 Oct 2021 2:00 UTC

108 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

A very crude deception eval is already passed

Beth Barnes29 Oct 2021 17:57 UTC

108 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

Elizabeth22 Oct 2021 22:00 UTC

104 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

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

J Bostock29 Oct 2021 11:09 UTC

103 points

120 comments4 min readLW link

Dating profiles from first principles: heterosexual male profile design

Xodarap25 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC

97 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

Recommending Understand, a Game about Discerning the Rules

MondSemmel28 Oct 2021 14:53 UTC

96 points

53 comments4 min readLW link

True Stories of Algorithmic Improvement

johnswentworth29 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

92 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Deliberate Play

jsteinhardt24 Oct 2021 2:50 UTC

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

29 Oct 2021 7:26 UTC

87 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC

86 points

26 comments49 min readLW link 1 review

Book Review Review (end of the bounty program)

Ruby15 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC

85 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Goodhart’s Imperius

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)29 Oct 2021 20:19 UTC

84 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

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

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC

84 points

949 comments22 min readLW link

Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie

Owain_Evans, owencb and Lukas Finnveden

18 Oct 2021 18:37 UTC

82 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Petrov Day Retrospective: 2021

Ruby21 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC

80 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Successful Mentoring on Parenting, Arranged Through LessWrong

supposedlyfun and Gunnar_Zarncke

21 Oct 2021 8:27 UTC

78 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

weft14 Oct 2021 6:56 UTC

75 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life

Vika and Ramana Kumar

16 Oct 2021 20:51 UTC

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

Cheap food causes cooperative ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC

71 points

17 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)

What Selection Theorems Do We Expect/Want?

johnswentworth1 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC

67 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Perceptual dexterity: a case study

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

66 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC

66 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Coordination Motivation: The Pandemic

Raemon21 Oct 2021 21:57 UTC

64 points

1 comment3 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

Forecasting progress in language models

Matthew Barnett and Metaculus

28 Oct 2021 20:40 UTC

62 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)