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Some of the best rationality essays

Jack R19 Oct 2021 22:57 UTC

29 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal Format/Frequency of Information Consumption

Avi19 Oct 2021 15:39 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 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

[Linkpost] Hormone-disrupting plastics and reproductive health

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel19 Oct 2021 11:01 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In the shadow of the Great War

jasoncrawford18 Oct 2021 23:08 UTC

32 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Prioritization Research for Advancing Wisdom and Intelligence

ozziegooen18 Oct 2021 22:28 UTC

49 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Beyond the human training distribution: would the AI CEO create almost-illegal teddies?

Stuart_Armstrong18 Oct 2021 21:10 UTC

36 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

On The Risks of Emergent Behavior in Foundation Models

jsteinhardt18 Oct 2021 20:00 UTC

30 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

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

[Question] Rationalism for New EAs

Zach Stein-Perlman18 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup

Dan H18 Oct 2021 15:19 UTC

59 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Causal vs Predictive Models, and the Causal Taboo

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:05 UTC

22 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Predictive Categories Make Bad Causal Variables

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:02 UTC

27 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Epistemic Strategies of Selection Theorems

adamShimi18 Oct 2021 8:57 UTC

33 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

Humans are the universal economic bottleneck

Dach18 Oct 2021 8:32 UTC

24 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 UTC

20 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Quick Look: Altitude and Child Development

Elizabeth18 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC

58 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think

Mark Xu18 Oct 2021 0:55 UTC

56 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher

Jan17 Oct 2021 20:28 UTC

9 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

How much should you update on a COVID test result?

mayleaf17 Oct 2021 19:49 UTC

114 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Feature Suggestion: one way anonymity

Yair Halberstadt17 Oct 2021 17:54 UTC

14 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

[Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang, Part 2

lsusr17 Oct 2021 7:48 UTC

21 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

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

298 points

132 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Explaining Capitalism Harder

jefftk17 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC

110 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“Redundant” AI Alignment

Mckay Jensen16 Oct 2021 21:32 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(quevivasbien.github.io)

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

Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life

Vika and Ramana Kumar

16 Oct 2021 20:51 UTC

75 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

What if we should use more energy, not less?

Snorkelfarsan16 Oct 2021 19:51 UTC

7 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

The AGI needs to be honest

rokosbasilisk16 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC

2 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is moral duty/blame irrational because a person does only what they must?

benn@4efix.com16 Oct 2021 17:00 UTC

12 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Memetic hazards of AGI architecture posts

Ozyrus16 Oct 2021 16:10 UTC

9 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Write Surprisingly About Reality

lsusr16 Oct 2021 7:30 UTC

40 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid Informal Study Results

Elizabeth16 Oct 2021 7:10 UTC

43 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

NLP Position Paper: When Combatting Hype, Proceed with Caution

Sam Bowman15 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

46 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you think you are a Boltzmann brain? If not, why not?

Jack R15 Oct 2021 6:02 UTC

2 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Intelligence, epistemics, and sanity, in three short parts

ozziegooen15 Oct 2021 4:01 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review Review (end of the bounty program)

Ruby15 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC

85 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Interpreting Diagnostic Tests

Tornus15 Oct 2021 2:58 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander

lincolnquirk15 Oct 2021 1:11 UTC

57 points

8 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Paying people to vote for good policies.

Matteodimaio15 Oct 2021 1:00 UTC

1 point

2 comments3 min readLW link

Framing Practicum: Semistable Equilibrium

DirectedEvolution14 Oct 2021 23:31 UTC

26 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to respond to a series of defiantly persistent evidence-free claims?

ThurstonBT14 Oct 2021 23:01 UTC

−18 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Classical symbol grounding and causal graphs

Stuart_Armstrong14 Oct 2021 18:04 UTC

22 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Consciousness, Free Will and Scientific Objectivity in Perspective-Based Reasoning

dadadarren14 Oct 2021 18:00 UTC

7 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

Book Analysis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandias14 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC

64 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Is anchoring a reliable cognitive bias?

justindomke14 Oct 2021 15:15 UTC

22 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(justindomke.wordpress.com)

Commentary on “AGI Safety From First Principles by Richard Ngo, September 2020”

Robert Kralisch14 Oct 2021 15:11 UTC

3 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 10/14: Less Long Cvoid

Zvi14 Oct 2021 14:20 UTC

57 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is nuking women and children cheaper than firebombing them?

lsusr14 Oct 2021 8:25 UTC

28 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Compute Governance and Conclusions—Transformative AI and Compute [3/4]

lennart14 Oct 2021 8:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link