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

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 22:03 UTC
137 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals cur­ricu­lum and application

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
69 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

[AN #167]: Con­crete ML safety prob­lems and their rele­vance to x-risk

Rohin Shah20 Oct 2021 17:10 UTC
21 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Bor­ing ma­chine learn­ing is where it’s at

George3d620 Oct 2021 11:23 UTC
28 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

Axioms20 Oct 2021 8:56 UTC
−4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ravec’s Para­dox Comes From The Availa­bil­ity Heuristic

james.lucassen20 Oct 2021 6:23 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

Book re­view: Lost Con­nec­tions by Jo­hann Hari

maia20 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC
38 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

[Up­date] Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel20 Oct 2021 1:17 UTC
11 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: ‘Pre­dict­ing the Next Pres­i­dent: The Keys to the White House’

TranscendetalIdealist20 Oct 2021 0:42 UTC
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

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

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
292 points
132 comments14 min readLW link2 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

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 link1 review

Pay­ing peo­ple to vote for good poli­cies.

Matteodimaio15 Oct 2021 1:00 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link