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Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

593 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

288 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

267 points

38 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Core Pathways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC

265 points

126 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

Strong Evidence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC

251 points

50 comments1 min readLW link 4 reviews

(markxu.com)

Dark Matters

Diffractor14 Mar 2021 23:36 UTC

240 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

233 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC

224 points

86 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC

200 points

58 comments7 min readLW link

Takeaways from one year of lockdown

mingyuan1 Mar 2021 3:53 UTC

193 points

87 comments6 min readLW link

The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models

Ajeya Cotra5 Mar 2021 22:29 UTC

186 points

75 comments38 min readLW link 1 review

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin Sustrik20 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC

177 points

25 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

My research methodology

paulfchristiano22 Mar 2021 21:20 UTC

159 points

38 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC

145 points

33 comments14 min readLW link 3 reviews

MIRI comments on Cotra’s “Case for Aligning Narrowly Superhuman Models”

Rob Bensinger5 Mar 2021 23:43 UTC

142 points

13 comments26 min readLW link

A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2021 17:27 UTC

142 points

33 comments54 min readLW link

Another RadVac Testing Update

johnswentworth23 Mar 2021 17:29 UTC

138 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Defending the non-central fallacy

Matthew Barnett9 Mar 2021 21:42 UTC

137 points

38 comments6 min readLW link

Demand offsetting

paulfchristiano21 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC

133 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Full-time AGI Safety!

Steven Byrnes1 Mar 2021 12:42 UTC

118 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do we prepare for final crunch time?

Eli Tyre30 Mar 2021 5:47 UTC

118 points

30 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Book review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

Steven Byrnes4 Mar 2021 5:10 UTC

116 points

18 comments19 min readLW link

Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

115 points

46 comments50 min readLW link

How You Can Gain Self Control Without “Self-Control”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC

109 points

41 comments23 min readLW link

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC

108 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Direct effects matter!

Aaron Bergman14 Mar 2021 4:33 UTC

104 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower

Scott Alexander26 Mar 2021 2:33 UTC

103 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 3/12: New CDC Guidelines Available

Zvi12 Mar 2021 17:20 UTC

101 points

28 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Chaos Induces Abstractions

johnswentworth18 Mar 2021 20:08 UTC

100 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

I’m still mystified by the Born rule

So8res4 Mar 2021 2:35 UTC

100 points

44 comments10 min readLW link

Kelly is (just) about logarithmic utility

abramdemski1 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC

99 points

26 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Quotes from the WWMoR Podcast Episode with Eliezer

MondSemmel13 Mar 2021 21:43 UTC

95 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Coherence arguments imply a force for goal-directed behavior

KatjaGrace26 Mar 2021 16:10 UTC

91 points

25 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(aiimpacts.org)

Covid 3/4: Declare Victory and Leave Home

Zvi4 Mar 2021 13:20 UTC

90 points

28 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Introducing Metaforecast: A Forecast Aggregator and Search Tool

NunoSempere and ozziegooen

7 Mar 2021 19:03 UTC

83 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 3/25: Own Goals

Zvi25 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC

80 points

17 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Retrospective Look at the Guild of Servants: Alpha Phase

moridinamael22 Mar 2021 20:34 UTC

76 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

Covid 3/18: An Expected Quantity of Blood Clots

Zvi18 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC

74 points

25 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My AGI Threat Model: Misaligned Model-Based RL Agent

Steven Byrnes25 Mar 2021 13:45 UTC

74 points

40 comments16 min readLW link

Bureaucracy is a world of magic

dominicq29 Mar 2021 12:41 UTC

73 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

72 points

207 comments2 min readLW link

Open loops in fiction

Kaj_Sotala14 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC

70 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Texas Freeze Retrospective: meetup notes

jchan3 Mar 2021 14:48 UTC

68 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Responses and Testimonies on EA Growth

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC

67 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

MetaPrompt: a tool for telling yourself what to do.

abramdemski16 Mar 2021 20:49 UTC

66 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

Open Problems with Myopia

Mark Xu and evhub

10 Mar 2021 18:38 UTC

66 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

The average North Korean mathematician

Malmesbury7 Mar 2021 17:28 UTC

66 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Against evolution as an analogy for how humans will create AGI

Steven Byrnes23 Mar 2021 12:29 UTC

65 points

25 comments25 min readLW link

Review of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute”

adamShimi, Joe Collman and Gyrodiot

28 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC

65 points

21 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Logan Strohl on exercise norms

Rob Bensinger30 Mar 2021 4:28 UTC

64 points

30 comments3 min readLW link