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Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric RaymondMar 30, 2021, 2:04 PM

596 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Politics is way too meta

Rob BensingerMar 17, 2021, 7:04 AM

291 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Core Pathways of Aging

johnswentworthMar 28, 2021, 12:31 AM

274 points

129 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeastMar 4, 2021, 2:42 AM

270 points

38 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Strong Evidence is Common

Mark XuMar 13, 2021, 10:04 PM

258 points

50 comments1 min readLW link 4 reviews

(markxu.com)

Dark Matters

DiffractorMar 14, 2021, 11:36 PM

240 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cataMar 2, 2021, 9:36 AM

234 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute

Daniel KokotajloMar 1, 2021, 1:30 PM

228 points

86 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

johnswentworthMar 15, 2021, 9:51 PM

205 points

58 comments7 min readLW link

Takeaways from one year of lockdown

mingyuanMar 1, 2021, 3:53 AM

193 points

87 comments6 min readLW link

The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models

Ajeya CotraMar 5, 2021, 10:29 PM

186 points

75 comments38 min readLW link 1 review

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin SustrikMar 20, 2021, 10:37 AM

177 points

25 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

My research methodology

paulfchristianoMar 22, 2021, 9:20 PM

159 points

38 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality

Scott AlexanderMar 12, 2021, 8:02 PM

150 points

33 comments14 min readLW link 3 reviews

A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 4, 2021, 5:27 PM

143 points

33 comments54 min readLW link

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

Rob BensingerMar 5, 2021, 11:43 PM

142 points

13 comments26 min readLW link

Defending the non-central fallacy

Matthew BarnettMar 9, 2021, 9:42 PM

140 points

38 comments6 min readLW link

Another RadVac Testing Update

johnswentworthMar 23, 2021, 5:29 PM

140 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Demand offsetting

paulfchristianoMar 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

133 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Book review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

Steven ByrnesMar 4, 2021, 5:10 AM

122 points

18 comments19 min readLW link

Full-time AGI Safety!

Steven ByrnesMar 1, 2021, 12:42 PM

118 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Eli TyreMar 30, 2021, 5:47 AM

118 points

30 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob BensingerMar 22, 2021, 9:38 PM

115 points

46 comments50 min readLW link

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

spencergMar 24, 2021, 11:38 PM

109 points

41 comments23 min readLW link

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspaxMar 20, 2021, 4:42 PM

108 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Direct effects matter!

Aaron BergmanMar 14, 2021, 4:33 AM

104 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower

Scott AlexanderMar 26, 2021, 2:33 AM

104 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 3/12: New CDC Guidelines Available

ZviMar 12, 2021, 5:20 PM

101 points

28 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

I’m still mystified by the Born rule

So8resMar 4, 2021, 2:35 AM

100 points

44 comments10 min readLW link

Chaos Induces Abstractions

johnswentworthMar 18, 2021, 8:08 PM

100 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Kelly is (just) about logarithmic utility

abramdemskiMar 1, 2021, 8:02 PM

99 points

26 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Quotes from the WWMoR Podcast Episode with Eliezer

MondSemmelMar 13, 2021, 9:43 PM

96 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Coherence arguments imply a force for goal-directed behavior

KatjaGraceMar 26, 2021, 4:10 PM

91 points

25 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(aiimpacts.org)

Covid 3/4: Declare Victory and Leave Home

ZviMar 4, 2021, 1:20 PM

90 points

28 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Introducing Metaforecast: A Forecast Aggregator and Search Tool

NunoSempere and ozziegooen

Mar 7, 2021, 7:03 PM

83 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 3/25: Own Goals

ZviMar 25, 2021, 1:50 PM

80 points

17 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Retrospective Look at the Guild of Servants: Alpha Phase

moridinamaelMar 22, 2021, 8:34 PM

76 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

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

ZviMar 18, 2021, 1:50 PM

74 points

25 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My AGI Threat Model: Misaligned Model-Based RL Agent

Steven ByrnesMar 25, 2021, 1:45 PM

74 points

40 comments16 min readLW link

Bureaucracy is a world of magic

dominicqMar 29, 2021, 12:41 PM

73 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

VaniverMar 8, 2021, 3:22 PM

72 points

207 comments2 min readLW link

Open loops in fiction

Kaj_SotalaMar 14, 2021, 8:50 AM

70 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Texas Freeze Retrospective: meetup notes

jchanMar 3, 2021, 2:48 PM

68 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Responses and Testimonies on EA Growth

AppliedDivinityStudiesMar 10, 2021, 10:57 PM

67 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

MetaPrompt: a tool for telling yourself what to do.

abramdemskiMar 16, 2021, 8:49 PM

66 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

Open Problems with Myopia

Mark Xu and evhub

Mar 10, 2021, 6:38 PM

66 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

The average North Korean mathematician

MalmesburyMar 7, 2021, 5:28 PM

66 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Against evolution as an analogy for how humans will create AGI

Steven ByrnesMar 23, 2021, 12:29 PM

65 points

25 comments25 min readLW link

Review of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute”

adamShimi, Joe Collman and Gyrodiot

Mar 28, 2021, 2:55 PM

65 points

21 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

How does bee learning compare with machine learning?

eleniMar 4, 2021, 1:59 AM

65 points

15 comments24 min readLW link