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Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawiseApr 2, 2021, 4:34 PM

255 points

12 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristianoApr 7, 2021, 8:12 PM

248 points

38 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Announcing the Alignment Research Center

paulfchristianoApr 26, 2021, 11:30 PM

178 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusrApr 2, 2021, 9:42 PM

176 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

Specializing in Problems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworthApr 10, 2021, 10:40 PM

174 points

29 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

I’m from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA

Ben Pace and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Apr 5, 2021, 10:09 PM

173 points

35 comments61 min readLW link 1 review

Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro

johnswentworthApr 6, 2021, 9:24 PM

168 points

41 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

jasoncrawfordApr 16, 2021, 4:49 PM

148 points

50 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness

RubyApr 13, 2021, 9:08 PM

142 points

37 comments23 min readLW link

Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers

lifelonglearner and Peter Hase

Apr 9, 2021, 7:19 PM

141 points

17 comments102 min readLW link

“AI and Compute” trend isn’t predictive of what is happening

alexlyzhovApr 2, 2021, 12:44 AM

133 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben PaceApr 1, 2021, 6:34 AM

132 points

44 comments4 min readLW link

Tales from Prediction Markets

ikeApr 3, 2021, 11:38 PM

128 points

15 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(misinfounderload.substack.com)

AMA: Paul Christiano, alignment researcher

paulfchristianoApr 28, 2021, 6:55 PM

117 points

197 comments1 min readLW link

A new acausal trading platform: RobinShould

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2021, 4:56 PM

116 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:00 PM

115 points

42 comments10 min readLW link

Jaan Tallinn’s 2020 Philanthropy Overview

jaanApr 27, 2021, 4:22 PM

113 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(jaan.online)

The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomightApr 15, 2021, 2:15 PM

111 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

How to Play a Support Role in Research Conversations

johnswentworthApr 23, 2021, 8:57 PM

105 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 4/22: Crisis in India

ZviApr 22, 2021, 1:40 PM

100 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Letter] Advice for High School #1

lsusrApr 20, 2021, 4:09 AM

93 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

jasoncrawfordApr 8, 2021, 10:03 PM

92 points

9 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

“Taking your environment as object” vs “Being subject to your environment”

Ben PaceApr 11, 2021, 10:47 PM

87 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Draft report on existential risk from power-seeking AI

Joe CarlsmithApr 28, 2021, 9:41 PM

85 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

People Will Listen

sapphireApr 11, 2021, 4:51 PM

85 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

Gradations of Inner Alignment Obstacles

abramdemskiApr 20, 2021, 10:18 PM

84 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

What are all these children doing in my ponds?

dominicqApr 3, 2021, 8:16 PM

84 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 4/15: Are We Seriously Doing This Again

ZviApr 15, 2021, 1:00 PM

82 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Brief Review of Current and Near-Future Methods of Genetic Engineering

GeneSmithApr 10, 2021, 7:16 PM

82 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

Center for Applied Postrationality: An Update

Pee DoomApr 1, 2021, 8:13 AM

78 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Beliefs as emotional strategies

Kaj_SotalaApr 9, 2021, 2:28 PM

75 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Iterated Trust Kickstarters

RaemonApr 20, 2021, 3:18 AM

74 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

Updating the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

johnswentworthApr 18, 2021, 9:45 PM

73 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Hell is wasted on the evil

lsusrApr 15, 2021, 8:52 AM

73 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:02 PM

72 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Wanting to Succeed on Every Metric Presented

Logan RiggsApr 12, 2021, 8:43 PM

72 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

The secret of Wikipedia’s success

Aaron BergmanApr 14, 2021, 10:18 PM

68 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

FAQ: Advice for AI Alignment Researchers

Rohin ShahApr 26, 2021, 6:59 PM

67 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(rohinshah.com)

Agents Over Cartesian World Models

Mark Xu and evhub

Apr 27, 2021, 2:06 AM

67 points

4 comments27 min readLW link

Solving the whole AGI control problem, version 0.0001

Steven ByrnesApr 8, 2021, 3:14 PM

63 points

7 comments26 min readLW link

Reflective Bayesianism

abramdemskiApr 6, 2021, 7:48 PM

62 points

27 comments13 min readLW link

A New Center? [Politics] [Wishful Thinking]

abramdemskiApr 12, 2021, 3:19 PM

62 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Against “Context-Free Integrity”

Ben PaceApr 14, 2021, 8:20 AM

62 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Thiel on secrets and indefiniteness

Rob BensingerApr 20, 2021, 9:59 PM

60 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

My take on Michael Littman on “The HCI of HAI”

Alex FlintApr 2, 2021, 7:51 PM

59 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Affordances

abramdemskiApr 2, 2021, 8:53 PM

58 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

You Can Now Embed Flashcard Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!

spencergApr 19, 2021, 1:44 PM

58 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomhApr 27, 2021, 10:27 PM

57 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Young kids catching COVID: how much to worry?

Steven ByrnesApr 20, 2021, 6:03 PM

55 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 4/29: Vaccination Slowdown

ZviApr 29, 2021, 1:50 PM

55 points

19 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)