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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

337 points

59 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC

254 points

108 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 4:55 UTC

162 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Saving Time

Scott Garrabrant18 May 2021 20:11 UTC

160 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencerg28 May 2021 14:23 UTC

153 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets

Scott Garrabrant23 May 2021 20:52 UTC

148 points

95 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion

Rob Bensinger8 May 2021 23:12 UTC

141 points

163 comments12 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphire22 May 2021 20:09 UTC

138 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?

Daniel Kokotajlo16 May 2021 22:10 UTC

121 points

86 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Less Realistic Tales of Doom

Mark Xu6 May 2021 23:01 UTC

113 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Agency in Conway’s Game of Life

Alex Flint13 May 2021 1:07 UTC

112 points

93 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste

jasoncrawford30 May 2021 18:10 UTC

100 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers

evhub17 May 2021 22:54 UTC

100 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

April 15, 2040

Nisan4 May 2021 21:18 UTC

97 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Formal Inner Alignment, Prospectus

abramdemski12 May 2021 19:57 UTC

95 points

57 comments16 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser

lsusr3 May 2021 20:15 UTC

89 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not knowing basic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC

89 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 5/6: Vaccine Patent Suspension

Zvi6 May 2021 20:20 UTC

87 points

58 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Decoupling deliberation from competition

paulfchristiano25 May 2021 18:50 UTC

84 points

17 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Why I Work on Ads

jefftk3 May 2021 21:00 UTC

83 points

93 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins

lsusr5 May 2021 5:42 UTC

78 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusr26 May 2021 6:24 UTC

76 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

jasoncrawford20 May 2021 21:10 UTC

73 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC

72 points

40 comments18 min readLW link

Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown

Zvi27 May 2021 12:30 UTC

72 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Parsing Chris Mingard on Neural Networks

Alex Flint6 May 2021 22:16 UTC

69 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 5/13: Moving On

Zvi13 May 2021 14:30 UTC

69 points

13 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

(Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation

DirectedEvolution28 May 2021 5:51 UTC

68 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 10:23 UTC

66 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Why don’t long running conversations happen on LessWrong?

Adam Zerner30 May 2021 22:36 UTC

64 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

SGD’s Bias

johnswentworth18 May 2021 23:19 UTC

61 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Let’s Go Back To Normal

Connor_Flexman6 May 2021 3:10 UTC

60 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

AI Safety Research Project Ideas

Owain_Evans21 May 2021 13:39 UTC

58 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob Bensinger20 May 2021 18:33 UTC

57 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Mundane solutions to exotic problems

paulfchristiano4 May 2021 18:20 UTC

56 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum

reviewer27 May 2021 18:22 UTC

55 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky’s Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems

Zack_M_Davis3 May 2021 4:31 UTC

54 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet

lsusr7 May 2021 5:29 UTC

54 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Technocratic Plimsoll Line

Martin Sustrik15 May 2021 8:34 UTC

53 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers

paulfchristiano28 May 2021 17:30 UTC

53 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Understanding the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Alex Flint14 May 2021 0:25 UTC

50 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Concerning not getting lost

Alex Flint14 May 2021 19:38 UTC

50 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

The Homunculus Problem

abramdemski27 May 2021 20:25 UTC

50 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

There is no No Evidence

MalcolmOcean19 May 2021 2:44 UTC

49 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 5/20: The Great Unmasking

Zvi21 May 2021 0:30 UTC

49 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind

lsusr21 May 2021 7:35 UTC

49 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Challenge: know everything that the best go bot knows about go

DanielFilan11 May 2021 5:10 UTC

48 points

113 comments2 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

[link] If something seems unusually hard for you, see if you’re missing a minor insight

Kaj_Sotala5 May 2021 10:23 UTC

48 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(drmaciver.substack.com)

Life and expanding steerable consequences

Alex Flint7 May 2021 18:33 UTC

46 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusr19 May 2021 3:17 UTC

46 points

2 comments3 min readLW link