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

eukaryoteMay 3, 2021, 3:47 AM

340 points

60 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDogMay 1, 2021, 5:16 AM

254 points

108 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

Saving Time

Scott GarrabrantMay 18, 2021, 8:11 PM

162 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Small and Vulnerable

sapphireMay 3, 2021, 4:55 AM

162 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

154 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets

Scott GarrabrantMay 23, 2021, 8:52 PM

149 points

95 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion

Rob BensingerMay 8, 2021, 11:12 PM

141 points

163 comments12 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphireMay 22, 2021, 8:09 PM

139 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

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

Daniel KokotajloMay 16, 2021, 10:10 PM

122 points

86 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Less Realistic Tales of Doom

Mark XuMay 6, 2021, 11:01 PM

113 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Agency in Conway’s Game of Life

Alex FlintMay 13, 2021, 1:07 AM

112 points

93 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste

jasoncrawfordMay 30, 2021, 6:10 PM

101 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers

evhubMay 17, 2021, 10:54 PM

100 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

April 15, 2040

NisanMay 4, 2021, 9:18 PM

97 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Formal Inner Alignment, Prospectus

abramdemskiMay 12, 2021, 7:57 PM

95 points

57 comments16 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser

lsusrMay 3, 2021, 8:15 PM

90 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not knowing basic things

Adam ZernerMay 24, 2021, 1:49 AM

90 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 5/6: Vaccine Patent Suspension

ZviMay 6, 2021, 8:20 PM

87 points

58 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Decoupling deliberation from competition

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2021, 6:50 PM

84 points

17 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Why I Work on Ads

jefftkMay 3, 2021, 9:00 PM

83 points

93 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins

lsusrMay 5, 2021, 5:42 AM

79 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

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

lsusrMay 26, 2021, 6:24 AM

76 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

jasoncrawfordMay 20, 2021, 9:10 PM

73 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil KurkjianMay 9, 2021, 5:29 PM

72 points

40 comments18 min readLW link

Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown

ZviMay 27, 2021, 12:30 PM

72 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2021, 5:51 AM

70 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 5/13: Moving On

ZviMay 13, 2021, 2:30 PM

69 points

13 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Parsing Chris Mingard on Neural Networks

Alex FlintMay 6, 2021, 10:16 PM

69 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books

Jan Christian RefsgaardMay 21, 2021, 10:23 AM

68 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Why don’t long running conversations happen on LessWrong?

Adam ZernerMay 30, 2021, 10:36 PM

64 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

SGD’s Bias

johnswentworthMay 18, 2021, 11:19 PM

63 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Let’s Go Back To Normal

Connor_FlexmanMay 6, 2021, 3:10 AM

60 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

AI Safety Research Project Ideas

Owain_EvansMay 21, 2021, 1:39 PM

58 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob BensingerMay 20, 2021, 6:33 PM

57 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Mundane solutions to exotic problems

paulfchristianoMay 4, 2021, 6:20 PM

56 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet

lsusrMay 7, 2021, 5:29 AM

55 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum

reviewerMay 27, 2021, 6:22 PM

55 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_DavisMay 3, 2021, 4:31 AM

54 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

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

paulfchristianoMay 28, 2021, 5:30 PM

53 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Technocratic Plimsoll Line

Martin SustrikMay 15, 2021, 8:34 AM

53 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Concerning not getting lost

Alex FlintMay 14, 2021, 7:38 PM

50 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind

lsusrMay 21, 2021, 7:35 AM

50 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

The Homunculus Problem

abramdemskiMay 27, 2021, 8:25 PM

50 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Understanding the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Alex FlintMay 14, 2021, 12:25 AM

50 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

There is no No Evidence

MalcolmOceanMay 19, 2021, 2:44 AM

49 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 5/20: The Great Unmasking

ZviMay 21, 2021, 12:30 AM

49 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2021, 10:23 AM

48 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(drmaciver.substack.com)

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

DanielFilanMay 11, 2021, 5:10 AM

48 points

113 comments2 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusrMay 19, 2021, 3:17 AM

47 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Life and expanding steerable consequences

Alex FlintMay 7, 2021, 6:33 PM

46 points

3 comments4 min readLW link