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Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

350 points

33 comments8 min readLW link 3 reviews

Intentionally Making Close Friends

Neel Nanda27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC

289 points

35 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

(www.neelnanda.io)

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC

234 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(jasoncrawford.org)

Two non-obvious lessons from microcovid.org

catherio24 Jun 2021 2:35 UTC

196 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Power dynamics as a blind spot or blurry spot in our collective world-modeling, especially around AI

Andrew_Critch1 Jun 2021 18:45 UTC

189 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism

Eric Neyman5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC

186 points

18 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

The Point of Trade

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2021 17:56 UTC

175 points

77 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

The Apprentice Experiment

johnswentworth10 Jun 2021 3:29 UTC

150 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

dynomight4 Jun 2021 18:14 UTC

149 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Selection Has A Quality Ceiling

johnswentworth2 Jun 2021 18:25 UTC

147 points

18 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

An Intuitive Guide to Garrabrant Induction

Mark Xu3 Jun 2021 22:21 UTC

146 points

20 comments24 min readLW link

Irrational Modesty

Tomás B.20 Jun 2021 19:38 UTC

142 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Apprentice Thread

Zvi17 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC

139 points

59 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reward Is Not Enough

Steven Byrnes16 Jun 2021 13:52 UTC

123 points

19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

On the limits of idealized values

Joe Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:10 UTC

116 points

20 comments35 min readLW link

Book review: “Feeling Great” by David Burns

Steven Byrnes9 Jun 2021 13:17 UTC

105 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2021 19:55 UTC

104 points

20 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Frequent arguments about alignment

John Schulman23 Jun 2021 0:46 UTC

103 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Attributions, Karma and better discoverability for wiki/tag features

jimrandomh and habryka

2 Jun 2021 23:47 UTC

93 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Scaling Networks of Trust

Henrik Karlsson22 Jun 2021 4:57 UTC

92 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

Bad names make you open the box

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2021 3:19 UTC

91 points

52 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 6/17: One Last Scare

Zvi17 Jun 2021 18:40 UTC

86 points

42 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Thoughts on the Alignment Implications of Scaling Language Models

leogao2 Jun 2021 21:32 UTC

82 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

Search-in-Territory vs Search-in-Map

johnswentworth5 Jun 2021 23:22 UTC

77 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Discussion: Objective Robustness and Inner Alignment Terminology

jbkjr and Lauro Langosco

23 Jun 2021 23:25 UTC

73 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Rogue AGI Embodies Valuable Intellectual Property

Mark Xu and CarlShulman

3 Jun 2021 20:37 UTC

71 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Environmental Structure Can Cause Instrumental Convergence

TurnTrout22 Jun 2021 22:26 UTC

71 points

43 comments16 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Alignment Forum should have more transparent membership standards

Peter Hase4 Jun 2021 6:25 UTC

68 points

43 comments5 min readLW link

“Existential risk from AI” survey results

Rob Bensinger1 Jun 2021 20:02 UTC

66 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Big picture of phasic dopamine

Steven Byrnes8 Jun 2021 13:07 UTC

66 points

22 comments36 min readLW link

Survey on AI existential risk scenarios

Sam Clarke, apc and Jonas Schuett

8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC

65 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Announcing the Replacing Guilt audiobook

gianlucatruda25 Jun 2021 13:38 UTC

65 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Five Suggestions For Rationality Research and Development

LoganStrohl14 Jun 2021 1:09 UTC

64 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Comment on the lab leak hypothesis

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jun 2021 22:49 UTC

63 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Would you like me to debug your math?

Gurkenglas11 Jun 2021 10:54 UTC

63 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Empirical Observations of Objective Robustness Failures

jbkjr and Lauro Langosco

23 Jun 2021 23:23 UTC

63 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

Looking Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC

62 points

13 comments15 min readLW link

The value of low-conscientiousness people on teams

CraigMichael14 Jun 2021 2:06 UTC

60 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Intro to Debt Crises

Connor_Flexman28 Jun 2021 23:50 UTC

59 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 9 - Finite Factored Sets with Scott Garrabrant

DanielFilan24 Jun 2021 22:10 UTC

59 points

2 comments59 min readLW link

Experiments with a random clock

Malmesbury13 Jun 2021 17:08 UTC

58 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Covid 6/10: Somebody Else’s Problem

Zvi10 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC

57 points

26 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Why did no LessWrong discourse on gain of function research develop in 2013/2014?

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 23:35 UTC

56 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copilot affect programming?

smountjoy29 Jun 2021 16:42 UTC

55 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on War: Grand Strategy

johnswentworth18 Jun 2021 22:55 UTC

55 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Fauci’s Emails and the Lab Leak Hypothesis

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 13:55 UTC

53 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock

chemslug13 Jun 2021 1:40 UTC

52 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

We need a standard set of community advice for how to financially prepare for AGI

GeneSmith7 Jun 2021 7:24 UTC

51 points

52 comments5 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 6: Mechwarrior

lsusr7 Jun 2021 20:20 UTC

50 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Reinforcing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC

50 points

4 comments4 min readLW link