What 2026 looks like

Daniel KokotajloAug 6, 2021, 4:14 PM
567 points
161 comments16 min readLW link1 review

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworthAug 28, 2021, 5:52 PM
458 points
38 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Grav­ity Turn

alkjashAug 16, 2021, 7:20 PM
220 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Can you con­trol the past?

Joe CarlsmithAug 27, 2021, 7:39 PM
170 points
94 comments47 min readLW link1 review

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

Rob BensingerAug 10, 2021, 12:16 AM
163 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

Cur­ing in­san­ity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 4, 2021, 2:28 AM
159 points
8 comments4 min readLW link1 review

The Death of Be­hav­ioral Economics

habrykaAug 22, 2021, 10:39 PM
154 points
24 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(www.thebehavioralscientist.com)

Wel­come & FAQ!

Aug 24, 2021, 8:14 PM
115 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Eight Hun­dred Slightly Poi­soned Word Games

Scott AlexanderAug 9, 2021, 8:17 PM
111 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Against “blank­faces”

philhAug 8, 2021, 11:00 PM
103 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Coase’s “Na­ture of the Firm” on Polyamory

1a3ornAug 13, 2021, 1:15 PM
102 points
34 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

A short in­tro­duc­tion to ma­chine learning

Richard_NgoAug 30, 2021, 2:31 PM
95 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Model­ling Trans­for­ma­tive AI Risks (MTAIR) Pro­ject: Introduction

Aug 16, 2021, 7:12 AM
91 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Au­tomat­ing Au­dit­ing: An am­bi­tious con­crete tech­ni­cal re­search proposal

evhubAug 11, 2021, 8:32 PM
89 points
13 comments14 min readLW link1 review

How Deep­Mind’s Gen­er­ally Ca­pable Agents Were Trained

1a3ornAug 20, 2021, 6:52 PM
87 points
6 comments19 min readLW link

A Re­sponse to A Con­tam­i­na­tion The­ory of the Obe­sity Epidemic

skot523Aug 12, 2021, 4:23 AM
82 points
36 comments10 min readLW link
(goodtosell.substack.com)

The Fu­ture: Where are the Colors and the Sports?

rogersbaconAug 8, 2021, 6:55 PM
82 points
37 comments8 min readLW link

AI Safety Papers: An App for the TAI Safety Database

ozziegooenAug 21, 2021, 2:02 AM
81 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 8/​12: The Worst Is Over

ZviAug 12, 2021, 1:30 PM
79 points
66 comments26 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The two-headed bacterium

MalmesburyAug 10, 2021, 3:28 PM
73 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Train­ing My Friend to Cook

lsusrAug 29, 2021, 5:54 AM
71 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Stay­ing Grounded

johnswentworthAug 14, 2021, 5:43 PM
66 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

How to turn money into AI safety?

Charlie SteinerAug 25, 2021, 10:49 AM
66 points
26 comments8 min readLW link

We need a new philos­o­phy of progress

jasoncrawfordAug 23, 2021, 9:31 PM
65 points
44 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Anal­y­sis of World Records in Speedrun­ning [LINKPOST]

JsevillamolAug 4, 2021, 3:26 PM
65 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 8/​5: Much Ado About Nothing

ZviAug 5, 2021, 2:00 PM
63 points
34 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

COVID/​Delta ad­vice I’m cur­rently giv­ing to friends

Rob BensingerAug 24, 2021, 3:46 AM
61 points
31 comments8 min readLW link

When Pro­gram­mers Don’t Un­der­stand Code, Don’t Blame The User

Adam ZernerAug 18, 2021, 7:59 PM
61 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Garrabrant and Shah on hu­man mod­el­ing in AGI

Rob BensingerAug 4, 2021, 4:35 AM
60 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

Hu­man­ity is Win­ning the Fight Against In­fec­tious Disease

lsusrAug 30, 2021, 1:31 AM
60 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ware of small world puzzles

mukashiAug 30, 2021, 6:00 AM
59 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

AI Risk for Epistemic Minimalists

Alex FlintAug 22, 2021, 3:39 PM
58 points
12 comments13 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Stable Equilibrium

johnswentworthAug 9, 2021, 5:28 PM
57 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

LCDT, A My­opic De­ci­sion Theory

Aug 3, 2021, 10:41 PM
57 points
50 comments15 min readLW link

Per­haps vastly more peo­ple should be on FDA-ap­proved weight loss medication

25HourAug 14, 2021, 5:22 PM
57 points
30 comments8 min readLW link

Analo­gies and Gen­eral Pri­ors on Intelligence

Aug 20, 2021, 9:03 PM
57 points
12 comments14 min readLW link

MIRI/​OP ex­change about de­ci­sion theory

Rob BensingerAug 25, 2021, 10:44 PM
56 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 8/​26: Full Vac­cine Approval

ZviAug 26, 2021, 1:00 PM
56 points
46 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Provide feed­back on Open Philan­thropy’s AI al­ign­ment RFP

Aug 20, 2021, 7:52 PM
56 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search agenda update

Steven ByrnesAug 6, 2021, 7:24 PM
55 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­ture Conflation

abramdemskiAug 9, 2021, 7:48 PM
54 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization ProcessAug 16, 2021, 5:53 AM
54 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

When Most VNM-Co­her­ent Prefer­ence Order­ings Have Con­ver­gent In­stru­men­tal Incentives

TurnTroutAug 9, 2021, 5:22 PM
53 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

rogersbaconAug 2, 2021, 8:55 PM
53 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

A Bet­ter Time un­til Sun­burn Calculator

Josh JacobsonAug 17, 2021, 12:40 AM
52 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 8/​19: Crack­ing the Booster

ZviAug 19, 2021, 2:20 PM
52 points
23 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What frac­tion of break­through COVID cases are at­tributable to low an­ti­body count?

johnswentworthAug 22, 2021, 4:07 AM
51 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search pro­duc­tivity tip: “Solve The Whole Prob­lem Day”

Steven ByrnesAug 27, 2021, 1:05 PM
50 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI Codex: First Impressions

specbugAug 13, 2021, 4:52 PM
49 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(sixeleven.in)

Fac­tors of men­tal and phys­i­cal abil­ities—a statis­ti­cal analysis

dynomightAug 17, 2021, 8:42 PM
49 points
25 comments8 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)