LessWrong is pro­vid­ing feed­back and proofread­ing on drafts as a service

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294 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

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267 points
22 comments14 min readLW link1 review
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213 points
212 comments5 min readLW link

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ElizabethSep 1, 2021, 7:20 AM
201 points
40 comments10 min readLW link
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jasoncrawfordSep 12, 2021, 7:58 PM
185 points
46 comments18 min readLW link1 review
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The Best Soft­ware For Every Need

Tomás B.Sep 10, 2021, 2:40 AM
178 points
225 comments1 min readLW link

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163 points
22 comments6 min readLW link1 review

The 2021 Less Wrong Dar­win Game

lsusrSep 24, 2021, 9:16 PM
162 points
102 comments9 min readLW link

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HoldenKarnofskySep 3, 2021, 8:19 PM
147 points
37 comments8 min readLW link1 review

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145 points
29 comments15 min readLW link1 review

A re­view of Steven Pinker’s new book on rationality

Matthew BarnettSep 29, 2021, 1:29 AM
140 points
43 comments6 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Schemes Are Cap­i­tal Investments

RaemonSep 6, 2021, 11:27 PM
140 points
31 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The the­ory-prac­tice gap

BuckSep 17, 2021, 10:51 PM
138 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

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RubySep 14, 2021, 12:24 AM
133 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Selec­tion The­o­rems: A Pro­gram For Un­der­stand­ing Agents

johnswentworthSep 28, 2021, 5:03 AM
128 points
28 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Book re­view: The Check­list Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Sep 17, 2021, 11:09 PM
122 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

The In­tense World The­ory of Autism

Steven ByrnesSep 27, 2021, 1:23 PM
115 points
40 comments15 min readLW link

I wanted to in­ter­view Eliezer Yud­kowsky but he’s busy so I simu­lated him instead

lsusrSep 16, 2021, 7:34 AM
113 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 10: Spyware

lsusrSep 29, 2021, 7:01 AM
106 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Book re­view] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer

Sam MarksSep 29, 2021, 7:03 PM
101 points
23 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Petrov Day 2021: Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion?

RubySep 22, 2021, 1:04 AM
99 points
96 comments4 min readLW link

Jit­ters No Ev­i­dence of Stu­pidity in RL

1a3ornSep 16, 2021, 10:43 PM
96 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Shared Frames Are Cap­i­tal In­vest­ments in Coordination

johnswentworthSep 23, 2021, 11:24 PM
93 points
6 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Norm In­no­va­tion and The­ory of Mind

RaemonSep 18, 2021, 9:38 PM
92 points
15 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The al­ign­ment prob­lem in differ­ent ca­pa­bil­ity regimes

BuckSep 9, 2021, 7:46 PM
88 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Update

johnswentworthSep 20, 2021, 3:44 AM
88 points
17 comments8 min readLW link1 review

How feel­ing more se­cure feels differ­ent than I expected

Kaj_SotalaSep 17, 2021, 9:20 AM
83 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
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This Can’t Go On

HoldenKarnofskySep 18, 2021, 11:50 PM
82 points
55 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Beyond fire alarms: free­ing the groupstruck

KatjaGraceSep 26, 2021, 9:30 AM
81 points
15 comments54 min readLW link
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100 Years Of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

jdpSep 27, 2021, 12:31 AM
81 points
12 comments33 min readLW link
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In­sights from Modern Prin­ci­ples of Economics

TurnTroutSep 22, 2021, 5:19 AM
81 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

AI take­off story: a con­tinu­a­tion of progress by other means

Edouard HarrisSep 27, 2021, 3:55 PM
76 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Writ­ing On The Pareto Frontier

johnswentworthSep 17, 2021, 12:05 AM
76 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing AI takeover scenarios

Sep 8, 2021, 4:19 PM
74 points
11 comments14 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s Grabby Aliens model ex­plained—part 1

WriterSep 22, 2021, 6:51 PM
72 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review
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[Book Re­view] “The Align­ment Prob­lem” by Brian Christian

lsusrSep 20, 2021, 6:36 AM
72 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

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evhubSep 28, 2021, 8:39 PM
71 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “The Vi­tal Ques­tion” by Nick Lane

lsusrSep 27, 2021, 10:50 PM
70 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury: Se­quence Introduction

HoldenKarnofskySep 3, 2021, 8:19 PM
70 points
5 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Covid 9/​2: Long Covid Analysis

ZviSep 2, 2021, 2:50 PM
70 points
15 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[in­ac­tive] £2000 bounty—con­tra­cep­tives (and UTI) liter­a­ture review

Chi NguyenSep 15, 2021, 10:37 PM
70 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 9/​23: There Is a War

ZviSep 23, 2021, 1:30 PM
69 points
30 comments24 min readLW link
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[Book Re­view] Altered Traits

lsusrSep 23, 2021, 12:33 AM
68 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Paths To High-Level Ma­chine Intelligence

Daniel_EthSep 10, 2021, 1:21 PM
68 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

Si­mu­lated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation

lsusrSep 18, 2021, 7:37 AM
66 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Re­view of A Map that Reflects the Territory

William GasarchSep 12, 2021, 7:43 PM
65 points
20 comments18 min readLW link

Brain-in­spired AGI and the “life­time an­chor”

Steven ByrnesSep 29, 2021, 1:09 PM
65 points
16 comments13 min readLW link

This War of Mine

lsusrSep 25, 2021, 1:43 AM
64 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 1: Affect

Henry ProwbellSep 15, 2021, 5:03 PM
64 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ships in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety!

DanielFilanSep 21, 2021, 12:33 AM
64 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
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