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LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

294 points

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Where do your eyes go?

alkjash19 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC

266 points

22 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

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Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem

Elizabeth1 Sep 2021 7:20 UTC

206 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0

BayAreaHuman24 Sep 2021 6:56 UTC

206 points

212 comments5 min readLW link

How factories were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC

185 points

46 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Best Software For Every Need

Tomás B.10 Sep 2021 2:40 UTC

176 points

225 comments1 min readLW link

The Coordination Frontier: Sequence Intro

Raemon4 Sep 2021 22:11 UTC

163 points

22 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

The 2021 Less Wrong Darwin Game

lsusr24 Sep 2021 21:16 UTC

162 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild

HoldenKarnofsky3 Sep 2021 20:19 UTC

147 points

37 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Redwood Research’s current project

Buck21 Sep 2021 23:30 UTC

145 points

29 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

A review of Steven Pinker’s new book on rationality

Matthew Barnett29 Sep 2021 1:29 UTC

140 points

43 comments6 min readLW link

Coordination Schemes Are Capital Investments

Raemon6 Sep 2021 23:27 UTC

140 points

31 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

The theory-practice gap

Buck17 Sep 2021 22:51 UTC

138 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

LessWrong is paying $500 for Book Reviews

Ruby14 Sep 2021 0:24 UTC

133 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agents

johnswentworth28 Sep 2021 5:03 UTC

123 points

28 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Book review: The Checklist Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 17 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC

122 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

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

lsusr16 Sep 2021 7:34 UTC

111 points

33 comments5 min readLW link

The Intense World Theory of Autism

Steven Byrnes27 Sep 2021 13:23 UTC

109 points

40 comments15 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 10: Spyware

lsusr29 Sep 2021 7:01 UTC

104 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

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

Sam Marks29 Sep 2021 19:03 UTC

100 points

23 comments23 min readLW link 1 review

Petrov Day 2021: Mutually Assured Destruction?

Ruby22 Sep 2021 1:04 UTC

99 points

96 comments4 min readLW link

Jitters No Evidence of Stupidity in RL

1a3orn16 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC

96 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

Shared Frames Are Capital Investments in Coordination

johnswentworth23 Sep 2021 23:24 UTC

93 points

6 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Norm Innovation and Theory of Mind

Raemon18 Sep 2021 21:38 UTC

92 points

15 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

The alignment problem in different capability regimes

Buck9 Sep 2021 19:46 UTC

88 points

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Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Update

johnswentworth20 Sep 2021 3:44 UTC

87 points

17 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

How feeling more secure feels different than I expected

Kaj_Sotala17 Sep 2021 9:20 UTC

83 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Beyond fire alarms: freeing the groupstruck

KatjaGrace26 Sep 2021 9:30 UTC

81 points

15 comments54 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

This Can’t Go On

HoldenKarnofsky18 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC

81 points

55 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

100 Years Of Existential Risk

jdp27 Sep 2021 0:31 UTC

81 points

12 comments33 min readLW link

(www.wrestlinggnon.com)

Insights from Modern Principles of Economics

TurnTrout22 Sep 2021 5:19 UTC

79 points

64 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/2: Long Covid Analysis

Zvi2 Sep 2021 14:50 UTC

77 points

15 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI takeoff story: a continuation of progress by other means

Edouard Harris27 Sep 2021 15:55 UTC

76 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Writing On The Pareto Frontier

johnswentworth17 Sep 2021 0:05 UTC

76 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Distinguishing AI takeover scenarios

Sam Clarke and Sammy Martin

8 Sep 2021 16:19 UTC

74 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens model explained—part 1

Writer22 Sep 2021 18:51 UTC

72 points

30 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

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You can talk to EA Funds before applying

evhub28 Sep 2021 20:39 UTC

71 points

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[Book Review] “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian

lsusr20 Sep 2021 6:36 UTC

70 points

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

lsusr27 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC

70 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

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

Chi Nguyen15 Sep 2021 22:37 UTC

70 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

The Most Important Century: Sequence Introduction

HoldenKarnofsky3 Sep 2021 20:19 UTC

69 points

5 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 9/23: There Is a War

Zvi23 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC

69 points

30 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paths To High-Level Machine Intelligence

Daniel_Eth10 Sep 2021 13:21 UTC

68 points

9 comments33 min readLW link

[Book Review] Altered Traits

lsusr23 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC

67 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation

lsusr18 Sep 2021 7:37 UTC

66 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Brain-inspired AGI and the “lifetime anchor”

Steven Byrnes29 Sep 2021 13:09 UTC

65 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

Review of A Map that Reflects the Territory

William Gasarch12 Sep 2021 19:43 UTC

65 points

20 comments18 min readLW link

This War of Mine

lsusr25 Sep 2021 1:43 UTC

64 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety!

DanielFilan21 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC

64 points

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(grants.futureoflife.org)

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

Henry Prowbell15 Sep 2021 17:03 UTC

64 points

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