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ARC’s first tech­ni­cal re­port: Elic­it­ing La­tent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra
Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM
228 points
90 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews
(docs.google.com)

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei DaiDec 2, 2021, 6:35 AM
228 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconiOct 1, 2021, 9:44 PM
224 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworthOct 7, 2021, 9:58 PM
222 points
64 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Grav­ity Turn

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

Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

johnswentworthFeb 18, 2021, 6:04 PM
216 points
50 comments6 min readLW link

Com­mon knowl­edge about Lev­er­age Re­search 1.0

BayAreaHumanSep 24, 2021, 6:56 AM
213 points
212 comments5 min readLW link

Yud­kowsky and Chris­ti­ano dis­cuss “Take­off Speeds”

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 22, 2021, 7:35 PM
210 points
176 comments60 min readLW link1 review

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Math­e­mat­i­cal Defi­ni­tions?

johnswentworthMar 15, 2021, 9:51 PM
205 points
58 comments7 min readLW link

Long Covid Is Not Ne­c­es­sar­ily Your Biggest Problem

ElizabethSep 1, 2021, 7:20 AM
201 points
40 comments10 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Al­most ev­ery­one should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavanceNov 27, 2021, 2:06 AM
198 points
18 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Oct 9, 2021, 5:30 AM
198 points
124 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

At­tempted Gears Anal­y­sis of AGI In­ter­ven­tion Dis­cus­sion With Eliezer

ZviNov 15, 2021, 3:50 AM
197 points
49 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two non-ob­vi­ous les­sons from micro­covid.org

catherioJun 24, 2021, 2:35 AM
196 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Ap­peals to the Com­plex­ity/​Mys­te­ri­ous­ness/​Effi­ciency of the Brain

Daniel KokotajloJan 18, 2021, 12:08 PM
196 points
86 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Go­ing Out With Dignity

Tomás B.Jul 9, 2021, 10:07 PM
195 points
25 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion: Why I came around

jasoncrawfordJan 23, 2021, 10:05 PM
193 points
79 comments8 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Take­aways from one year of lockdown

mingyuanMar 1, 2021, 3:53 AM
193 points
87 comments6 min readLW link

Rul­ing Out Every­thing Else

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Oct 27, 2021, 9:50 PM
193 points
51 comments21 min readLW link2 reviews

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund (SFF)

ZviDec 14, 2021, 2:30 PM
193 points
65 comments64 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Speak­ing of Stag Hunts

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Nov 6, 2021, 8:20 AM
191 points
373 comments18 min readLW link

So­cial be­hav­ior curves, equil­ibria, and radicalism

Eric NeymanJun 5, 2021, 1:39 AM
190 points
18 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

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

Andrew_CritchJun 1, 2021, 6:45 PM
189 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

Split and Commit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Nov 21, 2021, 6:27 AM
188 points
34 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The case for al­ign­ing nar­rowly su­per­hu­man models

Ajeya CotraMar 5, 2021, 10:29 PM
186 points
75 comments38 min readLW link1 review

The Ra­tion­al­ists of the 1950s (and be­fore) also called them­selves “Ra­tion­al­ists”

Owain_EvansNov 28, 2021, 8:17 PM
186 points
32 comments3 min readLW link1 review

How fac­to­ries were made safe

jasoncrawfordSep 12, 2021, 7:58 PM
185 points
46 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Si­mu­lacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategy

johnswentworthJan 26, 2021, 7:40 PM
183 points
37 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

The topic is not the content

Aaron BergmanJul 6, 2021, 12:14 AM
182 points
25 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

The Point of Trade

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 22, 2021, 5:56 PM
178 points
77 comments4 min readLW link1 review

The Best Soft­ware For Every Need

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

An­nounc­ing the Align­ment Re­search Center

paulfchristianoApr 26, 2021, 11:30 PM
178 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Jean Mon­net: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin SustrikMar 20, 2021, 10:37 AM
177 points
25 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Pre­dic­tive Cod­ing has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusrApr 2, 2021, 9:42 PM
176 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

Spe­cial­iz­ing in Prob­lems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworthApr 10, 2021, 10:40 PM
175 points
29 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Book Launch: The Eng­ines of Cognition

Ben PaceDec 21, 2021, 7:24 AM
174 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Reneg­ing Prosocially

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Nov 30, 2021, 7:01 PM
174 points
15 comments17 min readLW link1 review

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

Ben Pace and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 5, 2021, 10:09 PM
173 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Preprint is out! 100,000 lu­mens to treat sea­sonal af­fec­tive disorder

FabienneNov 12, 2021, 5:59 PM
170 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Can you con­trol the past?

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

[Link] Still Alive—As­tral Codex Ten

jimrandomhJan 21, 2021, 11:20 PM
169 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM
168 points
28 comments73 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworthApr 6, 2021, 9:24 PM
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

You are prob­a­bly un­der­es­ti­mat­ing how good self-love can be

Charlie Rogers-SmithNov 14, 2021, 12:41 AM
168 points
19 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Worst-case think­ing in AI alignment

BuckDec 23, 2021, 1:29 AM
167 points
18 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test: prizes, re­sults, and analysis

Eric NeymanJan 15, 2021, 6:24 AM
164 points
22 comments20 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

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

The Co­or­di­na­tion Fron­tier: Se­quence Intro

RaemonSep 4, 2021, 10:11 PM
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

Small and Vulnerable

sapphireMay 3, 2021, 4:55 AM
162 points
17 comments4 min readLW link