Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC
305 points
30 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

12 in­ter­est­ing things I learned study­ing the dis­cov­ery of na­ture’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC
265 points
40 comments9 min readLW link1 review

But­terfly Ideas

Elizabeth22 Feb 2022 7:40 UTC
184 points
10 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(acesounderglass.com)

In­tro to Nat­u­ral­ism: Orientation

13 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC
179 points
23 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

IMO challenge bet with Eliezer

paulfchristiano26 Feb 2022 4:50 UTC
179 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Rus­sia has In­vaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC
173 points
268 comments3 min readLW link

Im­pos­si­bil­ity re­sults for un­bounded utilities

paulfchristiano2 Feb 2022 3:52 UTC
167 points
109 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Beta Fea­ture] Google-Docs-like edit­ing for LessWrong posts

23 Feb 2022 1:52 UTC
165 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Align­ment re­search exercises

Richard_Ngo21 Feb 2022 20:24 UTC
149 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

The metaphor you want is “color blind­ness,” not “blind spot.”

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)14 Feb 2022 0:28 UTC
143 points
17 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Twit­ter thread on postrationalists

Eli Tyre17 Feb 2022 9:02 UTC
142 points
32 comments5 min readLW link

Learn­ing By Writing

HoldenKarnofsky22 Feb 2022 15:50 UTC
141 points
15 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews
(www.cold-takes.com)

On Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 14:50 UTC
135 points
19 comments56 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You have a place to stay in Swe­den, should you need it.

Dojan27 Feb 2022 1:21 UTC
134 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pa­tient Observation

LoganStrohl23 Feb 2022 19:31 UTC
128 points
4 comments10 min readLW link1 review

The Territory

LoganStrohl15 Feb 2022 18:56 UTC
128 points
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Harms and pos­si­bil­ities of schooling

TsviBT22 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
120 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Monks of Magnitude

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)18 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
113 points
50 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Th­e­ses on Sleep

guzey11 Feb 2022 12:58 UTC
111 points
104 comments34 min readLW link2 reviews

The Long Long Covid Post

Zvi10 Feb 2022 13:10 UTC
110 points
29 comments52 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vot­ing Re­sults for the 2020 Review

Raemon2 Feb 2022 18:37 UTC
108 points
17 comments59 min readLW link

The Big Pic­ture Of Align­ment (Talk Part 1)

johnswentworth21 Feb 2022 5:49 UTC
101 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

How satis­fied should you ex­pect to be with your part­ner?

Vaniver22 Feb 2022 23:27 UTC
100 points
7 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

To Change the World

lsusr10 Feb 2022 6:08 UTC
97 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 3. Two sub­sys­tems: Learn­ing & Steering

Steven Byrnes9 Feb 2022 13:09 UTC
95 points
3 comments25 min readLW link

Ob­ser­va­tions about writ­ing and com­ment­ing on the internet

dynomight15 Feb 2022 0:02 UTC
94 points
10 comments11 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Prizes for the 2020 Review

Raemon20 Feb 2022 21:07 UTC
94 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Com­pute Trends Across Three eras of Ma­chine Learning

16 Feb 2022 14:18 UTC
94 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Bryan Ca­plan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC
93 points
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Con­voy Crackdown

Zvi21 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC
92 points
21 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Knowing

LoganStrohl13 Feb 2022 7:53 UTC
92 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ment ver­sus AI Alignment

Alex Flint4 Feb 2022 22:59 UTC
87 points
15 comments22 min readLW link

Naturalism

LoganStrohl24 Feb 2022 19:45 UTC
87 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing the palata­bil­ity the­ory of obesity

Matthew Barnett10 Feb 2022 19:16 UTC
87 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

A Quick Look At 20% Time

Elizabeth4 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC
86 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

QNR prospects are im­por­tant for AI al­ign­ment research

Eric Drexler3 Feb 2022 15:20 UTC
85 points
12 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Observation

LoganStrohl19 Feb 2022 18:47 UTC
83 points
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OpenAI Solves (Some) For­mal Math Olympiad Problems

Michaël Trazzi2 Feb 2022 21:49 UTC
78 points
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A com­ment on Ajeya Co­tra’s draft re­port on AI timelines

Matthew Barnett24 Feb 2022 0:41 UTC
74 points
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Chris­ti­ano and Yud­kowsky on AI pre­dic­tions and hu­man intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC
70 points
35 comments42 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tions as Re­dun­dant Information

johnswentworth13 Feb 2022 4:17 UTC
69 points
9 comments14 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­tions of au­to­mated on­tol­ogy identification

18 Feb 2022 3:30 UTC
69 points
27 comments23 min readLW link

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on sci­en­tific rea­son­ing and pivotal acts

21 Feb 2022 20:54 UTC
67 points
14 comments35 min readLW link

Con­spir­acy-proof archeology

Malmesbury27 Feb 2022 22:59 UTC
65 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 4. The “short-term pre­dic­tor”

Steven Byrnes16 Feb 2022 13:12 UTC
64 points
11 comments13 min readLW link

How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety

Neel Nanda27 Feb 2022 18:50 UTC
64 points
6 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

My at­ti­tude to­wards death

Richard_Ngo25 Feb 2022 15:20 UTC
63 points
31 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Why Doesn’t Health­care Im­prove Health?

George3d616 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC
63 points
19 comments12 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

In­ter­lude: On Realness

LoganStrohl17 Feb 2022 19:02 UTC
62 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Whence the sexes?

Richard_Ngo13 Feb 2022 20:40 UTC
61 points
35 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)