I went through Gwern’s posts and collected all the posts with importance 8 and higher as of 2024-09-04 in case someone else was searching for something like this.
This could have been a post so more people could link it (many don’t reflexively notice that you can easily get a link to a Lesswrong quicktake or Twitter or facebook post by mousing over the date between the upvote count and the poster, which also works for tab and hotkey navigation for people like me who avoid using the mouse/touchpad whenever possible).
It not being linked on Twitter and Facebook seems more like a feature than a bug, given that when I asked Gwern why a page like this doesn’t already exist, he wrote me he doesn’t want people to mock it.
> I really like the importance Tags, but what I would really like is a page > where I can just go through all the posts ordered by importance. I just > stumbled over another importance 9 post (iron rules) when I thought I had > read all of them. Clicking on the importance tag, just leads to a page > explaining the importance tag.
Yeah, that is a mix of ‘too hard to fix’ and ‘I’m not sure I want to fix it’. (I don’t know how Hakyll works well enough to do it ’normally’, and while I think I can just treat it as a tag-directory, like ‘meta/importance/1’, ‘meta/importance/2’ etc, that’s a little awkward.) Do I *want* people to be able to go through a list of articles sorted by importance and be able to easily mock it—avoiding any actual substantive critique?
I went through Gwern’s posts and collected all the posts with importance 8 and higher as of 2024-09-04 in case someone else was searching for something like this.
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How Often Does Correlation=Causality?
Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation
The Scaling Hypothesis
Complexity no Bar to AI
The Algernon Argument
Embryo Selection For Intelligence
Life Extension Cost-Benefits
Colder Wars
Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival
The Existential Risk of Math Errors
9
Iodine and Adult IQ meta-analysis
Lithium in ground-water and well-being
Melatonin
Modafinil
Modafinil community survey
Nicotine
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs
Machine Learning Scaling
The Hyperbolic Time Chamber & Brain Emulation
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules
Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
Are Sunk Costs Fallacies?
Plastination versus Cryonics
Silk Road 1: Theory & Practice
Darknet Market Archives (2013–2015)
The Melancholy of Subculture Society
8
The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science
How Should We Critique Research?
The Narrowing Circle
Zeo sleep self-experiments
When Should I Check The Mail?
Candy Japan’s new box A/B test
The Kelly Coin-Flipping Game: Exact Solutions
In Defense of Inclusionism
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Time-lock encryption
Easy Cryptographic Timestamping of Files
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
RNN Metadata for Mimicking Author Style
Terrorism Is Not About Terror
Terrorism Is Not Effective
Archiving URLs
Conscientiousness & Online Education
Radiance: A Novel
This could have been a post so more people could link it (many don’t reflexively notice that you can easily get a link to a Lesswrong quicktake or Twitter or facebook post by mousing over the date between the upvote count and the poster, which also works for tab and hotkey navigation for people like me who avoid using the mouse/touchpad whenever possible).
It not being linked on Twitter and Facebook seems more like a feature than a bug, given that when I asked Gwern why a page like this doesn’t already exist, he wrote me he doesn’t want people to mock it.