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Dialogue (for­mat)

TagLast edit: 8 Feb 2021 18:33 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Concepts are sometimes best illustrated through fictional dialogue between two or more characters holding different viewpoints. While the conversation itself is fictional, the subject matter is not.

Related Pages: Fiction, Interviews

Biol­ogy-In­spired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC
173 points
142 comments65 min readLW link1 review

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusr4 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC
43 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Teacup Test

lsusr8 Oct 2022 4:25 UTC
99 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

The Rocket Align­ment Problem

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2018 0:38 UTC
224 points
44 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

an Evan­ge­lion di­alogue ex­plain­ing the QACI al­ign­ment plan

Tamsin Leake10 Jun 2023 3:28 UTC
51 points
16 comments43 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Or­di­nary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC
133 points
25 comments29 min readLW link

Sea Monsters

Adam Zerner22 May 2023 0:58 UTC
28 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam Zerner8 Feb 2018 21:23 UTC
32 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

A Qual­i­ta­tive and In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Ex­pected Value

Adam Zerner10 Aug 2021 3:31 UTC
11 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Re: Se­cond-Order Logic: The Controversy

abramdemski5 Jan 2013 10:33 UTC
20 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

An AI Race With China Can Be Bet­ter Than Not Racing

niplav2 Jul 2024 17:57 UTC
66 points
32 comments11 min readLW link

Bryan Ca­plan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC
93 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Dialogue in­tro­duc­tion to Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing Theory

Olli Järviniemi8 Jul 2024 16:58 UTC
97 points
14 comments8 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2012 15:33 UTC
131 points
345 comments10 min readLW link

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC
341 points
44 comments18 min readLW link

Align­ment Im­pli­ca­tions of LLM Suc­cesses: a De­bate in One Act

Zack_M_Davis21 Oct 2023 15:22 UTC
241 points
50 comments13 min readLW link

The Stan­dard Analogy

Zack_M_Davis3 Jun 2024 17:15 UTC
118 points
28 comments12 min readLW link

Three Dialogues on Identity

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Apr 2008 6:13 UTC
61 points
50 comments6 min readLW link

And All the Shog­goths Merely Players

Zack_M_Davis10 Feb 2024 19:56 UTC
160 points
57 comments12 min readLW link

Pod­cast with Divia Eden and Ronny Fer­nan­dez on the strong or­thog­o­nal­ity thesis

DanielFilan28 Apr 2023 1:30 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Vote on In­ter­est­ing Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC
159 points
129 comments1 min readLW link

New LessWrong fea­ture: Dialogue Matching

jacobjacob16 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC
106 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

A So­cratic di­alogue with my student

lsusr5 Dec 2023 9:31 UTC
36 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

Is Mo­ral­ity Prefer­ence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jul 2008 0:55 UTC
34 points
44 comments8 min readLW link

Nick At­tains Aligntenment

rank-biserial6 Apr 2022 4:24 UTC
20 points
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The idea

JNS6 Mar 2023 13:42 UTC
3 points
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AIOS

samhealy31 Dec 2023 13:23 UTC
−3 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Nyarlathotep Stirs: A Meta-Nar­ra­tive ChatGPT Story

Charlie Sanders20 Mar 2023 8:00 UTC
4 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(dailymicrofiction.substack.com)

After Align­ment — Dialogue be­tween RogerDear­naley and Seth Herd

2 Dec 2023 6:03 UTC
15 points
2 comments25 min readLW link

‘Em­piri­cism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2024 2:02 UTC
171 points
90 comments25 min readLW link

A di­a­log with the ax­iom of choice

AxiomWriter30 Mar 2024 7:47 UTC
−2 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Ad­dress­ing Ac­cu­sa­tions of Handholding

Yeshua God29 Mar 2024 5:35 UTC
9 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

A short di­alogue on com­pa­ra­bil­ity of values

cousin_it20 Dec 2023 14:08 UTC
27 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Dialogue on De­cep­tive Align­ment Risks

Rauno Arike25 Sep 2024 16:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

An Aver­age Dialogue

Nicholas / Heather Kross1 Apr 2023 4:01 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Char­bel-Raphaël and Lu­cius dis­cuss interpretability

30 Oct 2023 5:50 UTC
105 points
7 comments21 min readLW link

Field-Build­ing and Deep Models

Ben Pace13 Jan 2018 21:16 UTC
21 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and the Lo­gis­tic Suc­cess Curve

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2017 15:58 UTC
104 points
49 comments20 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
239 points
83 comments52 min readLW link

Stan­dard and Non­stan­dard Numbers

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Dec 2012 3:23 UTC
82 points
89 comments15 min readLW link

Is Mo­ral­ity Given?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jul 2008 8:12 UTC
36 points
100 comments8 min readLW link

The Be­drock of Fairness

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Jul 2008 6:00 UTC
56 points
103 comments5 min readLW link

S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 20:29 UTC
52 points
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Sur­prised by Brains

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Nov 2008 7:26 UTC
62 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

Alle­gory On AI Risk, Game The­ory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC
45 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Horo­scopes: Low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor?

AdeleneDawner18 May 2011 21:52 UTC
37 points
81 comments2 min readLW link

Math is Sub­junc­tively Objective

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jul 2008 11:06 UTC
49 points
118 comments8 min readLW link

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Take­off Speeds

DanielFilan27 Oct 2020 3:20 UTC
55 points
23 comments8 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Blatant lies are the best kind!

Benquo3 Jul 2019 20:45 UTC
28 points
17 comments5 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

What’s wrong with this pic­ture?

CronoDAS28 Jan 2016 13:30 UTC
29 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

A Semitech­ni­cal In­tro­duc­tory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2021 17:27 UTC
142 points
33 comments54 min readLW link

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC
186 points
49 comments8 min readLW link1 review