Dialogue (format)

TagLast edit: Feb 8, 2021, 6:33 PM 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 YudkowskyDec 1, 2021, 10:35 PM

158 points

142 comments65 min readLW link 1 review

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusrAug 4, 2019, 7:00 AM

52 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Teacup Test

lsusrOct 8, 2022, 4:25 AM

102 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

The Rocket Alignment Problem

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 4, 2018, 12:38 AM

228 points

44 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 25, 2017, 5:53 PM

132 points

25 comments29 min readLW link

A Socratic dialogue with my student

lsusrDec 5, 2023, 9:31 AM

36 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Sea Monsters

Adam ZernerMay 22, 2023, 12:58 AM

29 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam ZernerFeb 8, 2018, 9:23 PM

32 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

A Qualitative and Intuitive Explanation of Expected Value

Adam ZernerAug 10, 2021, 3:31 AM

11 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act

Zack_M_DavisOct 21, 2023, 3:22 PM

258 points

55 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Re: Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

abramdemskiJan 5, 2013, 10:33 AM

22 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Bryan Caplan meets Socrates

Sam EnrightFeb 5, 2022, 12:24 PM

93 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

An AI Race With China Can Be Better Than Not Racing

niplavJul 2, 2024, 5:57 PM

69 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Dialogue introduction to Singular Learning Theory

Olli JärviniemiJul 8, 2024, 4:58 PM

100 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBTFeb 15, 2023, 9:41 PM

369 points

48 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Logical Pinpointing

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 2, 2012, 3:33 PM

133 points

345 comments10 min readLW link

Three Dialogues on Identity

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 21, 2008, 6:13 AM

61 points

50 comments6 min readLW link

The Standard Analogy

Zack_M_DavisJun 3, 2024, 5:15 PM

125 points

28 comments12 min readLW link

And All the Shoggoths Merely Players

Zack_M_DavisFeb 10, 2024, 7:56 PM

170 points

57 comments12 min readLW link

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

DanielFilanApr 28, 2023, 1:30 AM

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben PaceNov 7, 2023, 9:35 PM

159 points

131 comments1 min readLW link

New LessWrong feature: Dialogue Matching

Bird ConceptNov 16, 2023, 9:27 PM

106 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Self-dialogue: Do behaviorist rewards make scheming AGIs?

Steven ByrnesFeb 13, 2025, 6:39 PM

43 points

0 comments46 min readLW link

Is Morality Preference?

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 5, 2008, 12:55 AM

33 points

44 comments8 min readLW link

Nick Attains Aligntenment

rank-biserialApr 6, 2022, 4:24 AM

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The idea

JNSMar 6, 2023, 1:42 PM

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

AIOS

samhealyDec 31, 2023, 1:23 PM

−3 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Nyarlathotep Stirs: A Meta-Narrative ChatGPT Story

Charlie SandersMar 20, 2023, 8:00 AM

4 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(dailymicrofiction.substack.com)

After Alignment — Dialogue between RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

Dec 2, 2023, 6:03 AM

15 points

2 comments25 min readLW link

‘Empiricism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 14, 2024, 2:02 AM

171 points

92 comments25 min readLW link

A dialog with the axiom of choice

AxiomWriterMar 30, 2024, 7:47 AM

−2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Addressing Accusations of Handholding

Yeshua GodMar 29, 2024, 5:35 AM

9 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

A short dialogue on comparability of values

cousin_itDec 20, 2023, 2:08 PM

27 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Parable of the King and the Random Process

moridinamaelMar 1, 2023, 10:18 PM

311 points

26 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

A Dialogue on Deceptive Alignment Risks

Rauno ArikeSep 25, 2024, 4:10 PM

11 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

An Average Dialogue

Nicholas / Heather KrossApr 1, 2023, 4:01 AM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius discuss interpretability

Mateusz Bagiński, Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius Bushnaq

Oct 30, 2023, 5:50 AM

111 points

7 comments21 min readLW link

Field-Building and Deep Models

Ben PaceJan 13, 2018, 9:16 PM

21 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Security Mindset and the Logistic Success Curve

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 26, 2017, 3:58 PM

106 points

49 comments20 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 21, 2017, 9:13 PM

241 points

83 comments52 min readLW link

Standard and Nonstandard Numbers

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 20, 2012, 3:23 AM

82 points

89 comments15 min readLW link

Is Morality Given?

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 6, 2008, 8:12 AM

35 points

100 comments8 min readLW link

The Bedrock of Fairness

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 3, 2008, 6:00 AM

58 points

103 comments5 min readLW link

S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2013, 8:29 PM

52 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Surprised by Brains

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 23, 2008, 7:26 AM

62 points

28 comments7 min readLW link

Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril

James_MillerFeb 13, 2017, 8:41 PM

45 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Rationalist Horoscopes: Low-hanging utility generator?

AdeleneDawnerMay 18, 2011, 9:52 PM

37 points

81 comments2 min readLW link

Math is Subjunctively Objective

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 25, 2008, 11:06 AM

50 points

118 comments8 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

DanielFilanOct 27, 2020, 3:20 AM

55 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Blatant lies are the best kind!

BenquoJul 3, 2019, 8:45 PM

26 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

What’s wrong with this picture?

CronoDASJan 28, 2016, 1:30 PM

29 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 4, 2021, 5:27 PM

143 points

33 comments54 min readLW link

Act of Charity

jessicataNov 17, 2018, 5:19 AM

186 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

DanielFilan Apr 26, 2023, 6:04 PM
2 points
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Looks like this tag is being used both for fictional dialogues and actual dialogues. This seems kind of bad to me, in that I don’t want to conflate “what an author imagines a hypothetical interlocutor might say” with “what an actual interlocutor said”. Any chance we should split up the tag?

Dialogue (for­mat)

Dialogue (format)