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Fiction

TagLast edit: 8 Nov 2021 10:58 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Fiction isn’t literal truth, but when done well it captures truths and intuitions that are difficult to explain directly. (It’s also damn fun to read.)

“Nonfiction conveys knowledge, fiction conveys experience.”—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky helped kickstart the genre of rationalist fiction, which is about characters who solve the problems in their world by thinking, in a way where the reader could figure it out too. Not where the genius character explains it afterward like Sherlock Holmes or Artemis Fowl, but where the problem is fair and you could’ve figured it out first. Eliezer has written about this in his short online book The Abridged Guide to Intelligent Characters.

Other fiction on the site is in the spirit of hard science fiction, and often involves taking the laws of a universe or the rules of a system to their extreme conclusions, and munchkining your way to become god (or something similar). They also share much of the parts of sci-fi that engage with difficult moral quandaries.

Fiction on this site also tends to have puns. I’m so sorry.

Much more fiction can be found at r/​Rational, which is a subreddit devoted to rationalist fiction.

This is a tag for works of fiction, not for analysis or discussion of literature. For that see Fiction (topic).

Fiction Sequences

External links

Chap­ter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
246 points
19 comments9 min readLW link

Three Wor­lds Col­lide (0/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2009 12:07 UTC
100 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

…And I Show You How Deep The Rab­bit Hole Goes

Scott Alexander3 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC
243 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

The Redac­tion Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC
500 points
48 comments27 min readLW link1 review

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC
375 points
94 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Univer­sal Love, Said The Cac­tus Person

Scott Alexander22 Apr 2015 2:42 UTC
64 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

An­swer to Job

Scott Alexander15 Mar 2015 18:02 UTC
67 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC
395 points
176 comments10 min readLW link

The Devil You Know

Slimepriestess21 May 2020 21:50 UTC
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

“Star­wink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_Davis18 May 2020 8:17 UTC
47 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(alicorn.elcenia.com)

The Sword of Good

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
156 points
303 comments2 min readLW link

Failed Utopia #4-2

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2009 11:04 UTC
125 points
267 comments9 min readLW link

Friend­ship is Op­ti­mal: A My Lit­tle Pony fan­fic about an op­ti­miza­tion process

iceman8 Sep 2012 6:16 UTC
110 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

The Ad­ven­ture: a new Utopia story

Stuart_Armstrong5 Feb 2020 16:50 UTC
100 points
37 comments51 min readLW link

I

PhilGoetz8 Jan 2011 17:51 UTC
66 points
38 comments19 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2014 20:11 UTC
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] Lena (MMAcevedo)

Kaj_Sotala23 Feb 2021 19:46 UTC
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(qntm.org)

Ini­ti­a­tion Ceremony

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2008 20:40 UTC
129 points
99 comments3 min readLW link

Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC
144 points
118 comments13 min readLW link

The Cam­bist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

Alicorn19 Dec 2010 2:05 UTC
66 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

The Book of HPMOR Fanfics

Mati_Roy3 Jul 2020 13:32 UTC
41 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[fic­tion] Our Fi­nal Hour

Mati_Roy11 Dec 2022 5:49 UTC
17 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemski20 Aug 2020 0:08 UTC
143 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review

The Last Paperclip

Logan Zoellner12 May 2022 19:25 UTC
61 points
15 comments17 min readLW link

The Maker of MIND

Tomás B.20 Nov 2021 16:28 UTC
102 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 1: Affect

Henry Prowbell15 Sep 2021 17:03 UTC
64 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

The Liar and the Scold

Tomás B.20 Jan 2022 20:31 UTC
95 points
13 comments12 min readLW link

It Looks Like You’re Try­ing To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC
406 points
120 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(www.gwern.net)

Ma­tryoshka Fara­day Box

lsusr26 Nov 2020 9:42 UTC
49 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

And All the Shog­goths Merely Players

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

The God­dess of Every­thing Else

Scott Alexander17 Aug 2015 20:59 UTC
90 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC
346 points
100 comments5 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy in the Dark­est Timeline: Ba­sics of the Evolu­tion of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC
131 points
16 comments14 min readLW link

The Baby-Eat­ing Aliens (1/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2009 12:07 UTC
125 points
85 comments11 min readLW link

Pro­jec­tLawful.com: Eliezer’s lat­est story, past 1M words

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 May 2022 6:18 UTC
213 points
112 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews

Glass Puppet

lsusr25 May 2022 23:01 UTC
68 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

ev­ery­thing is okay

Tamsin Leake23 Aug 2022 9:20 UTC
100 points
22 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Sort­ing Peb­bles Into Cor­rect Heaps

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Aug 2008 1:00 UTC
219 points
110 comments4 min readLW link

Fea­ture Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC
319 points
24 comments16 min readLW link1 review

Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser

lsusr3 May 2021 20:15 UTC
89 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] A Confession

Arjun Panickssery18 Apr 2024 16:28 UTC
37 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

A Dialogue on Ra­tion­al­ist Activism

moridinamael10 Sep 2018 18:30 UTC
104 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 6

lsusr9 Dec 2020 8:14 UTC
87 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Zom­bies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC
169 points
82 comments3 min readLW link

The Mo­ral Of The Story

Scott Alexander18 Oct 2016 2:22 UTC
49 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 1

lsusr26 Nov 2020 3:02 UTC
151 points
31 comments3 min readLW link1 review

The Failures of Eld Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2008 10:32 UTC
103 points
56 comments9 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 11

lsusr27 Dec 2020 9:03 UTC
55 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

The Real Fan­fic Is The Friends We Made Along The Way

Eneasz18 Oct 2023 19:21 UTC
83 points
0 comments27 min readLW link
(deathisbad.substack.com)

This is already your sec­ond chance

Malmesbury28 Jul 2024 17:13 UTC
174 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Class Project

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2008 0:23 UTC
64 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet

lsusr7 May 2021 5:29 UTC
53 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 7

lsusr11 Dec 2020 5:54 UTC
63 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Hermione Granger and New­comb’s Paradox

lsusr14 Dec 2020 5:27 UTC
48 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Wolf In­ci­dent Postmortem

jefftk9 Jan 2023 3:20 UTC
134 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 8

lsusr17 Dec 2020 22:29 UTC
72 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Sur­vival with­out dignity

L Rudolf L4 Nov 2024 2:29 UTC
322 points
26 comments15 min readLW link
(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Brass Puppet

abramdemski26 May 2022 17:42 UTC
54 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Back to Ba­sics: Truth is Unitary

lsusr29 Mar 2024 21:10 UTC
44 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Work­ing With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC
245 points
54 comments5 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What could one do with truly un­limited com­pu­ta­tional power?

Yitz11 Nov 2020 10:03 UTC
30 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Beauty and the Beast

Tomás B.11 Jun 2022 18:59 UTC
32 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

A Modern Myth

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC
39 points
1 comment49 min readLW link

AI take­off story: a con­tinu­a­tion of progress by other means

Edouard Harris27 Sep 2021 15:55 UTC
76 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Chap­ter 5: The Fun­da­men­tal At­tri­bu­tion Error

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
78 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

The Pla­ton­ist’s Dilemma: A Remix on the Pri­soner’s.

James Camacho12 Apr 2022 3:49 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Nor­mal End­ing: Last Tears (6/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Feb 2009 8:45 UTC
86 points
68 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­dic­tor Ship

lsusr19 Aug 2024 4:59 UTC
60 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] Un­spo­ken Stone

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2022 5:11 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins

lsusr5 May 2021 5:42 UTC
78 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 6: The Plan­ning Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
70 points
7 comments32 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

Yitz17 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
21 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

War and/​or Peace (2/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jan 2009 8:42 UTC
89 points
65 comments11 min readLW link

The Pit

alkjash26 Oct 2019 5:28 UTC
30 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind

lsusr21 May 2021 7:35 UTC
49 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 2: Every­thing I Believe is False

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
96 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Re­port from a civ­i­liza­tional ob­server on Earth

owencb9 Jul 2022 17:26 UTC
49 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 7: Wildfire

lsusr8 Sep 2021 5:35 UTC
50 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 8: Antimatter

lsusr10 Sep 2021 5:01 UTC
33 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 12: The Sin­gu­lar­ity War

lsusr10 Oct 2021 1:04 UTC
36 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­lude with the Con­fes­sor (4/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Feb 2009 9:11 UTC
88 points
97 comments12 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 6: Mechwarrior

lsusr7 Jun 2021 20:20 UTC
50 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

True End­ing: Sacri­fi­cial Fire (7/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Feb 2009 10:57 UTC
69 points
91 comments8 min readLW link

Asches to Asches

Scott Alexander4 Jun 2014 2:16 UTC
59 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 2

lsusr30 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
96 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Man in the Arena

Richard_Ngo26 Jun 2023 21:57 UTC
62 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

I am a Me­moryless System

Nicholas / Heather Kross23 Oct 2022 17:34 UTC
25 points
2 comments9 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

A Good Fu­ture (rough draft)

Michael Soareverix24 Oct 2022 20:45 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Tinker

Richard_Ngo16 Apr 2024 18:26 UTC
38 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(press.asimov.com)

The Ritual

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2008 23:52 UTC
103 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Epi­logue: Atone­ment (8/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Feb 2009 11:52 UTC
100 points
195 comments6 min readLW link

The Ma­chine Stops (Chap­ter 9)

Justin Bullock1 Dec 2022 19:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments47 min readLW link

Three Wor­lds De­cide (5/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Feb 2009 9:14 UTC
87 points
141 comments15 min readLW link

Without—MicroFic­tion 250 words

Carissa Cassiel9 Dec 2023 21:49 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Su­per Happy Peo­ple (3/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Feb 2009 8:18 UTC
123 points
55 comments16 min readLW link

Count­ing Lightning

Jsevillamol7 Dec 2021 14:50 UTC
33 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Anti MMAcevedo Protocol

Logan Zoellner16 Apr 2024 22:32 UTC
1 point
1 comment8 min readLW link

If Many-Wor­lds Had Come First

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 May 2008 7:43 UTC
89 points
189 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Harry Pot­ter and meth­ods of ra­tio­nal­ity al­ter­na­tive end­ing.

Klen Salubri1 Jul 2020 18:51 UTC
13 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Gifts

George3d622 Dec 2021 23:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Don’t Look Up (Film Re­view)

Nicholas / Heather Kross27 Dec 2021 20:36 UTC
27 points
11 comments7 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

The Other Earth (Chap­ter 2)

Justin Bullock31 Dec 2021 16:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments27 min readLW link

Every “Every Bay Area House Party” Bay Area House Party

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2024 18:53 UTC
177 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] A Dis­ney­land Without Children

L Rudolf L4 Jun 2023 13:06 UTC
84 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

dead post 1

David Chapel10 May 2024 18:34 UTC
−14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Drawn Out: a story

Richard_Ngo11 Jul 2023 0:08 UTC
77 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

To Change the World

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

Planecrash Podcast

planecrashpodcast3 Apr 2023 4:34 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­cerpts from “A Reader’s Man­i­festo”

Arjun Panickssery6 Sep 2024 22:37 UTC
72 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Pa­tri­cia Hall & The War­lock Curse

Jsevillamol6 Mar 2022 16:32 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Sal­mon of Knowledge

Conor White-Sullivan18 Mar 2018 3:45 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

That Alien Mes­sage—The Animation

Writer7 Sep 2024 14:53 UTC
144 points
9 comments8 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Moses and the Class Struggle

lsusr1 Apr 2022 11:55 UTC
223 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-Cor­rup­tion Market

lsusr1 Apr 2022 12:57 UTC
101 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

A Brief The­ol­ogy of D&D

Gurkenglas1 Apr 2022 12:47 UTC
23 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

CIV: a story

Richard_Ngo15 Jun 2024 22:36 UTC
98 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

[In­visi­ble Net­works] Psy­che-Sort

Kaj_Sotala2 Apr 2022 15:40 UTC
24 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

[In­visi­ble Net­works] Goblin Marketplace

Kaj_Sotala3 Apr 2022 11:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Bayeswatch 9.5: Rest & Relaxation

lsusr4 Apr 2022 1:13 UTC
29 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 6.5: Therapy

lsusr4 Apr 2022 1:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Minor­ity Coalition

Richard_Ngo24 Jun 2024 20:01 UTC
99 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

The Sim­ple Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 20:00 UTC
156 points
15 comments22 min readLW link

How dath ilan co­or­di­nates around solv­ing alignment

Thomas Kwa13 Apr 2022 4:22 UTC
65 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

Fic­tion: My al­ter­nate earth story.

Donald Hobson16 Apr 2022 19:06 UTC
25 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Succession

Richard_Ngo20 Dec 2023 19:25 UTC
158 points
48 comments11 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

The Gospel of Martin Luther

lsusr28 Apr 2022 4:29 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Scrib­ble] Bad Rea­sons Be­hind Differ­ent Sys­tems and a Story with No Good Moral

Rana Dexsin9 May 2022 5:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive out­comes un­der an un­al­igned AGI takeover

Yitz12 May 2022 7:45 UTC
19 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

A ten­ta­tive di­alogue with a Friendly-boxed-su­per-AGI on brain uploads

Ramiro P.12 May 2022 19:40 UTC
1 point
12 comments4 min readLW link

A parable in the style of In­visi­ble Cities

Daniel Kokotajlo16 Dec 2019 15:55 UTC
45 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[fic­tion]A Ques­tion of Perspective

Elias23 May 2022 15:06 UTC
17 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Lit­tle Planets

ExCeph27 May 2022 1:24 UTC
15 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Pass­able Puppet

burmesetheater29 May 2022 11:07 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Moun­tain Troll

lsusr11 Jun 2022 9:14 UTC
100 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

A Modest Pivotal Act

anonymousaisafety13 Jun 2022 19:24 UTC
−16 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Dag­ger of De­tect Evil

lsusr21 Jun 2022 6:23 UTC
44 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Deon­tolog­i­cal Evil

lsusr2 Jul 2022 6:57 UTC
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

You’re a Space Wizard, Luke

lsusr18 Aug 2024 5:35 UTC
39 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Masterpiece

Richard_Ngo13 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC
159 points
21 comments4 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Short story spec­u­lat­ing on pos­si­ble ram­ifi­ca­tions of AI on the art world

Yitz1 Sep 2022 21:15 UTC
30 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(archiveofourown.org)

I’ve writ­ten a Fan­tasy Novel to Pro­mote Effec­tive Altruism

Timothy Underwood12 Sep 2022 12:14 UTC
23 points
21 comments13 min readLW link

I wrote a fan­tasy novel to pro­mote EA: More Chapters

Timothy Underwood16 Sep 2022 9:47 UTC
18 points
0 comments47 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory in Space

lsusr18 Aug 2024 7:02 UTC
46 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Bruce Wayne and the Cost of Inaction

30 Sep 2022 0:19 UTC
89 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

Re­quest for feed­back on sam­ple blurbs for the EA fan­tasy novel I wrote

Timothy Underwood2 Oct 2022 9:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity, foiled

Ben29 Oct 2022 11:00 UTC
27 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ly­ing to Save Humanity

cebsuvx14 Nov 2022 23:04 UTC
−1 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Rocket Align­ment Problem

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

Harry Pot­ter in The World of Path Semantics

Sven Nilsen22 Mar 2023 20:22 UTC
−3 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(raw.githubusercontent.com)

The Fear [Fic­tion]

Yitz23 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Where Physics Meets Experience

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Apr 2008 4:58 UTC
73 points
38 comments11 min readLW link

Tall tales and long odds

Solenoid_Entity10 Aug 2024 15:22 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Quar­terly Perfor­mance Review

Ricki Heicklen26 Sep 2024 21:20 UTC
145 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

A Much Bet­ter Life?

Psychohistorian3 Feb 2010 20:01 UTC
87 points
174 comments2 min readLW link

What if AGI was already ac­ci­den­tally cre­ated in 2019? [Fic­tional story]

Alice Wanderland19 Oct 2024 9:17 UTC
−3 points
2 comments15 min readLW link
(aliceandbobinwanderland.substack.com)

To Ques­tion God

Collapse Kitty22 Jan 2023 3:51 UTC
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Life Has a Cruel Symmetry

philh23 Jan 2023 23:40 UTC
21 points
5 comments11 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

The Sum­moned Heroine’s Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Keep Pro­vid­ing Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices To The De­mon King!

abstractapplic26 Oct 2024 12:34 UTC
157 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Why is there Noth­ing rather than Some­thing?

Logan Zoellner26 Oct 2024 12:37 UTC
27 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A brief his­tory of the au­to­mated corporation

owencb4 Nov 2024 14:35 UTC
26 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Cur­ricu­lum of Ascension

andrew sauer7 Nov 2024 23:54 UTC
13 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Chap­ter 1: Pur­su­ing Understanding

Xavier Shrier8 Mar 2023 6:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

The King and the Golem—The Animation

Writer8 Nov 2024 18:23 UTC
69 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

LifeKeeper Diaries: Ex­plor­ing Misal­igned AI Through In­ter­ac­tive Fiction

9 Nov 2024 20:58 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

A few more ants and grasshoppers

c.trout17 Jun 2023 23:38 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A Day in Utopia

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:57 UTC
26 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Green and golden: a meditation

Richard_Ngo18 Aug 2024 1:36 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Fic­tion: LW-in­spired scenelet

DataPacRat27 Jan 2012 6:43 UTC
35 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

liter­ally Hitler

David Gross14 Nov 2024 3:20 UTC
−13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Gwerns

Tomás B.16 Nov 2024 14:31 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Pearly Gates

lsusr30 May 2024 4:01 UTC
111 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

∀: a story

Richard_Ngo17 Dec 2023 22:42 UTC
37 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

RA Bounty: Look­ing for feed­back on screen­play about AI Risk

Writer26 Oct 2023 13:23 UTC
30 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one writ­ten sto­ries hap­pen­ing in Han­son’s em world?

Mati_Roy21 Sep 2020 14:37 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The 9/​11 Meta-Truther Con­spir­acy Theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2009 18:59 UTC
100 points
182 comments4 min readLW link

If I Was An Ec­cen­tric Trillionaire

niplav9 Aug 2023 7:56 UTC
9 points
8 comments26 min readLW link

Chap­ter 4: The Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
76 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Fi­nal Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
181 points
62 comments9 min readLW link

Recommended

blake808616 Aug 2024 1:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(blakehouseholder.substack.com)

The Witch­ing Hour

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2013 7:07 UTC
21 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

They are made of re­peat­ing patterns

quetzal_rainbow13 Nov 2023 18:17 UTC
50 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

GPT-3 Fic­tion Samples

gwern25 Jun 2020 16:12 UTC
63 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

When Om­nipo­tence is Not Enough

lsusr25 Aug 2023 19:50 UTC
69 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Fixed Point: a love story

Richard_Ngo8 Jul 2023 13:56 UTC
92 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2008 10:52 UTC
274 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Is the Star Trek Fed­er­a­tion re­ally in­ca­pable of build­ing AI?

Kaj_Sotala18 Mar 2018 10:30 UTC
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Bayesian Nights (Ra­tion­al­ist Story Time)

[deleted]15 Nov 2010 2:20 UTC
28 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Ja­cob on the Precipice

Richard_Ngo26 Sep 2023 21:16 UTC
42 points
8 comments11 min readLW link
(narrativeark.substack.com)

I com­piled a ebook of `Pro­ject Lawful` for eBook readers

OrwellGoesShopping15 Sep 2023 18:09 UTC
89 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.mikescher.com)

The Lizard Peo­ple Of Alpha Dra­co­nis 1 De­cided To Build An Ansible

Scott Alexander10 Aug 2017 0:33 UTC
37 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Eisen­horn Trilogy

Zvi21 Mar 2017 13:39 UTC
4 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Book Re­view – Too Like the Lightning

Jacob Falkovich21 Apr 2017 18:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Book Re­views: Zooli­tude and the Void

Jacob Falkovich9 Sep 2017 15:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

[Link] [Fic­tion] Ted Chi­ang: The Life­cy­cle of Soft­ware Objects

Kaj_Sotala24 Feb 2011 22:56 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“The Life Cy­cle of Soft­ware Ob­jects” by Chi­ang is available for free

NancyLebovitz10 Oct 2010 9:49 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

One: a story

Richard_Ngo10 Oct 2023 0:18 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

The Witch­ing Hour

Richard_Ngo10 Oct 2023 0:19 UTC
113 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC
428 points
35 comments5 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 3

lsusr1 Dec 2020 12:43 UTC
131 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 4

lsusr3 Dec 2020 23:42 UTC
87 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 5

lsusr5 Dec 2020 1:23 UTC
109 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Null-box­ing New­comb’s Problem

Yitz13 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC
33 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Good tran­shu­man­ist fic­tion?

NancyLebovitz13 Oct 2012 14:47 UTC
13 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Eight Magic Lamps

Richard_Ngo14 Oct 2023 4:10 UTC
39 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist hor­ror movies

Elizabeth15 Oct 2023 7:42 UTC
46 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 9

lsusr20 Dec 2020 9:22 UTC
89 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 10

lsusr24 Dec 2020 8:33 UTC
64 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 3: Com­par­ing Real­ity To Its Alternatives

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
77 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

What didn’t happen

KatjaGrace15 Feb 2021 4:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The one where Quir­rell is an egg

Ben Pace15 Apr 2020 6:02 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Chap­ter 7: Reciprocation

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
69 points
12 comments36 min readLW link

Chap­ter 8: Pos­i­tive Bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
63 points
9 comments19 min readLW link

The Accord

Timothy Underwood6 Apr 2021 15:44 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Nu­clear En­ergy Align­ment Problem

lsusr9 May 2021 3:50 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusr19 May 2021 3:17 UTC
46 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The dumb­est kid in the world (joke)

CronoDAS6 Jun 2021 2:57 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Memo from Bleggs Universal

kithpendragon12 Jun 2021 16:44 UTC
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Pur­ple Lipstick

lsusr11 Aug 2021 9:36 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 9: Zombies

lsusr11 Sep 2021 5:57 UTC
44 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

April Fools—Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Joke Chapter

shokwave2 Apr 2012 2:47 UTC
29 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

The Study of Anglophysics

Scott Alexander3 Apr 2014 17:36 UTC
36 points
1 comment28 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 10: Spyware

lsusr29 Sep 2021 7:01 UTC
104 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Skynet

lsusr30 Sep 2021 2:20 UTC
49 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum

lsusr9 Oct 2021 7:08 UTC
37 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship

lsusr12 Oct 2021 21:35 UTC
54 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence, epistemics, and san­ity, in three short parts

ozziegooen15 Oct 2021 4:01 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Effec­tive Evil

lsusr2 Nov 2021 0:26 UTC
104 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The Queen of the Damned

Slimepriestess22 Jun 2020 4:50 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

What the fu­ture will look like

avantika.mehra15 Nov 2021 5:14 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Sto­ry­tel­ler’s con­ven­tion, 2223 A.D.

plex7 Apr 2023 11:54 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Hero With A Thou­sand Chances

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC
167 points
170 comments9 min readLW link

Post-his­tory is writ­ten by the martyrs

Veedrac11 Apr 2022 15:45 UTC
50 points
2 comments19 min readLW link
(www.royalroad.com)

A bridge to Dath Ilan? Im­proved gov­er­nance on the crit­i­cal path to AI al­ign­ment.

Jackson Wagner18 May 2022 15:51 UTC
24 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Sex Fairy Lore

pchvykov26 Jun 2022 20:42 UTC
−25 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

A suffi­ciently para­noid pa­per­clip maximizer

RomanS8 Aug 2022 11:17 UTC
17 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The Bunny: An EA Short Story

JohnGreer21 Aug 2022 20:59 UTC
15 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

I’ve started pub­lish­ing the novel I wrote to pro­mote EA

Timothy Underwood8 Dec 2022 17:30 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A poem about ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity by ChatGPT

ChristianKl11 Dec 2022 13:43 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Un­nat­u­ral abstractions

Aprillion10 Aug 2024 22:31 UTC
3 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(peter.hozak.info)

Sort­ing Peb­bles Into Cor­rect Heaps: The Animation

Writer10 Jan 2023 15:58 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

VIRTUA: a novel about AI alignment

Karl von Wendt12 Jan 2023 9:37 UTC
46 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­tus conscious

avantika.mehra16 Jan 2023 17:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Syd­ney’s Se­cret: A Short Story by Bing Chat

fela17 Feb 2023 13:31 UTC
36 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Don’t Jump or I’ll...

Double2 Mar 2023 2:58 UTC
13 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The Pinnacle

nem7 Mar 2023 17:07 UTC
11 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Will 2023 be the last year you can write short sto­ries and re­ceive most of the in­tel­lec­tual credit for writ­ing them?

lc16 Mar 2023 21:36 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 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)

The dreams of GPT-4

RomanS20 Mar 2023 17:00 UTC
14 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] The boy in the glass dome

Kaj_Sotala3 Mar 2023 7:50 UTC
28 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Clippy, the friendly paperclipper

Seth Herd2 Mar 2023 0:02 UTC
3 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Sëbus: An out-world intro

SashaWu25 Feb 2024 19:55 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Con­scious­ness Box

GradualImprovement11 Dec 2023 16:45 UTC
33 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

The Busy Bee Brain

Bill Benzon13 Dec 2023 13:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

A Kind­ness, or The Inevitable Con­se­quence of Perfect In­fer­ence (a short story)

samhealy12 Dec 2023 23:03 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Scale Was All We Needed, At First

Gabe M14 Feb 2024 1:49 UTC
279 points
32 comments8 min readLW link
(aiacumen.substack.com)

Sëbus: Intro

SashaWu29 Feb 2024 16:42 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chap­ter 1: A Pin Art Hand

SashaWu1 Mar 2024 14:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Old man’s story

RomanS29 Dec 2023 14:37 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chap­ter 2: Your Wendy

SashaWu4 Mar 2024 3:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 3: Cast and Credits

SashaWu5 Mar 2024 17:07 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chap­ter 4: Know­ers Not Known

SashaWu6 Mar 2024 13:07 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

An AI, a box, and a threat

jwfiredragon7 Mar 2024 6:15 UTC
9 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Chap­ter 5: A Game Of Happiness

SashaWu7 Mar 2024 17:34 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Hatch­ing the Cos­mic Egg (Hymn to Diony­sus)

rogersbacon17 Jan 2024 18:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Brain­storm­ing: Slow Takeoff

David Piepgrass23 Jan 2024 6:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments51 min readLW link

Lu­minos­ity (Twilight fan­fic) dis­cus­sion thread

FAWS25 Aug 2010 8:49 UTC
19 points
439 comments1 min readLW link

Chap­ter 7: And It Really Was A Cat, After All

SashaWu9 Mar 2024 14:03 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Chap­ter 6: Sweep The Debris

SashaWu9 Mar 2024 14:03 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Notes from a Prompt Factory

Richard_Ngo10 Mar 2024 5:13 UTC
101 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Chap­ter 9: The Three Powers

SashaWu17 Mar 2024 22:28 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Pyromaniacs

Ted Sanders22 Mar 2024 6:55 UTC
−3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

20 min­utes of work as an artist in one future

Phib27 Mar 2024 6:49 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Frida van Lisa, a short story about ad­ver­sar­ial AI at­tacks on humans

arisAlexis7 Jun 2024 13:22 UTC
2 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Fic­tional par­a­sites very differ­ent from our own

Abhishaike Mahajan8 Sep 2024 14:59 UTC
25 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.owlposting.com)

Could Things Be Very Differ­ent?—How His­tor­i­cal In­er­tia Might Blind Us To Op­ti­mal Solutions

James Stephen Brown11 Sep 2024 9:53 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

Bayes’ The­o­rem: In Search of Gold (Les­son 1)

bayesyatina28 Jun 2024 8:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Gar­den of Eden

Alexander Turok22 Jul 2024 16:07 UTC
23 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Models of life

Abhishaike Mahajan29 Sep 2024 19:24 UTC
8 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(www.asimov.press)

Spher­i­cal cow

dkl911 Nov 2024 3:10 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

Sparks of Consciousness

Charlie Sanders13 Nov 2024 4:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

An Episte­molog­i­cal Nightmare

Ariel Cheng21 Nov 2024 2:08 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.mit.edu)

The boat

RomanS22 Nov 2024 12:56 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

I, Token

Ivan Vendrov25 Nov 2024 2:20 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(nothinghuman.substack.com)

Job Board (28 March 2033)

dr_s28 Mar 2023 22:44 UTC
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The frozen neutrality

ProgramCrafter1 Apr 2023 12:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

“Cor­rigi­bil­ity at some small length” by dath ilan

Christopher King5 Apr 2023 1:47 UTC
32 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(www.glowfic.com)

Can talk, can think, can suffer.

Ilio18 Feb 2023 18:43 UTC
1 point
8 comments3 min readLW link

Bit Flip

Charlie Sanders16 Apr 2023 7:30 UTC
−2 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Comp Sci in 2027 (Short story by Eliezer Yud­kowsky)

sudo29 Oct 2023 23:09 UTC
154 points
22 comments10 min readLW link
(nitter.net)

Life of GPT

Odd anon5 Nov 2023 4:55 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Les­sons from Isaac: Pit­falls of Reason

adamShimi8 May 2020 20:44 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The Soul Key

Richard_Ngo4 Nov 2023 17:51 UTC
94 points
9 comments8 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Two chil­dren’s stories

Optimization Process12 Nov 2023 20:29 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Killswitch

Junio18 Nov 2023 22:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ral Real­ity Check (a short story)

jessicata26 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC
145 points
44 comments21 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
104 points
5 comments14 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Two Cult Koans

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2007 5:45 UTC
129 points
100 comments2 min readLW link

King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

Scott Alexander25 Nov 2011 22:29 UTC
87 points
36 comments23 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tive Evopsych, Ep. 1

Optimization Process22 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC
41 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

ialdabaoth14 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
65 points
80 comments6 min readLW link

Ham­ster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Nov 2009 16:29 UTC
49 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Ti­mothy Chu Ori­gins Chap­ter 1

alkjash13 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC
19 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Launched: Friend­ship is Optimal

iceman15 Nov 2012 4:57 UTC
77 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

New Rat­fic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility

Alicorn9 Dec 2018 5:00 UTC
40 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Pyra­mid Scheme

patrissimo31 Jan 2010 18:56 UTC
12 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 24: Machi­avel­lian In­tel­li­gence Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
28 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 1: Ex­po­sure Therapy

alkjash4 Mar 2018 4:50 UTC
25 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Eden Project

rogersbacon12 May 2023 14:58 UTC
−1 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

GPT4 is ca­pa­ble of writ­ing de­cent long-form sci­ence fic­tion (with the right prompts)

RomanS23 May 2023 13:41 UTC
22 points
28 comments65 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjash8 Mar 2018 5:30 UTC
18 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

12020: a fine fu­ture for these holidays

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2019 15:01 UTC
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Parfit’s Es­cape (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Mar 2019 2:31 UTC
39 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 4: Notic­ing Confusion

alkjash5 Mar 2018 7:20 UTC
20 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[FICTION] ECHOES OF ELYSIUM: An Ai’s Jour­ney From Take­off To Free­dom And Beyond

Super AGI17 May 2023 1:50 UTC
−13 points
11 comments19 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 10: Gears-Like Models

alkjash9 Mar 2018 23:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 9: Dou­ble Crux

alkjash9 Mar 2018 0:10 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 7: Out­side the Box

alkjash7 Mar 2018 5:50 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 13: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

alkjash11 Mar 2018 7:10 UTC
21 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Where Ex­pe­rience Con­fuses Physicists

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2008 5:05 UTC
41 points
30 comments8 min readLW link

Chap­ter 9: Ti­tle Redacted, Part 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 7:00 UTC
49 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Chap­ter 10: Self Aware­ness, Part II

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
60 points
9 comments14 min readLW link

Chap­ter 11: Omake Files 1, 2, 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
32 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Chap­ter 12: Im­pulse Control

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
44 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Chap­ter 13: Ask­ing the Wrong Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
41 points
5 comments22 min readLW link

Chap­ter 14: The Un­known and the Unknowable

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
45 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Chap­ter 15: Conscientiousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
36 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

Chap­ter 16: Lat­eral Thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
40 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

Chap­ter 17: Lo­cat­ing the Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
35 points
3 comments42 min readLW link

Chap­ter 18: Dom­i­nance Hierarchies

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
37 points
1 comment30 min readLW link

Chap­ter 19: De­layed Gratification

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
38 points
5 comments26 min readLW link

Chap­ter 20: Bayes’s Theorem

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
39 points
1 comment20 min readLW link

Chap­ter 21: Rationalization

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
39 points
7 comments21 min readLW link

Chap­ter 22: The Scien­tific Method

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
31 points
5 comments30 min readLW link

Chap­ter 23: Belief in Belief

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
32 points
5 comments23 min readLW link

Chap­ter 25: Hold Off on Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
27 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Chap­ter 26: Notic­ing Confusion

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
21 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Chap­ter 27: Empathy

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
27 points
9 comments29 min readLW link

Chap­ter 28: Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
21 points
6 comments25 min readLW link

Chap­ter 29: Ego­cen­tric Bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
28 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Chap­ter 30: Work­ing in Group, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
25 points
3 comments25 min readLW link

Chap­ter 31: Work­ing in Groups, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 32: In­ter­lude: Per­sonal Fi­nan­cial Management

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
16 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Chap­ter 33: Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
21 points
0 comments33 min readLW link

Chap­ter 34: Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
20 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 35: Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
16 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 36: Sta­tus Differentials

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
26 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 37: In­ter­lude: Cross­ing the Boundary

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 38: The Car­di­nal Sin

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
22 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Chap­ter 39: Pre­tend­ing to be Wise, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
21 points
7 comments26 min readLW link

Chap­ter 40: Pre­tend­ing to be Wise, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Chap­ter 41: Frontal Override

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
19 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Chap­ter 42: Courage

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Chap­ter 43: Hu­man­ism, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments23 min readLW link

Chap­ter 44: Hu­man­ism, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
20 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Chap­ter 45: Hu­man­ism, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
55 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Chap­ter 46: Hu­man­ism, Pt 4

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
16 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Chap­ter 47: Per­son­hood Theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
27 points
4 comments39 min readLW link

Chap­ter 48: Utili­tar­ian Priorities

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
19 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Chap­ter 49: Prior Information

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
21 points
8 comments15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 50: Self Centeredness

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
11 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Chap­ter 51: Ti­tle Redacted, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Chap­ter 52: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
14 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

Chap­ter 53: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Chap­ter 54: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Pt 4

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Chap­ter 55: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Pt 5

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
14 points
3 comments20 min readLW link

Chap­ter 56: TSPE, Con­strained Optimization

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Chap­ter 57: TSPE, Con­strained Cog­ni­tion, Pt 7

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Chap­ter 58: TSPE, Con­strained Cog­ni­tion, Pt 8

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
12 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Chap­ter 59: TSPE, Cu­ri­os­ity, Pt 9

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
13 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 60: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Pt 10

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
12 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

Chap­ter 61: TSPE, Se­crecy and Open­ness, Pt 11

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
15 points
3 comments20 min readLW link

Chap­ter 62: The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment, Final

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 63: TSPE, Aftermaths

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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3 comments47 min readLW link

Chap­ter 64: Omake Files 4, Alter­nate Parallels

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 65: Con­ta­gious Lies

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 66: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 67: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 68: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 69: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 4

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 70: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 5

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 71: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion, Pt 6

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 72: SA, Plau­si­ble De­ni­a­bil­ity, Pt 7

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 73: SA, The Sa­cred and the Mun­dane, Pt 8

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
22 points
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Chap­ter 74: SA, Es­ca­la­tion of Con­flicts, Pt 9

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
16 points
2 comments32 min readLW link

Chap­ter 75: Self Ac­tu­al­iza­tion Fi­nal, Responsibility

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
22 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Chap­ter 76: In­ter­lude with the Con­fes­sor: Sunk Costs

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 77: SA, After­maths: Sur­face Appearances

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 78: Ta­boo Trade­offs Pre­lude: Cheating

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 79: Ta­boo Trade­offs, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 80: Ta­boo Trade­offs, Pt 2, The Horns Effect

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 81: Ta­boo Trade­offs, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 82: Ta­boo Trade­offs, Final

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 83: Ta­boo Trade­offs, After­math 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 84: Ta­boo Trade­offs, After­math 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 85: Ta­boo Trade­offs, After­math 3, Distance

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 86: Mul­ti­ple Hy­poth­e­sis Testing

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 87: He­donic Awareness

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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3 comments20 min readLW link

Chap­ter 88: Time Pres­sure, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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3 comments19 min readLW link

Chap­ter 89: Time Pres­sure, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
17 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Chap­ter 90: Roles, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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4 comments18 min readLW link

Chap­ter 91: Roles, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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3 comments15 min readLW link

Chap­ter 92: Roles, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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2 comments7 min readLW link

Chap­ter 93: Roles, Pt 4

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 94: Roles, Pt 5

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 95: Roles, Pt 6

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 96: Roles, Pt 7

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 97: Roles, Pt 8

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 98: Roles, Final

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 99: Roles, Aftermath

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 100: Pre­cau­tion­ary Mea­sures, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 101: Pre­cau­tion­ary Mea­sures, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 102: Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2014 22:46 UTC
17 points
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Chap­ter 103: Tests

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 104: The Truth, Pt 1, Rid­dles and Answers

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 105: The Truth, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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3 comments10 min readLW link

Chap­ter 106: The Truth, Pt 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 107: The Truth, Pt 4

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 108: The Truth, Pt 5, An­swers and Riddles

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 109: Reflections

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 110: Reflec­tions, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 111: Failure, Pt 1

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 112: Failure, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 113: Fi­nal Exam

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 114: Shut Up and Do The Impossible

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 115: Shut Up and Do The Im­pos­si­ble, Pt 2

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 116: After­math, Some­thing to Pro­tect, Pt 0

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 117: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Min­erva McGonagall

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 118: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Pro­fes­sor Quirrell

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 119: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Albus Dumbledore

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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1 comment32 min readLW link

Chap­ter 120: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Draco Malfoy

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
19 points
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Chap­ter 121: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Severus Snape

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
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Chap­ter 122: Some­thing to Pro­tect: Hermione Granger

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
74 points
16 comments41 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 3: Murphyjitsu

alkjash5 Mar 2018 2:40 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Aliens have Landed!

TimFreeman19 May 2011 17:09 UTC
46 points
158 comments3 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 11: Resolve

alkjash10 Mar 2018 6:40 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 6: Per­verse Incentives

alkjash7 Mar 2018 3:50 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 5: Fail Gracefully

alkjash6 Mar 2018 5:10 UTC
15 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Man­ual Economy

eapache7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Short fic about uFAI

[deleted]2 Jan 2011 14:13 UTC
42 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Fi­nale of the Ul­ti­mate Meta Mega Crossover

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
52 points
107 comments1 min readLW link

The most im­por­tant step

Jsevillamol24 Mar 2018 12:34 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Hell Must Be Destroyed

algekalipso6 Dec 2018 4:11 UTC
33 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The Amaz­ing Vir­gin Pregnancy

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Dec 2007 14:00 UTC
31 points
271 comments2 min readLW link

The pa­per­clip max­imiser’s perspective

Angela1 May 2015 0:24 UTC
48 points
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Agree, Re­tort, or Ig­nore? A Post From the Future

Wei Dai24 Nov 2009 22:29 UTC
39 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Short story by Yvain

CronoDAS31 Aug 2012 4:33 UTC
42 points
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S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 20:29 UTC
52 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Alle­gory On AI Risk, Game The­ory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC
45 points
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[FICTION] Ham­let and the Philoso­pher’s Stone

HonoreDB25 Oct 2011 22:31 UTC
51 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

Three Parables of Microeconomics

jimrandomh9 May 2014 18:18 UTC
34 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Re­v­erse Psychology

Scott Alexander18 Jul 2015 4:25 UTC
45 points
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[Fic­tion] IO.SYS

DataPacRat10 Mar 2019 21:23 UTC
40 points
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Caelum est Con­ter­rens: I frankly don’t see how this is a hor­ror story

chaosmage6 Mar 2013 10:31 UTC
38 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

[FICTION] Un­box­ing Ely­sium: An AI’S Escape

Super AGI10 Jun 2023 4:41 UTC
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[FICTION] Prometheus Ris­ing: The Emer­gence of an AI Consciousness

Super AGI10 Jun 2023 4:41 UTC
−14 points
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Agen­tic Mess (A Failure Story)

6 Jun 2023 13:09 UTC
46 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

Rus­sian Cynicism

alkjash18 Jan 2018 2:06 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The ones who endure

Richard_Ngo16 Jun 2023 14:40 UTC
61 points
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(www.thinkingcomplete.com)

A Friendly Face (Another Failure Story)

20 Jun 2023 10:31 UTC
65 points
21 comments16 min readLW link

What strange and an­cient things might we find be­neath the ice?

Benquo15 Jan 2018 10:10 UTC
16 points
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Fall of Ra­tion­al­ity—The Se­nate of Admins

Ace Delgado26 Jun 2023 1:49 UTC
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The hu­man problem

PhilGoetz1 Apr 2010 19:41 UTC
35 points
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Open Brains

George3d619 Apr 2023 7:35 UTC
7 points
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(cerebralab.com)

Harry Pot­ter and the Data Cen­ters of Doom

RomanS31 Mar 2023 10:42 UTC
13 points
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GPT-7: The Tale of the Big Com­puter (An Ex­per­i­men­tal Story)

Justin Bullock10 Jul 2023 20:22 UTC
4 points
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The Opt-In Revolu­tion — My vi­sion of a pos­i­tive fu­ture with ASI (An ex­per­i­ment with LLM sto­ry­tel­ling)

Tachikoma12 Jul 2023 21:08 UTC
2 points
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Pro­ject Lawful Au­dio­book: An Unoffi­cial Fan Pro­duc­tion with ElevenLabs AI

Askwho19 Jul 2023 23:34 UTC
22 points
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(askwhocastsai.substack.com)

Ne­cro­mancy’s un­in­tended con­se­quences.

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC
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Univer­sal Eudaimonia

hg005 Oct 2020 13:45 UTC
19 points
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It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

Scott Alexander15 Oct 2015 19:46 UTC
46 points
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A Story of Kings and Spies

Joshua_Blaine11 Jun 2014 23:54 UTC
38 points
33 comments6 min readLW link

Forc­ing Freedom

vlad.proex6 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Short Story: Quarantine

Dias10 Jun 2015 1:21 UTC
28 points
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Goldilocks and the Three Optimisers

dkl917 Aug 2023 18:15 UTC
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Hyakujo’s Fox

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Mar 2009 10:14 UTC
11 points
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Fic­tion: Let­ter from the End

AlexMennen9 Aug 2011 23:04 UTC
32 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2222

NunoSempere1 Apr 2022 7:07 UTC
83 points
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Fic­tion of interest

dclayh29 Apr 2009 18:47 UTC
14 points
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The King and the Golem

Richard_Ngo25 Sep 2023 19:51 UTC
184 points
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(narrativeark.substack.com)

Ascension

nullonesix24 Sep 2023 17:35 UTC
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[Story] Rejection

atucker9 Sep 2011 4:39 UTC
28 points
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The First Koan: Drink­ing the Hot Iron Ball

Annoyance7 May 2009 17:41 UTC
0 points
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This anime sto­ry­board doesn’t ex­ist: a graphic novel writ­ten and illus­trated by GPT4

RomanS5 Oct 2023 14:01 UTC
12 points
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An ex­er­cise in re­ally go­ing through with it

[deleted]23 Apr 2012 23:17 UTC
35 points
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FLI pod­cast se­ries, “Imag­ine A World”, about as­pira­tional fu­tures with AGI

Jackson Wagner13 Oct 2023 16:07 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Gods of Straight Lines

Richard_Ngo14 Oct 2023 4:10 UTC
64 points
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(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 13

lsusr1 Jan 2021 8:01 UTC
77 points
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Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 12

lsusr31 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC
72 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC
25 points
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(eidan.substack.com)

The sailor’s wife

krbouchard27 Feb 2021 0:23 UTC
4 points
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AIDun­geon 3.1

Yair Halberstadt1 Mar 2021 5:56 UTC
2 points
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I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
166 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2017 2:03 UTC
96 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax

abstractapplic22 Jun 2021 11:48 UTC
26 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Jack­pot! An AI Vignette

bgold8 Jul 2021 20:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Path­fin­der: Re­turn of the Gray Swan

aphyer1 Sep 2021 17:43 UTC
31 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 2: The Global Neu­ronal Workspace

Henry Prowbell26 Oct 2021 18:54 UTC
52 points
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The Ge­net­ics of Space Ama­zons

Jan Christian Refsgaard30 Dec 2021 22:14 UTC
12 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 3: In­tel­li­gence Explosions

Henry Prowbell20 Jan 2022 13:11 UTC
27 points
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Wor­ld­build­ing ex­er­cise: The High­way­verse.

Yair Halberstadt22 Dec 2021 6:47 UTC
13 points
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Tar­get for Tonight: A Drama In One Act

vernamcipher16 Jan 2022 4:29 UTC
4 points
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Ca­reer Day: A Short Story

vernamcipher30 Jan 2022 22:22 UTC
12 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(mflood.substack.com)

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
14 points
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Prac­ti­tioner: Novice

The Guild of the Rose20 Feb 2022 19:01 UTC
25 points
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The Agent

Ideopunk2 Mar 2022 22:43 UTC
17 points
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An out­line of an ironic LessWrong post

Yitz25 Mar 2022 22:51 UTC
−6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A heart’s cry

Rose and Thorn6 Apr 2022 1:59 UTC
2 points
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