Humor

TagLast edit: 17 Apr 2020 0:38 UTC by Ruby

Humor. This tag is a joke.

Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts

steven046122 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC

242 points

324 comments1 min readLW link

How the Grinch Ought to Have Stolen Christmas

Quirinus_Quirrell25 Dec 2013 20:00 UTC

76 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

319 points

100 comments1 min readLW link

A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

Scott Alexander25 Jan 2015 20:42 UTC

56 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Good News, Everyone!

jbash25 Mar 2023 13:48 UTC

131 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

8 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC

121 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Rejected Early Drafts of Newcomb’s Problem

zahmahkibo6 Sep 2022 19:04 UTC

112 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(Humor) AI Alignment Critical Failure Table

Kaj_Sotala31 Aug 2020 19:51 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(sl4.org)

AI Safety via Luck

Jozdien1 Apr 2023 20:13 UTC

81 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Stupid Reasons to Have More Kids

JohnBuridan17 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC

24 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Definitive confirmation of shard theory

TurnTrout1 Apr 2023 7:27 UTC

168 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

[Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy

lsusr1 Sep 2021 6:07 UTC

35 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2023 21:03 UTC

148 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

April Fools: Announcing: Karma 2.0

habryka1 Apr 2018 10:33 UTC

63 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 22:27 UTC

57 points

7 comments1 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

Manifesto of the Silent Minority

lsusr24 Nov 2020 5:30 UTC

63 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

April Fools: Announcing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

habryka and Ben Pace

1 Apr 2020 8:00 UTC

94 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [humor]

gwern23 Jun 2024 21:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Wrong answer bias

lemonhope1 Feb 2024 20:05 UTC

49 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Jokes Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Dec 2014 16:17 UTC

20 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Center for Applied Postrationality: An Update

Pee Doom1 Apr 2021 8:13 UTC

71 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Transhumanist Fables

Scott Alexander28 May 2013 1:55 UTC

122 points

7 comments3 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

Pascal’s Pyramid Scheme

patrissimo31 Jan 2010 18:56 UTC

12 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Random LW-parodying Statement Generator

Armok_GoB11 Sep 2012 19:57 UTC

100 points

221 comments1 min readLW link

Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs

guzey25 Nov 2022 16:49 UTC

164 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Objective Dog Ratings: The Shiba Inu

Callmesalticidae18 Sep 2020 0:12 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Objective Dog Ratings: An Introduction & Explanation

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 3:54 UTC

20 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Predicting the future with the power of the Internet (and pissing off Rob Miles)

Writer15 Dec 2023 17:37 UTC

23 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Effective Evil

lsusr2 Nov 2021 0:26 UTC

104 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Org announcement: [AC]RC

Vivek Hebbar17 Apr 2022 17:24 UTC

82 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer

Clippy22 May 2010 22:03 UTC

39 points

167 comments2 min readLW link

The one where Quirrell is an egg

Ben Pace15 Apr 2020 6:02 UTC

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

A Much Better Life?

Psychohistorian3 Feb 2010 20:01 UTC

87 points

174 comments2 min readLW link

minutes from a human-alignment meeting

bhauth24 May 2024 5:01 UTC

66 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Without Fundamental Advances, Rebellion and Coup d’État are the Inevitable Outcomes of Dictators & Monarchs Trying to Control Large, Capable Countries

Roko31 Jan 2024 10:14 UTC

27 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk

Scott Alexander1 Apr 2017 19:00 UTC

19 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Ethodynamics of Omelas

dr_s10 Jun 2023 16:24 UTC

79 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

Soviet comedy film recommendations

Nina Panickssery9 Jun 2024 23:40 UTC

42 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The Simple Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 20:00 UTC

156 points

15 comments22 min readLW link

SRE’s review of Democracy

Martin Sustrik3 Aug 2024 7:20 UTC

48 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Some Unorthodox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

johnswentworth and David Lorell

8 Aug 2024 18:58 UTC

57 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

literally Hitler

David Gross14 Nov 2024 3:20 UTC

−13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

I Have No Sense of Humor and I Must Laugh

Lone Pine31 Mar 2023 19:40 UTC

−4 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC

65 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

User GPT2 Has a Warning for Violating Frontpage Commenting Guidelines

jimrandomh1 Apr 2019 20:23 UTC

40 points

37 comments1 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

Why Karma 2.0? (A Kabbalistic Explanation)

Ben Pace2 Apr 2018 20:43 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

There is no such thing as strength: a parody

ZoltanBerrigomo5 Jul 2015 23:44 UTC

37 points

70 comments2 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2014 20:11 UTC

30 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Humor: GURPS Friendly AI

hankx77874 Feb 2013 16:38 UTC

16 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

[Humor] In honor of our new overlord decision theory acronym FDT...

Zvi24 Mar 2017 21:17 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Humor] A Fearsome Rationality Technique

SquirrelInHell14 Aug 2017 21:05 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Jokes Thread

JosephY24 Jul 2014 0:31 UTC

37 points

86 comments1 min readLW link

Soviet-era Jokes, Common Knowledge, Irony

Martin Sustrik12 May 2018 10:52 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Free copy of Feynman’s autobiography for best corny rationalist joke

GreenRoot4 Apr 2010 0:32 UTC

19 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Big Yellow Tractor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Feb 2020 18:43 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

My Alignment Research Agenda (“the Ethicophysics”)

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 2:57 UTC

−13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Lying Alignment Chart

Zack_M_Davis29 Nov 2023 16:15 UTC

76 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_Vorobey25 Jan 2011 20:33 UTC

30 points

96 comments2 min readLW link

If Many-Worlds Had Come First

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 May 2008 7:43 UTC

89 points

189 comments9 min readLW link

The Moral Of The Story

Scott Alexander18 Oct 2016 2:22 UTC

48 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Bayesiance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusr4 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC

43 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Puffer-pope reality check

Neil 5 Jul 2023 9:27 UTC

20 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Zombies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC

169 points

82 comments3 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh3 Oct 2015 15:54 UTC

30 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Bring back the Colosseums

lc8 Sep 2023 0:09 UTC

18 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Why I love stand up comedy

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 9:34 UTC

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Call to the technical support of reality

bayesyatina25 Mar 2021 20:05 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A new acausal trading platform: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC

115 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

April drafts

AI Impacts1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC

49 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem

lsusr9 May 2021 3:50 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The dumbest kid in the world (joke)

CronoDAS6 Jun 2021 2:57 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

An Open Letter To Myself On How To Not Get Any Work Done.

HarryO23 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC

43 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Belief-conditional things—things that only exist when you believe in them

Jan25 Dec 2021 10:49 UTC

7 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

[Linkpost] [Fun] CDC To Send Pamphlet On Probabilistic Thinking

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Jan 2022 21:44 UTC

37 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

A modest spelling reform to increase autologicity, symmetry, and readability.

Randomized, Controlled5 Feb 2022 21:09 UTC

19 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Contest for outlining rules for this contest.

abramdemski21 Feb 2022 18:44 UTC

40 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond micromarriages

Richard_Ngo11 Mar 2022 3:40 UTC

91 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Forecasting Newsletter: April 2222

NunoSempere1 Apr 2022 7:07 UTC

83 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Using prediction markets to generate LessWrong posts

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2022 16:33 UTC

85 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Impact Island: A New EA Reality TV Show

Linch1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

69 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmel6 Apr 2022 23:11 UTC

39 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

[Fun][Link] Alignment SMBC Comic

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Sep 2022 21:38 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.smbc-comics.com)

Improving Emergency Vehicle Utilization

jefftk14 Nov 2022 14:00 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Fun math facts about 2023

Adam Scherlis1 Jan 2023 23:38 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

MacArthur BART (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2023 22:50 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Wolf Incident Postmortem

jefftk9 Jan 2023 3:20 UTC

134 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Life Has a Cruel Symmetry

philh23 Jan 2023 23:40 UTC

21 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Optimality is the tiger, and annoying the user is its teeth

Christopher King28 Jan 2023 20:20 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Proposal: Butt bumps as a default for physical greetings

Adam Zerner1 Apr 2023 12:48 UTC

53 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future

Wei Dai24 Nov 2009 22:29 UTC

39 points

87 comments2 min readLW link

[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

lukeprog2 Oct 2011 7:40 UTC

41 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If you lose enough Good Heart Tokens, will you lose real-world money?

Yitz1 Apr 2022 21:11 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Missives from China

alkjash17 Feb 2018 12:30 UTC

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

MAKE IT BETTER (a poetic demonstration of the banality of GPT-3)

rogersbacon2 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Hardball questions for the Gemini Congressional Hearing

Michael Thiessen12 Mar 2024 15:27 UTC

−11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The unspoken but ridiculous assumption of AI doom: the hidden doom assumption

Christopher King1 Jun 2023 17:01 UTC

−9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

The Fall of Rationality—The Senate of Admins

Ace Delgado26 Jun 2023 1:49 UTC

−10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Fable of the AI Coomer: Why the Social Prowess of Machines is AI’s Most Proximal Threat

Ace Delgado12 Jan 2023 1:15 UTC

−10 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

The human problem

PhilGoetz1 Apr 2010 19:41 UTC

35 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Dec 2007 14:00 UTC

31 points

271 comments2 min readLW link

Objective Dog Ratings: The Irish Wolfhound

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Job Board (28 March 2033)

dr_s28 Mar 2023 22:44 UTC

20 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Thanksgiving Prayer

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Nov 2008 4:17 UTC

35 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

i love eating trash

Ace Delgado13 Jul 2023 11:23 UTC

−15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

An Epistemological Nightmare

Ariel Cheng21 Nov 2024 2:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.mit.edu)

Spherical cow

dkl911 Nov 2024 3:10 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Goldilocks and the Three Optimisers

dkl917 Aug 2023 18:15 UTC

−10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

“On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines”

crmflynn31 Mar 2017 23:32 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

xkcd on the AI box experiment

FiftyTwo21 Nov 2014 8:26 UTC

28 points

234 comments1 min readLW link

Just for fun—let’s play a game.

CronoDAS17 Apr 2009 23:13 UTC

12 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

I Changed My Mind Today—Canned Laughter

pre15 Apr 2009 23:59 UTC

15 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas

TurnTrout and Garrett Baker

9 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC

218 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Just a bit of humor...

CronoDAS24 Apr 2009 4:21 UTC

−8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

15 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

‘oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?’

MBlume2 Oct 2009 10:50 UTC

38 points

184 comments1 min readLW link

I turned decision theory problems into memes about trolleys

Tapatakt30 Oct 2024 20:13 UTC

103 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

The Hard Problem of Magic

enaumov4 Dec 2020 18:51 UTC

1 point

6 comments1 min readLW link

What is the solution to the Alignment problem?

Algon30 Apr 2022 23:19 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Three Stories about not Thinking too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC

25 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

KAnon

jefftk15 Feb 2021 20:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

ChatGPT tells stories about XP-708-DQ, Eliezer, dragons, dark sorceresses, and unaligned robots becoming aligned

Bill Benzon8 Jan 2023 23:21 UTC

6 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

My search for a reliable breakfast

tomdekan18 Oct 2022 9:42 UTC

6 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(www.tomdekan.com)

The Holy Algorithm

Malmesbury3 Apr 2021 18:09 UTC

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruth20 Apr 2021 17:28 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Crossword puzzle: LessWrong Halloween 2022

jchan21 Oct 2022 12:41 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”

Ricki Heicklen22 Feb 2024 23:56 UTC

186 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

[Question] Newcomb’s Grandfather

Yair Halberstadt28 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

five ways to say “Almost Always” and actually mean it

Yudhister Kumar22 Apr 2023 10:38 UTC

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.ykumar.org)

The Puce Tribe

mike_hawke28 Feb 2021 21:11 UTC

9 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Powerpoint joy—How I got 1.7 million views on Unsplash by nourishing the souls of office workers

tomdekan7 Mar 2022 15:29 UTC

5 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

The Friendly Drunk Fool Alignment Strategy

JenniferRM3 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC

27 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

The Usefulness Paradigm

Aprillion26 Dec 2022 13:23 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Center for Applied Postrationality

Pee Doom2 Apr 2019 1:17 UTC

110 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC

131 points

614 comments2 min readLW link

If rationality skills were Harry Potter spells...

lifelonglearner9 Mar 2018 15:36 UTC

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Two Cult Koans

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2007 5:45 UTC

129 points

100 comments2 min readLW link

Extropy magazine review

Peter lawless 27 Dec 2023 18:37 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Son of Shit Rationalists Say

Eneasz1 Jun 2012 13:47 UTC

82 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

Shit Rationalists Say?

Eneasz25 Jan 2012 21:51 UTC

55 points

119 comments1 min readLW link

Cards Against Rationality

fubarobfusco16 Jun 2012 2:23 UTC

41 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2008 5:45 UTC

80 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Dr. Jubjub predicts a crisis

Apprentice10 Jan 2014 15:52 UTC

74 points

65 comments2 min readLW link

Maybe you want to maximise paperclips too

dougclow30 Oct 2014 21:40 UTC

70 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons!

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2008 19:00 UTC

71 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler

Jacob Falkovich6 Sep 2018 21:45 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

The 8 Techniques to Tolerify the Dark World

adamShimi20 Jul 2020 0:58 UTC

2 points

5 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

The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale

loup-vaillant12 Sep 2012 15:08 UTC

64 points

61 comments1 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

The rational rationalist’s guide to rationally using “rational” in rational post titles

Vaniver27 May 2012 19:13 UTC

125 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

Timothy Chu Origins Chapter 1

alkjash13 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Frequently Asked Questions for Central Banks Undershooting Their Inflation Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Oct 2017 23:36 UTC

60 points

30 comments35 min readLW link

Some lesser-known megaproject ideas

Linch2 Apr 2023 1:14 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 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)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjash8 Mar 2018 5:30 UTC

18 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Countess and Baron attempt to define blackmail, fail

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jul 2013 10:07 UTC

20 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Stuart_Armstrong10 Mar 2010 14:58 UTC

25 points

20 comments2 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)

A&I (Rihanna ‘S&M’ parody lyrics)

nahoj21 May 2023 22:34 UTC

−2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Shit rationalists say − 2018

ChristianKl20 Feb 2018 21:26 UTC

16 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Terrifying Halloween Costume

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Nov 2007 2:54 UTC

11 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Penguicon & Blook

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2008 17:32 UTC

14 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Halloween costume: Paperclipperer

Elo21 Oct 2017 6:33 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Ethical dilemmas for paperclip maximizers

CronoDAS1 Aug 2011 5:31 UTC

14 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

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