Summaries

TagLast edit: 18 Jan 2021 14:35 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Summaries of papers, books, Sequences or anything else.

Mazes Sequence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC

81 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

323 points

102 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

Rationality: Abridged

Quaerendo6 Jan 2018 0:20 UTC

100 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Partial summary of debate with Benquo and Jessicata [pt 1]

Raemon14 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC

89 points

63 comments22 min readLW link 3 reviews

Fake Frameworks for Zen Meditation (Summary of Sekida’s Zen Training)

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC

54 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

Maps of Meaning: Abridged and Translated

Vaniver11 Oct 2018 0:27 UTC

53 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

A summary of every “Highlights from the Sequences” post

Akash15 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC

97 points

7 comments17 min readLW link

Quantum Physics Revealed As Non-Mysterious

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2008 5:20 UTC

13 points

26 comments8 min readLW link

Bring up Genius

Viliam8 Jun 2017 17:44 UTC

104 points

62 comments20 min readLW link

Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain

Kaj_Sotala16 Jan 2019 14:43 UTC

170 points

20 comments26 min readLW link 1 review

The Equation of Knowledge

Lê Nguyên Hoang7 Jul 2020 16:09 UTC

58 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Reading the ethicists: A review of articles on AI in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics

Charlie Steiner18 May 2022 20:52 UTC

50 points

8 comments14 min readLW link

(Summary) Sequence Highlights—Thinking Better on Purpose

qazzquimby2 Aug 2022 17:45 UTC

33 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Potential factors in Bell Labs’ intellectual progress, Pt. 1

Ruby12 Feb 2021 19:26 UTC

50 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC

86 points

26 comments49 min readLW link 1 review

“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC

20 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on notes on virtues

David Gross30 Dec 2020 17:47 UTC

71 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

Insights from “All of Statistics”: Probability

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC

7 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Insights from “All of Statistics”: Statistical Inference

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:49 UTC

8 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Outline of Galef’s “Scout Mindset”

Rob Bensinger10 Aug 2021 0:16 UTC

163 points

17 comments14 min readLW link

[Summary] “Introduction to Electrodynamics” by David Griffiths—Part 1

lsusr22 Sep 2021 22:22 UTC

23 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Extrapolating from Five Words

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Nov 2023 23:21 UTC

40 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC

48 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review

VipulNaik20 Nov 2021 22:39 UTC

70 points

15 comments33 min readLW link

How To Get Startup Ideas: A Brief Lit Review and Analysis

Adam Zerner30 Mar 2023 20:33 UTC

21 points

10 comments43 min readLW link

Summaries of top forum posts (27th March to 16th April)

Zoe Williams17 Apr 2023 0:28 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Review: Monster Train

Zvi2 Jun 2020 13:40 UTC

13 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Summary and Lessons from “On Combat”

Gunnar_Zarncke22 Mar 2015 1:48 UTC

28 points

63 comments7 min readLW link

The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

35 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Fake Fake Utility Functions

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Dec 2007 6:30 UTC

42 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2008 3:45 UTC

18 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

And the Winner is… Many-Worlds!

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2008 6:05 UTC

28 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2008 7:13 UTC

14 points

28 comments10 min readLW link

Book Review: The Captured Economy

Zvi11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

14 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Making a Difference Tempore: Insights from ‘Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction’

TurnTrout5 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC

33 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Continuous Improvement: Insights from ‘Topology’

TurnTrout22 Feb 2020 21:58 UTC

30 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Great Books of Failure

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Apr 2009 0:59 UTC

32 points

53 comments1 min readLW link

Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness

Tesseract15 Aug 2011 0:05 UTC

42 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

What I got out of ‘Algorithms to Live By’

rk11 Apr 2018 16:35 UTC

28 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

Highlights from the Blackmail Debate (Robin Hanson vs Zvi Mowshowitz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC

48 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

Brief summary of ai-plans.com

Iknownothing28 Jun 2023 0:33 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(ai-plans.com)

“Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)

Callmesalticidae20 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC

5 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

“The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

19 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

“How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read”, by Pierre Bayard

Callmesalticidae3 Sep 2020 13:05 UTC

11 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

A Short Summary of “Focus Your Uncertainty”

Stephen James14 Jul 2023 11:18 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

“In the Dust of This Planet,” by Eugene Thacker

Callmesalticidae10 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC

2 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Read More Books but Pretend to Read Even More

Arjun Panickssery5 Aug 2023 0:07 UTC

23 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

How I internalized my achievements to better deal with negative feelings

Raymond Koopmanschap27 Feb 2024 15:10 UTC

42 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

GPT-powered EA/LW weekly summary

smallsilo25 Aug 2023 18:19 UTC

18 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Rationality in the Media: Don’t (New Yorker, May 2009)

12 May 2009 13:32 UTC

7 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

My 1st month at a “neurodivergent gifted school” called Minerva University

exanova10 Oct 2023 3:34 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(inawe.substack.com)

Common Sense Atheism summarizing the Sequences

Alexandros19 Nov 2010 12:55 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Notes: Scaling, Why is Animal Size so Important?

ketchupduck7 Mar 2021 20:16 UTC

19 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Menstrual cycle effects—Clue study summary and commentary

just_browsing31 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC

79 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Book Review: Existential Risk and Growth

jkim211 Oct 2021 1:07 UTC

9 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Summary of “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

Cosmos30 Jun 2012 20:49 UTC

26 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ Chapter Summaries / Notes [link]

Lightwave15 Apr 2012 9:14 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A Summary Of Anthropic’s First Paper

Sam Ringer30 Dec 2021 0:48 UTC

85 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Summary: “How to write a thesis” by Umberto Eco

Pablo Repetto25 Mar 2022 21:40 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary: “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler

Pablo Repetto29 Mar 2022 0:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen

Pablo Repetto8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary: “How to Write Quickly...” by John Wentworth

Pablo Repetto11 Apr 2022 23:26 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary: “How to Do Research” by OSP’s Red

Pablo Repetto13 Apr 2022 19:46 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary: “How to Read Books and Write Essays” by OSP’s Blue

Pablo Repetto15 Apr 2022 21:17 UTC

8 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Summary of “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities”

Stephen McAleese10 Jun 2022 22:35 UTC

44 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Summaries: Alignment Fundamentals Curriculum

Leon Lang18 Sep 2022 13:08 UTC

44 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams10 Oct 2022 23:58 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Article Review: Discovering Latent Knowledge (Burns, Ye, et al)

Robert_AIZI22 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC

13 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Book Summary: Willpower by Baumeister, Tierney

Dorikka24 May 2012 23:34 UTC

36 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers

Louie9 Jan 2013 14:33 UTC

96 points

112 comments10 min readLW link

Martin Seligman’s “Authentic Happiness”

David Gross27 Dec 2020 5:06 UTC

10 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Nietzsche’s Morality in Plain English

Arjun Panickssery4 Dec 2023 0:57 UTC

90 points

14 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

[LINK] Yudkowsky’s Abridged Guide to Intelligent Characters

katydee30 Dec 2014 6:37 UTC

21 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC

326 points

48 comments21 min readLW link 3 reviews

Trust Me I’m Lying: A Summary and Review

quanticle13 Aug 2018 2:55 UTC

100 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

(quanticle.net)

Productivity: Working towards a summary of what we know

Adam Zerner9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC

81 points

22 comments26 min readLW link

Coronavirus Justified Practical Advice Summary

Elizabeth and habryka

15 Mar 2020 22:25 UTC

87 points

53 comments6 min readLW link

Set Up for Success: Insights from ‘Naïve Set Theory’

TurnTrout28 Feb 2018 2:01 UTC

31 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

Mini-review: The Book of Why

Brian Slesinsky21 May 2018 23:11 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Read: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker

Yuxi_Liu14 Jul 2019 6:22 UTC

56 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Summary of “The Straw Vulcan”

alexvermeer26 Dec 2011 16:29 UTC

51 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Psycho-cybernetics: experimental notes

romeostevensit18 Sep 2018 19:21 UTC

54 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

The simple picture on AI safety

Alex Flint27 May 2018 19:43 UTC

31 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser

Kaj_Sotala2 Jul 2010 18:38 UTC

67 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (by Bostrom)

Ben Pace6 Nov 2018 20:05 UTC

50 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Book Recommendations: An Everyone Culture and Moral Mazes

sarahconstantin10 Jan 2019 21:40 UTC

45 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Confounded No Longer: Insights from ‘All of Statistics’

TurnTrout3 May 2018 22:56 UTC

21 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

Insights from Linear Algebra Done Right

Rafael Harth13 Jul 2019 18:24 UTC

53 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Human-Aligned AI Summer School: A Summary

Michaël Trazzi11 Aug 2018 8:11 UTC

39 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Reasoning isn’t about logic (it’s about arguing)

Morendil14 Mar 2010 4:42 UTC

66 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

Learning preferences by looking at the world

Rohin Shah12 Feb 2019 22:25 UTC

43 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(bair.berkeley.edu)

Turning Up the Heat: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis II’

TurnTrout24 Aug 2018 17:54 UTC

36 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

And My Axiom! Insights from ‘Computability and Logic’

TurnTrout16 Jan 2019 19:48 UTC

42 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

Insights from Munkres’ Topology

Rafael Harth17 Mar 2019 16:52 UTC

30 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Megaproject management

ryan_b11 Jan 2019 17:08 UTC

55 points

11 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

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