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lesserwrong.com · Group blog · on HN since 2017
LessWrong is a community blog on rationality, AI alignment and decision-making, with essays on topics like Moloch, modesty and a crypto autopsy.
What HN saysHN links it for AI alignment and fast takeoff arguments, Goodhart's Law, and a post on why the LW crowd missed out on Bitcoin.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy2 people · 63 points · first shared 2018 · 57 comments on HN
- 2An Equilibrium of No Free Energy2 people · 10 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Demon threads2 people · first shared 2018
- 4Inadequacy and Modesty1 people · 223 points · first shared 2017 · 102 comments on HN
- 5Moloch's Toolbox (2/2) – LesserWrong1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 6The Copernican Revolution from the Inside1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Moloch's Toolbox (1/2)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Announcing the AI Alignment Prize1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
- 9Notes from an Apocalypse1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Why Automation Is Different This Time1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11June 2012: 0/33 TA winners predict AI beating humans at Go within next 10 years1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Two types of mathematician1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Sources of Intuitions and Data on Artificial General Intelligence1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Focusing for Skeptics1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Announcement: AI alignment prize winners and next round1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
intellectronica · 2017-12-26
Everything on https://www.lesserwrong.com/ - start with the recommended collections then dive in. Many of the more established texts are available as ebooks if you prefer.
waterhouse · 2018-04-21
Some guy wrote a taxonomy of Goodhart's Law cases. This would be the "Adversarial Goodhart" case: "When you optimize for a proxy, you provide an incentive for adversaries to correlate their goal with your proxy, thus destroying the correlation with your goal."
https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/EbFABnst8LsidYs5Y/goodhart-taxonomy
rainbowmverse · 2018-03-07
This is an example of a political comment that could be okay with some extra care.
Here's where your comment goes off the rails:
>> "Trump Derangement Syndrome is real."
You've condensed an entire article into a single catchphrase that signals a certain political lean and causes people to circle the wagons around their strongly held views. It would likely lead to a huge, boring demon thread (https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/BZtAavpsy9WtMYgEL/demon-threads) without someone commenting on it in as civil a way as possible.
The article could do without the swipe. Your comment could do without the slogan.
lyavin · 2018-02-25
See also: OpenAI's Paul Christiano wrote on the same topic — https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/AfGmsjGPXN97kNp57/arguments-about-fa…
(cf. https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf for some of the arguments being argued against)
TeMPOraL · 2018-02-14
> Ironically if you draw a Venn diagram (...)
Actually, this turns out to be not true.
https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/MajyZJrsf8fAywWgY/a-lesswrong-crypto…
The LW crowd was among the earliest people who were aware of Bitcoin, and utterly failed to exploit it for some reason.
jimrandomh · 2018-01-08
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676 . Also, it's a Demon Thread - https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/BZtAavpsy9WtMYgEL/demon-threads .
ESRogs · 2017-11-01
Collection of Eliezer essays: https://www.lesserwrong.com/rationality
knight17 · 2017-10-30
Yes: https://www.lesserwrong.com/feed.xml. Firefox auto-detected it.