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Nominated Posts for the 2019 Review

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151The Commitment Races problem

Daniel Kokotajlo

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121What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

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73Moral Mazes and Short Termism

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51AGI will drastically increase economies of scale

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141Integrating disagreeing subagents

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91Reframing the evolutionary benefit of sex

paulfchristiano

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52"The Bitter Lesson", an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI

the gears to ascension

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63Imperfect Competition

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95Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

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101The LessWrong 2018 Review

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113CO2 Stripper Postmortem Thoughts

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61Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantin

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66Combat vs Nurture & Meta-Contrarianism

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170Jeff Hawkins on neuromorphic AGI within 20 years

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86What I've Learned From My Parents' Arranged Marriage

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49How common is it for one entity to have a 3+ year technological lead on its nearest competitor?

Daniel Kokotajlo

4y

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42Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself

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51Perfect Competition

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533 Cultural Infrastructure Ideas from MAPLE

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32Calibrating With Cards

[anonymous]5y

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70Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien

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66Separation of Concerns

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82Misconceptions about continuous takeoff

Matthew Barnett

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68Coordination Surveys: why we should survey to organize responsibilities, not just predictions

5y

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121Utility ≠ Reward

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209Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

4y

24

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62Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander

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10

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170Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments

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151Forum participation as a research strategy

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103Turning air into bread

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82Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

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89The Power to Teach Concepts Better

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112Complex Behavior from Simple (Sub)Agents

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136Unconscious Economics

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124The Curse Of The Counterfactual

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149The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin

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72Do you fear the rock or the hard place?

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195Rest Days vs Recovery Days

5y

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69What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

Wei Dai, Jacob Falkovich

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206Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

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189Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

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60Dual Wielding

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154Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice

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115No nonsense version of the "racial algorithm bias"

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144Mental Mountains

Scott Alexander

4y

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112The Hard Work of Translation (Buddhism)

5y

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85Less Competition, More Meritocracy?

5y

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221Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More

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152Reason isn't magic

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2019 Review Discussion

You Get About Five Words

201

5y

Cross posted from the EA Forum.

Epistemic Status: all numbers are made up and/or sketchily sourced. Post errs on the side of simplistic poetry – take seriously but not literally.

If you want to coordinate with one person on a thing about something nuanced, you can spend as much time as you want talking to them – answering questions in realtime, addressing confusions as you notice them. You can trust them to go off and attempt complex tasks without as much oversight, and you can decide to change your collective plans quickly and nimbly.

You probably speak at around 100 words per minute. That's 6,000 words per hour. If you talk for 3 hours a day, every workday for a year, you can communicate 4.3 million words worth...

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Isn't LessWrong a disproof of this? Aren't we thousands of people? If you picked two active LWers at random, do you think the average overlap in their reading material would be 5 words? More like 100,000, I'd think.

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