LessWrong (also written Less Wrong) is a community blog and forum focused on discussion of cognitive biases, philosophy, psychology, economics, rationality

initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky considered it a potential information

century movement that formed around a group of internet blogs including LessWrong and Astral Codex Ten (formerly known as Slate Star Codex). The movement

Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In February 2009, Yudkowsky founded LessWrong, a "community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality".

January 21, 2021. Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog LessWrong, and wrote a fiction book in blog format named Unsong. A revised version

The Meta-Lesswrong Doomsday Argument (MMLWDA) predicts long AI timelines and that we can relax: LessWrong was founded in 2009 (16 years ago), and there ha…

Login This is a new FAQ written LessWrong 2.0. This is the first version and I apologize if it is a little rough. Please comment or message with further q…

Login Artificial Intelligence is the study of creating intelligence in algorithms. AI Alignment is the task of ensuring [powerful] AI system are aligned w…

Posts Wiki Contributions Those "meaningless" tokens aren't only used in one place, however. If you had a bunch of other facts including the tokens involv…

Let's say 1% of that is actually useful, so that gets us 300B tokens, which is... a lot less than I expected. So it seems like video doesn't save us, if w…

Posts Wiki Contributions Assuming both of them can produce values (are formulated in such a way that they can produce a new value with just the past valu…

Wiki Contributions I think this can be resolved by working in terms of packages of property (in this case, uninterrupted ownership of the land), where th…

I want to add two more thoughts to the competitive deliberate practice bit: Another analogy for the scale of humanity point: If you try to get better at s…

When it comes to "accelerating AI capabilities isn't bad" I would suggest Kaj Sotala and Eric Drexler with his QNR and CAIS . Interestingly, Drexler has r…

I try to practice independent reasoning/critical thinking, to challenge current solutions to be more considerate/complete. I do not reply to DMs for non-…

Wiki Contributions I don't emphasize this because I care more about humanity's survival than the next decades sucking really hard for me and everyone I l…

Posts Wiki Contributions BTW, there aren't just four such shifts. If you looked closely enough, you could find many more. The evolution of multicellular …

(Context - Digging up a 5 year old post...) The idea of pure clear seeing, is a momentary state of experience which ... wait I said this above. Maybe it's…

Login Hi. I'm Gareth McCaughan. I've been a consistent reader and occasional commenter since the Overcoming Bias days. My LW username is "gjm" (not "Gjm" …

"Behavioural modernity" is a hypothesis which is very far from being universally accepted. Many features supposedly of behavioural modernity have some rea…

Here is my coverage of it . Given this is a 'day minus one' interview of someone in a different position, and given everything else we already know about …

Alief An alief is a belief-like attitude, behavior, or expectation that can coexist with a contradictory belief. For example, the fear felt when a monste…

Robot An online debate toolfacilitates the act of debating by helping to manage the structure of argumentation. This distinguishes it from general purpos…

It's way too late for the kind of top-down capabilities regulation Yudkowsky and Bostrom fantasized about; Earth just doesn't have the global infrastruct…

Posts Wikitag Contributions I read the interview, I haven't read Moyo's book. In the interview the distinction is made between systematic aid, usually pr…

Posts Wiki Contributions I'm guessing that merely having written similar material will not stop you from publishing, but it seems like a grey area and I …

'On the timescale of years, perseverance is to "keep working on an insanely difficult problem even though it's inconvenient and you could be getting highe…

And just so I'm not completely off topic, I agree with the original post. There should be games, they should be fun and challenging and require effort an…

Wiki Contributions I would also expect extraneous details like, "got sick and fell of the wagon" or similar to add significant noise. And with only one d…

Login "If you stepped into a world where matches failed to strike, you would cease to exist as organized matter." Okay, I can see your point here -- if …

Wiki Contributions Does OBP plan to eventually expand their services outside the USA? And how much would it cost if you didn’t subsidize it? Cost is a co…

Posts Wiki Contributions "Whenever someone exhorts you to "think outside the box", they usually, for your convenience, point out exactly where "outside t…

Login Eliezer: Not only did you resist the temptation of power, but also the temptation of revenge. Until now. He reported on you, now you told us, your r…

Wikitag Contributions I agree that in a takeover scenario where AI capabilities rush wildly ahead of human understanding or control, the ability of the w…

This brings up an interesting ethical dilemma. If strong AI will ever be possible, it will be probably designed with the values of what you described as …

If mathematical details matter, they should be specified (or be clear anyway - e.g. you don't define "real numbers" in a physics paper). Physics can need…

Login Of course simplicity is not the same thing as fitting the evidence. You only even start comparing simplicity after you have multiple hypotheses that…

The problem I've had with using physical notebooks is that I never close the loop of actually reviewing them and converting the information into a more us…

Saved searches Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed…

Over the last few decades, new experiments have changed science's picture of the way we think — how we succeed or fail to obtain the truth and achieve our…

How much of this reading do I need to do before I can contribute to Less Wrong? Not that much. As soon as you've got a good grasp of what's expected, cont…

Rationality Rationality is something of fundamental importance to LessWrong that is defined in many ways. Wikipedia calls rationality "the quality or sta…

Intentional Insights is a nonprofit dedicated to popularizing rationality and effective altruism for a broad audience and thus raising the sanity waterlin…

The Meta-Lesswrong Doomsday Argument (MMLWDA) predicts long AI timelines and that we can relax: LessWrong was founded in 2009 (16 years ago), and there ha…

LessWrong (also written Less Wrong) is a community blog and forum focused on discussion of cognitive biases, philosophy, psychology, economics, rationality

initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky considered it a potential information

century movement that formed around a group of internet blogs including LessWrong and Astral Codex Ten (formerly known as Slate Star Codex). The movement

Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In February 2009, Yudkowsky founded LessWrong, a "community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality".

January 21, 2021. Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog LessWrong, and wrote a fiction book in blog format named Unsong. A revised version

Login This is a new FAQ written LessWrong 2.0. This is the first version and I apologize if it is a little rough. Please comment or message with further q…

Login Artificial Intelligence is the study of creating intelligence in algorithms. AI Alignment is the task of ensuring [powerful] AI system are aligned w…

Posts Wiki Contributions Those "meaningless" tokens aren't only used in one place, however. If you had a bunch of other facts including the tokens involv…

Let's say 1% of that is actually useful, so that gets us 300B tokens, which is... a lot less than I expected. So it seems like video doesn't save us, if w…

Posts Wiki Contributions Assuming both of them can produce values (are formulated in such a way that they can produce a new value with just the past valu…

Wiki Contributions I think this can be resolved by working in terms of packages of property (in this case, uninterrupted ownership of the land), where th…

I want to add two more thoughts to the competitive deliberate practice bit: Another analogy for the scale of humanity point: If you try to get better at s…

When it comes to "accelerating AI capabilities isn't bad" I would suggest Kaj Sotala and Eric Drexler with his QNR and CAIS . Interestingly, Drexler has r…

I try to practice independent reasoning/critical thinking, to challenge current solutions to be more considerate/complete. I do not reply to DMs for non-…

Wiki Contributions I don't emphasize this because I care more about humanity's survival than the next decades sucking really hard for me and everyone I l…

Posts Wiki Contributions BTW, there aren't just four such shifts. If you looked closely enough, you could find many more. The evolution of multicellular …

(Context - Digging up a 5 year old post...) The idea of pure clear seeing, is a momentary state of experience which ... wait I said this above. Maybe it's…

Login Hi. I'm Gareth McCaughan. I've been a consistent reader and occasional commenter since the Overcoming Bias days. My LW username is "gjm" (not "Gjm" …

"Behavioural modernity" is a hypothesis which is very far from being universally accepted. Many features supposedly of behavioural modernity have some rea…

Here is my coverage of it . Given this is a 'day minus one' interview of someone in a different position, and given everything else we already know about …

Alief An alief is a belief-like attitude, behavior, or expectation that can coexist with a contradictory belief. For example, the fear felt when a monste…

Robot An online debate toolfacilitates the act of debating by helping to manage the structure of argumentation. This distinguishes it from general purpos…

It's way too late for the kind of top-down capabilities regulation Yudkowsky and Bostrom fantasized about; Earth just doesn't have the global infrastruct…

Posts Wikitag Contributions I read the interview, I haven't read Moyo's book. In the interview the distinction is made between systematic aid, usually pr…

Posts Wiki Contributions I'm guessing that merely having written similar material will not stop you from publishing, but it seems like a grey area and I …

'On the timescale of years, perseverance is to "keep working on an insanely difficult problem even though it's inconvenient and you could be getting highe…

And just so I'm not completely off topic, I agree with the original post. There should be games, they should be fun and challenging and require effort an…

Wiki Contributions I would also expect extraneous details like, "got sick and fell of the wagon" or similar to add significant noise. And with only one d…

Login "If you stepped into a world where matches failed to strike, you would cease to exist as organized matter." Okay, I can see your point here -- if …

Wiki Contributions Does OBP plan to eventually expand their services outside the USA? And how much would it cost if you didn’t subsidize it? Cost is a co…

Posts Wiki Contributions "Whenever someone exhorts you to "think outside the box", they usually, for your convenience, point out exactly where "outside t…

Login Eliezer: Not only did you resist the temptation of power, but also the temptation of revenge. Until now. He reported on you, now you told us, your r…

Wikitag Contributions I agree that in a takeover scenario where AI capabilities rush wildly ahead of human understanding or control, the ability of the w…

This brings up an interesting ethical dilemma. If strong AI will ever be possible, it will be probably designed with the values of what you described as …

If mathematical details matter, they should be specified (or be clear anyway - e.g. you don't define "real numbers" in a physics paper). Physics can need…

Login Of course simplicity is not the same thing as fitting the evidence. You only even start comparing simplicity after you have multiple hypotheses that…

The problem I've had with using physical notebooks is that I never close the loop of actually reviewing them and converting the information into a more us…

Saved searches Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed…

Over the last few decades, new experiments have changed science's picture of the way we think — how we succeed or fail to obtain the truth and achieve our…

How much of this reading do I need to do before I can contribute to Less Wrong? Not that much. As soon as you've got a good grasp of what's expected, cont…

Rationality Rationality is something of fundamental importance to LessWrong that is defined in many ways. Wikipedia calls rationality "the quality or sta…

Intentional Insights is a nonprofit dedicated to popularizing rationality and effective altruism for a broad audience and thus raising the sanity waterlin…