Top Hackernews posts from www.lesswrong.com

  1. Making Vaccine (www.lesswrong.com)
    536 points by di over 3 years ago | 363 comments
  2. The Waluigi Effect (www.lesswrong.com)
    342 points by superposeur over 1 year ago | 176 comments
  3. Childhoods of Exceptional People (www.lesswrong.com)
    322 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 313 comments
  4. Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation (www.lesswrong.com)
    311 points by cabalamat over 3 years ago | 85 comments
  5. I don’t know how to count that low (www.lesswrong.com)
    309 points by CapitalistCartr almost 3 years ago | 261 comments
  6. Constellations are younger than continents (www.lesswrong.com)
    307 points by dash2 9 months ago | 123 comments
  7. Playing with DALL-E 2 (www.lesswrong.com)
    298 points by nahuel0x over 2 years ago | 190 comments
  8. Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk (www.lesswrong.com)
    295 points by kfarr about 1 year ago | 424 comments
  9. My Clients, the Liars (www.lesswrong.com)
    257 points by paulpauper 6 months ago | 120 comments
  10. Too much serendipity (www.lesswrong.com)
    222 points by HR01 8 months ago | 105 comments
  11. A brief history of computers (www.lesswrong.com)
    217 points by zdw about 1 year ago | 68 comments
  12. Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022) (www.lesswrong.com)
    191 points by cdwhite over 1 year ago | 81 comments
  13. Book review: The Checklist Manifesto (www.lesswrong.com)
    164 points by lobbly almost 3 years ago | 86 comments
  14. Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins (www.lesswrong.com)
    163 points by melling over 3 years ago | 84 comments
  15. Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation (www.lesswrong.com)
    159 points by apsec112 over 3 years ago | 296 comments
  16. The Zettelkasten Method (2019) (www.lesswrong.com)
    159 points by tablet about 3 years ago | 90 comments
  17. Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her (www.lesswrong.com)
    159 points by doener 10 months ago | 57 comments
  18. Trying to study textbooks effectively: a year of experimentation (www.lesswrong.com)
    156 points by youcould over 3 years ago | 63 comments
  19. Becoming an Amateur Polyglot (www.lesswrong.com)
    146 points by canthandle 4 months ago | 106 comments
  20. Laws of Fun (2009) (www.lesswrong.com)
    127 points by optimalsolver over 3 years ago | 49 comments
  21. Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (www.lesswrong.com)
    123 points by FigurativeVoid 4 months ago | 54 comments
  22. Anti-Aging: State of the Art (www.lesswrong.com)
    122 points by jz_ over 3 years ago | 47 comments
  23. Container Logistics (www.lesswrong.com)
    116 points by secondary almost 3 years ago | 19 comments
  24. LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B (www.lesswrong.com)
    112 points by Tomte 11 months ago | 84 comments
  25. Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (www.lesswrong.com)
    110 points by veryluckyxyz 5 months ago | 20 comments
  26. Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress (www.lesswrong.com)
    107 points by shelfchair almost 3 years ago | 35 comments
  27. Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces (www.lesswrong.com)
    96 points by georgehill 9 months ago | 48 comments
  28. Chinchilla's Wild Implications (www.lesswrong.com)
    88 points by ctoth about 2 years ago | 32 comments
  29. The brain as a universal learning machine (2015) (www.lesswrong.com)
    85 points by optimalsolver almost 3 years ago | 29 comments
  30. Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream (www.lesswrong.com)
    85 points by supriyo-biswas 4 months ago | 19 comments
  31. Philosophical Landmines (2013) (www.lesswrong.com)
    83 points by TeMPOraL over 3 years ago | 40 comments
  32. Interpreting neural networks through the polytope lens (2022) (www.lesswrong.com)
    80 points by sva_ 8 months ago | 7 comments
  33. An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity (www.lesswrong.com)
    76 points by ColinWright over 1 year ago | 97 comments
  34. Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle (www.lesswrong.com)
    69 points by MikeLumos over 1 year ago | 32 comments
  35. Altitude and child development (www.lesswrong.com)
    66 points by CapitalistCartr almost 3 years ago | 41 comments
  36. Technocratic Plimsoll Line (www.lesswrong.com)
    60 points by CapitalistCartr over 3 years ago | 23 comments
  37. Humans are not automatically strategic (2010) (www.lesswrong.com)
    60 points by walterbell 9 months ago | 36 comments
  38. Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition (www.lesswrong.com)
    52 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 9 comments