I've curated this post for these reasons:

* This is an opinionated introduction to a piece of math-based social theory. * The two followups on [Moloch](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4vEFX6EPpdQZfqnnS/5-general-voting-pathologies-lesser-names-of-moloch) and [Alignment](https://www.lesswrong.co...(read more)

I've curated this post for these reasons:

* This is a really valuable and scary piece of information about the reliability of the scientific process.

* I didn't realise neuroscience was subject to the replication crisis at all - this really is changing how I think about science. I'm increasing...(read more)

I want to give a shout-out to the awesome Eric Rogstad, Elizabeth Garrett and (more recently) Claire Wang who have also created a large amount of slack in the Berkeley community by (amongst other things) maintaining the Event Horizon Rationalist House, where people are able to visit and stay. Sarah ...(read more)

I feel like there are often big simplifications of complex ideas that just convey the wrong thing, and I was vaguely worried that in a field primarily dominated by things that are hard-to-read, things that are easy to understand will dominate the conversation even if they're pretty misguided. It's n...(read more)

I curated this post for these reasons:

* The post helped me understand a critique of alignment via amplifying act-based agents, in terms of the losses via scaling down. * The _excellent_ comment section had a lot of great clarifications around definitions and key arguments in alignment from all...(read more)