Overview of Eliezer Yudkowsky's writing:
- on LessWrong starting with The Sequences / Rationality A-Z (book)
- Harry Potter and the Methods Of Rationality (book)
- Planecrash / Project Lawful (long fictional story)
- on Arbital (AI Alignment)
- on Twitter/X (mostly retweeting)
- on Facebook (mostly retweeting)
- on Medium (2 posts)
- on Tumblr (fiction / on writing)
- e.g. Masculine Mongoose (short story)
- on fanfiction.net (3 stories)
- on yudkowsky.net (personal/fiction)
- on Reddit (fiction / on writing)
Just had the idea to share my experience when I tried this in February. Previous Experience: Had played world 1 before Goal: Actually get it right on the first try with ~90% confidence
Approach:
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I wanted high legibility on my thoughts, to increase surface area, that I can reflect on
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thinking out loud with screen + audio recording
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thinking through writing (e.g. "assumption: ...", "plan A", "realization", "insight")
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durations (e.g.
4min) to allow me to see my speed at a glance -
Fatebook predictions for my solution working
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Feb08 at 20:00I played world 2 level 1: took 45min + 20min of reflection -
Feb23 at 05:40I played world 2 level 2: took 40min + 20min of reflection -
Feb23 at 07:00I played world 2 level 3: was quite easy, so I found 5 solution candidates. My confidence ranging from 65%-90%; all ended up working
My initial idea for both level 1 and level 2 would have failed though I knew to continue and then found a correct solution. I like that this exercise gave me a glimpse of what it feels like to solve a problem that you felt stuck on. I think it is useful for me continue this exercise
If it's useful feedback to you, I can send you my notes (3 levels) and the recording (only first level)
Yes. See archive.org of original it has the same title and the same duration (Look for <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT51M25S"> in the archived HTML; compared to the 51:24 of your link).
I have edited the Wiki, thanks for finding the link!
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1Yes, that's what the source code says. There are even two explicit guards against it: "make sure you don't land on an impossible reward" and .filter(r => r.weight > 0).
@habryka has the void virtue, though is missing empiricism. 
Maybe he got it prior to the commit introducing the weight: 0 or via direct access to the database.
I didn't find another way of gaining the virtue.
1or whatever device you prefer
Note: The current Android App does not support playing player-made levels
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With LessWrong, HPMoR and Planecrash you got the bulk covered. You could skim the following overview of Eliezer Yudkowsky's writing: