The his­tory of smal­l­pox and the ori­gins of vaccines

philh1 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Two Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice Events

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 18:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Have you ex­pe­rienced a pu­rity norm around learn­ing “from first prin­ci­ples”?

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:56 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Vo­cal Range

jefftk1 Dec 2019 15:50 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

{Math} A times ta­bles mem­ory.

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Pre-Sols­tice Un­con­fer­ence 2019

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 5:34 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice 2019

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 3:17 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Learn­ing Ab­stract Math from First Prin­ci­ples?

Teach1 Dec 2019 0:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why aren’t as­surance con­tracts widely used?

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Dec 2019 0:20 UTC
34 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: Fa­tigue and the Cen­tral Gover­nor Module

Elizabeth1 Dec 2019 0:10 UTC
19 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

CO2 Strip­per Post­mortem Thoughts

Diffractor30 Nov 2019 21:20 UTC
113 points
37 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What’s been writ­ten about the na­ture of “son-of-CDT”?

Liam Donovan30 Nov 2019 21:03 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How To Change a Dance

jefftk30 Nov 2019 13:40 UTC
11 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als as a mat­ter of So­cial Convention

Chris_Leong30 Nov 2019 10:35 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Use­ful Does Not Mean Secure

Ben Pace30 Nov 2019 2:05 UTC
46 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Neu­ral An­neal­ing: Toward a Neu­ral The­ory of Every­thing (cross­post)

Michael Edward Johnson29 Nov 2019 17:31 UTC
86 points
29 comments40 min readLW link3 reviews

Pre­serv­ing Prac­ti­cal Science (Phrone­sis)

JohnBuridan28 Nov 2019 22:37 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Order and Chaos

ExCeph28 Nov 2019 21:27 UTC
12 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What are the re­quire­ments for be­ing “citable?”

Raemon28 Nov 2019 21:24 UTC
42 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What sources (i.e., blogs) of non­fic­tion book re­views do you find most use­ful?

Rudi C28 Nov 2019 19:43 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kansas City Dojo meetup 11-12-19

Bae's Theorem28 Nov 2019 19:11 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

SSC Mee­tups Every­where Retrospective

Scott Alexander28 Nov 2019 19:10 UTC
32 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Trans­par­ent New­comb’s Prob­lem and the limi­ta­tions of the Era­sure framing

Chris_Leong28 Nov 2019 11:32 UTC
6 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing a Com­plex Men­tal Model—An Ap­plied Elec­tion Odds Example

Davidmanheim28 Nov 2019 9:29 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

How to make Ten­sorFlow run faster

rmoehn28 Nov 2019 0:28 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Get­ting Ready for the FB Dona­tion Match

jefftk27 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #75]: Solv­ing Atari and Go with learned game mod­els, and thoughts from a MIRI employee

Rohin Shah27 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC
38 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Men­tal Mountains

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC
151 points
14 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] Build­ing aware­ness habits (cog­ni­tive)

Teach27 Nov 2019 1:36 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Could some­one please start a bright home light­ing com­pany?

lincolnquirk26 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
93 points
41 comments6 min readLW link
(www.lincolnquirk.com)

3 Cul­tural In­fras­truc­ture Ideas from MAPLE

Unreal26 Nov 2019 18:56 UTC
53 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Effect of Advertising

jefftk26 Nov 2019 14:30 UTC
26 points
24 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A test for sym­bol ground­ing meth­ods: true zero-sum games

Stuart_Armstrong26 Nov 2019 14:15 UTC
22 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on im­ple­ment­ing cor­rigible ro­bust alignment

Steven Byrnes26 Nov 2019 14:06 UTC
26 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Is daily caf­feine con­sump­tion benefi­cial to pro­duc­tivity?

ChristianKl26 Nov 2019 13:13 UTC
17 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Cur­tis Yarvin on A The­ory of Per­va­sive Error

Zack_M_Davis26 Nov 2019 7:27 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(americanmind.org)

My Anki patterns

agentydragon26 Nov 2019 6:27 UTC
57 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Antimemes

lsusr26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC
54 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: My Fires Part 8 (Deck Guide to Jeskai Cava­liers) posted at CoolStuffInc.com

Zvi25 Nov 2019 16:10 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Break­ing Or­a­cles: su­per­ra­tional­ity and acausal trade

Stuart_Armstrong25 Nov 2019 10:40 UTC
25 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Can you elimi­nate memetic scarcity, in­stead of fight­ing?

Raemon25 Nov 2019 2:07 UTC
71 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing why false ideas spread is more fun than why true ones do

Matthew Barnett24 Nov 2019 20:21 UTC
31 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

RAISE post-mortem

null24 Nov 2019 16:19 UTC
161 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Solu­tion to the free will home­work problem

Erik Jenner24 Nov 2019 11:49 UTC
2 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Hard Prob­lems in Cryp­tocur­rency: Five Years Later—Buterin

philip_b24 Nov 2019 9:38 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(vitalik.ca)

[Question] What’s the largest sunk cost you let go?

Mati_Roy24 Nov 2019 4:01 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What types of ques­tions are wel­comed on LessWrong Open Ques­tions?

Mati_Roy24 Nov 2019 3:42 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

New Me­taEth­i­cal.AI Sum­mary and Q&A at UC Berkeley

June Ku24 Nov 2019 1:47 UTC
10 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on Robin Han­son’s AI Im­pacts interview

Steven Byrnes24 Nov 2019 1:40 UTC
25 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

The Bus Ticket The­ory of Genius

Vaniver23 Nov 2019 22:12 UTC
63 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.paulgraham.com)