[Question] Have the lock­downs been worth it?

12 Oct 2020 23:35 UTC
70 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Po­lice vi­o­lence: The veil of darkness

dynomight12 Oct 2020 21:32 UTC
4 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

The Sun Room

Jarred Filmer12 Oct 2020 21:08 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A full ex­pla­na­tion to New­comb’s para­dox.

solomon alon12 Oct 2020 16:48 UTC
−6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much to worry about the US elec­tion un­rest?

NoSignalNoNoise12 Oct 2020 3:39 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Msg Len

Zack_M_Davis12 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC
66 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Every­thing I Know About Elite Amer­ica I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

Wei Dai11 Oct 2020 18:07 UTC
44 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

All Less­wrong Posts by Yud­kowsky in one .epub

sone3d11 Oct 2020 13:17 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_Kingsley11 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC
39 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Re­views of the book ‘The Align­ment Prob­lem’

Mati_Roy11 Oct 2020 7:41 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Re­views of TV show NeXt (about AI safety)

Mati_Roy11 Oct 2020 4:31 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Why Bos­ton?

jefftk11 Oct 2020 2:40 UTC
60 points
86 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Rule of Equal and Op­po­site Ad­vice & Slack

tinyanon10 Oct 2020 21:22 UTC
42 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of pos­i­tive-sum(ish) games?

Nicholas / Heather Kross10 Oct 2020 21:09 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy of Therapy

DaystarEld10 Oct 2020 20:12 UTC
121 points
27 comments16 min readLW link
(daystareld.com)

On Slack—Hav­ing room to be excited

Neel Nanda10 Oct 2020 19:02 UTC
19 points
8 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

How to reach 80% of your goals. Ex­actly 80%.

Bart Bussmann10 Oct 2020 17:33 UTC
36 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Alpha α and Beta β

lsusr10 Oct 2020 6:27 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Danc­ing With Covid

jefftk10 Oct 2020 2:10 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is liber­tar­i­anism un­sus­tain­able? Why?

Vishrut Arya10 Oct 2020 2:09 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Treach­er­ous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC
207 points
116 comments11 min readLW link1 review

[Question] If GPT-6 is hu­man-level AGI but costs $200 per page of out­put, what would hap­pen?

Daniel Kokotajlo9 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
28 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game

lsusr9 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC
91 points
131 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Shouldn’t there be a Chi­nese trans­la­tion of Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble?

mako yass9 Oct 2020 8:47 UTC
18 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

More Ques­tions about Trees

digital_carver9 Oct 2020 8:35 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(bit-player.org)

How to Price a Fu­tures Contract

lsusr9 Oct 2020 7:37 UTC
22 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Some el­e­ments of in­dus­trial literacy

jasoncrawford8 Oct 2020 19:51 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What was your be­hav­ioral re­sponse to covid-19 ?

George3d68 Oct 2020 19:27 UTC
7 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Help wanted: feed­back on re­search pro­pos­als for FHI application

otto.barten8 Oct 2020 14:42 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why isn’t JS a pop­u­lar lan­guage for deep learn­ing?

Will Clark8 Oct 2020 14:36 UTC
12 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/​8: Oc­to­ber Surprise

Zvi8 Oct 2020 13:20 UTC
66 points
17 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On­line AI Safety Dis­cus­sion Day

Linda Linsefors8 Oct 2020 12:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Up­side de­cay—why some peo­ple never get lucky

brianlui8 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
42 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to es­cape a locked room

jacobjacob8 Oct 2020 5:13 UTC
30 points
83 comments3 min readLW link

Poli­ti­cal Lot­tery in Switzerland

Martin Sustrik8 Oct 2020 5:03 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Oc­to­ber 11th, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Zhu, Martin Sus­trik and Steve Byrnes

habryka7 Oct 2020 23:22 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on ADHD

romeostevensit7 Oct 2020 20:46 UTC
90 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Les­sons on Value of In­for­ma­tion From Civ

johnswentworth7 Oct 2020 18:18 UTC
54 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How can an AI demon­strate purely through chat that it is an AI, and not a hu­man?

hugh.mann7 Oct 2020 17:53 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

fin7 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

[AN #120]: Trac­ing the in­tel­lec­tual roots of AI and AI alignment

Rohin Shah7 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
13 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Inac­cessible finely tuned RNG in hu­mans?

Sandi7 Oct 2020 17:04 UTC
23 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Open Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the Days of Mal­i­cious On­line Actors

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 16:30 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] How wor­ried are the rele­vant ex­perts about a mag­netic pole re­ver­sal?

Sunny from QAD7 Oct 2020 16:19 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Brain­storm­ing pos­i­tive vi­sions of AI

jungofthewon7 Oct 2020 16:09 UTC
52 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing micro-biostasis

Mati_Roy7 Oct 2020 10:55 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Can we hold in­tel­lec­tu­als to similar pub­lic stan­dards as ath­letes?

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC
84 points
48 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Forc­ing Freedom

vlad.proex6 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link