[Question] Re­tain flex­i­bil­ity with habits?

vroomerify18 Oct 2020 22:58 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tIt: Pres­i­den­tial Mar­ket is In­creas­ingly Wrong

Zvi18 Oct 2020 22:40 UTC
37 points
28 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You have re­cov­ered from SARS-CoV-2. Now what?

Annapurna18 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
15 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A tale from Com­mu­nist China

Wei Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
281 points
65 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Bet On Biden

sapphire17 Oct 2020 22:03 UTC
42 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] “Where are all the suc­cess­ful ra­tio­nal­ists?”

ioannes17 Oct 2020 19:58 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Oc­to­ber 18, 12:00PM (PT) — Gar­den Party

17 Oct 2020 19:36 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Things are al­lowed to be good and bad at the same time

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2020 8:00 UTC
52 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] GPT-3 + GAN

stick10917 Oct 2020 7:58 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

jacobjacob17 Oct 2020 6:32 UTC
155 points
140 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Moloch games

Chris van Merwijk16 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
80 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is fre­quen­tism com­pat­i­ble with the prin­ci­ple of in­differ­ence in any mean­ingful sense?

Milton16 Oct 2020 8:26 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Jour­nal ar­ti­cle: “The Myth­i­cal Ta­boo on Race and In­tel­li­gence”

CronoDAS16 Oct 2020 2:58 UTC
−17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

Elec­tion Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 10/​15: Play­time is Over

Zvi15 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC
74 points
21 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelain15 Oct 2020 14:18 UTC
36 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Bab­ble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemski15 Oct 2020 13:46 UTC
80 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

jacobjacob15 Oct 2020 7:23 UTC
31 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is Stu­pidity Ex­pand­ing? Some Hy­pothe­ses.

David Gross15 Oct 2020 3:28 UTC
71 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

The Col­lid­ing Ex­po­nen­tials of AI

Vermillion14 Oct 2020 23:31 UTC
28 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Le­gal­ize Black­mail: An Example

Tim Liptrot14 Oct 2020 21:18 UTC
0 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Liber­tar­i­anism, Ne­oliber­al­ism and Med­i­care for All?

Logan Zoellner14 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC
5 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has Eliezer ever re­tracted his state­ments about weight loss?

CheerfulWarrior14 Oct 2020 19:04 UTC
−14 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #121]: Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI timelines us­ing biolog­i­cal anchors

Rohin Shah14 Oct 2020 17:20 UTC
28 points
5 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What is your elec­tronic draw­ing set up?

Elizabeth14 Oct 2020 5:42 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark Xu14 Oct 2020 1:33 UTC
173 points
52 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

Toy Prob­lem: De­tec­tive Story Alignment

johnswentworth13 Oct 2020 21:02 UTC
34 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy and its side effects

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2020 20:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Knowl­edge, ma­nipu­la­tion, and free will

Stuart_Armstrong13 Oct 2020 17:47 UTC
33 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What should ex­pe­rienced ra­tio­nal­ists know?

sapphire13 Oct 2020 17:32 UTC
89 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

A prior for tech­nolog­i­cal discontinuities

NunoSempere13 Oct 2020 16:51 UTC
71 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

A study on depression

vlad.proex13 Oct 2020 15:43 UTC
21 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one worry about A.I. fo­rums like this where they re­in­force each other’s bi­ases/​ are led by big tech?

misabella1613 Oct 2020 15:14 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Achilles Heel Hy­poth­e­sis for AI

scasper13 Oct 2020 14:35 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What fea­tures would you like a pre­dic­tion plat­form to have?

Mati_Roy13 Oct 2020 0:48 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[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)