Covid-19 IFR from a Bayesian point of view

mwacksen4 Nov 2020 23:55 UTC
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Mul­ti­ple Wor­lds, One Univer­sal Wave Function

evhub4 Nov 2020 22:28 UTC
60 points
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Gifts Which Money Can­not Buy

johnswentworth4 Nov 2020 19:37 UTC
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[AN #124]: Prov­ably safe ex­plo­ra­tion through shielding

Rohin Shah4 Nov 2020 18:20 UTC
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Don’t read news

Eli_4 Nov 2020 18:14 UTC
27 points
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[Question] Share your per­sonal sto­ries of pre­dic­tion markets

Tim Liptrot4 Nov 2020 16:09 UTC
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Notes on Reverence

David Gross4 Nov 2020 1:35 UTC
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[Question] Where do (did?) sta­ble, co­op­er­a­tive in­sti­tu­tions come from?

AnnaSalamon3 Nov 2020 22:14 UTC
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Open & Wel­come Thread – Novem­ber 2020

habryka3 Nov 2020 20:46 UTC
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Mul­ti­plica­tive Oper­a­tions on Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC
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When Money Is Abun­dant, Knowl­edge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC
332 points
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Three more sto­ries about causation

cousin_it3 Nov 2020 15:51 UTC
15 points
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Bucket Bri­gade Singing

jefftk3 Nov 2020 15:40 UTC
41 points
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One could be for­given for get­ting the feel­ing...

HumaneAutomation3 Nov 2020 4:53 UTC
−2 points
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SubOnlyStackFans

Jacob Falkovich3 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC
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Notes on Industriousness

David Gross3 Nov 2020 1:55 UTC
12 points
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Sleep­ing Ju­lia: Em­piri­cal sup­port for thirder ar­gu­ment in the Sleep­ing Beauty Problem

Alex V3 Nov 2020 0:21 UTC
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Subagents of Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant2 Nov 2020 22:02 UTC
53 points
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Con­fu­ci­anism in AI Alignment

johnswentworth2 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC
33 points
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Lo­ca­tion Dis­cus­sion Takeaways

mingyuan2 Nov 2020 21:14 UTC
77 points
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Kelly Bet or Up­date?

abramdemski2 Nov 2020 20:26 UTC
50 points
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[Question] What Belongs in my Glos­sary?

Zvi2 Nov 2020 19:52 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Gen­er­al­ize Kelly to Ac­count for # Iter­a­tions?

abramdemski2 Nov 2020 16:36 UTC
24 points
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Waf­fle Crepes

jefftk2 Nov 2020 15:30 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Non Polemic: How do you per­son­ally deal with “ir­ra­tional” peo­ple?

Emiya2 Nov 2020 13:44 UTC
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Sur­face Thoughts Suck

Dach2 Nov 2020 13:24 UTC
4 points
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Wor­ld­wide “Port­land” SSC Meetup 11/​15/​20

Noah Walton2 Nov 2020 5:39 UTC
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Should stu­dents be al­lowed to give good teach­ers a bonus?

DirectedEvolution2 Nov 2020 0:19 UTC
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Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_Leong1 Nov 2020 23:39 UTC
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Au­to­mated in­tel­li­gence is not AI

KatjaGrace1 Nov 2020 23:30 UTC
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The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric

lsusr1 Nov 2020 23:24 UTC
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[Question] Why are deaths not in­creas­ing with in­fec­tions in the US?

Tim Liptrot1 Nov 2020 22:43 UTC
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Oc­to­ber 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Nov 2020 21:38 UTC
24 points
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Cow­er­ing To Geno­cide: Uighur Per­se­cu­tion And The World’s Last Hope

willbobaggins1 Nov 2020 21:01 UTC
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[Question] What is the right phrase for “the­o­ret­i­cal ev­i­dence”?

Adam Zerner1 Nov 2020 20:43 UTC
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Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC
23 points
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A sum­mary re­view on The Age of Em

oge1 Nov 2020 16:18 UTC
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(carboncopies.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Oc­to­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
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Why I Pre­fer the Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion(s)

dadadarren31 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC
5 points
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“In­ner Align­ment Failures” Which Are Ac­tu­ally Outer Align­ment Failures

johnswentworth31 Oct 2020 20:18 UTC
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Aim to ex­plain, not persuade

lsusr31 Oct 2020 16:35 UTC
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Con­tain­ing the AI… In­side a Si­mu­lated Reality

HumaneAutomation31 Oct 2020 16:16 UTC
1 point
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Tak­ing Ideas Se­ri­ously is Hard

neilkakkar31 Oct 2020 13:47 UTC
14 points
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(neilkakkar.com)

How do you read the news crit­i­cally?

ChristianKl31 Oct 2020 11:48 UTC
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Trick-or-treat­ing in Covid Times

jefftk31 Oct 2020 0:30 UTC
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A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchy30 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
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[Question] Why does His­tory as­sume equal na­tional in­tel­li­gence?

HumaneAutomation30 Oct 2020 23:11 UTC
1 point
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/​r/​MLS­cal­ing: new sub­red­dit for NN scal­ing re­search/​discussion

gwern30 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
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(www.reddit.com)

Func­tors and Coarse Worlds

Scott Garrabrant30 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
52 points
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[Question] Re­sponses to Chris­ti­ano on take­off speeds?

Richard_Ngo30 Oct 2020 15:16 UTC
29 points
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