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Secular Solstice 2020

jefftk20 Dec 2020 23:20 UTC

81 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

On Robin Hanson’s “Social Proof, but of What?”

Zvi20 Dec 2020 22:20 UTC

33 points

7 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Intuition

Rafael Harth20 Dec 2020 21:49 UTC

26 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

New SARS-CoV-2 variant

TheMajor20 Dec 2020 21:22 UTC

46 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Gratitude: Data and Anecdata

Dan Weinand20 Dec 2020 20:24 UTC

10 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a community aligned with the idea of creating species of AGI systems for them to become our successors?

iamhefesto20 Dec 2020 19:06 UTC

−2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How to eradicate the desire to check time-wasting sites

Space L Clottey20 Dec 2020 19:06 UTC

40 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Interactive exploration of LessWrong and other large collections of documents

vpetukhov and FriendlyOwl

20 Dec 2020 19:06 UTC

49 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Would a more deadly virus have induced greater compliance with US lockdown restrictions?

Tim Liptrot20 Dec 2020 18:24 UTC

6 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Gauging the conscious experience of LessWrong

Vermillion20 Dec 2020 11:34 UTC

34 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 9

lsusr20 Dec 2020 9:22 UTC

90 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Pseudorandomness contest, Round 2

Eric Neyman20 Dec 2020 8:35 UTC

19 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

[Question] [Meta?] Using the LessWrong codebase for a blog

George3d620 Dec 2020 3:05 UTC

19 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Opposite attractions

KatjaGrace19 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Hierarchical planning: context agents

Charlie Steiner19 Dec 2020 11:24 UTC

22 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

We desperately need to talk more about human challenge trials.

DirectedEvolution19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC

29 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Theasauring

KatjaGrace19 Dec 2020 8:20 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Extrapolating GPT-N performance

Lukas Finnveden18 Dec 2020 21:41 UTC

110 points

31 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

Notes on Duty

David Gross18 Dec 2020 18:54 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Probability theory implies Occam’s razor

Maxwell Peterson18 Dec 2020 7:48 UTC

8 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Genetic magic

KatjaGrace18 Dec 2020 5:20 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Thread for making 2019 Review accountability commitments

jacobjacob18 Dec 2020 5:07 UTC

46 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[LIVE!!] LW/EA New Year’s Ultra Party

Ruby18 Dec 2020 4:49 UTC

67 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Adapting to Means Testing

jefftk18 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC

12 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Do I have to trust past experience because past experience tells me that?

znajd18 Dec 2020 2:43 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid

MikkW18 Dec 2020 0:56 UTC

21 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 8

lsusr17 Dec 2020 22:29 UTC

72 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected

MikkW17 Dec 2020 20:03 UTC

23 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How long till Inverse AlphaFold?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Dec 2020 19:56 UTC

41 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Dignity

David Gross17 Dec 2020 15:46 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Covid 12/17: The First Dose

Zvi17 Dec 2020 14:20 UTC

76 points

29 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some things I’m looking forward to in 2021: probable post-pandemic edition

KatjaGrace17 Dec 2020 8:20 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions

Ian David Moss17 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC

61 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC

12 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(oldmanrahul.com)

[Question] Are there any systematic ways to choose evaluation criteria?

Aman Patel17 Dec 2020 1:03 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Explorations

alkjash16 Dec 2020 21:27 UTC

63 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

FHI paper published in Science: interventions against COVID-19

SoerenMind16 Dec 2020 21:19 UTC

119 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #129]: Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance

Rohin Shah16 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

14 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Beta test GPT-3 based research assistant

jungofthewon16 Dec 2020 13:42 UTC

34 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable

George3d616 Dec 2020 13:32 UTC

26 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(cerebralab.com)

Incentivizing forecasting via social media

David Althaus and Daniel Kokotajlo

16 Dec 2020 12:15 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why I love stand up comedy

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 9:34 UTC

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

What is it good for? But actually?

KatjaGrace16 Dec 2020 9:20 UTC

44 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bad reductionism

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC

12 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Debugging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

46 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Less Basic Inframeasure Theory

Diffractor16 Dec 2020 3:52 UTC

22 points

1 comment61 min readLW link

[Question] Which sources do you trust the most on nutrition advice for exercise?

jacobjacob16 Dec 2020 3:22 UTC

29 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity in AI takeoff scenarios

evhub16 Dec 2020 1:37 UTC

97 points

48 comments4 min readLW link