An ap­peal for vi­tamin D sup­ple­men­ta­tion as a pro­phy­lac­tic for coro­n­aviruses and in­fluenza and a sim­ple evolu­tion­ary the­ory for why this is plau­si­ble.

Michael A22 Dec 2020 19:40 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

TAI Safety Biblio­graphic Database

JessRiedel22 Dec 2020 17:42 UTC
76 points
12 comments17 min readLW link

100 Tips for a Bet­ter Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC
448 points
130 comments9 min readLW link1 review

What is food like?

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2020 12:30 UTC
19 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Best Vi­su­al­iza­tions on Every Subject

ryan_b21 Dec 2020 22:51 UTC
62 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness of abstraction

Richard_Kennaway21 Dec 2020 21:35 UTC
20 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

In­take Rum­ble Spew

Willa21 Dec 2020 21:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

When life was liter­ally full of crap

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2020 21:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How Less­wrong helped me make $25K: A ra­tio­nal pric­ing strategy

kareemabukhadra21 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC
50 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

par­ent­ing rules

Dave Orr21 Dec 2020 19:48 UTC
156 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

New Eliezer Yud­kowsky in­ter­view on We Want MoR, the HPMOR Podcast

moridinamael21 Dec 2020 17:21 UTC
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Fitness

David Gross21 Dec 2020 16:51 UTC
18 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble Challenge: Not-So-Fu­ture Co­or­di­na­tion Tech

abramdemski21 Dec 2020 16:48 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Hard Would It Be To Make A COVID Vac­cine For One­self?

johnswentworth21 Dec 2020 16:19 UTC
117 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

2020 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:27 UTC
137 points
14 comments68 min readLW link

Elephant seal

KatjaGrace21 Dec 2020 12:00 UTC
52 points
18 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Con­fi­dence In­ter­vals seen as pixel stripes

qbolec21 Dec 2020 11:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

A Ra­tional New Year

NoSignalNoNoise21 Dec 2020 5:51 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fu­sion and Equiv­o­ca­tion in Korzyb­ski’s Gen­eral Semantics

abramdemski21 Dec 2020 5:44 UTC
66 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing spaced rep­e­ti­tion to make the most out of blog posts and books

tchauvin21 Dec 2020 2:47 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

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 link1 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