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Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski’s General Semantics
abramdemski
Dec 21, 2020, 5:44 AM
66
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Using spaced repetition to make the most out of blog posts and books
tchauvin
Dec 21, 2020, 2:47 AM
10
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Secular Solstice 2020
jefftk
Dec 20, 2020, 11:20 PM
81
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
On Robin Hanson’s “Social Proof, but of What?”
Zvi
Dec 20, 2020, 10:20 PM
33
points
7
comments
27
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Intuition
Rafael Harth
Dec 20, 2020, 9:49 PM
27
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
New SARS-CoV-2 variant
TheMajor
Dec 20, 2020, 9:22 PM
46
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Gratitude: Data and Anecdata
Dan Weinand
Dec 20, 2020, 8:24 PM
10
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a community aligned with the idea of creating species of AGI systems for them to become our successors?
iamhefesto
Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
−2
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to eradicate the desire to check time-wasting sites
Space L Clottey
Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
40
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Interactive exploration of LessWrong and other large collections of documents
vpetukhov
and
FriendlyOwl
Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
49
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would a more deadly virus have induced greater compliance with US lockdown restrictions?
Tim Liptrot
Dec 20, 2020, 6:24 PM
6
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gauging the conscious experience of LessWrong
Vermillion
Dec 20, 2020, 11:34 AM
35
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 9
lsusr
Dec 20, 2020, 9:22 AM
93
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pseudorandomness contest, Round 2
Eric Neyman
Dec 20, 2020, 8:35 AM
24
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)
[Question]
[Meta?] Using the LessWrong codebase for a blog
George3d6
Dec 20, 2020, 3:05 AM
19
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Opposite attractions
KatjaGrace
Dec 19, 2020, 9:30 PM
17
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Hierarchical planning: context agents
Charlie Steiner
Dec 19, 2020, 11:24 AM
22
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
We desperately need to talk more about human challenge trials.
DirectedEvolution
Dec 19, 2020, 10:00 AM
29
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Theasauring
KatjaGrace
Dec 19, 2020, 8:20 AM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Extrapolating GPT-N performance
Lukas Finnveden
Dec 18, 2020, 9:41 PM
112
points
31
comments
22
min read
LW
link
1
review
Notes on Duty
David Gross
Dec 18, 2020, 6:54 PM
17
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Probability theory implies Occam’s razor
Maxwell Peterson
Dec 18, 2020, 7:48 AM
8
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Genetic magic
KatjaGrace
Dec 18, 2020, 5:20 AM
18
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Thread for making 2019 Review accountability commitments
Bird Concept
Dec 18, 2020, 5:07 AM
46
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[LIVE!!] LW/EA New Year’s Ultra Party
Ruby
Dec 18, 2020, 4:49 AM
67
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Adapting to Means Testing
jefftk
Dec 18, 2020, 3:30 AM
12
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Do I have to trust past experience because past experience tells me that?
znajd
Dec 18, 2020, 2:43 AM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid
MikkW
Dec 18, 2020, 12:56 AM
21
points
38
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 8
lsusr
Dec 17, 2020, 10:29 PM
74
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected
MikkW
Dec 17, 2020, 8:03 PM
23
points
23
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How long till Inverse AlphaFold?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Dec 17, 2020, 7:56 PM
41
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Notes on Dignity
David Gross
Dec 17, 2020, 3:46 PM
11
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Covid 12/17: The First Dose
Zvi
Dec 17, 2020, 2:20 PM
76
points
29
comments
19
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Some things I’m looking forward to in 2021: probable post-pandemic edition
KatjaGrace
Dec 17, 2020, 8:20 AM
23
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions
Ian David Moss
Dec 17, 2020, 3:30 AM
61
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Hard work is irritating
Oldmanrahul
Dec 17, 2020, 1:04 AM
13
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(oldmanrahul.com)
[Question]
Are there any systematic ways to choose evaluation criteria?
Aman Patel
Dec 17, 2020, 1:03 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Explorations
alkjash
Dec 16, 2020, 9:27 PM
63
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
FHI paper published in Science: interventions against COVID-19
SoerenMind
Dec 16, 2020, 9:19 PM
119
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[AN #129]: Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance
Rohin Shah
Dec 16, 2020, 6:10 PM
14
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Beta test GPT-3 based research assistant
jungofthewon
Dec 16, 2020, 1:42 PM
34
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable
George3d6
Dec 16, 2020, 1:32 PM
26
points
15
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(cerebralab.com)
Incentivizing forecasting via social media
David Althaus
and
Daniel Kokotajlo
Dec 16, 2020, 12:15 PM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Why I love stand up comedy
Adam Zerner
Dec 16, 2020, 9:34 AM
20
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What is it good for? But actually?
KatjaGrace
Dec 16, 2020, 9:20 AM
44
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
How to Compliment
less_penguiny
Dec 16, 2020, 8:25 AM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bad reductionism
Adam Zerner
Dec 16, 2020, 8:21 AM
12
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Debugging the student
Adam Zerner
Dec 16, 2020, 7:07 AM
46
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Notes on Courtesy
David Gross
Dec 16, 2020, 4:08 AM
11
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Less Basic Inframeasure Theory
Diffractor
16 Dec 2020 3:52 UTC
22
points
1
comment
61
min read
LW
link
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