Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 7

lsusrDec 11, 2020, 5:54 AM
67 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 10

lsusrDec 24, 2020, 8:33 AM
67 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Fu­sion and Equiv­o­ca­tion in Korzyb­ski’s Gen­eral Semantics

abramdemskiDec 21, 2020, 5:44 AM
66 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Two Explorations

alkjashDec 16, 2020, 9:27 PM
63 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Best Vi­su­al­iza­tions on Every Subject

ryan_bDec 21, 2020, 10:51 PM
62 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Ex­pired] 20,000 Free $50 Char­ity Gift Cards

WilliamKielyDec 11, 2020, 8:02 PM
62 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Side Effects in Com­plex Environments

Dec 12, 2020, 12:34 AM
62 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(avoiding-side-effects.github.io)

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

Ian David MossDec 17, 2020, 3:30 AM
61 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

When life was liter­ally full of crap

jasoncrawfordDec 21, 2020, 9:16 PM
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Meetup Or­ga­niz­ers, Our Vir­tual Gar­den is at Your Disposal

RubyDec 4, 2020, 11:29 PM
59 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 12/​10: Vac­cine Ap­proval Day in America

ZviDec 10, 2020, 2:20 PM
58 points
31 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Epistemic Warfare

GentzelDec 11, 2020, 3:50 AM
56 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Lo­gis­tics for the 2020 on­line Sec­u­lar Sols­tice*

Dec 3, 2020, 12:08 AM
56 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 11

lsusrDec 27, 2020, 9:03 AM
56 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

The Good Try Rule

DirectedEvolutionDec 27, 2020, 2:38 AM
56 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Col­lider bias as a cog­ni­tive blindspot?

TurnTroutDec 30, 2020, 2:39 AM
54 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Elephant seal

KatjaGraceDec 21, 2020, 12:00 PM
54 points
18 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

An­nounc­ing AXRP, the AI X-risk Re­search Podcast

DanielFilanDec 23, 2020, 8:00 PM
54 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Men­tal Blin­ders from Work­ing Within Systems

abramdemskiDec 10, 2020, 7:09 PM
53 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #127]: Re­think­ing agency: Carte­sian frames as a for­mal­iza­tion of ways to carve up the world into an agent and its environment

Rohin ShahDec 2, 2020, 6:20 PM
53 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

My Model of the New COVID Strain and US Response

Jacob FalkovichDec 27, 2020, 4:34 AM
51 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplicDec 12, 2020, 3:00 PM
51 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

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

kareemabukhadraDec 21, 2020, 8:20 PM
50 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­ac­tive ex­plo­ra­tion of LessWrong and other large col­lec­tions of documents

Dec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
49 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Hermione Granger and New­comb’s Paradox

lsusrDec 14, 2020, 5:27 AM
48 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

De­fus­ing AGI Danger

Mark XuDec 24, 2020, 10:58 PM
48 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Re­view: LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology

Jacob FalkovichDec 28, 2020, 4:32 AM
47 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Thread for mak­ing 2019 Re­view ac­countabil­ity commitments

Bird ConceptDec 18, 2020, 5:07 AM
46 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

New SARS-CoV-2 variant

TheMajorDec 20, 2020, 9:22 PM
46 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

De­bug­ging the student

Adam ZernerDec 16, 2020, 7:07 AM
46 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Post­mortem on my Com­ment Challenge

adamShimiDec 4, 2020, 2:15 PM
46 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

The In­com­pre­hen­si­bil­ity Bluff

SocratesDissatisfiedDec 6, 2020, 6:26 PM
45 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

The AI Safety Game (UPDATED)

Daniel KokotajloDec 5, 2020, 10:27 AM
45 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive mis­takes I’ve made about COVID-19

DanielFilanDec 27, 2020, 12:50 AM
45 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

What is it good for? But ac­tu­ally?

KatjaGraceDec 16, 2020, 9:20 AM
44 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] What tech­nolo­gies could cause world GDP dou­bling times to be <8 years?

Daniel KokotajloDec 10, 2020, 3:34 PM
43 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Tech­ni­cal AI Safety Podcast

QuinnDec 7, 2020, 6:51 PM
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)

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

moridinamaelDec 21, 2020, 5:21 PM
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How long till In­verse AlphaFold?

Daniel KokotajloDec 17, 2020, 7:56 PM
41 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Oper­a­tional­iz­ing com­pat­i­bil­ity with strat­egy-stealing

evhubDec 24, 2020, 10:36 PM
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

How to erad­i­cate the de­sire to check time-wast­ing sites

Space L ClotteyDec 20, 2020, 7:06 PM
40 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Prob­lem of Induction

LironDec 27, 2020, 5:58 PM
40 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

An el­e­gant proof of Laplace’s rule of succession

Eric NeymanDec 7, 2020, 10:43 PM
39 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

The Good Life Quantified

Jacob FalkovichDec 11, 2020, 5:52 PM
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Are in­dex funds still a good in­vest­ment?

Kaj_SotalaDec 2, 2020, 9:31 PM
38 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: In­creas­ing Intelligence

GeneSmithDec 5, 2020, 10:06 PM
37 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

De­bate Minus Fac­tored Cognition

abramdemskiDec 29, 2020, 10:59 PM
37 points
42 comments11 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Plan­ning Attacks

lsusrDec 23, 2020, 9:52 PM
36 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

Joe CarlsmithDec 23, 2020, 2:21 AM
36 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Open Christ­mas card to my mother

KatjaGraceDec 24, 2020, 7:00 AM
36 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)