Cred­i­bil­ity of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

Mar 7, 2020, 2:00 AM
226 points
119 comments6 min readLW link1 review

In­ter­faces as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworthMar 5, 2020, 6:20 PM
188 points
15 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Prece­dents for Takeover

Daniel KokotajloMar 1, 2020, 3:49 AM
180 points
79 comments11 min readLW link1 review

I’m leav­ing AI al­ign­ment – you bet­ter stay

rmoehnMar 12, 2020, 5:58 AM
152 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

Author­i­ties and Amateurs

jefftkMar 25, 2020, 3:40 AM
146 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] LessWrong Coron­avirus Agenda

ElizabethMar 18, 2020, 4:48 AM
136 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

A Sig­nifi­cant Por­tion of COVID-19 Trans­mis­sion Is Presymptomatic

jimrandomhMar 14, 2020, 5:52 AM
119 points
22 comments4 min readLW link1 review

My cur­rent frame­work for think­ing about AGI timelines

zhukeepaMar 30, 2020, 1:23 AM
107 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

“No ev­i­dence” as a Valley of Bad Rationality

Adam ZernerMar 28, 2020, 11:45 PM
106 points
21 comments2 min readLW link1 review

His­tory’s Biggest Nat­u­ral Experiment

jimrandomhMar 24, 2020, 2:56 AM
104 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Can crimes be dis­cussed liter­ally?

BenquoMar 22, 2020, 8:17 PM
102 points
38 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Near-term plan­ning for sec­ondary im­pacts of coro­n­avirus lock­downs [as­sum­ing things don’t blow up]

VipulNaikMar 21, 2020, 2:43 AM
102 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra and Subjectivity

BenquoMar 5, 2020, 4:25 PM
100 points
33 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Think­ing About Filtered Ev­i­dence Is (Very!) Hard

abramdemskiMar 19, 2020, 11:20 PM
97 points
32 comments14 min readLW link

Epistemic stan­dards for “Why did it take so long to in­vent X?”

jasoncrawfordMar 2, 2020, 6:58 PM
91 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

High Var­i­ance Pro­duc­tivity Advice

lynettebyeMar 1, 2020, 7:05 AM
87 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Coron­avirus Jus­tified Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Summary

Mar 15, 2020, 10:25 PM
87 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Covid-19 Points of Lev­er­age, Travel Bans and Eradication

RokoMar 19, 2020, 9:08 AM
87 points
48 comments5 min readLW link

Ad­ding Up To Normality

orthonormalMar 24, 2020, 9:53 PM
85 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Zoom In: An In­tro­duc­tion to Circuits

evhubMar 10, 2020, 7:36 PM
85 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(distill.pub)

How to have a happy quarantine

mingyuanMar 15, 2020, 3:42 AM
81 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief for 29 March

Peter WildefordMar 29, 2020, 5:07 PM
80 points
7 comments16 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists, Post-Ra­tion­al­ists, And Ra­tion­al­ist-Adjacents

orthonormalMar 13, 2020, 8:25 PM
80 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Ubiquitous Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light Could Con­trol the Spread of Covid-19 and Other Pandemics

Mar 18, 2020, 12:44 PM
79 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

The Great Annealing

Jacob FalkovichMar 30, 2020, 1:08 AM
79 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Cri­sis and op­por­tu­nity dur­ing coronavirus

Bird ConceptMar 12, 2020, 8:20 PM
78 points
6 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Adap­tive Im­mune Sys­tem Aging

johnswentworthMar 13, 2020, 3:47 AM
75 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong Coron­avirus Link Database

Mar 13, 2020, 11:39 PM
72 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The Lens, Proge­rias and Polycausality

johnswentworthMar 8, 2020, 5:53 PM
71 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Growth rate of COVID-19 outbreaks

BuckyMar 9, 2020, 11:16 PM
70 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Coron­avirus is Here

ZviMar 2, 2020, 2:10 PM
70 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effec­tive­ness of Fever-Screen­ing Will Decline

jimrandomhMar 6, 2020, 11:00 PM
69 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Align­ment as Translation

johnswentworthMar 19, 2020, 9:40 PM
66 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

COVID-19′s House­hold Se­condary At­tack Rate Is Unknown

jimrandomhMar 16, 2020, 11:19 PM
63 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What should we do once in­fected with COVID-19?

ElizabethMar 18, 2020, 4:50 AM
62 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

“What Progress?” Gw­ern’s 10 year retrospective

Ben PaceMar 2, 2020, 6:55 AM
61 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Price Goug­ing and Spec­u­la­tive Costs

jefftkMar 26, 2020, 1:50 AM
61 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does the 14-month vac­cine safety test make sense for COVID-19?

orthonormalMar 18, 2020, 6:41 PM
60 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Tales From the Borderlands

Jacob FalkovichMar 25, 2020, 7:11 PM
60 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

March Coron­avirus Open Thread

ElizabethMar 8, 2020, 10:45 PM
57 points
378 comments1 min readLW link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerweMar 8, 2020, 9:20 PM
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

More Dakka for Coron­avirus: We need im­me­di­ate hu­man tri­als of many vac­cine-can­di­dates and si­mul­ta­neous man­u­fac­tur­ing of all of them

avturchinMar 13, 2020, 1:35 PM
54 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

An An­a­lytic Per­spec­tive on AI Alignment

DanielFilanMar 1, 2020, 4:10 AM
54 points
45 comments8 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Against Dog Ownership

Ben PaceMar 23, 2020, 9:17 AM
54 points
27 comments4 min readLW link
(dormin.org)

mind viruses about body viruses

nostalgebraistMar 28, 2020, 4:20 AM
52 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

What is a School?

ZviMar 13, 2020, 10:00 PM
51 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[UPDATED] COVID-19 cabin sec­ondary at­tack rates on Di­a­mond Princess

BuckyMar 18, 2020, 10:36 PM
50 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is the coro­n­avirus the most im­por­tant thing to be fo­cus­ing on right now?

Adam ZernerMar 18, 2020, 10:48 PM
49 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Please Press “Record”

johnswentworthMar 11, 2020, 11:56 PM
49 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] You’ve Been Ex­posed to COVID-19: What Do You Wish You Knew?

ElizabethMar 6, 2020, 7:57 PM
49 points
10 comments1 min readLW link