Cri­sis and op­por­tu­nity dur­ing coronavirus

jacobjacob12 Mar 2020 20:20 UTC
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The Crit­i­cal COVID-19 In­fec­tions Are About To Oc­cur: It’s Time To Stay Home [cross­post]

Impassionata12 Mar 2020 18:50 UTC
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[Question] Why isn’t in­creas­ing ven­tila­tion of pub­lic spaces part of the best prac­tice re­sponse to the Coronovirus?

ChristianKl12 Mar 2020 10:40 UTC
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I’m leav­ing AI al­ign­ment – you bet­ter stay

rmoehn12 Mar 2020 5:58 UTC
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Puz­zles for Physicalists

jessicata12 Mar 2020 1:37 UTC
46 points
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(unstableontology.com)

Please Press “Record”

johnswentworth11 Mar 2020 23:56 UTC
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Coron­avirus tests and probability

skybrian11 Mar 2020 23:09 UTC
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[Question] What are some ar­ti­cles that up­dated your be­liefs a lot on an im­por­tant topic?

Mati_Roy11 Mar 2020 22:34 UTC
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A prac­ti­cal out-of-the-box solu­tion to slow down COVID-19: Turn up the heat

Alex_Shleizer11 Mar 2020 22:30 UTC
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Trace README

johnswentworth11 Mar 2020 21:08 UTC
37 points
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[AN #90]: How search land­scapes can con­tain self-re­in­forc­ing feed­back loops

Rohin Shah11 Mar 2020 17:30 UTC
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(mailchi.mp)

Why don’t sin­gu­lar­i­tar­i­ans bet on the cre­ation of AGI by buy­ing stocks?

John_Maxwell11 Mar 2020 16:27 UTC
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[Question] What is the best way to dis­in­fect a (rental) car?

Eli Tyre11 Mar 2020 6:12 UTC
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[Question] How use­ful are masks dur­ing an epi­demic?

Elizabeth10 Mar 2020 22:12 UTC
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The Case for Pri­vacy Optimism

bmgarfinkel10 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC
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(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

Zoom In: An In­tro­duc­tion to Circuits

evhub10 Mar 2020 19:36 UTC
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(distill.pub)

COVID-19 ar­ti­cle trans­la­tions site aims to bridge the knowl­edge gap

Mike Stop Continues10 Mar 2020 18:34 UTC
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When to Re­v­erse Quaran­tine and Other COVID-19 Considerations

Benquo10 Mar 2020 16:37 UTC
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Vuln­er­a­bil­ities in CDT and TI-un­aware agents

10 Mar 2020 14:14 UTC
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An­thropic effects im­ply that we are more likely to live in the uni­verse with in­ter­stel­lar panspermia

avturchin10 Mar 2020 13:12 UTC
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Es­ti­mated risk of death by coro­n­avirus for a healthy 30 year old male ~ 1/​190

Roko Jelavić10 Mar 2020 12:32 UTC
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A con­ver­sa­tion on the­ory of mind, sub­jec­tivity, and objectivity

jessicata10 Mar 2020 4:59 UTC
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(unstableontology.com)

Growth rate of COVID-19 outbreaks

Bucky9 Mar 2020 23:16 UTC
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[Question] Name of Prob­lem?

johnswentworth9 Mar 2020 20:15 UTC
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[Question] What is the typ­i­cal course of COVID-19? What are the var­i­ants?

Elizabeth9 Mar 2020 17:52 UTC
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[Question] How effec­tive are tul­pas?

Evenflair9 Mar 2020 17:35 UTC
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[Ar­ti­cle re­view] Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Values, and Alignment

MichaelA9 Mar 2020 12:42 UTC
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The Heck­ler’s Veto Is Also Sub­ject to the Unilat­er­al­ist’s Curse

Zack_M_Davis9 Mar 2020 8:11 UTC
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Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong’s In­fo­haz­ard Policies

Ben Pace9 Mar 2020 7:44 UTC
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Sleep­walk­ing Toward Armageddon

Slimepriestess9 Mar 2020 7:28 UTC
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(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Po­ten­tial High-Lev­er­age and In­ex­pen­sive Miti­ga­tions (which are still fea­si­ble) for Pandemics

Davidmanheim9 Mar 2020 6:59 UTC
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[Question] What can we do to help oth­ers dur­ing the coro­n­avirus out­break?

swimchord9 Mar 2020 6:12 UTC
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[Question] Why hasn’t the tech­nol­ogy of Knowl­edge Rep­re­sen­ta­tion (i.e., se­man­tic net­works, con­cept graphs, on­tol­ogy en­g­ineer­ing) been ap­plied to cre­ate tools to help hu­man thinkers?

Polytopos9 Mar 2020 6:11 UTC
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Model es­ti­mat­ing the num­ber of in­fected per­sons in the bay area

Eli Tyre9 Mar 2020 5:31 UTC
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It’s Time To Stop Dancing

jefftk9 Mar 2020 3:30 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How can we ex­trap­o­late the true prevalence of a dis­ease, given available in­for­ma­tion?

Elizabeth9 Mar 2020 0:16 UTC
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[Question] At what point does dis­ease spread stop be­ing well-mod­eled by an ex­po­nen­tial func­tion?

Eli Tyre8 Mar 2020 23:53 UTC
8 points
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Quadratic mod­els and (un)falsified data

Bucky8 Mar 2020 23:34 UTC
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March Coron­avirus Open Thread

Elizabeth8 Mar 2020 22:45 UTC
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Open & Wel­come Thread—March 2020

habryka8 Mar 2020 22:06 UTC
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Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerwe8 Mar 2020 21:20 UTC
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UML final

Rafael Harth8 Mar 2020 20:43 UTC
22 points
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The Lens, Proge­rias and Polycausality

johnswentworth8 Mar 2020 17:53 UTC
71 points
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[Question] Help me with bayesian think­ing re:coro­n­avirus?

hereisonehand8 Mar 2020 17:03 UTC
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[Question] What is the death rate for those who test nega­tive on Covid-19?

Derek Lomas8 Mar 2020 16:40 UTC
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An­a­lyt­ic­ity Depends On Definitions

Chris_Leong8 Mar 2020 14:00 UTC
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[Question] How’s the case for wear­ing googles for COVID-19 pro­tec­tion when in pub­lic trans­porta­tion?

ChristianKl8 Mar 2020 9:31 UTC
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Ineffec­tive Re­sponse to COVID-19 and Risk Compensation

Davidmanheim8 Mar 2020 9:21 UTC
29 points
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[Question] Why would panic dur­ing this coro­n­avirus pan­demic be a bad thing?

Adam Zerner8 Mar 2020 8:32 UTC
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Ig­nor­ing Coun­try Cohorts

baken8 Mar 2020 8:07 UTC
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