LW Team Up­dates: Pan­demic Edi­tion (March 2020)

Ruby26 Mar 2020 23:55 UTC
37 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Han­son vs Mow­show­itz LiveStream De­bate: “Should we ex­pose the youth to coro­n­avirus?” (Mar 29th)

Ben Pace26 Mar 2020 23:46 UTC
42 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the most plau­si­ble “AI Safety warn­ing shot” sce­nar­ios?

Daniel Kokotajlo26 Mar 2020 20:59 UTC
35 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

How im­por­tant are MDPs for AGI (Safety)?

michaelcohen26 Mar 2020 20:32 UTC
14 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the safe in-per­son dis­tance for COVID-19?

Raemon26 Mar 2020 20:29 UTC
33 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

March 24th: Daily Coron­avirus Link Updates

26 Mar 2020 2:22 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Price Goug­ing and Spec­u­la­tive Costs

jefftk26 Mar 2020 1:50 UTC
61 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AGI in a vuln­er­a­ble world

26 Mar 2020 0:10 UTC
42 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

ODE to Joy: In­sights from ‘A First Course in Or­di­nary Differ­en­tial Equa­tions’

TurnTrout25 Mar 2020 20:03 UTC
39 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Tales From the Borderlands

Jacob Falkovich25 Mar 2020 19:11 UTC
60 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[AN #92]: Learn­ing good rep­re­sen­ta­tions with con­trastive pre­dic­tive coding

Rohin Shah25 Mar 2020 17:20 UTC
18 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

True Habits

MartinB25 Mar 2020 14:00 UTC
23 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(martinbern.org)

[Question] LW-re­lated iOS Short­cuts?

JasperGeh25 Mar 2020 12:08 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

3 In­ter­view-like Al­gorithm Ques­tions for Programmers

lsusr25 Mar 2020 9:05 UTC
0 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Author­i­ties and Amateurs

jefftk25 Mar 2020 3:40 UTC
146 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(www.jefftk.com)

March 22nd & 23rd: Coron­avirus Link Updates

habryka25 Mar 2020 1:08 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are HEPA filters likely to pull COVID-19 out of the air?

John_Maxwell25 Mar 2020 1:07 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ad­vice on re­duc­ing other risks dur­ing Coron­avirus?

eapache24 Mar 2020 23:30 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: LessWrong Coron­avirus Links Database 2.0

Ben Pace24 Mar 2020 22:07 UTC
28 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How to Con­tribute to the Coron­avirus Re­sponse on LessWrong

Ben Pace24 Mar 2020 22:04 UTC
37 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ad­ding Up To Normality

orthonormal24 Mar 2020 21:53 UTC
84 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How do you study a math text­book?

Rudi C24 Mar 2020 18:43 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

SARS-CoV-2, 19 times less likely to in­fect peo­ple un­der 15

George3d624 Mar 2020 18:10 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

The Solu­tion is Inaction

Amritam Gamaya24 Mar 2020 18:01 UTC
9 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Break­ing quaran­tine is neg­li­gence. Why are democ­ra­cies act­ing like we can only ask nicely?

syllogism24 Mar 2020 14:58 UTC
29 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

SSC—Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Yoav Ravid24 Mar 2020 6:59 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] What will be the eco­nomic effects of no restrictions

Yoav Ravid24 Mar 2020 6:48 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

His­tory’s Biggest Nat­u­ral Experiment

jimrandomh24 Mar 2020 2:56 UTC
104 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Bean­town Stomp 2020 Retrospective

jefftk24 Mar 2020 2:30 UTC
17 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

LW Coron­avirus Agenda Up­date 3/​23

Elizabeth24 Mar 2020 1:05 UTC
44 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What will the eco­nomic effects of COVID-19 be?

Elizabeth24 Mar 2020 0:59 UTC
37 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which face­book groups on covid do you recom­mend?

romeostevensit23 Mar 2020 22:34 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Pe­ti­tion] We Call for Open Anonymized Med­i­cal Data on COVID-19 and Aging-Re­lated Risk Factors

avturchin23 Mar 2020 21:44 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] COVID-19 trans­mis­sion: Are we overem­pha­siz­ing touch­ing rather than breath­ing?

Steven Byrnes23 Mar 2020 17:40 UTC
32 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the point of Col­lege? Speci­fi­cally is it worth in­vest­ing time to gain knowl­edge?

ADITHYA SRINIVASAN23 Mar 2020 17:33 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Is there value in main­tain­ing a so­cial­iza­tion jour­nal?

swarriner23 Mar 2020 17:13 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ideas on es­ti­mat­ing per­sonal risk of infection

jmh23 Mar 2020 16:33 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

De­con­fus­ing Hu­man Values Re­search Agenda v1

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Mar 2020 16:25 UTC
28 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Against Dog Ownership

Ben Pace23 Mar 2020 9:17 UTC
54 points
27 comments4 min readLW link
(dormin.org)

Oc­cam’s Guillotine

Slimepriestess23 Mar 2020 7:31 UTC
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] Are vet­er­ans more self-dis­ci­plined than non-vet­er­ans?

Matthew Barnett23 Mar 2020 5:16 UTC
19 points
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Us­ing smart ther­mome­ter data to es­ti­mate the num­ber of coro­n­avirus cases

Unnamed23 Mar 2020 4:26 UTC
29 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

March 21st: Daily Coron­avirus Links

23 Mar 2020 0:43 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing the Quan­tified Self paradigma for COVID-19

ChristianKl22 Mar 2020 21:14 UTC
27 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Virus As A Power Op­ti­mi­sa­tion Pro­cess: The Prob­lem Of Next Wave

avturchin22 Mar 2020 20:35 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Can crimes be dis­cussed liter­ally?

Benquo22 Mar 2020 20:17 UTC
102 points
38 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Reflec­tions on a no con­tent Jan­uary 2020 experiment

Elo22 Mar 2020 15:32 UTC
33 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Could we use cur­rent AI meth­ods to un­der­stand dolphins?

Daniel Kokotajlo22 Mar 2020 14:45 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

When to Donate Masks?

jefftk22 Mar 2020 13:20 UTC
33 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ist posters or Ra­tion­al­ist poster ideas?

Mati_Roy22 Mar 2020 7:08 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link