[Question] What does Solomonoff in­duc­tion say about brain du­pli­ca­tion/​con­scious­ness?

riceissa2 Mar 2020 23:07 UTC
10 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How should I be think­ing about the risk of air travel (re: Coron­avirus)?

Eli Tyre2 Mar 2020 20:10 UTC
18 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

jasoncrawford2 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC
90 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Chap­ter 10: What does it Mean?

ld972 Mar 2020 18:21 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus is Here

Zvi2 Mar 2020 14:10 UTC
70 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An­throp­ics over-sim­plified: it’s about pri­ors, not updates

Stuart_Armstrong2 Mar 2020 13:45 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

If I were a well-in­ten­tioned AI… IV: Mesa-optimising

Stuart_Armstrong2 Mar 2020 12:16 UTC
26 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Change Your Mind

Slimepriestess2 Mar 2020 10:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Chap­ter 9: Why can it Select?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 8: Why is this Im­por­tant?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Chap­ter 7: How to Fo­cus?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 6: How does it Work?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 5: How to De­scribe?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 4: What’s the Prob­lem?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 3: What’s an Ob­ject?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 2: What’s In­side?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 1: What’s the Ques­tion?

ld972 Mar 2020 10:03 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any value in self-quaran­tine (from Coron­avirus), if you live with other peo­ple who aren’t tak­ing similar pre­cau­tions?

Eli Tyre2 Mar 2020 7:31 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

“What Progress?” Gw­ern’s 10 year retrospective

Ben Pace2 Mar 2020 6:55 UTC
61 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] If I in­ter­act with some­one with nCov for an hour, how likely am I to get nCov?

Raemon1 Mar 2020 23:53 UTC
38 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is Coron­avirus ac­tive in Sum­mer?

Anton Lorenzen1 Mar 2020 20:57 UTC
33 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SARS, MERS and COVID-19

jmh1 Mar 2020 20:53 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do 24-hour hand san­i­tiz­ers ac­tu­ally work?

gilch1 Mar 2020 20:41 UTC
7 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are the long-term out­comes of a catas­trophic pan­demic?

Matthew Barnett1 Mar 2020 19:39 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

De­caf vs. reg­u­lar coffee self-experiment

NaiveTortoise1 Mar 2020 19:19 UTC
10 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(an1lam.github.io)

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark Xu1 Mar 2020 18:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

UML XIII: On­line Learn­ing and Clustering

Rafael Harth1 Mar 2020 18:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter win­ter 2019-2020.

avturchin1 Mar 2020 12:50 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Blog Post Day Retrospective

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2020 11:32 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any sys­tems to rate more ab­stract things?

Long try1 Mar 2020 10:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

My Up­dat­ing Thoughts on AI policy

Ben Pace1 Mar 2020 7:06 UTC
20 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

High Var­i­ance Pro­duc­tivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC
85 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

How to choose a mas­sage ther­a­pist

mingyuan1 Mar 2020 6:53 UTC
21 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How many peo­ple in the Bay Area are in­fected with Covid-19 as of the end of 2/​29/​2020?

Pee Doom1 Mar 2020 5:37 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian In­fer­ence with Par­tially Speci­fied Priors

Christopher Clark1 Mar 2020 5:02 UTC
17 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

An An­a­lytic Per­spec­tive on AI Alignment

DanielFilan1 Mar 2020 4:10 UTC
54 points
45 comments8 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Prece­dents for Takeover

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2020 3:49 UTC
180 points
78 comments11 min readLW link1 review

What Noise Does a Tam­bourine Make?

jefftk1 Mar 2020 2:10 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What should be my trig­gers for ini­ti­at­ing self quaran­tine re: Corona virus

Eli Tyre29 Feb 2020 20:09 UTC
34 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

UConn Effec­tive Altruism

jcz20829 Feb 2020 19:46 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 15: CoZE

Mark Xu29 Feb 2020 17:13 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day (Unoffi­cial)

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Feb 2020 15:10 UTC
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Us­able im­ple­men­ta­tion of IDA available

rmoehn29 Feb 2020 8:54 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] COVID-19 - a good or bad time for ex­tended travel?

wolverdude29 Feb 2020 8:18 UTC
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ap­proaches for col­lect­ing and an­a­lyz­ing data about your­self?

DivineMango29 Feb 2020 0:09 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Trace: Goals and Principles

johnswentworth28 Feb 2020 23:50 UTC
13 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What to make of Aubrey de Grey’s pre­dic­tion?

Rafael Harth28 Feb 2020 19:25 UTC
23 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

See­ing the Smoke

Jacob Falkovich28 Feb 2020 18:26 UTC
198 points
29 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Train­ing Regime Day 14: Traf­fic Jams

Mark Xu28 Feb 2020 17:52 UTC
11 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Stretch­ing the Beat

jefftk28 Feb 2020 16:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)