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

riceissaMar 2, 2020, 11:07 PM
10 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

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

Eli TyreMar 2, 2020, 8:10 PM
18 points
5 comments1 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)

Chap­ter 10: What does it Mean?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 6:21 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus is Here

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

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

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 2, 2020, 1:45 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 2, 2020, 12:16 PM
26 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Change Your Mind

SlimepriestessMar 2, 2020, 10:41 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Chap­ter 9: Why can it Select?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:11 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 8: Why is this Im­por­tant?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:11 AM
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Chap­ter 7: How to Fo­cus?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:08 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 6: How does it Work?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:07 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 5: How to De­scribe?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:07 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 4: What’s the Prob­lem?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:04 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 3: What’s an Ob­ject?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:04 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Chap­ter 2: What’s In­side?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:03 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 1: What’s the Ques­tion?

ld97Mar 2, 2020, 10:03 AM
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 TyreMar 2, 2020, 7:31 AM
32 points
4 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)

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

RaemonMar 1, 2020, 11:53 PM
38 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is Coron­avirus ac­tive in Sum­mer?

Anton LorenzenMar 1, 2020, 8:57 PM
33 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SARS, MERS and COVID-19

jmhMar 1, 2020, 8:53 PM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

gilchMar 1, 2020, 8:41 PM
7 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

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

Matthew BarnettMar 1, 2020, 7:39 PM
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

De­caf vs. reg­u­lar coffee self-experiment

NaiveTortoiseMar 1, 2020, 7:19 PM
10 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(an1lam.github.io)

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark XuMar 1, 2020, 6:46 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

UML XIII: On­line Learn­ing and Clustering

Rafael HarthMar 1, 2020, 6:32 PM
13 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter win­ter 2019-2020.

avturchinMar 1, 2020, 12:50 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Blog Post Day Retrospective

Daniel KokotajloMar 1, 2020, 11:32 AM
24 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any sys­tems to rate more ab­stract things?

Long tryMar 1, 2020, 10:16 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

My Up­dat­ing Thoughts on AI policy

Ben PaceMar 1, 2020, 7:06 AM
20 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

High Var­i­ance Pro­duc­tivity Advice

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

How to choose a mas­sage ther­a­pist

mingyuanMar 1, 2020, 6:53 AM
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 DoomMar 1, 2020, 5:37 AM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian In­fer­ence with Par­tially Speci­fied Priors

Christopher ClarkMar 1, 2020, 5:02 AM
17 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

An An­a­lytic Per­spec­tive on AI Alignment

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

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Prece­dents for Takeover

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

What Noise Does a Tam­bourine Make?

jefftkMar 1, 2020, 2:10 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

Eli TyreFeb 29, 2020, 8:09 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

UConn Effec­tive Altruism

jcz208Feb 29, 2020, 7:46 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 15: CoZE

Mark XuFeb 29, 2020, 5:13 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day (Unoffi­cial)

Daniel KokotajloFeb 29, 2020, 3:10 PM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Us­able im­ple­men­ta­tion of IDA available

rmoehnFeb 29, 2020, 8:54 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

wolverdudeFeb 29, 2020, 8:18 AM
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

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

DivineMangoFeb 29, 2020, 12:09 AM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Trace: Goals and Principles

johnswentworthFeb 28, 2020, 11:50 PM
13 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

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

Rafael HarthFeb 28, 2020, 7:25 PM
23 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

See­ing the Smoke

Jacob FalkovichFeb 28, 2020, 6:26 PM
197 points
29 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Train­ing Regime Day 14: Traf­fic Jams

Mark XuFeb 28, 2020, 5:52 PM
11 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Stretch­ing the Beat

jefftkFeb 28, 2020, 4:30 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)