Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

KatjaGrace14 Apr 2020 0:00 UTC
190 points
25 comments31 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

Trans­porta­tion as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC
183 points
34 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Choos­ing the Zero Point

orthonormal6 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
173 points
24 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Con­flict vs. mis­take in non-zero-sum games

Nisan5 Apr 2020 22:22 UTC
167 points
40 comments2 min readLW link1 review

An Ortho­dox Case Against Utility Functions

abramdemski7 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC
155 points
65 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC
152 points
24 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

How Long Can Peo­ple Use­fully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC
150 points
8 comments12 min readLW link1 review

How to eval­u­ate (50%) predictions

Rafael Harth10 Apr 2020 17:12 UTC
134 points
50 comments9 min readLW link

Seem­ingly Pop­u­lar Covid-19 Model is Ob­vi­ous Nonsense

Zvi11 Apr 2020 23:10 UTC
129 points
28 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Prob­lem re­lax­ation as a tactic

TurnTrout22 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
119 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

April Fools: An­nounc­ing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

1 Apr 2020 8:00 UTC
94 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ini­tial Viral Load Seriously

Zvi1 Apr 2020 10:50 UTC
94 points
45 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David Hornbein13 Apr 2020 22:48 UTC
93 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Helping the kids post

jefftk17 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC
87 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Atari early

KatjaGrace2 Apr 2020 6:10 UTC
86 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

How spe­cial are hu­man brains among an­i­mal brains?

zhukeepa1 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC
79 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

In­ner al­ign­ment in the brain

Steven Byrnes22 Apr 2020 13:14 UTC
79 points
16 comments16 min readLW link

The Ineffi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

lsusr24 Apr 2020 7:33 UTC
71 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Re­view of “Life­cy­cle In­vest­ing”

JessRiedel12 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC
71 points
22 comments13 min readLW link

Dem­i­na­tal­ist To­tal Utilitarianism

Vanessa Kosoy16 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC
71 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

The World Ac­cord­ing to Do­minic Cummings

Chris_Leong14 Apr 2020 5:05 UTC
69 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

[Site Meta] Fea­ture Up­date: More Tags! (Ex­per­i­men­tal)

Ruby22 Apr 2020 2:12 UTC
68 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

On “COVID-19 Su­per­spreader Events in 28 Coun­tries: Crit­i­cal Pat­terns and Les­sons”

Zvi29 Apr 2020 19:40 UTC
67 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My ex­pe­rience with the “ra­tio­nal­ist un­canny valley”

Thomas Kwa23 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC
66 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

My Covid-19 Think­ing: 4/​17

Zvi17 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
65 points
6 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On R0

Zvi7 Apr 2020 23:20 UTC
63 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Where should LessWrong go on COVID?

Elizabeth13 Apr 2020 21:39 UTC
60 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

The Best Vir­tual Wor­lds for “Hang­ing Out”

Raemon27 Apr 2020 21:54 UTC
60 points
31 comments10 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Is this vi­able physics?

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Apr 2020 19:29 UTC
59 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Holi­day Pitch: Reflect­ing on Covid and Connection

Raemon22 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
58 points
14 comments12 min readLW link
(secularsolstice.com)

AI Align­ment Pod­cast: An Overview of Tech­ni­cal AI Align­ment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Sh­legeris and Ro­hin Shah

Palus Astra16 Apr 2020 0:50 UTC
58 points
27 comments89 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Pre­dic­tions in Hindsight

Zvi16 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
55 points
8 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Eth­er­net Is Worth It For Video Calls

jefftk11 Apr 2020 12:10 UTC
55 points
26 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief − 29 Apr

Peter Wildeford29 Apr 2020 15:27 UTC
54 points
5 comments32 min readLW link

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief for 2 April

Peter Wildeford2 Apr 2020 17:00 UTC
53 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

Self-Ex­per­i­ment: Does Work­ing More Hours In­crease My Out­put?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC
52 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2020 20:00 UTC
51 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What Hap­pens Dur­ing a Recession

Elizabeth20 Apr 2020 3:03 UTC
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Asymp­tot­i­cally Unam­bi­tious AGI

michaelcohen10 Apr 2020 12:31 UTC
50 points
217 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Coron­avirus: Jus­tified Key In­sights Thread

Ben Pace13 Apr 2020 22:40 UTC
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are your fa­vorite ex­am­ples of dis­til­la­tion?

NaiveTortoise25 Apr 2020 17:06 UTC
49 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

An alarm bell for the next pandemic

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC
48 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

COVID-19 re­sponse as XRisk intervention

polyphony10 Apr 2020 6:22 UTC
48 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 19: Ham­ming Ques­tions for Pot­ted Plants

Mark Xu23 Apr 2020 16:00 UTC
47 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Link] COVID-19 caus­ing deadly blood clots in younger people

orthonormal27 Apr 2020 21:02 UTC
46 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

A quick and crude com­par­i­son of epi­demiolog­i­cal ex­pert fore­casts ver­sus Me­tac­u­lus fore­casts for COVID-19

Jotto9991 Apr 2020 13:59 UTC
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Re­sources for AI Align­ment Cartography

Gyrodiot4 Apr 2020 14:20 UTC
45 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

The One Mis­take Rule

Zvi10 Apr 2020 14:50 UTC
43 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Col­lege ad­vice for peo­ple who are ex­actly like me

benkuhn13 Apr 2020 1:30 UTC
43 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

philh13 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)