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Discontinuous progress in history: an update

KatjaGrace14 Apr 2020 0:00 UTC

186 points

25 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

(aiimpacts.org)

Transportation as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC

178 points

32 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Choosing the Zero Point

orthonormal6 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC

170 points

24 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games

Nisan5 Apr 2020 22:22 UTC

167 points

40 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions

abramdemski7 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC

152 points

65 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Negative Feedback and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC

152 points

24 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

How Long Can People Usefully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC

148 points

8 comments12 min readLW link 1 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 link 1 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!

habryka and Ben Pace

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 link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Helping the kids post

jefftk17 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC

87 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Unilateralist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David Hornbein13 Apr 2020 22:48 UTC

86 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Atari early

KatjaGrace2 Apr 2020 6:10 UTC

86 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

What Surprised Me About Entrepreneurship

lsusr5 Apr 2020 9:18 UTC

81 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Inner alignment in the brain

Steven Byrnes22 Apr 2020 13:14 UTC

79 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

How special are human brains among animal brains?

zhukeepa1 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC

79 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

Deminatalist Total Utilitarianism

Vanessa Kosoy16 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC

71 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Review of “Lifecycle Investing”

JessRiedel12 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC

71 points

22 comments13 min readLW link

The Inefficient Market Hypothesis

lsusr24 Apr 2020 7:33 UTC

70 points

19 comments2 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 link 1 review

[Question] Is this viable physics?

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Apr 2020 19:29 UTC

59 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

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

Holiday Pitch: Reflecting on Covid and Connection

Raemon22 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC

58 points

14 comments12 min readLW link

(secularsolstice.com)

Ethernet Is Worth It For Video Calls

jefftk11 Apr 2020 12:10 UTC

55 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Evaluating Predictions in Hindsight

Zvi16 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC

55 points

8 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.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

What Happens During a Recession

Elizabeth20 Apr 2020 3:03 UTC

50 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Why anything that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2020 20:00 UTC

50 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Key Insights Thread

Ben Pace13 Apr 2020 22:40 UTC

50 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Asymptotically Unambitious AGI

michaelcohen10 Apr 2020 12:31 UTC

50 points

217 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

Training Regime Day 19: Hamming Questions for Potted Plants

Mark Xu23 Apr 2020 16:00 UTC

47 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

COVID-19 response as XRisk intervention

polyphony10 Apr 2020 6:22 UTC

46 points

3 comments4 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)