Pre­ma­ture death paradox

bfinn13 Apr 2020 23:15 UTC
8 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David Hornbein13 Apr 2020 22:48 UTC
93 points
16 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] The Sa­mu­rai and the Daimyo: A Use­ful Dy­namic?

Slimepriestess13 Apr 2020 22:38 UTC
35 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Where should LessWrong go on COVID?

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

What is Your Goal Hive?

Slimepriestess13 Apr 2020 17:51 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Reflec­tions on Ar­gu­ing about Politics

Pontor13 Apr 2020 17:33 UTC
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

“How con­ser­va­tive” should the par­tial max­imisers be?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Apr 2020 15:50 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The Typ­ing Game

jefftk13 Apr 2020 15:30 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Are there any pre­dic­tion mar­kets for Covid-19?

devas13 Apr 2020 14:47 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

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

[Question] Are there any nat­u­rally oc­cur­ring heat pumps?

FactorialCode13 Apr 2020 5:24 UTC
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

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)

Nar­ra­tive Direc­tion and Rebellion

eapache13 Apr 2020 1:07 UTC
8 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Wor­ld­wide “Port­land” Slate Star Codex Meetup

Noah Walton12 Apr 2020 21:58 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should we model com­plex sys­tems?

ClimateDoc12 Apr 2020 21:23 UTC
17 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Leav­ing Things For Others

jefftk12 Apr 2020 11:50 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The His­tory of Color in Chinese

lsusr12 Apr 2020 4:05 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Re­view of “Life­cy­cle In­vest­ing”

JessRiedel12 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC
71 points
22 comments13 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)

Law school taught me nothing

ketchupduck11 Apr 2020 14:30 UTC
21 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any ac­tive play-money pre­dic­tion mar­kets on­line?

kickboxer11 Apr 2020 12:16 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Eth­er­net Is Worth It For Video Calls

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

Cu­ri­os­ity: A Greedy Feeling

DirectedEvolution11 Apr 2020 4:38 UTC
40 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

What We Owe to Ourselves

eapache11 Apr 2020 1:34 UTC
21 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

In Defense of Politics

ChristianKl10 Apr 2020 19:26 UTC
16 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

App-Based Disease Surveillance After COVID-19

RedMan10 Apr 2020 18:52 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to eval­u­ate (50%) predictions

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

The Value Is In the Tails

fylo10 Apr 2020 16:53 UTC
26 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The One Mis­take Rule

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

Or­ga­niz­ing a Group Buy of Flour

jefftk10 Apr 2020 14:00 UTC
25 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Asymp­tot­i­cally Unam­bi­tious AGI

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

COVID-19 re­sponse as XRisk intervention

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

[U.S. Spe­cific] Free money (~$5k-$30k) for In­de­pen­dent Con­trac­tors and grant re­cip­i­ents from U.S. government

10 Apr 2020 5:00 UTC
31 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we have ac­tive hu­man tri­als with in­ac­ti­vated SARS-COV-2?

ChristianKl9 Apr 2020 19:40 UTC
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Test­ing and con­tact trac­ing im­pact as­sess­ment model?

JustinShovelain9 Apr 2020 17:42 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m Not Vegan

jefftk9 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
30 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

COVID-19: List of ideas to re­duce the di­rect harm from the virus, with an em­pha­sis on un­usual ideas

JustinShovelain9 Apr 2020 11:33 UTC
30 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

[An­nounce­ment] LessWrong will be down for ~1 hour on the evening of April 10th around 10PM PDT (5:00AM GMT)

habryka9 Apr 2020 5:09 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Sand­wich Argument

Chris_Leong9 Apr 2020 3:58 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ways you can get sick with­out hu­man contact

Connor_Flexman8 Apr 2020 22:41 UTC
31 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

English sum­maries of Ger­man Covid-19 ex­pert podcast

Chi Nguyen8 Apr 2020 20:29 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.notion.so)

The Ethics of Ventilators

palisatrium8 Apr 2020 20:15 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What should I study to un­der­stand real-world eco­nomics? (I.e., To gain fi­nan­cial liter­acy)

Rudi C8 Apr 2020 19:22 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 and the US Elections

jmh8 Apr 2020 18:25 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #94]: AI al­ign­ment as trans­la­tion be­tween hu­mans and machines

Rohin Shah8 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Open thread: Language

Chris_Leong8 Apr 2020 14:57 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Assess­ing Kurzweil’s 1999 pre­dic­tions for 2019

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2020 14:27 UTC
36 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Link Ret­ro­spec­tive for 2020 Q1

mraxilus8 Apr 2020 12:38 UTC
10 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(write.as)

[Question] How do you de­ter­mine tem­per­a­ture cut­offs for women’s body-tem­per­a­ture?

ChristianKl8 Apr 2020 12:11 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link