Ham­mer and Mask - Wide spread use of reusable par­ti­cle fil­ter­ing masks as a SARS-CoV-2 erad­i­ca­tion strategy

EGIApr 14, 2020, 10:32 PM
31 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

De­cid­ing Well in Tu­mul­tuous Times

Ian David MossApr 14, 2020, 8:53 PM
2 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light in Public Spaces to Fight Pan­demic is a Good Idea but Premature

Kirby SikesApr 14, 2020, 8:27 PM
42 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Pop­u­lar pa­pers to be scru­ti­nized?

alyosha_the_potApr 14, 2020, 7:50 PM
13 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this vi­able physics?

Daniel KokotajloApr 14, 2020, 7:29 PM
59 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

SlimepriestessApr 14, 2020, 4:33 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Look­ing for a Team to Par­ti­ci­pate on a Competition

Filipe MarchesiniApr 14, 2020, 12:29 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we tape sur­gi­cal masks to the face to seal them air­tight?

ChristianKlApr 14, 2020, 8:33 AM
16 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Scrap­ing web­sites cur­rently free due to coronavirus

emmabApr 14, 2020, 7:37 AM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The World Ac­cord­ing to Do­minic Cummings

Chris_LeongApr 14, 2020, 5:05 AM
69 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal In­tu­ition­ism and the Flow of Time

PolytoposApr 14, 2020, 12:25 AM
9 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

KatjaGraceApr 14, 2020, 12:00 AM
190 points
25 comments31 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

Pre­ma­ture death paradox

bfinnApr 13, 2020, 11:15 PM
8 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David HornbeinApr 13, 2020, 10:48 PM
93 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Coron­avirus: Jus­tified Key In­sights Thread

Ben PaceApr 13, 2020, 10:40 PM
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] The Sa­mu­rai and the Daimyo: A Use­ful Dy­namic?

SlimepriestessApr 13, 2020, 10:38 PM
35 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Where should LessWrong go on COVID?

ElizabethApr 13, 2020, 9:39 PM
60 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

What is Your Goal Hive?

SlimepriestessApr 13, 2020, 5:51 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Reflec­tions on Ar­gu­ing about Politics

PontorApr 13, 2020, 5:33 PM
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

“How con­ser­va­tive” should the par­tial max­imisers be?

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 13, 2020, 3:50 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The Typ­ing Game

jefftkApr 13, 2020, 3:30 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

devasApr 13, 2020, 2:47 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

philhApr 13, 2020, 1:40 PM
43 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] Are there any nat­u­rally oc­cur­ring heat pumps?

FactorialCodeApr 13, 2020, 5:24 AM
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Col­lege ad­vice for peo­ple who are ex­actly like me

benkuhnApr 13, 2020, 1:30 AM
43 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Nar­ra­tive Direc­tion and Rebellion

eapacheApr 13, 2020, 1:07 AM
8 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Wor­ld­wide “Port­land” Slate Star Codex Meetup

Noah WaltonApr 12, 2020, 9:58 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should we model com­plex sys­tems?

ClimateDocApr 12, 2020, 9:23 PM
17 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Leav­ing Things For Others

jefftkApr 12, 2020, 11:50 AM
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The His­tory of Color in Chinese

lsusrApr 12, 2020, 4:05 AM
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Re­view of “Life­cy­cle In­vest­ing”

JessRiedelApr 12, 2020, 3:12 AM
71 points
22 comments13 min readLW link

Seem­ingly Pop­u­lar Covid-19 Model is Ob­vi­ous Nonsense

ZviApr 11, 2020, 11:10 PM
129 points
28 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Law school taught me nothing

ketchupduckApr 11, 2020, 2:30 PM
21 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

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

kickboxerApr 11, 2020, 12:16 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Eth­er­net Is Worth It For Video Calls

jefftkApr 11, 2020, 12:10 PM
55 points
26 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cu­ri­os­ity: A Greedy Feeling

DirectedEvolutionApr 11, 2020, 4:38 AM
41 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

What We Owe to Ourselves

eapacheApr 11, 2020, 1:34 AM
21 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

In Defense of Politics

ChristianKlApr 10, 2020, 7:26 PM
16 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

App-Based Disease Surveillance After COVID-19

RedManApr 10, 2020, 6:52 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to eval­u­ate (50%) predictions

Rafael HarthApr 10, 2020, 5:12 PM
134 points
50 comments9 min readLW link

The Value Is In the Tails

fyloApr 10, 2020, 4:53 PM
26 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The One Mis­take Rule

ZviApr 10, 2020, 2:50 PM
43 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Or­ga­niz­ing a Group Buy of Flour

jefftkApr 10, 2020, 2:00 PM
25 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Asymp­tot­i­cally Unam­bi­tious AGI

michaelcohenApr 10, 2020, 12:31 PM
50 points
217 comments2 min readLW link

COVID-19 re­sponse as XRisk intervention

polyphonyApr 10, 2020, 6:22 AM
48 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

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

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

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

ChristianKlApr 9, 2020, 7:40 PM
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Test­ing and con­tact trac­ing im­pact as­sess­ment model?

JustinShovelainApr 9, 2020, 5:42 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m Not Vegan

jefftkApr 9, 2020, 1:00 PM
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

JustinShovelainApr 9, 2020, 11:33 AM
30 points
12 comments7 min readLW link