[Question] My dad got stung by a bee, and is mildly aller­gic. What are the trade­offs in­volved in de­cid­ing whether to have him go the the emer­gency room?

Eli Tyre18 Apr 2020 22:12 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence. (2019). In­terim Re­port. Wash­ing­ton, DC: Author.

JohnCDraper18 Apr 2020 8:54 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

My stum­ble on COVID-19

DirectedEvolution18 Apr 2020 4:32 UTC
39 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Helping the kids post

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

[Question] Bet­ter name for “Heavy-tailed­ness of the world?”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Apr 2020 20:50 UTC
28 points
7 comments2 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)

COVID-19: An op­por­tu­nity to help by mod­el­ling test­ing and trac­ing to in­form the UK government

JustinShovelain17 Apr 2020 17:21 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much mo­ti­va­tion do you de­rive from cu­ri­os­ity alone in your work/​re­search?

NaiveTortoise17 Apr 2020 14:04 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How su­perfore­cast­ing could be manipulated

DirectedEvolution17 Apr 2020 6:47 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Two-player Catan

jefftk17 Apr 2020 0:50 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­te­grat­ing Hid­den Vari­ables Im­proves Approximation

johnswentworth16 Apr 2020 21:43 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Treat­ments cor­re­lated with harm

Connor_Flexman16 Apr 2020 21:02 UTC
40 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Doors and Corners

Slimepriestess16 Apr 2020 18:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Eval­u­at­ing Pre­dic­tions in Hindsight

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

Dem­i­na­tal­ist To­tal Utilitarianism

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

Lead­ers sup­port global truce to turn fire on coronavirus

JohnCDraper16 Apr 2020 14:49 UTC
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Brief Re­sponse to Sus­pended Rea­son on Par­allels Between Skyrms on Sig­nal­ing and Yud­kowsky on Lan­guage and Evidence

Zack_M_Davis16 Apr 2020 3:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 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

Noise Simplifies

johnswentworth15 Apr 2020 19:48 UTC
28 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­a­bil­is­tic Blue-Eyed Islanders

johnswentworth15 Apr 2020 17:55 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #95]: A frame­work for think­ing about how to make AI go well

Rohin Shah15 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
20 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Linkpost: A Com­pre­hen­sive Re­view of Iko­ria, Lair of Behemoths

Zvi15 Apr 2020 15:10 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Archety­pal Ra­tional and Post-Rational

Ouroborus15 Apr 2020 9:40 UTC
21 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

The one where Quir­rell is an egg

Ben Pace15 Apr 2020 6:02 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

[Question] What does the curve look like for coro­n­avirus on a sur­face?

eapache15 Apr 2020 2:07 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Just Top Post

jefftk15 Apr 2020 1:00 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

EGI14 Apr 2020 22:32 UTC
31 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

De­cid­ing Well in Tu­mul­tuous Times

Ian David Moss14 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
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 Sikes14 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC
42 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Pop­u­lar pa­pers to be scru­ti­nized?

alyosha_the_pot14 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
13 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this vi­able physics?

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

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

Slimepriestess14 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Look­ing for a Team to Par­ti­ci­pate on a Competition

Filipe Marchesini14 Apr 2020 12:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ChristianKl14 Apr 2020 8:33 UTC
16 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Scrap­ing web­sites cur­rently free due to coronavirus

emmab14 Apr 2020 7:37 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The World Ac­cord­ing to Do­minic Cummings

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

Math­e­mat­i­cal In­tu­ition­ism and the Flow of Time

Polytopos14 Apr 2020 0:25 UTC
9 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

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

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