[Question] What are some fun ways to spend $100,000?

Sausage Vector Machine20 Apr 2020 22:45 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itions on Univer­sal Be­hav­ior of In­for­ma­tion at a Distance

johnswentworth20 Apr 2020 21:44 UTC
21 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark Xu20 Apr 2020 14:51 UTC
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

AI Ser­vices as a Re­search Paradigm

VojtaKovarik20 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
30 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] What con­fi­dence in­ter­val should one re­port?

Jsevillamol20 Apr 2020 10:31 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

covid-19 notes, 4/​19/​20

nostalgebraist20 Apr 2020 5:30 UTC
29 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

[Question] What are habits that a lot of peo­ple have and don’t tend to have ever ques­tioned?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 5:26 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

What Hap­pens Dur­ing a Recession

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

Bass Whis­tle in the Browser

jefftk20 Apr 2020 2:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA20 Apr 2020 1:08 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Every sys­tem seems ran­dom from the inside

eapache19 Apr 2020 23:02 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing the Ra­tion­al­ist Move­ment to the Uninitiated

Mellivora19 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
5 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

The Ham­mer and the Mask—A call to action

Simon Fischer19 Apr 2020 13:36 UTC
18 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Web Au­dio Echo?

jefftk19 Apr 2020 2:30 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Link Sum­mary: Top 10 Repli­cated Find­ings from Be­hav­ioral Genetics

ErickBall19 Apr 2020 1:32 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[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