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[Question]
What are some fun ways to spend $100,000?
Sausage Vector Machine
Apr 20, 2020, 10:45 PM
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Intuitions on Universal Behavior of Information at a Distance
johnswentworth
Apr 20, 2020, 9:44 PM
21
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the externalities of predictions on wars?
Mati_Roy
Apr 20, 2020, 5:37 PM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 16: Hamming Questions
Mark Xu
Apr 20, 2020, 2:51 PM
17
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
AI Services as a Research Paradigm
VojtaKovarik
Apr 20, 2020, 1:00 PM
30
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(docs.google.com)
[Question]
What confidence interval should one report?
Jsevillamol
Apr 20, 2020, 10:31 AM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
covid-19 notes, 4/19/20
nostalgebraist
Apr 20, 2020, 5:30 AM
29
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
[Question]
What are habits that a lot of people have and don’t tend to have ever questioned?
Mati_Roy
Apr 20, 2020, 5:26 AM
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What Happens During a Recession
Elizabeth
Apr 20, 2020, 3:03 AM
50
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Bass Whistle in the Browser
jefftk
Apr 20, 2020, 2:10 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Database of existential risk estimates
MichaelA
Apr 20, 2020, 1:08 AM
24
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Every system seems random from the inside
eapache
Apr 19, 2020, 11:02 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Explaining the Rationalist Movement to the Uninitiated
Mellivora
Apr 19, 2020, 8:53 PM
5
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Hammer and the Mask—A call to action
Simon Fischer
Apr 19, 2020, 1:36 PM
18
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Web Audio Echo?
jefftk
Apr 19, 2020, 2:30 AM
8
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Link Summary: Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics
ErickBall
Apr 19, 2020, 1:32 AM
16
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
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 Tyre
Apr 18, 2020, 10:12 PM
10
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. (2019). Interim Report. Washington, DC: Author.
JohnCDraper
Apr 18, 2020, 8:54 AM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My stumble on COVID-19
DirectedEvolution
Apr 18, 2020, 4:32 AM
39
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Helping the kids post
jefftk
Apr 17, 2020, 9:40 PM
87
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Better name for “Heavy-tailedness of the world?”
Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 17, 2020, 8:50 PM
28
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My Covid-19 Thinking: 4/17
Zvi
Apr 17, 2020, 7:50 PM
65
points
6
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
COVID-19: An opportunity to help by modelling testing and tracing to inform the UK government
JustinShovelain
Apr 17, 2020, 5:21 PM
14
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much motivation do you derive from curiosity alone in your work/research?
NaiveTortoise
Apr 17, 2020, 2:04 PM
25
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How superforecasting could be manipulated
DirectedEvolution
Apr 17, 2020, 6:47 AM
24
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Two-player Catan
jefftk
Apr 17, 2020, 12:50 AM
10
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Integrating Hidden Variables Improves Approximation
johnswentworth
Apr 16, 2020, 9:43 PM
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Treatments correlated with harm
Connor_Flexman
Apr 16, 2020, 9:02 PM
40
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Doors and Corners
Slimepriestess
Apr 16, 2020, 6:32 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Evaluating Predictions in Hindsight
Zvi
Apr 16, 2020, 5:20 PM
55
points
8
comments
27
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Deminatalist Total Utilitarianism
Vanessa Kosoy
Apr 16, 2020, 3:53 PM
69
points
56
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Leaders support global truce to turn fire on coronavirus
JohnCDraper
Apr 16, 2020, 2:49 PM
3
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Brief Response to Suspended Reason on Parallels Between Skyrms on Signaling and Yudkowsky on Language and Evidence
Zack_M_Davis
Apr 16, 2020, 3:44 AM
20
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AI Alignment Podcast: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah
Palus Astra
Apr 16, 2020, 12:50 AM
58
points
27
comments
89
min read
LW
link
Noise Simplifies
johnswentworth
Apr 15, 2020, 7:48 PM
28
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Probabilistic Blue-Eyed Islanders
johnswentworth
Apr 15, 2020, 5:55 PM
26
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #95]: A framework for thinking about how to make AI go well
Rohin Shah
15 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
20
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Linkpost: A Comprehensive Review of Ikoria, Lair of Behemoths
Zvi
15 Apr 2020 15:10 UTC
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Archetypal Rational and Post-Rational
Ouroborus
15 Apr 2020 9:40 UTC
21
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)
The one where Quirrell is an egg
Ben Pace
15 Apr 2020 6:02 UTC
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
[Question]
What does the curve look like for coronavirus on a surface?
eapache
15 Apr 2020 2:07 UTC
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Just Top Post
jefftk
15 Apr 2020 1:00 UTC
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Hammer and Mask - Wide spread use of reusable particle filtering masks as a SARS-CoV-2 eradication strategy
EGI
14 Apr 2020 22:32 UTC
31
points
8
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Deciding Well in Tumultuous Times
Ian David Moss
14 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
2
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Far-Ultraviolet Light in Public Spaces to Fight Pandemic is a Good Idea but Premature
Kirby Sikes
14 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC
42
points
35
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Popular papers to be scrutinized?
alyosha_the_pot
14 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
13
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is this viable physics?
Daniel Kokotajlo
14 Apr 2020 19:29 UTC
59
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
One Hundred Billion Children’s Sky
Slimepriestess
14 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Looking for a Team to Participate on a Competition
Filipe Marchesini
14 Apr 2020 12:29 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why don’t we tape surgical masks to the face to seal them airtight?
ChristianKl
14 Apr 2020 8:33 UTC
16
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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