Mask wear­ing: do the op­po­site of what the CDC/​WHO has been say­ing?

Shmi2 Apr 2020 22:10 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Im­pli­ca­tions of the Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment for x-risk reduction

maximkazhenkov2 Apr 2020 21:42 UTC
6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Equil­ibrium and prior se­lec­tion prob­lems in mul­ti­po­lar deployment

JesseClifton2 Apr 2020 20:06 UTC
21 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What should you do re­gard­ing footwear to pro­tect against COVID-19?

ChristianKl2 Apr 2020 19:28 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief for 2 April

Peter Wildeford2 Apr 2020 17:00 UTC
53 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] What is the sub­jec­tive ex­pe­rience of free will for agents?

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where should I give spare com­put­ing power, as an as­piring ra­tio­nal­ist/​al­tru­ist?

[Error communicating with LW2 server]2 Apr 2020 15:31 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Call for vol­un­teers: as­sess­ing Kurzweil, 2019

Stuart_Armstrong2 Apr 2020 12:07 UTC
26 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Atari early

KatjaGrace2 Apr 2020 6:10 UTC
86 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Build­ing Toe Buttons

jefftk1 Apr 2020 18:10 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #93]: The Precipice we’re stand­ing at, and how we can back away from it

Rohin Shah1 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
24 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The at­tack rate es­ti­ma­tion is more im­por­tant than CFR

avturchin1 Apr 2020 16:23 UTC
10 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

A quick and crude com­par­i­son of epi­demiolog­i­cal ex­pert fore­casts ver­sus Me­tac­u­lus fore­casts for COVID-19

Jotto9991 Apr 2020 13:59 UTC
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ini­tial Viral Load Seriously

Zvi1 Apr 2020 10:50 UTC
94 points
45 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What achieve­ments have peo­ple claimed will be warn­ing signs for AGI?

Richard_Ngo1 Apr 2020 10:24 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Two Alter­na­tives to Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

jessicata1 Apr 2020 9:48 UTC
38 points
61 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

April Fools: An­nounc­ing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

1 Apr 2020 8:00 UTC
94 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the ex­pected QALY (qual­ity-ad­justed life years) loss per cap­ita due to SARS-COV-2? QALY gain of in­creas­ing ICU ca­pac­ity? Of buy­ing new ven­tila­tors?

CheerfulWarrior1 Apr 2020 5:42 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­ces­sity and Warrant

namespace1 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC
27 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

How spe­cial are hu­man brains among an­i­mal brains?

zhukeepa1 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC
79 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

FLI Pod­cast: The Precipice: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity with Toby Ord

Palus Astra1 Apr 2020 1:02 UTC
7 points
1 comment46 min readLW link

Meta-prefer­ences two ways: gen­er­a­tor vs. patch

Charlie Steiner1 Apr 2020 0:51 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Re­quest­ing ex­am­ples of suc­cess­ful re­mote re­search col­lab­o­ra­tions, and in­for­ma­tion on what made it work?

Linda Linsefors31 Mar 2020 23:31 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

LW Coron­avirus Agenda Up­date 3/​31

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 21:40 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Out­perform­ing the hu­man Atari benchmark

Vaniver31 Mar 2020 19:33 UTC
58 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Ra­tional Manifesto

ld9731 Mar 2020 17:03 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

April Coron­avirus Open Thread

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 16:48 UTC
34 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the costs, benefits, and lo­gis­tics of open­ing up new vac­cine fa­cil­ities?

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 16:43 UTC
30 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Blog Post Day II Retrospective

Daniel Kokotajlo31 Mar 2020 15:03 UTC
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good /​ fun /​ in­for­ma­tive trea­tises on good gov­er­nance?

james_t31 Mar 2020 12:06 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the liter­a­ture on effects of vac­cines on the cen­tral ner­vous sys­tem?

Rudi C31 Mar 2020 8:43 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cloudy With a Chance of Meat­balls PS3 Review

jefftk31 Mar 2020 2:20 UTC
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What will hap­pen to sup­ply chains in the era of COVID-19?

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 1:57 UTC
34 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How will this re­ces­sion differ from the last two?

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 1:32 UTC
35 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What hap­pens in a re­ces­sion any­way?

Elizabeth31 Mar 2020 1:16 UTC
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we have offices?

Mati_Roy31 Mar 2020 1:01 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Three Kinds of Competitiveness

Daniel Kokotajlo31 Mar 2020 1:00 UTC
36 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What marginal re­turns now?

jmh30 Mar 2020 23:12 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Open­ness Norms in AGI Development

Sublation30 Mar 2020 19:02 UTC
22 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Kintsugi

Slimepriestess30 Mar 2020 11:11 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] Re­source for the map­pings be­tween ar­eas of math and their ap­pli­ca­tions?

Eli Tyre30 Mar 2020 6:00 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Cat­e­go­riza­tion of Meta-Eth­i­cal The­o­ries (a flowchart)

Tommy Crow30 Mar 2020 4:36 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Data on FED and macroeconomy

Victor Smirnov30 Mar 2020 4:35 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Bias Dur­ing COVID-19: Con­sid­er­ing De­liber­ate In­fec­tion w/​ Robin Hanson

Peter Limberg30 Mar 2020 4:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Real Standard

orthonormal30 Mar 2020 3:09 UTC
20 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How many peo­ple have died in China from Covid-19?

Pee Doom30 Mar 2020 3:06 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] For those of us liv­ing in the mid­dle of nowhere, any cool meetup groups we can fi­nally par­ti­ci­pate in dur­ing our lock­ups?

lisperati30 Mar 2020 1:41 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

My cur­rent frame­work for think­ing about AGI timelines

zhukeepa30 Mar 2020 1:23 UTC
107 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Great Annealing

Jacob Falkovich30 Mar 2020 1:08 UTC
79 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

C19 Pre­dic­tion Sur­vey Thread

jacob_cannell30 Mar 2020 0:53 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link