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

ShmiApr 2, 2020, 10:10 PM
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

maximkazhenkovApr 2, 2020, 9:42 PM
6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Equil­ibrium and prior se­lec­tion prob­lems in mul­ti­po­lar deployment

JesseCliftonApr 2, 2020, 8:06 PM
21 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

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

ChristianKlApr 2, 2020, 7:28 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief for 2 April

Peter WildefordApr 2, 2020, 5:00 PM
53 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 2, 2020, 3:53 PM
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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

1point7point4Apr 2, 2020, 3:31 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Call for vol­un­teers: as­sess­ing Kurzweil, 2019

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 2, 2020, 12:07 PM
26 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Atari early

KatjaGraceApr 2, 2020, 6:10 AM
86 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Build­ing Toe Buttons

jefftkApr 1, 2020, 6:10 PM
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 ShahApr 1, 2020, 5:10 PM
24 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The at­tack rate es­ti­ma­tion is more im­por­tant than CFR

avturchinApr 1, 2020, 4:23 PM
10 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

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

Jotto999Apr 1, 2020, 1:59 PM
46 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ini­tial Viral Load Seriously

ZviApr 1, 2020, 10:50 AM
94 points
45 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Richard_NgoApr 1, 2020, 10:24 AM
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Two Alter­na­tives to Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

jessicataApr 1, 2020, 9:48 AM
39 points
61 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

April Fools: An­nounc­ing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!

Apr 1, 2020, 8:00 AM
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?

CheerfulWarriorApr 1, 2020, 5:42 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­ces­sity and Warrant

namespaceApr 1, 2020, 3:12 AM
27 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

How spe­cial are hu­man brains among an­i­mal brains?

zhukeepaApr 1, 2020, 1:35 AM
79 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

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

Palus AstraApr 1, 2020, 1:02 AM
7 points
1 comment46 min readLW link

Meta-prefer­ences two ways: gen­er­a­tor vs. patch

Charlie SteinerApr 1, 2020, 12:51 AM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Linda LinseforsMar 31, 2020, 11:31 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

LW Coron­avirus Agenda Up­date 3/​31

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 9:40 PM
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Out­perform­ing the hu­man Atari benchmark

VaniverMar 31, 2020, 7:33 PM
58 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Ra­tional Manifesto

ld97Mar 31, 2020, 5:03 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

April Coron­avirus Open Thread

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 4:48 PM
34 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 4:43 PM
30 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Blog Post Day II Retrospective

Daniel KokotajloMar 31, 2020, 3:03 PM
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

james_tMar 31, 2020, 12:06 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Rudi CMar 31, 2020, 8:43 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cloudy With a Chance of Meat­balls PS3 Review

jefftkMar 31, 2020, 2:20 AM
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 1:57 AM
34 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 1:32 AM
35 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What hap­pens in a re­ces­sion any­way?

ElizabethMar 31, 2020, 1:16 AM
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we have offices?

Mati_RoyMar 31, 2020, 1:01 AM
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Three Kinds of Competitiveness

Daniel KokotajloMar 31, 2020, 1:00 AM
36 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What marginal re­turns now?

jmhMar 30, 2020, 11:12 PM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Open­ness Norms in AGI Development

SublationMar 30, 2020, 7:02 PM
22 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Kintsugi

SlimepriestessMar 30, 2020, 11:11 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

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

Eli TyreMar 30, 2020, 6:00 AM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Cat­e­go­riza­tion of Meta-Eth­i­cal The­o­ries (a flowchart)

Tommy CrowMar 30, 2020, 4:36 AM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Data on FED and macroeconomy

Victor SmirnovMar 30, 2020, 4:35 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Peter LimbergMar 30, 2020, 4:34 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Real Standard

orthonormalMar 30, 2020, 3:09 AM
20 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

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

Pee DoomMar 30, 2020, 3:06 AM
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?

lisperatiMar 30, 2020, 1:41 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

My cur­rent frame­work for think­ing about AGI timelines

zhukeepaMar 30, 2020, 1:23 AM
107 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Great Annealing

Jacob FalkovichMar 30, 2020, 1:08 AM
79 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

C19 Pre­dic­tion Sur­vey Thread

jacob_cannellMar 30, 2020, 12:53 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link