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Mask wearing: do the opposite of what the CDC/WHO has been saying?
Shmi
Apr 2, 2020, 10:10 PM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Implications of the Doomsday Argument for x-risk reduction
maximkazhenkov
Apr 2, 2020, 9:42 PM
6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Equilibrium and prior selection problems in multipolar deployment
JesseClifton
Apr 2, 2020, 8:06 PM
21
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What should you do regarding footwear to protect against COVID-19?
ChristianKl
Apr 2, 2020, 7:28 PM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Peter’s COVID Consolidated Brief for 2 April
Peter Wildeford
Apr 2, 2020, 5:00 PM
53
points
9
comments
18
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the subjective experience of free will for agents?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 2, 2020, 3:53 PM
10
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Where should I give spare computing power, as an aspiring rationalist/altruist?
1point7point4
Apr 2, 2020, 3:31 PM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Call for volunteers: assessing Kurzweil, 2019
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 2, 2020, 12:07 PM
26
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Atari early
KatjaGrace
Apr 2, 2020, 6:10 AM
86
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(aiimpacts.org)
Building Toe Buttons
jefftk
Apr 1, 2020, 6:10 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[AN #93]: The Precipice we’re standing at, and how we can back away from it
Rohin Shah
Apr 1, 2020, 5:10 PM
24
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
The attack rate estimation is more important than CFR
avturchin
Apr 1, 2020, 4:23 PM
10
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A quick and crude comparison of epidemiological expert forecasts versus Metaculus forecasts for COVID-19
Jotto999
Apr 1, 2020, 1:59 PM
46
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Taking Initial Viral Load Seriously
Zvi
Apr 1, 2020, 10:50 AM
94
points
45
comments
17
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What achievements have people claimed will be warning signs for AGI?
Richard_Ngo
Apr 1, 2020, 10:24 AM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Two Alternatives to Logical Counterfactuals
jessicata
Apr 1, 2020, 9:48 AM
39
points
61
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
April Fools: Announcing LessWrong 3.0 – Now in VR!
habryka
and
Ben Pace
Apr 1, 2020, 8:00 AM
94
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
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?
CheerfulWarrior
Apr 1, 2020, 5:42 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Necessity and Warrant
namespace
Apr 1, 2020, 3:12 AM
27
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)
How special are human brains among animal brains?
zhukeepa
Apr 1, 2020, 1:35 AM
79
points
38
comments
7
min read
LW
link
FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord
Palus Astra
Apr 1, 2020, 1:02 AM
7
points
1
comment
46
min read
LW
link
Meta-preferences two ways: generator vs. patch
Charlie Steiner
Apr 1, 2020, 12:51 AM
18
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Requesting examples of successful remote research collaborations, and information on what made it work?
Linda Linsefors
Mar 31, 2020, 11:31 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
LW Coronavirus Agenda Update 3/31
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 9:40 PM
31
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
Vaniver
Mar 31, 2020, 7:33 PM
58
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(deepmind.com)
Rational Manifesto
ld97
Mar 31, 2020, 5:03 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
April Coronavirus Open Thread
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 4:48 PM
34
points
141
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the costs, benefits, and logistics of opening up new vaccine facilities?
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 4:43 PM
30
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Blog Post Day II Retrospective
Daniel Kokotajlo
Mar 31, 2020, 3:03 PM
16
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some good / fun / informative treatises on good governance?
james_t
Mar 31, 2020, 12:06 PM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the literature on effects of vaccines on the central nervous system?
Rudi C
Mar 31, 2020, 8:43 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs PS3 Review
jefftk
Mar 31, 2020, 2:20 AM
4
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What will happen to supply chains in the era of COVID-19?
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 1:57 AM
34
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How will this recession differ from the last two?
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 1:32 AM
35
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What happens in a recession anyway?
Elizabeth
Mar 31, 2020, 1:16 AM
30
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do we have offices?
Mati_Roy
Mar 31, 2020, 1:01 AM
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Three Kinds of Competitiveness
Daniel Kokotajlo
Mar 31, 2020, 1:00 AM
36
points
19
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What marginal returns now?
jmh
Mar 30, 2020, 11:12 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Openness Norms in AGI Development
Sublation
Mar 30, 2020, 7:02 PM
22
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Kintsugi
Slimepriestess
Mar 30, 2020, 11:11 AM
30
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Resource for the mappings between areas of math and their applications?
Eli Tyre
Mar 30, 2020, 6:00 AM
13
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Categorization of Meta-Ethical Theories (a flowchart)
Tommy Crow
Mar 30, 2020, 4:36 AM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Data on FED and macroeconomy
Victor Smirnov
Mar 30, 2020, 4:35 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Overcoming Bias During COVID-19: Considering Deliberate Infection w/ Robin Hanson
Peter Limberg
Mar 30, 2020, 4:34 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Real Standard
orthonormal
Mar 30, 2020, 3:09 AM
20
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How many people have died in China from Covid-19?
Pee Doom
Mar 30, 2020, 3:06 AM
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
For those of us living in the middle of nowhere, any cool meetup groups we can finally participate in during our lockups?
lisperati
Mar 30, 2020, 1:41 AM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My current framework for thinking about AGI timelines
zhukeepa
Mar 30, 2020, 1:23 AM
107
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Great Annealing
Jacob Falkovich
Mar 30, 2020, 1:08 AM
79
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
C19 Prediction Survey Thread
jacob_cannell
Mar 30, 2020, 12:53 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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