On R0

Zvi7 Apr 2020 23:20 UTC
63 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Ortho­dox Case Against Utility Functions

abramdemski7 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC
155 points
65 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Body Mass and Risk from COVID-19 and Influenza

Radford Neal7 Apr 2020 18:18 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(radfordneal.wordpress.com)

Mosh

jefftk7 Apr 2020 17:40 UTC
17 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are the Nth Order Effects of the Coron­avirus?

Yoav Ravid7 Apr 2020 13:55 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you do fit-test­ing for KN95/​N95/​FFP2/​FFP3 masks?

ChristianKl7 Apr 2020 8:46 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Would 2009 H1N1 (Swine Flu) ring the alarm bell?

DirectedEvolution7 Apr 2020 7:16 UTC
32 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Kids Ear Protection

jefftk7 Apr 2020 1:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Be­ing right isn’t enough. Con­fi­dence is very im­por­tant.

mako yass7 Apr 2020 1:10 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Self-priming

Connor_Flexman7 Apr 2020 0:54 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Choos­ing the Zero Point

orthonormal6 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
175 points
24 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

The Ori­gin of Con­scious­ness Read­ing Com­pan­ion, Part 1

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2020 22:07 UTC
21 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

LW Coron­avirus Agenda Up­date 4/​6

Elizabeth6 Apr 2020 17:53 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Look­ing for AGI philoso­pher co-au­thor on Draft Ar­ti­cle: ‘Op­ti­mis­ing Peace to Con­strain Risk of War from an Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence’

JohnCDraper6 Apr 2020 16:50 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can we quan­tify the good done of donat­ing PPEs vs ven­tila­tors?

BrianTan6 Apr 2020 14:41 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What is go­ing on in Sin­ga­pore and the Philip­pines?

jmh6 Apr 2020 11:27 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fes­sions of a Tran­shu­man­ist: On Life in Known Space

Slimepriestess6 Apr 2020 9:59 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Trans­porta­tion as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC
183 points
34 comments6 min readLW link1 review

An alarm bell for the next pandemic

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC
48 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

Rhythm Stage Setup v3

jefftk6 Apr 2020 0:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Con­flict vs. mis­take in non-zero-sum games

Nisan5 Apr 2020 22:22 UTC
167 points
40 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Truth value as mag­ni­tude of predictions

George3d65 Apr 2020 21:57 UTC
3 points
1 comment15 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

[Question] What is the im­pact of vary­ing in­fec­tious dose of COVID-19?

Elizabeth5 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the max­i­mum num­ber of COVID-19 tests which could be performed un­til the end of the year?

Roko Jelavić5 Apr 2020 19:19 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing opinions on the pros and cons of var­i­ous telep­res­ence tools

mingyuan5 Apr 2020 18:22 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­drox­y­chloro­quine: the day sci­ence stopped

Filipe Marchesini5 Apr 2020 18:09 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What messy prob­lems do you see Deep Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing ap­pli­ca­ble to?

Riccardo Volpato5 Apr 2020 17:43 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What to draw from Mac­in­tyre et al 2015?

ChristianKl5 Apr 2020 16:56 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How strong is the ev­i­dence for hy­drox­y­chloro­quine?

Chris_Leong5 Apr 2020 9:32 UTC
35 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Life as metaphor for ev­ery­thing else.

Charlie Steiner5 Apr 2020 7:21 UTC
29 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Par­ty­ing over In­ter­net: Tech­nolog­i­cal Aspects

Martin Sustrik5 Apr 2020 6:20 UTC
30 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Re­sources for AI Align­ment Cartography

Gyrodiot4 Apr 2020 14:20 UTC
45 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Web-TAISU, May 13-17

Linda Linsefors4 Apr 2020 11:48 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Referenc­ing the Unreferencable

Chris_Leong4 Apr 2020 10:42 UTC
16 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Peter At­tia Drive pod­cast epi­sode #102: Michael Oster­holm, Ph.D.: COVID-19—Les­sons learned, challenges ahead, and rea­sons for op­ti­mism and concern

Kenny4 Apr 2020 5:19 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(peterattiamd.com)

A Ker­nel of Truth: In­sights from ‘A Friendly Ap­proach to Func­tional Anal­y­sis’

TurnTrout4 Apr 2020 3:38 UTC
32 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Self-Ex­per­i­ment: Does Work­ing More Hours In­crease My Out­put?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC
52 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

How Long Can Peo­ple Use­fully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC
150 points
8 comments12 min readLW link1 review

“Prepar­ing for a Pan­demic: Stage 3: Grow Food if You Can [COVID-19, hort, US, Pa­treon]”

Kenny3 Apr 2020 17:57 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)

Take­aways from safety by de­fault interviews

3 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
28 points
2 comments13 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

[Question] Re­search on re­pur­pos­ing filter prod­ucts for masks?

TurnTrout3 Apr 2020 16:32 UTC
42 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

So­lar Arc Faults

jefftk3 Apr 2020 15:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How About a Re­mote Var­i­o­la­tion Study?

Liron3 Apr 2020 12:04 UTC
25 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Has LessWrong been a good early alarm bell for the pan­demic?

DirectedEvolution3 Apr 2020 9:44 UTC
18 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How cred­ible is the the­ory that COVID19 es­caped from a Wuhan Lab?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel3 Apr 2020 6:47 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which books provide a good overview of mod­ern hu­man pre­his­tory?

ChosunOne3 Apr 2020 6:44 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

March 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern3 Apr 2020 2:16 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

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