Self-priming

Connor_FlexmanApr 7, 2020, 12:54 AM
25 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Do you trust the re­search on hand­writ­ing vs. typ­ing for notes?

NaiveTortoiseApr 23, 2020, 8:49 PM
25 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Or­ga­niz­ing a Group Buy of Flour

jefftkApr 10, 2020, 2:00 PM
25 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How much mo­ti­va­tion do you de­rive from cu­ri­os­ity alone in your work/​re­search?

NaiveTortoiseApr 17, 2020, 2:04 PM
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How About a Re­mote Var­i­o­la­tion Study?

LironApr 3, 2020, 12:04 PM
25 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Hard About Long Tails?

johnswentworthApr 23, 2020, 4:32 PM
24 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelAApr 20, 2020, 1:08 AM
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[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)

How su­perfore­cast­ing could be manipulated

DirectedEvolutionApr 17, 2020, 6:47 AM
24 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

LW Coron­avirus Agenda Up­date 4/​6

ElizabethApr 6, 2020, 5:53 PM
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielApr 3, 2020, 6:47 AM
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Wired Head­sets for Video Calls

jefftkApr 21, 2020, 10:10 PM
22 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

English sum­maries of Ger­man Covid-19 ex­pert podcast

Chi NguyenApr 8, 2020, 8:29 PM
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.notion.so)

Law school taught me nothing

ketchupduckApr 11, 2020, 2:30 PM
21 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Equil­ibrium and prior se­lec­tion prob­lems in mul­ti­po­lar deployment

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

The Ori­gin of Con­scious­ness Read­ing Com­pan­ion, Part 1

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2020, 10:07 PM
21 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any nat­u­rally oc­cur­ring heat pumps?

FactorialCodeApr 13, 2020, 5:24 AM
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

What We Owe to Ourselves

eapacheApr 11, 2020, 1:34 AM
21 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

In­tu­itions on Univer­sal Be­hav­ior of In­for­ma­tion at a Distance

johnswentworthApr 20, 2020, 9:44 PM
21 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

The Archety­pal Ra­tional and Post-Rational

OuroborusApr 15, 2020, 9:40 AM
21 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Hy­drox­y­chloro­quine: the day sci­ence stopped

Filipe MarchesiniApr 5, 2020, 6:09 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 24: Re­solve Cy­cles 2

Mark XuApr 28, 2020, 7:00 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #95]: A frame­work for think­ing about how to make AI go well

Rohin ShahApr 15, 2020, 5:10 PM
20 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Brief Re­sponse to Sus­pended Rea­son on Par­allels Between Skyrms on Sig­nal­ing and Yud­kowsky on Lan­guage and Evidence

Zack_M_DavisApr 16, 2020, 3:44 AM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Puz­zling Lin­ear­ity of COVID-19

Radford NealApr 24, 2020, 2:09 PM
19 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(radfordneal.wordpress.com)

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

SlimepriestessApr 14, 2020, 4:33 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[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

An­nounc­ing Web-TAISU, May 13-17

Linda LinseforsApr 4, 2020, 11:48 AM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meta-prefer­ences two ways: gen­er­a­tor vs. patch

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

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

DirectedEvolutionApr 3, 2020, 9:44 AM
18 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Ham­mer and the Mask—A call to action

Simon FischerApr 19, 2020, 1:36 PM
18 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark XuApr 20, 2020, 2:51 PM
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should we model com­plex sys­tems?

ClimateDocApr 12, 2020, 9:23 PM
17 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Mosh

jefftkApr 7, 2020, 5:40 PM
17 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #96]: Buck and I dis­cuss/​ar­gue about AI Alignment

Rohin ShahApr 22, 2020, 5:20 PM
17 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[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

The one where Quir­rell is an egg

Ben PaceApr 15, 2020, 6:02 AM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

[Question] Why don’t we have ac­tive hu­man tri­als with in­ac­ti­vated SARS-COV-2?

ChristianKlApr 9, 2020, 7:40 PM
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sex, Lies, and Canaanites

Jacob FalkovichApr 23, 2020, 4:26 PM
16 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Would 2014-2016 Ebola ring the alarm bell?

DirectedEvolutionApr 8, 2020, 2:01 AM
16 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Referenc­ing the Unreferencable

Chris_LeongApr 4, 2020, 10:42 AM
16 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we tape sur­gi­cal masks to the face to seal them air­tight?

ChristianKlApr 14, 2020, 8:33 AM
16 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are good defense mechanisms against dan­ger­ous bul­let bit­ing?

Mati_RoyApr 21, 2020, 8:51 PM
16 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Leav­ing Things For Others

jefftkApr 12, 2020, 11:50 AM
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Link Sum­mary: Top 10 Repli­cated Find­ings from Be­hav­ioral Genetics

ErickBallApr 19, 2020, 1:32 AM
16 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Emer­gency Cen­tral Planning

jefftkApr 28, 2020, 12:50 AM
16 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In Defense of Politics

ChristianKlApr 10, 2020, 7:26 PM
16 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Scrap­ing web­sites cur­rently free due to coronavirus

emmabApr 14, 2020, 7:37 AM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Up­date on Updates

SlimepriestessApr 27, 2020, 5:30 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[AN #97]: Are there his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of large, ro­bust dis­con­ti­nu­ities?

Rohin ShahApr 29, 2020, 5:30 PM
15 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)