Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light in Public Spaces to Fight Pan­demic is a Good Idea but Premature

Kirby SikesApr 14, 2020, 8:27 PM
42 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vat­ing Ab­strac­tion-First De­ci­sion Theory

johnswentworthApr 29, 2020, 5:47 PM
42 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Re­search on re­pur­pos­ing filter prod­ucts for masks?

TurnTroutApr 3, 2020, 4:32 PM
42 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Cu­ri­os­ity: A Greedy Feeling

DirectedEvolutionApr 11, 2020, 4:38 AM
41 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Treat­ments cor­re­lated with harm

Connor_FlexmanApr 16, 2020, 9:02 PM
40 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Chilling Effect of Confiscation

jefftkApr 25, 2020, 2:50 AM
39 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Two Alter­na­tives to Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

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

My stum­ble on COVID-19

DirectedEvolutionApr 18, 2020, 4:32 AM
39 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Han­son & Mow­show­itz De­bate: COVID-19 Variolation

Ben PaceApr 8, 2020, 12:07 AM
38 points
3 comments77 min readLW link

Mar­ket-shap­ing ap­proaches to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 re­sponse: a role for op­tion-based guaran­tees?

Apr 27, 2020, 10:43 PM
38 points
2 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Assess­ing Kurzweil’s 1999 pre­dic­tions for 2019

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2020, 2:27 PM
36 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How strong is the ev­i­dence for hy­drox­y­chloro­quine?

Chris_LeongApr 5, 2020, 9:32 AM
35 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] The Sa­mu­rai and the Daimyo: A Use­ful Dy­namic?

SlimepriestessApr 13, 2020, 10:38 PM
35 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

I do not like math

lsusrApr 29, 2020, 11:27 AM
34 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolutionApr 7, 2020, 7:16 AM
32 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

How four guys helped redi­rect Ja­pan’s coro­n­avirus policy

TaranApr 23, 2020, 9:22 AM
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.kalzumeus.com)

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

TurnTroutApr 4, 2020, 3:38 AM
32 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

On New York’s An­ti­body Tests

ZviApr 25, 2020, 3:20 PM
31 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[U.S. Spe­cific] Free money (~$5k-$30k) for In­de­pen­dent Con­trac­tors and grant re­cip­i­ents from U.S. government

Apr 10, 2020, 5:00 AM
31 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

The His­tory of Color in Chinese

lsusrApr 12, 2020, 4:05 AM
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Ways you can get sick with­out hu­man contact

Connor_FlexmanApr 8, 2020, 10:41 PM
31 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Ham­mer and Mask - Wide spread use of reusable par­ti­cle fil­ter­ing masks as a SARS-CoV-2 erad­i­ca­tion strategy

EGIApr 14, 2020, 10:32 PM
31 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

COVID-19: List of ideas to re­duce the di­rect harm from the virus, with an em­pha­sis on un­usual ideas

JustinShovelainApr 9, 2020, 11:33 AM
30 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Why I’m Not Vegan

jefftkApr 9, 2020, 1:00 PM
30 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Body Mass and Risk from COVID-19 and Influenza

Radford NealApr 7, 2020, 6:18 PM
30 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(radfordneal.wordpress.com)

Deep­Mind team on speci­fi­ca­tion gaming

JoshuaFoxApr 23, 2020, 8:01 AM
30 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Melt­ing democracy

Richard_NgoApr 29, 2020, 8:10 PM
30 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

It’s Not About The Nail

eapacheApr 26, 2020, 11:50 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

AI Ser­vices as a Re­search Paradigm

VojtaKovarikApr 20, 2020, 1:00 PM
30 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Par­ty­ing over In­ter­net: Tech­nolog­i­cal Aspects

Martin SustrikApr 5, 2020, 6:20 AM
30 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

“How con­ser­va­tive” should the par­tial max­imisers be?

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 13, 2020, 3:50 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

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

ElizabethApr 5, 2020, 9:40 PM
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

covid-19 notes, 4/​19/​20

nostalgebraistApr 20, 2020, 5:30 AM
29 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Life as metaphor for ev­ery­thing else.

Charlie SteinerApr 5, 2020, 7:21 AM
29 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Bet­ter name for “Heavy-tailed­ness of the world?”

Daniel KokotajloApr 17, 2020, 8:50 PM
28 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

On Platitudes

OuroborusApr 22, 2020, 5:55 AM
28 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Noise Simplifies

johnswentworthApr 15, 2020, 7:48 PM
28 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Take­aways from safety by de­fault interviews

Apr 3, 2020, 5:20 PM
28 points
2 comments13 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Re­tract­ing on Facebook

jefftkApr 24, 2020, 1:50 AM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 20: OODA Loop

Mark XuApr 24, 2020, 6:11 PM
27 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Ne­ces­sity and Warrant

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

The Value Is In the Tails

fyloApr 10, 2020, 4:53 PM
26 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 21, 2020, 5:10 PM
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

De­scrip­tion vs simu­lated prediction

Richard Korzekwa Apr 22, 2020, 4:40 PM
26 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Call for vol­un­teers: as­sess­ing Kurzweil, 2019

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

[Question] Prob­a­bil­is­tic Blue-Eyed Islanders

johnswentworthApr 15, 2020, 5:55 PM
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Sand­wich Argument

Chris_LeongApr 9, 2020, 3:58 AM
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[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

[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

Tag Rele­vance Sys­tems (Feed­back Re­quested)

RaemonApr 23, 2020, 1:29 AM
25 points
5 comments2 min readLW link