Liter­a­ture Re­view For Aca­demic Out­siders: What, How, and Why

namespaceMay 9, 2020, 10:58 PM
195 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworthMay 9, 2020, 6:47 PM
58 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

Why there’s an ethanol glut and san­i­tizer short­age (WSJ)

William WalkerMay 9, 2020, 3:08 PM
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wsj.com)

Shared House Setup

jefftkMay 9, 2020, 11:30 AM
28 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is there any sci­en­tific ev­i­dence for benefits of med­i­ta­tion?

CheerfulWarriorMay 9, 2020, 8:53 AM
16 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of peren­nial dis­cov­er­ies?

Mati_RoyMay 9, 2020, 6:17 AM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity as out­side view

TurnTroutMay 8, 2020, 9:56 PM
36 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Les­sons from Isaac: Pit­falls of Reason

adamShimiMay 8, 2020, 8:44 PM
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How to do re­mote co-working

SoerenMindMay 8, 2020, 7:38 PM
25 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] AI Box­ing for Hard­ware-bound agents (aka the China al­ign­ment prob­lem)

Logan ZoellnerMay 8, 2020, 3:50 PM
11 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna [Vir­tual] Meetup, May 2020

ViliamMay 8, 2020, 3:03 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Kids and Mo­ral Agency

jefftkMay 8, 2020, 12:50 PM
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Failures in tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing? A re­ply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelAMay 8, 2020, 12:41 PM
44 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of “no-self” (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_SotalaMay 8, 2020, 10:37 AM
113 points
65 comments20 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What frac­tion of your life­time (0-80 years old) ego­ist bud­get would you (want to) spend on a pill that made you live for as long as you wanted (perfect in­vin­ci­bil­ity), as healthily as you wanted if you knew it would be­come available to you once you’re 80 years old (and that you would oth­er­wise ir­re­versibly die)?

Mati_RoyMay 8, 2020, 8:50 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What would you do differ­ently if you were less con­cerned with look­ing weird?

Mati_RoyMay 7, 2020, 11:29 PM
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do you (not) use a pseudonym on LessWrong?

Mati_RoyMay 7, 2020, 7:34 PM
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 5/​7: Fight­ing Limbo

ZviMay 7, 2020, 7:00 PM
27 points
7 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Med­i­ta­tion skill: Sur­fing the Urge

Max HodgesMay 7, 2020, 5:30 PM
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions’ in­di­vi­d­ual scores

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 7, 2020, 5:10 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­ple Ar­gu­ments, Mul­ti­ple Comments

lcMay 7, 2020, 9:30 AM
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[link] How many hu­mans will have their brain pre­served? Fore­casts and trends

Mati_RoyMay 7, 2020, 6:11 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing COVID-19 in­ter­ven­tions & in­di­vi­d­ual donations

May 7, 2020, 1:44 AM
11 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing: the flip side of AI ingenuity

May 6, 2020, 11:51 PM
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Tips/​tricks/​notes on op­ti­miz­ing investments

Wei DaiMay 6, 2020, 11:21 PM
83 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Cop­ing and Cultures

SpiracularMay 6, 2020, 10:49 PM
50 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does iso­lat­ing the high-risk sup­press COVID-19?

Fahad AlkhaterMay 6, 2020, 9:18 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19: New York’s An­ti­body Tests 2

ZviMay 6, 2020, 5:40 PM
16 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #98]: Un­der­stand­ing neu­ral net train­ing by see­ing which gra­di­ents were helpful

Rohin ShahMay 6, 2020, 5:10 PM
22 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

In­tro­duc­tion to fore­cast­ing work­sheet

edoaradMay 6, 2020, 1:54 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.foretold.io)

Au­dioWorklet La­tency: Fire­fox vs Chrome

jefftkMay 6, 2020, 1:50 PM
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Assess­ing Kurzweil pre­dic­tions about 2019: the results

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 1:36 PM
146 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should po­ten­tial AI al­ign­ment re­searchers gauge whether the field is right for them?

TurnTroutMay 6, 2020, 12:24 PM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to quan­tify un­cer­tainty about a prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mate?

micMay 6, 2020, 12:06 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Maths writer/​cowrit­ter needed: how you can’t dis­t­in­guish early ex­po­nen­tial from early sigmoid

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 9:41 AM
41 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

How can non­prof­its gain the ad­van­tages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawfordMay 6, 2020, 1:15 AM
37 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Model­ing nat­u­ral­ized de­ci­sion prob­lems in lin­ear logic

jessicataMay 6, 2020, 12:15 AM
14 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The ways of knowing

aelwoodMay 5, 2020, 8:35 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM
134 points
40 comments12 min readLW link

Com­pet­i­tive safety via gra­dated curricula

Richard_NgoMay 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
38 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Writ­ing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM
90 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

“AI and Effi­ciency”, OA (44✕ im­prove­ment in CNNs since 2012)

gwernMay 5, 2020, 4:32 PM
48 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[Question] I’d Like To Max­i­miz­ing Profit and Hap­piness but My Hap­piness con­flicts a lot with mak­ing profit...

Master MintZMay 5, 2020, 5:54 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Direct work vs. earn-to-give?

warrenjordanMay 5, 2020, 5:52 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much money would you pay to get ac­cess to video footage of your sur­round­ings for a year of your choice (in the past)?

Mati_RoyMay 5, 2020, 5:50 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­struc­tive Definitions

Chris_LeongMay 4, 2020, 11:50 PM
15 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Needn’t Gen­er­al­ize to Ra­tional Consensus

Akshat MahajanMay 4, 2020, 10:53 PM
42 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Ra­tion­al­ist Games—Face­book Group

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a differ­ent angle

jmhMay 4, 2020, 5:58 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­sights from Eu­clid’s ‘Ele­ments’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
126 points
17 comments4 min readLW link