COVID-19 es­ti­mated test de­tec­tion win­dows for IgG, IgM and nasal PCR tests

nonzerosum11 May 2020 22:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing coro­n­avirus spread from fam­ily mem­bers, room­mates, ex­tended fam­ily and close friends

nonzerosum11 May 2020 22:38 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Set­tle In­vest­ment Trades Only Daily an im­prove­ment? True or False

jmh11 May 2020 21:56 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Help im­prove rea­son­ing eval­u­a­tion in in­tel­li­gence organisations

LThorburn11 May 2020 20:26 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Set­ting up a new Mac

jefftk11 May 2020 11:50 UTC
10 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book re­port: The­ory of Games and Eco­nomic Be­hav­ior (von Neu­mann & Mor­gen­stern)

Nisan11 May 2020 9:47 UTC
38 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

A hi­er­ar­chy of truth

aelwood11 May 2020 9:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

Zoom Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. vs. the Effi­cient Mar­kets Hypothesis

Zack_M_Davis11 May 2020 6:00 UTC
72 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

Covid-19: Comorbidity

Zvi10 May 2020 21:30 UTC
42 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is AI safety re­search less par­alleliz­able than AI re­search?

Mati_Roy10 May 2020 20:43 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Great­est Host

trentbrick10 May 2020 20:28 UTC
33 points
8 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Do nasal de­con­ges­tants in­crease risk as­so­ci­ated with car­dio­vas­cu­lar (and res­pi­ra­tory via sec­ond-or­der effects) symp­toms from COVID-19?

Dorikka10 May 2020 19:17 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Really Fresh Baking

jefftk10 May 2020 11:40 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Mind: Board Game Review

Alexei10 May 2020 0:45 UTC
26 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Why COVID-19 pre­ven­tion at the mar­gin might be bad for most LWers

Kenoubi10 May 2020 0:19 UTC
21 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

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

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC
195 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworth9 May 2020 18:47 UTC
58 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

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

William Walker9 May 2020 15:08 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wsj.com)

Shared House Setup

jefftk9 May 2020 11:30 UTC
28 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

CheerfulWarrior9 May 2020 8:53 UTC
16 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of peren­nial dis­cov­er­ies?

Mati_Roy9 May 2020 6:17 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity as out­side view

TurnTrout8 May 2020 21:56 UTC
36 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Les­sons from Isaac: Pit­falls of Reason

adamShimi8 May 2020 20:44 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How to do re­mote co-working

SoerenMind8 May 2020 19:38 UTC
25 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Logan Zoellner8 May 2020 15:50 UTC
11 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna [Vir­tual] Meetup, May 2020

Viliam8 May 2020 15:03 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Kids and Mo­ral Agency

jefftk8 May 2020 12:50 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Failures in tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing? A re­ply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelA8 May 2020 12:41 UTC
44 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC
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_Roy8 May 2020 8:50 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 23:29 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 19:34 UTC
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 5/​7: Fight­ing Limbo

Zvi7 May 2020 19:00 UTC
27 points
7 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Med­i­ta­tion skill: Sur­fing the Urge

Max Hodges7 May 2020 17:30 UTC
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions’ in­di­vi­d­ual scores

Stuart_Armstrong7 May 2020 17:10 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­ple Ar­gu­ments, Mul­ti­ple Comments

lc7 May 2020 9:30 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 6:11 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing COVID-19 in­ter­ven­tions & in­di­vi­d­ual donations

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

Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing: the flip side of AI ingenuity

6 May 2020 23:51 UTC
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

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

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC
83 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Cop­ing and Cultures

Spiracular6 May 2020 22:49 UTC
50 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

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

Fahad Alkhater6 May 2020 21:18 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19: New York’s An­ti­body Tests 2

Zvi6 May 2020 17:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Rohin Shah6 May 2020 17:10 UTC
22 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

In­tro­duc­tion to fore­cast­ing work­sheet

edoarad6 May 2020 13:54 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.foretold.io)

Au­dioWorklet La­tency: Fire­fox vs Chrome

jefftk6 May 2020 13:50 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Assess­ing Kurzweil pre­dic­tions about 2019: the results

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 13:36 UTC
146 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

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

TurnTrout6 May 2020 12:24 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

mic6 May 2020 12:06 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 9:41 UTC
41 points
13 comments1 min readLW link