Covid 5/​21: Limbo Under

Zvi14 May 2020 22:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ad­ding a House­mate Un­der Covid

jefftk14 May 2020 21:30 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to avoid Schel­ling points?

cwg1g1614 May 2020 19:37 UTC
29 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Utility need not be bounded

Richard_Kennaway14 May 2020 18:10 UTC
30 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Sugges­tions for mak­ing re­search as trust­wor­thy, in­tel­ligible and quickly available as possible

mickofemsworth14 May 2020 14:47 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What newslet­ters are you sub­scribed to, and why?

Rudi C14 May 2020 14:47 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Small Data

lsusr14 May 2020 4:29 UTC
27 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What work of fic­tion ex­plore in­creased trans­parency in the world?

Mati_Roy13 May 2020 21:15 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ar­ti­cles on “lifel­og­ging as life ex­ten­sion”?

Mati_Roy13 May 2020 20:35 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Will the world hit 10 mil­lion recorded cases of COVID-19? If so when?

jmh13 May 2020 17:26 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Run­ning Wired Ethernet

jefftk13 May 2020 17:20 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #99]: Dou­bling times for the effi­ciency of AI algorithms

Rohin Shah13 May 2020 17:20 UTC
29 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Le­gends of Runeterra: Early Review

Zvi13 May 2020 10:50 UTC
13 points
12 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Stud­ies On Slack

Scott Alexander13 May 2020 5:00 UTC
165 points
34 comments24 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] What do you be­lieve are the most crit­i­cal open ques­tions/​hy­pothe­ses that could in­form a more effec­tive COVID re­sponse?

nonzerosum12 May 2020 17:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kids and Time

jefftk12 May 2020 11:40 UTC
30 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What would flour­ish­ing look like in Con­way’s Game of Life?

sudhanshu_kasewa12 May 2020 11:22 UTC
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

162 benefits of coronavirus

bfinn12 May 2020 11:19 UTC
41 points
20 comments8 min readLW link

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
194 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