Con­jec­ture Workshop

johnswentworth15 May 2020 22:41 UTC
35 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to choose a PhD with AI Safety in mind

Ariel Kwiatkowski15 May 2020 22:19 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Mov­able Hous­ing for Scal­able Cities

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2020 21:21 UTC
123 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC
195 points
87 comments19 min readLW link

Dish­washer Filter

jefftk15 May 2020 20:30 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Crav­ing, suffer­ing, and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC
90 points
56 comments19 min readLW link

How should AIs up­date a prior over hu­man prefer­ences?

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 13:14 UTC
17 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Sub­space optima

Chris van Merwijk15 May 2020 12:38 UTC
61 points
7 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Dist­in­guish­ing lo­gis­tic curves

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 11:38 UTC
24 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing lo­gis­tic curves: visual

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 10:33 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are Michael Vas­sar’s be­liefs?

Chris_Leong15 May 2020 6:15 UTC
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Song for a Red Planet

Slimepriestess15 May 2020 5:30 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

Mati_Roy15 May 2020 3:53 UTC
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

“It’s Okay”, In­struc­tions, Fo­cus­ing, Ex­pe­rienc­ing and Frames

Ouroborus15 May 2020 0:49 UTC
16 points
6 comments7 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

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
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)