Your ab­strac­tion isn’t wrong, it’s just re­ally bad

George3d626 May 2020 20:14 UTC
25 points
17 comments17 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adap­tive theories

willbradshaw26 May 2020 17:41 UTC
89 points
22 comments11 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

Is fake news bul­lshit or ly­ing?

HarperSachs26 May 2020 16:55 UTC
22 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why aren’t we test­ing gen­eral in­tel­li­gence dis­tri­bu­tion?

B Jacobs26 May 2020 16:07 UTC
25 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: As­sas­sin’s Creed Odyssey

Zvi26 May 2020 14:10 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Should I self-var­i­o­late to COVID-19

Eli Tyre25 May 2020 20:29 UTC
46 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

A Taijitu sym­bol for Moloch and Slack

B Jacobs25 May 2020 20:03 UTC
91 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Bak­ing is Not a Ritual

Sisi Cheng25 May 2020 18:08 UTC
125 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is a de­ci­sion the­ory as a math­e­mat­i­cal ob­ject?

Erik Jenner25 May 2020 13:44 UTC
26 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

An ad­den­dum on effec­tive pop­u­la­tion size

willbradshaw25 May 2020 12:35 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

Why Ra­tion­al­ists Shouldn’t be In­ter­ested in To­pos Theory

jollybard25 May 2020 5:35 UTC
77 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best tools for record­ing pre­dic­tions?

Raemon24 May 2020 19:15 UTC
15 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] Find­ing free en­ergy in karma

eapache24 May 2020 14:47 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Plague in As­sas­sin’s Creed Odyssey

Zvi24 May 2020 12:00 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What age­ing is and is not

willbradshaw24 May 2020 9:06 UTC
55 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kib­itzer (hides com­ment au­thors and vote counts)

Marcello23 May 2020 23:44 UTC
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Op­pos­ing a hi­er­ar­chy does not im­ply egalitarianism

Viliam23 May 2020 20:51 UTC
7 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What is your in­ter­net search method­ol­ogy ?

George3d623 May 2020 20:33 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Notes about psychopharmacology

ksenia23 May 2020 19:31 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(n2t.net)

Mazes Se­quence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC
81 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolu­tion is sam­pling error

willbradshaw23 May 2020 16:21 UTC
37 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

How can In­ter­pretabil­ity help Align­ment?

23 May 2020 16:16 UTC
37 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

In Search of Slack

Martin Sustrik23 May 2020 11:20 UTC
47 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Question] Is tak­ing ba­copa good for life ex­ten­sion?

Mati_Roy23 May 2020 8:54 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AGIs as collectives

Richard_Ngo22 May 2020 20:36 UTC
24 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

High­lights of Com­par­a­tive and Evolu­tion­ary Aging

johnswentworth22 May 2020 17:01 UTC
56 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The Oil Cri­sis of 1973

Elizabeth22 May 2020 15:50 UTC
79 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Post-crash mar­ket effi­ciency 1696-2020

bfinn22 May 2020 14:13 UTC
22 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Help wanted: Im­prov­ing COVID-19 con­tact-trac­ing by es­ti­mat­ing res­pi­ra­tory droplets

Steven Byrnes22 May 2020 14:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Get It Done Now

Zvi22 May 2020 12:20 UTC
56 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

From self to crav­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC
57 points
21 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Pre­dic­tions/​ques­tions about con­quis­ta­dors?

Daniel Kokotajlo22 May 2020 11:43 UTC
7 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Wikipe­dia Edit War Update

jefftk22 May 2020 11:30 UTC
55 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What as­pects of the world emo­tion­ally both­ers you on an im­me­di­ate per­sonal level on a daily ba­sis?

Mati_Roy22 May 2020 6:27 UTC
8 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The Devil You Know

Slimepriestess21 May 2020 21:50 UTC
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Reflec­tive Complaints

Raemon21 May 2020 21:11 UTC
37 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ob­jects that have made your life bet­ter?

Mark Xu21 May 2020 20:59 UTC
29 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Wrap­ping and Centering

jefftk21 May 2020 14:30 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How does pub­lish­ing a pa­per work?

Liron21 May 2020 12:14 UTC
42 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Com­par­ing re­ward learn­ing/​re­ward tam­per­ing formalisms

Stuart_Armstrong21 May 2020 12:03 UTC
9 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Orthogonality

lsusr21 May 2020 3:17 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing to have ‘your own’/​ nat­u­ral-birthed chil­dren?

R L21 May 2020 1:30 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If bac­te­ria gave us a tool for bio en­g­ineer­ing, have viruses given us a de­liv­ery mechanism?

jmh20 May 2020 22:31 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to repli­cate pho­to­syn­the­sis ar­tifi­cially?

basu_enterprise20 May 2020 19:45 UTC
−2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ment on “En­doge­nous Epistemic Fac­tion­al­iza­tion”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC
151 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a re­ward func­tion while acting

Rohin Shah20 May 2020 17:30 UTC
33 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Prob­a­bil­ities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for re­ward functions

Stuart_Armstrong20 May 2020 15:19 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6

jefftk20 May 2020 12:10 UTC
12 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Meta] Three small sug­ges­tions for the LW-website

B Jacobs20 May 2020 11:18 UTC
9 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Source code size vs learned model size in ML and in hu­mans?

riceissa20 May 2020 8:47 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link