Hate Crime Statistics

jefftk3 May 2020 22:30 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Biolog­i­cal evolu­tion as an anal­ogy for the mar­ket economy

Snorkelfarsan3 May 2020 18:51 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Zvi3 May 2020 17:00 UTC
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

TFW No Incels

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2020 16:56 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

What is a “Good” Pre­dic­tion?

eapache3 May 2020 16:51 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC
77 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How does iter­ated am­plifi­ca­tion ex­ceed hu­man abil­ities?

riceissa2 May 2020 23:44 UTC
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

What Is The Cost of Your At­ten­tion?

Ari Lewis2 May 2020 20:50 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism

Mellivora2 May 2020 14:07 UTC
18 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you whit­tle path-de­pen­dent (prob­a­bil­is­tic) ques­tions?

Mary Chernyshenko2 May 2020 8:53 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Don’t even think about hell”

emmab2 May 2020 8:06 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_Sotala2 May 2020 7:35 UTC
43 points
19 comments7 min readLW link
(plato.stanford.edu)

Med­i­ta­tion: the screen-and-watcher model of the hu­man mind, and how to use it

femtogrammar1 May 2020 22:36 UTC
32 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Pueyo: How to Do Test­ing and Con­tact Trac­ing [Sum­mary]

DerekF1 May 2020 22:29 UTC
7 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

April 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 May 2020 20:47 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

2020 predictions

Bucky1 May 2020 20:11 UTC
11 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Ni­coti­namide ri­boside and SARS-CoV-2

William Walker1 May 2020 16:10 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex 2020 Pre­dic­tions: Buy, Sell, Hold

Zvi1 May 2020 14:30 UTC
53 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open & Wel­come Thread—May 2020

roland1 May 2020 12:01 UTC
17 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Aubrey de Grey, chief sci­ence officer of the SENS Re­search Foundation

emanuele ascani1 May 2020 9:04 UTC
12 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

Prolong­ing life is about the op­tion­al­ity, not about the immortality

George3d61 May 2020 7:41 UTC
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

[U.S. Spe­cific] Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Re­form in the Time of Covid-19

KiranChokshi1 May 2020 5:29 UTC
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Value of build­ing an on­line “knowl­edge web”

Joe Kwon1 May 2020 4:31 UTC
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Topolog­i­cal meta­physics: re­lat­ing point-set topol­ogy and lo­cale theory

jessicata1 May 2020 3:57 UTC
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Reopen Protest Sign Survey

jefftk1 May 2020 3:40 UTC
34 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

FLI Pod­cast: On Su­perfore­cast­ing with Robert de Neufville

Palus Astra30 Apr 2020 23:08 UTC
6 points
0 comments52 min readLW link

“God Re­wards Fools”

Czynski30 Apr 2020 22:51 UTC
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Effi­cient Mar­kets and Academia

johnswentworth30 Apr 2020 21:59 UTC
52 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Sea­son­al­ity of COVID-19, Other Coron­aviruses, and Influenza

Radford Neal30 Apr 2020 21:43 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(radfordneal.wordpress.com)

Covid-19 4/​30: Stuck in Limbo

Zvi30 Apr 2020 20:40 UTC
28 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Em­bar­rass­ing Prob­lem of Pre­ma­ture Exploitation

Richard Meadows30 Apr 2020 20:33 UTC
42 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(thedeepdish.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2020

NunoSempere30 Apr 2020 16:41 UTC
22 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Against strong bayesianism

Richard_Ngo30 Apr 2020 10:48 UTC
58 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

Op­ti­mis­ing So­ciety to Con­strain Risk of War from an Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence

JohnCDraper30 Apr 2020 10:47 UTC
4 points
1 comment51 min readLW link

[Question] What is the al­ter­na­tive to in­tent al­ign­ment called?

Richard_Ngo30 Apr 2020 2:16 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Since the “Will COVID-19 sur­vivors suffer last­ing dis­abil­ity at a high rate?” thread was posted, has new in­for­ma­tion emerged that may up­date those es­ti­mates?

nonzerosum29 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

List of prompts for brain­storm­ing COVID re­sponse pro­ject ideas

nonzerosum29 Apr 2020 21:39 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Melt­ing democracy

Richard_Ngo29 Apr 2020 20:10 UTC
30 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2020 20:00 UTC
51 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

On “COVID-19 Su­per­spreader Events in 28 Coun­tries: Crit­i­cal Pat­terns and Les­sons”

Zvi29 Apr 2020 19:40 UTC
67 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 25: Re­cur­sive Self-Im­prove­ment

Mark Xu29 Apr 2020 18:22 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vat­ing Ab­strac­tion-First De­ci­sion Theory

johnswentworth29 Apr 2020 17:47 UTC
42 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

[AN #97]: Are there his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of large, ro­bust dis­con­ti­nu­ities?

Rohin Shah29 Apr 2020 17:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Face­book AI: A state-of-the-art open source chatbot

FactorialCode29 Apr 2020 17:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ai.facebook.com)

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief − 29 Apr

Peter Wildeford29 Apr 2020 15:27 UTC
54 points
5 comments32 min readLW link

I do not like math

lsusr29 Apr 2020 11:27 UTC
34 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC
152 points
24 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Es­ti­mates of COVID risk rank­ings for differ­ent ac­tivi­ties when to­gether with peo­ple in the same house­hold?

nonzerosum29 Apr 2020 1:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chris Master­john on Coron­avirus, Part 2

philh28 Apr 2020 21:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Train­ing Regime Day 24: Re­solve Cy­cles 2

Mark Xu28 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link