Hate Crime Statistics

jefftkMay 3, 2020, 10:30 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Biolog­i­cal evolu­tion as an anal­ogy for the mar­ket economy

SnorkelfarsanMay 3, 2020, 6:51 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

ZviMay 3, 2020, 5:00 PM
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

TFW No Incels

Jacob FalkovichMay 3, 2020, 4:56 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

What is a “Good” Pre­dic­tion?

eapacheMay 3, 2020, 4:51 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Narconomics

ketchupduckMay 3, 2020, 1:19 AM
77 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How does iter­ated am­plifi­ca­tion ex­ceed hu­man abil­ities?

riceissaMay 2, 2020, 11:44 PM
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

What Is The Cost of Your At­ten­tion?

Ari LewisMay 2, 2020, 8:50 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism

MellivoraMay 2, 2020, 2:07 PM
18 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

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

Mary ChernyshenkoMay 2, 2020, 8:53 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Don’t even think about hell”

emmabMay 2, 2020, 8:06 AM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_SotalaMay 2, 2020, 7:35 AM
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

femtogrammarMay 1, 2020, 10:36 PM
32 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

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

DerekFMay 1, 2020, 10:29 PM
7 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

April 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernMay 1, 2020, 8:47 PM
11 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

2020 predictions

BuckyMay 1, 2020, 8:11 PM
11 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Ni­coti­namide ri­boside and SARS-CoV-2

William WalkerMay 1, 2020, 4:10 PM
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex 2020 Pre­dic­tions: Buy, Sell, Hold

ZviMay 1, 2020, 2:30 PM
53 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open & Wel­come Thread—May 2020

rolandMay 1, 2020, 12:01 PM
17 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

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

emanuele ascaniMay 1, 2020, 9:04 AM
12 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

Prolong­ing life is about the op­tion­al­ity, not about the immortality

George3d6May 1, 2020, 7:41 AM
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

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

KiranChokshiMay 1, 2020, 5:29 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

Joe KwonMay 1, 2020, 4:31 AM
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Topolog­i­cal meta­physics: re­lat­ing point-set topol­ogy and lo­cale theory

jessicataMay 1, 2020, 3:57 AM
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Reopen Protest Sign Survey

jefftkMay 1, 2020, 3:40 AM
34 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

FLI Pod­cast: On Su­perfore­cast­ing with Robert de Neufville

Palus AstraApr 30, 2020, 11:08 PM
6 points
0 comments52 min readLW link

“God Re­wards Fools”

CzynskiApr 30, 2020, 10:51 PM
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Effi­cient Mar­kets and Academia

johnswentworthApr 30, 2020, 9:59 PM
52 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Sea­son­al­ity of COVID-19, Other Coron­aviruses, and Influenza

Radford NealApr 30, 2020, 9:43 PM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(radfordneal.wordpress.com)

Covid-19 4/​30: Stuck in Limbo

ZviApr 30, 2020, 8:40 PM
28 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Em­bar­rass­ing Prob­lem of Pre­ma­ture Exploitation

Richard MeadowsApr 30, 2020, 8:33 PM
42 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(thedeepdish.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2020

NunoSempereApr 30, 2020, 4:41 PM
22 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Against strong bayesianism

Richard_NgoApr 30, 2020, 10:48 AM
59 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

Op­ti­mis­ing So­ciety to Con­strain Risk of War from an Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence

JohnCDraperApr 30, 2020, 10:47 AM
4 points
1 comment51 min readLW link

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

Richard_NgoApr 30, 2020, 2:16 AM
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?

nonzerosumApr 29, 2020, 9:40 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

List of prompts for brain­storm­ing COVID re­sponse pro­ject ideas

nonzerosumApr 29, 2020, 9:39 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Melt­ing democracy

Richard_NgoApr 29, 2020, 8:10 PM
30 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawfordApr 29, 2020, 8:00 PM
51 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

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

ZviApr 29, 2020, 7:40 PM
67 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 25: Re­cur­sive Self-Im­prove­ment

Mark XuApr 29, 2020, 6:22 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vat­ing Ab­strac­tion-First De­ci­sion Theory

johnswentworthApr 29, 2020, 5:47 PM
42 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahApr 29, 2020, 5:30 PM
15 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

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

FactorialCodeApr 29, 2020, 5:21 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ai.facebook.com)

Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief − 29 Apr

Peter WildefordApr 29, 2020, 3:27 PM
54 points
5 comments32 min readLW link

I do not like math

lsusrApr 29, 2020, 11:27 AM
34 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

ElizabethApr 29, 2020, 2:00 AM
156 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?

nonzerosumApr 29, 2020, 1:13 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chris Master­john on Coron­avirus, Part 2

philhApr 28, 2020, 9:50 PM
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Train­ing Regime Day 24: Re­solve Cy­cles 2

Mark XuApr 28, 2020, 7:00 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link