The ways of knowing

aelwoodMay 5, 2020, 8:35 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM
134 points
40 comments12 min readLW link

Com­pet­i­tive safety via gra­dated curricula

Richard_NgoMay 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
38 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Writ­ing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM
90 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

“AI and Effi­ciency”, OA (44✕ im­prove­ment in CNNs since 2012)

gwernMay 5, 2020, 4:32 PM
48 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[Question] I’d Like To Max­i­miz­ing Profit and Hap­piness but My Hap­piness con­flicts a lot with mak­ing profit...

Master MintZMay 5, 2020, 5:54 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Direct work vs. earn-to-give?

warrenjordanMay 5, 2020, 5:52 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much money would you pay to get ac­cess to video footage of your sur­round­ings for a year of your choice (in the past)?

Mati_RoyMay 5, 2020, 5:50 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­struc­tive Definitions

Chris_LeongMay 4, 2020, 11:50 PM
15 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Needn’t Gen­er­al­ize to Ra­tional Consensus

Akshat MahajanMay 4, 2020, 10:53 PM
42 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Ra­tion­al­ist Games—Face­book Group

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a differ­ent angle

jmhMay 4, 2020, 5:58 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­sights from Eu­clid’s ‘Ele­ments’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
126 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What in­for­ma­tion on (or rele­vant to) modal im­mor­tal­ity do you recom­mend?

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 11:30 AM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sis­tent Glo­ma­riza­tion should be feasible

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2020, 10:06 AM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Garrabrant’s prob­lem on re­cov­er­ing Brouwer as a corol­lary of Lawvere

RupertMay 4, 2020, 10:01 AM
26 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Named Distri­bu­tions as Artifacts

George3d6May 4, 2020, 8:54 AM
22 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

How uniform is the neo­cor­tex?

zhukeepaMay 4, 2020, 2:16 AM
80 points
23 comments11 min readLW link1 review

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