6 May 2020 23:51 UTC

66 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

notes on optimizing investments

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC

83 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Coping and Cultures

Spiracular6 May 2020 22:49 UTC

50 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does isolating the high-risk suppress COVID-19?

Fahad Alkhater6 May 2020 21:18 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19: New York’s Antibody Tests 2

Zvi6 May 2020 17:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #98]: Understanding neural net training by seeing which gradients were helpful

Rohin Shah6 May 2020 17:10 UTC

22 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Introduction to forecasting worksheet

edoarad6 May 2020 13:54 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foretold.io)

AudioWorklet Latency: Firefox vs Chrome

jefftk6 May 2020 13:50 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 13:36 UTC

146 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should potential AI alignment researchers gauge whether the field is right for them?

TurnTrout6 May 2020 12:24 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to quantify uncertainty about a probability estimate?

mic6 May 2020 12:06 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Maths writer/cowritter needed: how you can’t distinguish early exponential from early sigmoid

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 9:41 UTC

41 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawford6 May 2020 1:15 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Modeling naturalized decision problems in linear logic

jessicata6 May 2020 0:15 UTC

14 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

The ways of knowing

aelwood5 May 2020 20:35 UTC

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_Sotala5 May 2020 19:09 UTC

134 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Competitive safety via gradated curricula

Richard_Ngo5 May 2020 18:11 UTC

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworth5 May 2020 18:05 UTC

90 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

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

gwern5 May 2020 16:32 UTC

47 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 MintZ5 May 2020 5:54 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

warrenjordan5 May 2020 5:52 UTC

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_Roy5 May 2020 5:50 UTC

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Constructive Definitions

Chris_Leong4 May 2020 23:50 UTC

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus

Akshat Mahajan4 May 2020 22:53 UTC

42 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Rationalist Games—Facebook Group

Mati_Roy4 May 2020 22:13 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a different angle

jmh4 May 2020 17:58 UTC

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’

TurnTrout4 May 2020 15:45 UTC

126 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

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

Mati_Roy4 May 2020 11:30 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Consistent Glomarization should be feasible

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2020 10:06 UTC

17 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

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

Rupert4 May 2020 10:01 UTC

26 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Named Distributions as Artifacts

George3d64 May 2020 8:54 UTC

22 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

How uniform is the neocortex?

zhukeepa4 May 2020 2:16 UTC

79 points

23 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

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)