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[Question]
What would you do differently if you were less concerned with looking weird?
Mati_Roy
May 7, 2020, 11:29 PM
11
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do you (not) use a pseudonym on LessWrong?
Mati_Roy
May 7, 2020, 7:34 PM
11
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid-19 5/7: Fighting Limbo
Zvi
May 7, 2020, 7:00 PM
27
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Meditation skill: Surfing the Urge
Max Hodges
May 7, 2020, 5:30 PM
16
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kurzweil’s predictions’ individual scores
Stuart_Armstrong
May 7, 2020, 5:10 PM
17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Multiple Arguments, Multiple Comments
lc
May 7, 2020, 9:30 AM
12
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] How many humans will have their brain preserved? Forecasts and trends
Mati_Roy
May 7, 2020, 6:11 AM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prioritizing COVID-19 interventions & individual donations
Ian David Moss
and
catherio
May 7, 2020, 1:44 AM
11
points
0
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
Vika
,
Vlad Mikulik
,
Matthew Rahtz
,
tom4everitt
,
Zac Kenton
and
janleike
May 6, 2020, 11:51 PM
66
points
9
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments
Wei Dai
May 6, 2020, 11:21 PM
83
points
68
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Coping and Cultures
Spiracular
May 6, 2020, 10:49 PM
50
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does isolating the high-risk suppress COVID-19?
Fahad Alkhater
May 6, 2020, 9:18 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Covid-19: New York’s Antibody Tests 2
Zvi
May 6, 2020, 5:40 PM
16
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[AN #98]: Understanding neural net training by seeing which gradients were helpful
Rohin Shah
May 6, 2020, 5:10 PM
22
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Introduction to forecasting worksheet
edoarad
May 6, 2020, 1:54 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.foretold.io)
AudioWorklet Latency: Firefox vs Chrome
jefftk
May 6, 2020, 1:50 PM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results
Stuart_Armstrong
May 6, 2020, 1:36 PM
146
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How should potential AI alignment researchers gauge whether the field is right for them?
TurnTrout
May 6, 2020, 12:24 PM
20
points
5
comments
LW
link
[Question]
How to quantify uncertainty about a probability estimate?
mic
May 6, 2020, 12:06 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maths writer/cowritter needed: how you can’t distinguish early exponential from early sigmoid
Stuart_Armstrong
May 6, 2020, 9:41 AM
41
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model?
jasoncrawford
May 6, 2020, 1:15 AM
37
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Modeling naturalized decision problems in linear logic
jessicata
May 6, 2020, 12:15 AM
14
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
The ways of knowing
aelwood
May 5, 2020, 8:35 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pursuingreality.com)
A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble
Kaj_Sotala
May 5, 2020, 7:09 PM
134
points
40
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Competitive safety via gradated curricula
Richard_Ngo
May 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
38
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs
johnswentworth
May 5, 2020, 6:05 PM
90
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
“AI and Efficiency”, OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012)
gwern
May 5, 2020, 4:32 PM
48
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
[Question]
I’d Like To Maximizing Profit and Happiness but My Happiness conflicts a lot with making profit...
Master MintZ
May 5, 2020, 5:54 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Direct work vs. earn-to-give?
warrenjordan
May 5, 2020, 5:52 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
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_Roy
May 5, 2020, 5:50 AM
8
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Constructive Definitions
Chris_Leong
May 4, 2020, 11:50 PM
15
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus
Akshat Mahajan
May 4, 2020, 10:53 PM
42
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Link] Rationalist Games—Facebook Group
Mati_Roy
May 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
COVID-19 from a different angle
jmh
May 4, 2020, 5:58 PM
8
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’
TurnTrout
May 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
126
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What information on (or relevant to) modal immortality do you recommend?
Mati_Roy
May 4, 2020, 11:30 AM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Consistent Glomarization should be feasible
Stuart_Armstrong
May 4, 2020, 10:06 AM
17
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Scott Garrabrant’s problem on recovering Brouwer as a corollary of Lawvere
Rupert
May 4, 2020, 10:01 AM
26
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Named Distributions as Artifacts
George3d6
May 4, 2020, 8:54 AM
22
points
9
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(blog.cerebralab.com)
How uniform is the neocortex?
zhukeepa
May 4, 2020, 2:16 AM
80
points
23
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Hate Crime Statistics
jefftk
May 3, 2020, 10:30 PM
21
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Biological evolution as an analogy for the market economy
Snorkelfarsan
May 3, 2020, 6:51 PM
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
On Negative Feedback and Simulacra
Zvi
May 3, 2020, 5:00 PM
47
points
7
comments
29
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
TFW No Incels
Jacob Falkovich
May 3, 2020, 4:56 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
What is a “Good” Prediction?
eapache
May 3, 2020, 4:51 PM
2
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Narconomics
ketchupduck
May 3, 2020, 1:19 AM
77
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How does iterated amplification exceed human abilities?
riceissa
May 2, 2020, 11:44 PM
19
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What Is The Cost of Your Attention?
Ari Lewis
May 2, 2020, 8:50 PM
18
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism
Mellivora
May 2, 2020, 2:07 PM
18
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you whittle path-dependent (probabilistic) questions?
Mary Chernyshenko
May 2, 2020, 8:53 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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