Self-Pre­dict­ing Markets

eapache10 Jun 2020 22:39 UTC
26 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Can Covid-19 spread by sur­face trans­mis­sion?

Raemon10 Jun 2020 22:09 UTC
65 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #103]: ARCHES: an agenda for ex­is­ten­tial safety, and com­bin­ing nat­u­ral lan­guage with deep RL

Rohin Shah10 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
29 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Max­i­miz­ing im­pact at startup with high EA po­ten­tial?

knite10 Jun 2020 6:25 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What past highly-up­voted posts are over­rated to­day?

Thomas Kwa9 Jun 2020 21:25 UTC
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

BBE W1: HMCM and Note­tak­ing Systems

Spiracular9 Jun 2020 19:20 UTC
26 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

BBE W1: Per­sonal Note­tak­ing Desider­ata Walkthrough

Spiracular9 Jun 2020 19:19 UTC
17 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Build a Bet­ter Exo­brain: Week 0 Overview

Spiracular9 Jun 2020 19:09 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Public Static: What is Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth9 Jun 2020 18:36 UTC
97 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

More on dis­am­biguat­ing “dis­con­ti­nu­ity”

Aryeh Englander9 Jun 2020 15:16 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Are there good ways to find ex­pert re­views of pop­u­lar sci­ence books?

Kaj_Sotala9 Jun 2020 14:54 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Communication

eapache9 Jun 2020 1:04 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness is be­hav­ioral, not structural

adamShimi8 Jun 2020 23:05 UTC
6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What does “tor­ture vs. dust specks” im­ply for in­sect suffer­ing?

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

GAN Discrim­i­na­tors Don’t Gen­er­al­ize?

tryactions8 Jun 2020 20:36 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The “hard” prob­lem of con­scious­ness is the least in­ter­est­ing prob­lem of consciousness

Hazard8 Jun 2020 19:00 UTC
17 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

COVID-19: The Illu­sion of Stability

PeterMcCluskey8 Jun 2020 18:46 UTC
32 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

We’ve built Con­nected Papers—a vi­sual tool for re­searchers to find and ex­plore aca­demic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC
209 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Leg­i­bil­ity: Notes on “Man as a Ra­tion­al­ist An­i­mal”

Hazard8 Jun 2020 2:18 UTC
13 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

An Illus­trated Proof of the No Free Lunch Theorem

lifelonglearner8 Jun 2020 1:54 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mlu.red)

Grow­ing Independence

jefftk7 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC
185 points
27 comments10 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Quaran­tine Bub­bles Re­quire Direct­ness, and Tol­er­ance of Rudeness

Raemon7 Jun 2020 19:52 UTC
37 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness as Me­taphor: What Jaynes Has to Offer

Hazard7 Jun 2020 18:41 UTC
15 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing COVID-19 Mor­tal­ity Rates

Benquo7 Jun 2020 15:45 UTC
8 points
27 comments2 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Self-help, hard and soft

technicalities7 Jun 2020 15:39 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Wire­less is a trap

benkuhn7 Jun 2020 15:30 UTC
158 points
13 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(www.benkuhn.net)

Philos­o­phy in the Dark­est Timeline: Ba­sics of the Evolu­tion of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC
132 points
16 comments14 min readLW link

Every­day Les­sons from High-Di­men­sional Optimization

johnswentworth6 Jun 2020 20:57 UTC
164 points
44 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Most re­li­able news sources?

Eli Tyre6 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC
37 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Your best fu­ture self

Raemon6 Jun 2020 19:10 UTC
36 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Accidents

Rodrigo Fernandes6 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
0 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Attitude

eapache6 Jun 2020 12:29 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is Ra?

Chris_Leong6 Jun 2020 4:29 UTC
18 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic Mindsets

ExCeph6 Jun 2020 0:44 UTC
2 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

Pas­teur’s quadrant

jasoncrawford5 Jun 2020 17:47 UTC
36 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Emer­gence and Con­trol: An ex­am­i­na­tion of our abil­ity to gov­ern the be­hav­ior of in­tel­li­gent systems

meanderingmoose5 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Re­ply to Paul Chris­ti­ano on Inac­cessible Information

Alex Flint5 Jun 2020 9:10 UTC
77 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Three char­ac­ter­is­tics: impermanence

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2020 7:48 UTC
73 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] Does tak­ing ex­treme mea­sures to avoid the coro­n­avirus make sense when you fac­tor in the pos­si­bil­ity of a re­ally long life?

Adam Zerner5 Jun 2020 0:58 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing About Su­per-Hu­man AI: An Ex­am­i­na­tion of Likely Paths and Ul­ti­mate Constitution

meanderingmoose4 Jun 2020 23:22 UTC
−3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How to val­i­date re­search ideas?

Ariel Kwiatkowski4 Jun 2020 21:37 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

jacobjacob4 Jun 2020 21:06 UTC
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

Covid-19 6/​4: The Eye of the Storm

Zvi4 Jun 2020 20:50 UTC
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vi­sual Bab­ble and Prune

DirectedEvolution4 Jun 2020 18:49 UTC
46 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Pantry Sta­ples for DIY

jefftk4 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
16 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why isn’t as­sas­si­na­tion/​sab­o­tage more com­mon?

Rudi C4 Jun 2020 18:04 UTC
8 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Skill of Notic­ing Emotions

Neel Nanda4 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC
84 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter spring 2020

avturchin4 Jun 2020 14:27 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Stopped Clock Problem

eapache4 Jun 2020 12:07 UTC
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Introduction

eapache4 Jun 2020 1:03 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link