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Short essays on various things I’ve watched

philh12 Jun 2020 22:50 UTC

9 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book review (Scott Aaronson)

ioannes12 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out attacks actually work?

lc12 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC

44 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] For moderately well-resourced people in the US, how quickly will things go from “uncomfortable” to “too late to exit”?

Dagon12 Jun 2020 16:59 UTC

76 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Pragmatism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC

15 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff Induction, up with the Presumptuous Philosopher

Charlie Steiner12 Jun 2020 9:44 UTC

13 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

An online prediction market with reputation points

kickboxer12 Jun 2020 9:29 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

What gripes do you have with Mustachianism?

Adam Zerner11 Jun 2020 23:42 UTC

12 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC

73 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Covid-19 6/11: Bracing For a Second Wave

Zvi11 Jun 2020 21:30 UTC

61 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Cartesian Boundary as Abstraction Boundary

johnswentworth11 Jun 2020 17:38 UTC

35 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Mistake Theorists

DirectedEvolution11 Jun 2020 14:49 UTC

8 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there something like a “meta-encyclopedia”?

Pablo11 Jun 2020 12:16 UTC

19 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Does equanimity prevent negative utility?

Chris_Leong11 Jun 2020 7:00 UTC

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Ideology/narrative stabilizes path-dependent equilibria

Eli Tyre11 Jun 2020 2:50 UTC

22 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Good and bad ways to think about downside risks

MichaelA and JustinShovelain

11 Jun 2020 1:38 UTC

19 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Karma fluctuations?

eapache11 Jun 2020 0:33 UTC

7 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Keep: Move checked items to bottom

jefftk11 Jun 2020 0:30 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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 link 1 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