Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

JoshuaFoxJun 13, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapacheJun 13, 2020, 3:08 PM
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you find good con­tent on Youtube?

Rudi CJun 13, 2020, 12:29 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 10:28 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

lsusrJun 13, 2020, 9:19 AM
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas KwaJun 13, 2020, 12:03 AM
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Short es­says on var­i­ous things I’ve watched

philhJun 12, 2020, 10:50 PM
9 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

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

ioannesJun 12, 2020, 10:16 PM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lcJun 12, 2020, 8:33 PM
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”?

DagonJun 12, 2020, 4:59 PM
76 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Prag­ma­tism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 12, 2020, 4:34 PM
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff In­duc­tion, up with the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Charlie SteinerJun 12, 2020, 9:44 AM
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

An on­line pre­dic­tion mar­ket with rep­u­ta­tion points

kickboxerJun 12, 2020, 9:29 AM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What gripes do you have with Mus­tachi­anism?

Adam ZernerJun 11, 2020, 11:42 PM
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out In­ter­rup­tions Are Bad, Who Knew?

ElizabethJun 11, 2020, 11:10 PM
74 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

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

ZviJun 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
61 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Survey

B JacobsJun 11, 2020, 8:05 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Carte­sian Boundary as Ab­strac­tion Boundary

johnswentworthJun 11, 2020, 5:38 PM
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Mis­take Theorists

DirectedEvolutionJun 11, 2020, 2:49 PM
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

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

PabloJun 11, 2020, 12:16 PM
19 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Does equa­nim­ity pre­vent nega­tive util­ity?

Chris_LeongJun 11, 2020, 7:00 AM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Ide­ol­ogy/​nar­ra­tive sta­bi­lizes path-de­pen­dent equilibria

Eli TyreJun 11, 2020, 2:50 AM
22 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Good and bad ways to think about down­side risks

Jun 11, 2020, 1:38 AM
19 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Karma fluc­tu­a­tions?

eapacheJun 11, 2020, 12:33 AM
7 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Keep: Move checked items to bottom

jefftkJun 11, 2020, 12:30 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Self-Pre­dict­ing Markets

eapacheJun 10, 2020, 10:39 PM
26 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

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

RaemonJun 10, 2020, 10:09 PM
65 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahJun 10, 2020, 5:20 PM
29 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

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

kniteJun 10, 2020, 6:25 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Thomas KwaJun 9, 2020, 9:25 PM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

BBE W1: HMCM and Note­tak­ing Systems

SpiracularJun 9, 2020, 7:20 PM
26 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

BBE W1: Per­sonal Note­tak­ing Desider­ata Walkthrough

SpiracularJun 9, 2020, 7:19 PM
17 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Build a Bet­ter Exo­brain: Week 0 Overview

SpiracularJun 9, 2020, 7:09 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Public Static: What is Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworthJun 9, 2020, 6:36 PM
97 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

More on dis­am­biguat­ing “dis­con­ti­nu­ity”

Aryeh EnglanderJun 9, 2020, 3:16 PM
16 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaJun 9, 2020, 2:54 PM
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Communication

eapacheJun 9, 2020, 1:04 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness is be­hav­ioral, not structural

adamShimiJun 8, 2020, 11:05 PM
6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

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

Tejas SubramaniamJun 8, 2020, 8:37 PM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

GAN Discrim­i­na­tors Don’t Gen­er­al­ize?

tryactionsJun 8, 2020, 8:36 PM
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

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

HazardJun 8, 2020, 7:00 PM
17 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

COVID-19: The Illu­sion of Stability

PeterMcCluskeyJun 8, 2020, 6:46 PM
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

discordyJun 8, 2020, 6:44 PM
209 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Leg­i­bil­ity: Notes on “Man as a Ra­tion­al­ist An­i­mal”

HazardJun 8, 2020, 2:18 AM
13 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

An Illus­trated Proof of the No Free Lunch Theorem

lifelonglearnerJun 8, 2020, 1:54 AM
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mlu.red)

Grow­ing Independence

jefftkJun 7, 2020, 8:20 PM
186 points
27 comments10 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Quaran­tine Bub­bles Re­quire Direct­ness, and Tol­er­ance of Rudeness

RaemonJun 7, 2020, 7:52 PM
37 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness as Me­taphor: What Jaynes Has to Offer

HazardJun 7, 2020, 6:41 PM
15 points
4 comments9 min readLW link