Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

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

JoshuaFox13 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapache13 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

Rudi C13 Jun 2020 12:29 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

lsusr13 Jun 2020 9:19 UTC
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas Kwa13 Jun 2020 0:03 UTC
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

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

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