[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfaJun 3, 2020, 8:35 PM
49 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Rad­i­cal Prob­a­bil­ism [Tran­script]

Jun 26, 2020, 10:14 PM
48 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

Bird ConceptJun 4, 2020, 9:06 PM
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

Vi­sual Bab­ble and Prune

DirectedEvolutionJun 4, 2020, 6:49 PM
46 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Eco­nomic Con­se­quences of Noise Traders

FactorialCodeJun 14, 2020, 5:14 PM
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nber.org)

Gödel’s Le­gacy: A game with­out end

HazardJun 28, 2020, 6:50 PM
45 points
11 comments12 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lcJun 12, 2020, 8:33 PM
44 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?

eapacheJun 20, 2020, 6:23 PM
44 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben PaceJun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Sta­tus-Reg­u­lat­ing Emotions

lsusrJun 3, 2020, 10:32 PM
42 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawfordJun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Spar­sity and in­ter­pretabil­ity?

Jun 1, 2020, 1:25 PM
41 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

News ⊂ Advertising

lsusrJun 22, 2020, 7:19 PM
40 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #102]: Meta learn­ing by GPT-3, and a list of full pro­pos­als for AI alignment

Rohin ShahJun 3, 2020, 5:20 PM
38 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Rele­vant pre-AGI possibilities

Daniel KokotajloJun 20, 2020, 10:52 AM
38 points
7 comments19 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Quaran­tine Bub­bles Re­quire Direct­ness, and Tol­er­ance of Rudeness

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

[Question] Most re­li­able news sources?

Eli TyreJun 6, 2020, 8:24 PM
37 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Your best fu­ture self

RaemonJun 6, 2020, 7:10 PM
37 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

[META] Build­ing a ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem to avoid censorship

Donald HobsonJun 23, 2020, 2:12 PM
36 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

The In­dex­ing Problem

johnswentworthJun 22, 2020, 7:11 PM
36 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Pas­teur’s quadrant

jasoncrawfordJun 5, 2020, 5:47 PM
36 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Carte­sian Boundary as Ab­strac­tion Boundary

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

How alienated should you be?

VaniverJun 14, 2020, 3:55 PM
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli TyreJun 14, 2020, 1:38 AM
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Blog Post Day III

Daniel KokotajloJun 1, 2020, 1:56 PM
33 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19 6/​4: The Eye of the Storm

ZviJun 4, 2020, 8:50 PM
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

COVID-19: The Illu­sion of Stability

PeterMcCluskeyJun 8, 2020, 6:46 PM
32 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

May Gw­ern.net newslet­ter (w/​GPT-3 com­men­tary)

gwernJun 2, 2020, 3:40 PM
32 points
7 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Neu­ral Ba­sis for Global Workspace Theory

HazardJun 22, 2020, 4:19 AM
31 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Model­ling Con­tin­u­ous Progress

Sammy MartinJun 23, 2020, 6:06 PM
30 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

The Stopped Clock Problem

eapacheJun 4, 2020, 12:07 PM
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

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

Do Women Like Ass­holes?

Jacob FalkovichJun 22, 2020, 2:14 AM
30 points
10 comments17 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tion, Evolu­tion and Gears

johnswentworthJun 24, 2020, 5:39 PM
29 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Feed­back is cen­tral to agency

Alex FlintJun 1, 2020, 12:56 PM
29 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Map Er­rors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory

orthonormalJun 27, 2020, 5:22 AM
29 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Image GPT

Daniel KokotajloJun 18, 2020, 11:41 AM
29 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[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)

Over­cor­rect­ing As De­liber­ate Practice

lifelonglearnerJun 1, 2020, 6:26 AM
29 points
1 comment1 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

Sun­day June 28 – talks by john­swent­worth, Daniel koko­ta­jlo, Char­lie Steiner, TurnTrout

Jun 26, 2020, 7:13 PM
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ne­go­ti­at­ing With Yourself

orthonormalJun 26, 2020, 11:55 PM
28 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The point of a mem­ory palace

DirectedEvolutionJun 20, 2020, 1:00 AM
28 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

YitzJun 17, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

The Dark Mir­a­cle of Optics

Suspended ReasonJun 24, 2020, 3:09 AM
27 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Miss­ing dog reasoning

Jun 26, 2020, 9:30 PM
27 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

In­sti­tu­tional Senescence

Martin SustrikJun 26, 2020, 4:40 AM
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

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

[Question] Why are all these do­mains called from Less Wrong?

ViliamJun 27, 2020, 1:46 PM
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Die­tary De­bates among the Fruit Gnomes

SherrinfordJun 3, 2020, 2:09 PM
26 points
3 comments2 min readLW link