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[Question]
What is the current state of knowledge around COVID-19 at-home remedies?
Dorikka
Jul 12, 2020, 10:50 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What counts as defection?
TurnTrout
Jul 12, 2020, 10:03 PM
81
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Possible new pneumonia in Kazahkstan (July 2020)
Jay
Jul 12, 2020, 8:41 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
School Has It Backwards
proshowersinger
Jul 12, 2020, 7:24 PM
33
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the current process for increases testing?
jmh
Jul 12, 2020, 5:21 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Budapest meetup Margit Sziget, 7/19 2pm
Timothy Underwood
Jul 12, 2020, 2:07 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Science eats its young
George3d6
Jul 12, 2020, 12:32 PM
14
points
13
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(cerebralab.com)
Gödel Incompleteness: For Dummies
jollybard
Jul 12, 2020, 9:13 AM
9
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Covid-19: Analysis of Mortality Data
Zvi
Jul 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
32
points
12
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
How well can the GPT architecture solve the parity task?
FactorialCode
Jul 11, 2020, 7:02 PM
19
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Canonical forms
sen
Jul 11, 2020, 6:53 PM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fimfiction.net)
Lurking More Before Joining Complex Conversations
Raemon
Jul 11, 2020, 5:11 PM
42
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meta Programming GPT: A route to Superintelligence?
dmtea
Jul 11, 2020, 2:51 PM
10
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Hierarchy of Evidence
B Jacobs
Jul 11, 2020, 12:54 PM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maximal Ventilation
jefftk
Jul 11, 2020, 1:20 AM
31
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Mod Note: Tagging Activity is Not Private
Ruby
Jul 11, 2020, 12:56 AM
31
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cost/Benefit analysis of School Closures in the US
anna.becca.g@gmail.com
Jul 10, 2020, 11:35 PM
9
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Your Prioritization is Underspecified
romeostevensit
Jul 10, 2020, 8:48 PM
85
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Was a PhD necessary to solve outstanding math problems?
DirectedEvolution
Jul 10, 2020, 6:43 PM
22
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Talk: Key Issues In Near-Term AI Safety Research
Aryeh Englander
Jul 10, 2020, 6:36 PM
22
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When is evolutionary psychology useful?
snog toddgrass
Jul 10, 2020, 6:22 PM
3
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A space of proposals for building safe advanced AI
Richard_Ngo
Jul 10, 2020, 4:58 PM
55
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Should I take an IQ test, why or why not?
snog toddgrass
Jul 10, 2020, 4:52 PM
2
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mesa-Optimizers vs “Steered Optimizers”
Steven Byrnes
Jul 10, 2020, 4:49 PM
45
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Born as the seventh month dies …
Rudi C
Jul 10, 2020, 3:07 PM
6
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Frankenstein Delenda Est
eapache
Jul 10, 2020, 2:38 PM
11
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Decolonizing Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Ian David Moss
Jul 10, 2020, 2:30 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Was a terminal degree necessary for inventing Boyle’s desiderata?
DirectedEvolution
Jul 10, 2020, 4:47 AM
35
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
As Few As Possible
Decius
Jul 10, 2020, 4:37 AM
1
point
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kelly Bet on Everything
Jacob Falkovich
Jul 10, 2020, 2:48 AM
101
points
20
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
[Question]
How far along are you on the Lesswrong Path?
AiresJL
Jul 9, 2020, 9:41 PM
10
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
PointlessOne
Jul 9, 2020, 7:20 PM
6
points
2
comments
LW
link
(www.newyorker.com)
Why is the impact penalty time-inconsistent?
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 9, 2020, 5:26 PM
16
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Featured Tags: July 2020
Ruby
Jul 9, 2020, 5:00 PM
16
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Arguments against myopic training
Richard_Ngo
Jul 9, 2020, 4:07 PM
62
points
39
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/9: Lies, Damn Lies and Death Rates
Zvi
Jul 9, 2020, 1:40 PM
56
points
13
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
[Resource Request] What are good resources for best practice for creating bureaucracy?
ChristianKl
Jul 9, 2020, 12:05 PM
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why does “deep abstraction” lose it’s usefulness in the far past and future?
Garrett Baker
9 Jul 2020 7:12 UTC
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The New Frontpage Design & Opening Tag Creation!
habryka
9 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
52
points
25
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety (ARCHES)
habryka
9 Jul 2020 2:49 UTC
60
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Survival in the immoral maze of college
DirectedEvolution
8 Jul 2020 21:27 UTC
40
points
15
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What does it mean to apply decision theory?
abramdemski
8 Jul 2020 20:31 UTC
54
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Nicotinamide riboside vs. SARS-coV-2 update
William Walker
8 Jul 2020 19:50 UTC
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How “honest” is GPT-3?
abramdemski
8 Jul 2020 19:38 UTC
72
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
UML IV: Linear Predictors
Rafael Harth
8 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC
15
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Something about the Pinker Cancellation seems Suspicious
Virgil Kurkjian
8 Jul 2020 18:08 UTC
9
points
34
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Anti-epistemology: an explanation
Basil Marte
8 Jul 2020 16:34 UTC
3
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Partially Stepping Down Isolation
jefftk
8 Jul 2020 11:40 UTC
18
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Learning flirting with an acting coach—thoughts?
snog toddgrass
8 Jul 2020 4:34 UTC
−1
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What problem would you like to see Reinforcement Learning applied to?
Julian Schrittwieser
8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
43
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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