[Question] How to per­suade peo­ple/​groups out of sunk cost fal­lacy?

vernamcipher13 Jul 2020 22:51 UTC
3 points
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Life Through Quan­tum An­neal­ing: How a quan­tum com­put­ing tech­nique could shape existence

ChrisM13 Jul 2020 22:48 UTC
2 points
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[Question] 3-P Group op­ti­mal for dis­cus­sion?

AiresJL13 Jul 2020 22:23 UTC
3 points
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Book Re­view: Fooled by Randomness

Sherrinford13 Jul 2020 21:02 UTC
33 points
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Roll for Sanity

eapache13 Jul 2020 16:39 UTC
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Null-box­ing New­comb’s Problem

Yitz13 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC
33 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Sur­vey Results

B Jacobs13 Jul 2020 13:53 UTC
18 points
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What You Are

Jarred Filmer13 Jul 2020 11:35 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Up­date more slowly!

Davidmanheim13 Jul 2020 7:10 UTC
51 points
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In praise of con­tribut­ing ex­am­ples, analo­gies and lingo

Adam Zerner13 Jul 2020 6:43 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Six eco­nomics mis­con­cep­tions of mine which I’ve re­solved over the last few years

Buck13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC
196 points
59 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What is the cur­rent state of knowl­edge around COVID-19 at-home reme­dies?

Dorikka12 Jul 2020 22:50 UTC
10 points
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What counts as defec­tion?

TurnTrout12 Jul 2020 22:03 UTC
81 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Pos­si­ble new pneu­mo­nia in Kazahk­stan (July 2020)

Jay12 Jul 2020 20:41 UTC
2 points
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School Has It Backwards

proshowersinger12 Jul 2020 19:24 UTC
31 points
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[Question] What is the cur­rent pro­cess for in­creases test­ing?

jmh12 Jul 2020 17:21 UTC
5 points
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Bu­dapest meetup Mar­git Sz­iget, 7/​19 2pm

Timothy Underwood12 Jul 2020 14:07 UTC
3 points
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Science eats its young

George3d612 Jul 2020 12:32 UTC
14 points
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(cerebralab.com)

Gödel In­com­plete­ness: For Dummies

jollybard12 Jul 2020 9:13 UTC
9 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Covid-19: Anal­y­sis of Mor­tal­ity Data

Zvi11 Jul 2020 21:30 UTC
32 points
12 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How well can the GPT ar­chi­tec­ture solve the par­ity task?

FactorialCode11 Jul 2020 19:02 UTC
19 points
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Canon­i­cal forms

sen11 Jul 2020 18:53 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.fimfiction.net)

Lurk­ing More Be­fore Join­ing Com­plex Conversations

Raemon11 Jul 2020 17:11 UTC
42 points
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Meta Pro­gram­ming GPT: A route to Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

dmtea11 Jul 2020 14:51 UTC
10 points
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Hier­ar­chy of Evidence

B Jacobs11 Jul 2020 12:54 UTC
7 points
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Max­i­mal Ventilation

jefftk11 Jul 2020 1:20 UTC
31 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Mod Note: Tag­ging Ac­tivity is Not Private

Ruby11 Jul 2020 0:56 UTC
31 points
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Cost/​Benefit anal­y­sis of School Clo­sures in the US

anna.becca.g@gmail.com10 Jul 2020 23:35 UTC
9 points
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Your Pri­ori­ti­za­tion is Underspecified

romeostevensit10 Jul 2020 20:48 UTC
85 points
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Was a PhD nec­es­sary to solve out­stand­ing math prob­lems?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC
22 points
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Talk: Key Is­sues In Near-Term AI Safety Research

Aryeh Englander10 Jul 2020 18:36 UTC
22 points
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[Question] When is evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy use­ful?

snog toddgrass10 Jul 2020 18:22 UTC
3 points
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A space of pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

Richard_Ngo10 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
55 points
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[Question] Should I take an IQ test, why or why not?

snog toddgrass10 Jul 2020 16:52 UTC
2 points
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Mesa-Op­ti­miz­ers vs “Steered Op­ti­miz­ers”

Steven Byrnes10 Jul 2020 16:49 UTC
45 points
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Born as the sev­enth month dies …

Rudi C10 Jul 2020 15:07 UTC
6 points
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Franken­stein De­lenda Est

eapache10 Jul 2020 14:38 UTC
11 points
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De­coloniz­ing Ev­i­dence-Based De­ci­sion-Making

Ian David Moss10 Jul 2020 14:30 UTC
2 points
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(medium.com)

Was a ter­mi­nal de­gree nec­es­sary for in­vent­ing Boyle’s desider­ata?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 4:47 UTC
35 points
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As Few As Possible

Decius10 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
1 point
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Kelly Bet on Everything

Jacob Falkovich10 Jul 2020 2:48 UTC
101 points
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[Question] How far along are you on the Less­wrong Path?

AiresJL9 Jul 2020 21:41 UTC
10 points
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Slate Star Codex and Sili­con Valley’s War Against the Media

PointlessOne9 Jul 2020 19:20 UTC
6 points
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(www.newyorker.com)

Why is the im­pact penalty time-in­con­sis­tent?

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jul 2020 17:26 UTC
16 points
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Fea­tured Tags: July 2020

Ruby9 Jul 2020 17:00 UTC
16 points
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Ar­gu­ments against my­opic training

Richard_Ngo9 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
62 points
39 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 7/​9: Lies, Damn Lies and Death Rates

Zvi9 Jul 2020 13:40 UTC
56 points
16 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] [Re­source Re­quest] What are good re­sources for best prac­tice for cre­at­ing bu­reau­cracy?

ChristianKl9 Jul 2020 12:05 UTC
11 points
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[Question] Why does “deep ab­strac­tion” lose it’s use­ful­ness in the far past and fu­ture?

Garrett Baker9 Jul 2020 7:12 UTC
1 point
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The New Front­page De­sign & Open­ing Tag Creation!

habryka9 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
52 points
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