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Notes on Optimism, Hope, and Trust

David Gross20 Jan 2021 23:00 UTC

13 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Contra StatNews: How Long to Herd Immunity?

AppliedDivinityStudies20 Jan 2021 22:06 UTC

24 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

A highly abusive LW moderator endangered dozens of people with COVID dishonesty

Joymuffin20 Jan 2021 21:13 UTC

−59 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Recognizing Numbers

johnswentworth20 Jan 2021 19:50 UTC

29 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How much does it cost to design an app?

kjz20 Jan 2021 17:40 UTC

2 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Covid: The Question of Immunity From Infection

Zvi20 Jan 2021 15:50 UTC

68 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Infra-Bayesianism Unwrapped

adamShimi20 Jan 2021 13:35 UTC

58 points

0 comments24 min readLW link

On fundamental solitude

KatjaGrace20 Jan 2021 10:10 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Austin LW/SSC Movie Discussion: Star Trek Voyager, “Nemesis”

SilasBarta20 Jan 2021 1:59 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

#3: Choosing a cryonics provider

mingyuan20 Jan 2021 1:47 UTC

95 points

21 comments18 min readLW link

For Better Commenting, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution20 Jan 2021 1:11 UTC

77 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Deutsch and Yudkowsky on scientific explanation

Richard_Ngo20 Jan 2021 1:00 UTC

27 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Teleological Mechanism

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jan 2021 23:58 UTC

8 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Prediction: Astra Zeneca approval date

Tim Liptrot19 Jan 2021 21:59 UTC

11 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Best of LessWrong: Jan 10 - Jan 17

knite19 Jan 2021 20:44 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Against the Backward Approach to Goal-Directedness

adamShimi19 Jan 2021 18:46 UTC

19 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Matt Levine on “Fraud is no fun without friends.”

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC

120 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Three types of Evidence

Rafael Harth19 Jan 2021 17:25 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Benefits of “micro-tracking” for personal health measurements?

VipulNaik19 Jan 2021 14:58 UTC

9 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Democratic Currency

MikkW19 Jan 2021 5:32 UTC

11 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

1Day Sooner is Hiring a Communications Director

1daysooner19 Jan 2021 4:25 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.1daysooner.org)

Discovery fiction for the Pythagorean theorem

riceissa19 Jan 2021 2:09 UTC

16 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Some thoughts on risks from narrow, non-agentic AI

Richard_Ngo19 Jan 2021 0:04 UTC

35 points

21 comments16 min readLW link

Public selves

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC

40 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Short summary of mAIry’s room

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC

26 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Appeals to the Complexity/Mysteriousness/Efficiency of the Brain

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC

194 points

86 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Literature Review on Goal-Directedness

adamShimi, Michele Campolo and Joe Collman

18 Jan 2021 11:15 UTC

80 points

21 comments31 min readLW link

(USA) N95 masks are available on Amazon

Wei Dai18 Jan 2021 10:37 UTC

53 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

87 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

Are the consequences of groups usually highly contingent on their details?

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 1:30 UTC

11 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Ecological Perspective

Chris_Leong18 Jan 2021 1:19 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

DALL-E does symbol grounding

p.b.17 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci II Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplic17 Jan 2021 16:58 UTC

41 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why do stocks go up?

tryactions17 Jan 2021 16:36 UTC

27 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

CollAction history and lessons learned

Ron17 Jan 2021 15:01 UTC

35 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] How can I find trustworthy dietary advice?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jan 2021 13:11 UTC

30 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

What is going on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC

90 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Wuwei

lsusr17 Jan 2021 8:28 UTC

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Use conditional probabilities to clear up error rate confusion

Maxwell Peterson17 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Excerpt from Arbital Solomonoff induction dialogue

Richard_Ngo17 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC

36 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(arbital.com)

[Question] How do I improve at being strategic?

Conor17 Jan 2021 1:36 UTC

11 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Status as a Service (Done Quick)

SarahNibs16 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC

44 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Why Productivity Systems Don’t Stick

Matt Goldenberg16 Jan 2021 17:45 UTC

61 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is it the case that when humans approximate backward induction they violate the markov property?

Quinn16 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Meditative thinking

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2021 2:30 UTC

25 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Citizenship in a Republic

Theodore Roosevelt16 Jan 2021 1:33 UTC

12 points

3 comments29 min readLW link

(theodoreroosevelt.org)

AR Glasses: Much more than you wanted to know

frcassarino16 Jan 2021 0:31 UTC

12 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

(federicorcassarino.substack.com)

Why I’m excited about Debate

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 23:37 UTC

75 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Meditations on faith

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 22:20 UTC

30 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Future of Biological Warfare

lsusr15 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC

26 points

7 comments4 min readLW link