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Exercise: Taboo “Should”

johnswentworth22 Jan 2021 21:02 UTC

96 points

28 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

#4: Introduction to life insurance for cryonics

mingyuan22 Jan 2021 20:58 UTC

48 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Help your rivals when they are numerous

lsusr22 Jan 2021 20:51 UTC

33 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How good are our mouse models (psychology, biology, medicine, etc.), ignoring translation into humans, just in terms of understanding mice? (Same question for drosophila.)

Ruby22 Jan 2021 20:45 UTC

60 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Poll: Which variables are most strategically relevant?

Daniel Kokotajlo and Noa Nabeshima

22 Jan 2021 17:17 UTC

32 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there an academic consensus around Rent Control?

edoarad22 Jan 2021 16:18 UTC

3 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Charity

Wes F22 Jan 2021 14:49 UTC

11 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Reflections on “Psycho-Pass”

lsusr22 Jan 2021 9:41 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

What if we all just stayed at home and didn’t get covid for two weeks?

KatjaGrace22 Jan 2021 9:10 UTC

37 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

On the nature of purpose

Nora_Ammann22 Jan 2021 8:30 UTC

29 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Appendices to cryonics signup sequence

mingyuan22 Jan 2021 6:40 UTC

32 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

[Book Review] The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

lsusr22 Jan 2021 6:29 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

A Simple Ethics Model

Ideopunk22 Jan 2021 2:56 UTC

9 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomh21 Jan 2021 23:20 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[AN #134]: Underspecification as a cause of fragility to distribution shift

Rohin Shah21 Jan 2021 18:10 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Counterfactual control incentives

Stuart_Armstrong21 Jan 2021 16:54 UTC

21 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 1/21: Turning the Corner

Zvi21 Jan 2021 16:40 UTC

136 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Problem of the Criterion

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Jan 2021 15:05 UTC

61 points

63 comments10 min readLW link

Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?

Matt Goldenberg21 Jan 2021 14:24 UTC

27 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Multi-Tower Study Strategy

DirectedEvolution21 Jan 2021 8:42 UTC

58 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

A ghost

Joe Carlsmith21 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

A few thought on the inner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC

90 points

23 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

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