Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute: His­tory & 2021 Strategy

andzuck25 Jan 2021 21:46 UTC
39 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

Define Your Learn­ing Goal: Com­pe­tence Or Broad Knowledge

DirectedEvolution25 Jan 2021 20:47 UTC
35 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

A per­spec­tive on co­vari­ate ad­just­ment and con­found­ing in ran­dom­ized ex­per­i­ments.

Darren25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
1 point
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State, Art, Identity

musq25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

When Hope Fails

resurgam25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
5 points
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[Question] How likely is it that SARS-CoV-2 origi­nated in a lab­o­ra­tory?

CTVKenney25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
38 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Is Im­mor­tal­ity Eth­i­cal?

harsimony25 Jan 2021 16:55 UTC
−6 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Link] Philoso­phers’ Non-Profit Offers Free On­line Crit­i­cal Think­ing Course

David Gross25 Jan 2021 15:16 UTC
5 points
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Reve­la­tion and mathematics

George3d625 Jan 2021 12:26 UTC
5 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

[Question] How do you build re­silient per­sonal sys­tems?

Raj Thimmiah25 Jan 2021 9:56 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ten­ta­tive covid sur­face risk estimates

KatjaGrace25 Jan 2021 9:40 UTC
92 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

What is a VNM sta­ble set, re­ally?

Nisan25 Jan 2021 5:43 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Leaky Del­e­ga­tion: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC
307 points
38 comments15 min readLW link1 review

You can send peo­ple KN95s

jefftk24 Jan 2021 23:40 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On clinging

Joe Carlsmith24 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC
61 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

FC fi­nal: Can Fac­tored Cog­ni­tion schemes scale?

Rafael Harth24 Jan 2021 22:18 UTC
17 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Policy re­stric­tions and Se­cret keep­ing AI

Donald Hobson24 Jan 2021 20:59 UTC
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Rea­sons against anti-aging

Mark Miro24 Jan 2021 20:33 UTC
−8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fir­ma­tion Bias in Action

Jacob Falkovich24 Jan 2021 17:38 UTC
37 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Li’l pots

KatjaGrace24 Jan 2021 12:40 UTC
39 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Dis­solv­ing Sleep­ing Beauty

Chris_Leong24 Jan 2021 8:10 UTC
13 points
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Co­or­di­na­tion at­tempt: Fa­cil­i­tat­ing con­ver­sa­tional splin­ters in Gathertown

femtogrammar24 Jan 2021 7:35 UTC
2 points
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Tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC
192 points
79 comments8 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Mo­ral ba­sis for reg­u­lat­ing so­cial platforms

solus23 Jan 2021 20:39 UTC
0 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Les­sons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC
356 points
76 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Every­thing Okay

Zvi23 Jan 2021 14:50 UTC
62 points
13 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Who should you ex­pect to spend your life with?

KatjaGrace23 Jan 2021 9:00 UTC
38 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- The Army’s Form

lsusr23 Jan 2021 6:47 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Lifelong investments

jefftk23 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC
35 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­er­cise: Ta­boo “Should”

johnswentworth22 Jan 2021 21:02 UTC
96 points
28 comments9 min readLW link2 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
34 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
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[Question] Poll: Which vari­ables are most strate­gi­cally rele­vant?

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
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Bayesian Charity

Wes F22 Jan 2021 14:49 UTC
11 points
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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
63 points
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Would most peo­ple benefit from be­ing less co­er­cive to them­selves?

Matt Goldenberg21 Jan 2021 14:24 UTC
28 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
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