Mak­ing Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
579 points
249 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

“PR” is cor­ro­sive; “rep­u­ta­tion” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
318 points
95 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Your Cheer­ful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
270 points
83 comments17 min readLW link6 reviews

RadVac Com­mer­cial An­ti­body Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
243 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
213 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC
145 points
23 comments25 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fix­ing The Good Reg­u­la­tor Theorem

johnswentworth9 Feb 2021 20:30 UTC
139 points
39 comments8 min readLW link1 review

The feel­ing of break­ing an Over­ton window

AnnaSalamon17 Feb 2021 5:31 UTC
131 points
29 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
119 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

Oliver Sipple

KatjaGrace19 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
109 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Covid 2/​11: As Expected

Zvi11 Feb 2021 18:30 UTC
101 points
79 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reflec­tions on the cry­on­ics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC
100 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

2019 Re­view: Vot­ing Re­sults!

1 Feb 2021 3:10 UTC
99 points
36 comments7 min readLW link

The Pro­to­typ­i­cal Ne­go­ti­a­tion Game

johnswentworth20 Feb 2021 21:33 UTC
99 points
16 comments5 min readLW link1 review

[Question] How do you op­ti­mize pro­duc­tivity with re­spect to your men­strual cy­cle?

just_browsing7 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC
97 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Story of the Reichstag

Martin Sustrik5 Feb 2021 5:51 UTC
95 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 2/​4: Safe and Effec­tive Vac­cines Aplenty

Zvi4 Feb 2021 14:50 UTC
90 points
25 comments25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Men­tor­ship, Man­age­ment, and Mys­te­ri­ous Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
88 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

This is my 100ᵗʰ post on Less Wrong

lsusr14 Feb 2021 3:11 UTC
87 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Quadratic, not logarithmic

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 3:42 UTC
84 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

How my school gamed the stats

Srdjan Miletic20 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC
83 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dence is Deceit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC
78 points
29 comments11 min readLW link

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC
76 points
27 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Covid 2/​18: Vac­cines Still Work

Zvi18 Feb 2021 12:30 UTC
76 points
29 comments30 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A No-Non­sense Guide to Early Retirement

tryactions24 Feb 2021 16:37 UTC
75 points
46 comments28 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Geog­ra­phy of Thought

PeterMcCluskey9 Feb 2021 18:47 UTC
73 points
37 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Timeline of AI safety

riceissa7 Feb 2021 22:29 UTC
73 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

Se­cond Ci­ti­zen­ships, Res­i­den­cies, and/​or Tem­po­rary Relocation

Josh Jacobson16 Feb 2021 19:24 UTC
72 points
30 comments39 min readLW link

Smug­gled frames

Artyom Kazak1 Feb 2021 1:22 UTC
70 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing claims about train­ing vs deployment

Richard_Ngo3 Feb 2021 11:30 UTC
68 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 2/​25: Hold­ing Pattern

Zvi25 Feb 2021 14:30 UTC
67 points
16 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Eco­nomics of Media

lsusr13 Feb 2021 23:11 UTC
63 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Cur­rent cry­on­ics impressions

KatjaGrace6 Feb 2021 10:00 UTC
63 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Why aren’t we all us­ing Taf­fix?

ChristianKl26 Feb 2021 23:09 UTC
63 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

We got what’s needed for COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion com­pletely wrong

ChristianKl10 Feb 2021 7:59 UTC
61 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Avoid Con­tentious Terms

jefftk24 Feb 2021 3:10 UTC
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Pro­mot­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets With Mean­ingless In­ter­net-Point Badges

1a3orn8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
59 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Elephant seal 2

KatjaGrace2 Feb 2021 9:40 UTC
58 points
5 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Sugges­tions of posts on the AF to review

adamShimi16 Feb 2021 12:40 UTC
56 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Frame­works for Zen Med­i­ta­tion (Sum­mary of Sek­ida’s Zen Train­ing)

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
54 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

In­tro to the Wed­ding Sequence

Ruby21 Feb 2021 18:06 UTC
54 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A great hard day

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Anna and Oliver dis­cuss Chil­dren and X-Risk

Raemon26 Feb 2021 0:07 UTC
54 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Judg­ing Our April 2020 Covid-19 Predictions

Zvi23 Feb 2021 17:20 UTC
53 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid: CDC Is­sues New Guidance on Open­ing Schools

Zvi17 Feb 2021 20:00 UTC
52 points
11 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth

lynettebye1 Feb 2021 4:47 UTC
52 points
25 comments6 min readLW link

Never Go Full Kelly

SimonM25 Feb 2021 12:53 UTC
51 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial fac­tors in Bell Labs’ in­tel­lec­tual progress, Pt. 1

Ruby12 Feb 2021 19:26 UTC
50 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

[Fic­tion] Lena (MMAcevedo)

Kaj_Sotala23 Feb 2021 19:46 UTC
49 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(qntm.org)

Deep­mind has made a gen­eral in­duc­tor (“Mak­ing sense of sen­sory in­put”)

mako yass2 Feb 2021 2:54 UTC
49 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.sciencedirect.com)