Pro­mot­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets With Mean­ingless In­ter­net-Point Badges

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

Micro­morts vs. Life Expectancy

Young Buck8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What met­rics should I track when ex­per­i­ment­ing with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC
10 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Were the Great Tragedies of His­tory “Mere Rip­ples”?

philosophytorres8 Feb 2021 15:35 UTC
−24 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The dis­tinc­tion distance

KatjaGrace8 Feb 2021 7:40 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Quadratic, not logarithmic

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

Sin­gu­lar­ity&phase tran­si­tion-2. A pri­ori prob­a­bil­ity and ways to check.

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 2:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Met­ric se­lec­tion bias: why Moore’s law is less im­por­tant than you think

Aaron Bergman8 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
18 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Killing the ants

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

Mak­ing Ex­per­tise Leg­ible: Be­ing right should make you re­spected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC
6 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Timeline of AI safety

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

His­tory of the Public Suffix List

jefftk7 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC
11 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book re­view: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook)

Bob Baker7 Feb 2021 21:44 UTC
4 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[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

Why I Am Not in Charge

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

#un­clogth­eFDA: a twit­ter storm to ap­prove vaccines

Tim Liptrot7 Feb 2021 14:39 UTC
45 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Short, Ex­treme, For­got­ten Tor­ture vs Death

burrito7 Feb 2021 9:31 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Democ­racy, Bureau­cracy, Cen­tral Banking

Martin Sustrik7 Feb 2021 8:54 UTC
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Mas­sive consequences

KatjaGrace7 Feb 2021 5:30 UTC
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Bring Back Free-Flow Valves

jefftk7 Feb 2021 3:50 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

O2 Curve Re­view: Well Worth the Money

eapache6 Feb 2021 22:35 UTC
14 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

What it means to be lucky

Amir Bolous6 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
7 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How could nat­u­ral lan­guage look like if it hadn’t evolved from speech?

newroscientist6 Feb 2021 16:31 UTC
5 points
5 comments2 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

Cur­rent cry­on­ics impressions

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

Is the world be­com­ing bet­ter?

invertedpassion6 Feb 2021 9:28 UTC
34 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

In­tu­itions about utilities

mingyuan6 Feb 2021 0:12 UTC
32 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Fear Experiments

Tim Lyons5 Feb 2021 22:57 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread – Fe­bru­ary 2021

mingyuan5 Feb 2021 21:38 UTC
13 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC
25 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Evolu­tions Build­ing Evolu­tions: Lay­ers of Gen­er­ate and Test

plex5 Feb 2021 18:21 UTC
12 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Notes on Frugality

David Gross5 Feb 2021 16:54 UTC
15 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

[Link] Sarah Con­stantin on RaDVaC

Orborde5 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

[Question] What does flow feel like for “men­tal ac­tivi­ties”?

Hazard5 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing AGI Safety Interlocks

Koen.Holtman5 Feb 2021 12:01 UTC
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup: Daniel Koko­taljo on Com­mit­ment Races (Sun­day Feb 7th, 12pm PT)

Raemon5 Feb 2021 9:34 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Any layper­son-ac­cessible refer­ence posts on how to op­er­a­tional­ize be­liefs ?

Optimization Process5 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ways of be­ing with you

KatjaGrace5 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Story of the Reichstag

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

Net­work­ing and Ex­pert Con­sult­ing As Ra­tion­al­ity Bottlenecks

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
33 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Look­ing at RSS User-Agents

jefftk5 Feb 2021 2:10 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why are clini­cal tri­als so ex­pen­sive?

ChristianKl5 Feb 2021 0:10 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Jan­uary 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern4 Feb 2021 20:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Covid 2/​4: Safe and Effec­tive Vac­cines Aplenty

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

[Question] Early ca­reer choices to max­imise learn­ing?

Evzen4 Feb 2021 13:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI: “Scal­ing Laws for Trans­fer”, Her­nan­dez et al.

Lukas Finnveden4 Feb 2021 12:49 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] A silly question

Leafcraft4 Feb 2021 10:22 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion on How to Use Anki to Im­prove Your Memory

simbyotic4 Feb 2021 9:59 UTC
18 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Heel-Toe Drumming

jefftk4 Feb 2021 2:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)