7 Mar 2020 2:00 UTC

226 points

119 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Interfaces as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth5 Mar 2020 18:20 UTC

188 points

15 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Mar 2020 3:49 UTC

177 points

78 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

I’m leaving AI alignment – you better stay

rmoehn12 Mar 2020 5:58 UTC

152 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Authorities and Amateurs

jefftk25 Mar 2020 3:40 UTC

146 points

30 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] LessWrong Coronavirus Agenda

Elizabeth18 Mar 2020 4:48 UTC

136 points

65 comments6 min readLW link

A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic

jimrandomh14 Mar 2020 5:52 UTC

119 points

22 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

My current framework for thinking about AGI timelines

zhukeepa30 Mar 2020 1:23 UTC

107 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

“No evidence” as a Valley of Bad Rationality

Adam Zerner28 Mar 2020 23:45 UTC

106 points

21 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

History’s Biggest Natural Experiment

jimrandomh24 Mar 2020 2:56 UTC

104 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Can crimes be discussed literally?

Benquo22 Mar 2020 20:17 UTC

102 points

38 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Near-term planning for secondary impacts of coronavirus lockdowns [assuming things don’t blow up]

VipulNaik21 Mar 2020 2:43 UTC

102 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Simulacra and Subjectivity

Benquo5 Mar 2020 16:25 UTC

97 points

33 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard

abramdemski19 Mar 2020 23:20 UTC

90 points

32 comments14 min readLW link

Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

jasoncrawford2 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC

90 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

What I’m doing to fight Coronavirus

lsusr9 Mar 2020 21:11 UTC

90 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 Points of Leverage, Travel Bans and Eradication

Roko19 Mar 2020 9:08 UTC

87 points

48 comments5 min readLW link

Coronavirus Justified Practical Advice Summary

Elizabeth and habryka

15 Mar 2020 22:25 UTC

87 points

53 comments6 min readLW link

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

evhub10 Mar 2020 19:36 UTC

85 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(distill.pub)

High Variance Productivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

85 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Adding Up To Normality

orthonormal24 Mar 2020 21:53 UTC

84 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

How to have a happy quarantine

mingyuan15 Mar 2020 3:42 UTC

81 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

The Great Annealing

Jacob Falkovich30 Mar 2020 1:08 UTC

79 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Ubiquitous Far-Ultraviolet Light Could Control the Spread of Covid-19 and Other Pandemics

avturchin and Roko

18 Mar 2020 12:44 UTC

79 points

39 comments7 min readLW link

Peter’s COVID Consolidated Brief for 29 March

Peter Wildeford29 Mar 2020 17:07 UTC

79 points

7 comments16 min readLW link

Rationalists, Post-Rationalists, And Rationalist-Adjacents

orthonormal13 Mar 2020 20:25 UTC

79 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

Crisis and opportunity during coronavirus

jacobjacob12 Mar 2020 20:20 UTC

78 points

6 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Adaptive Immune System Aging

johnswentworth13 Mar 2020 3:47 UTC

75 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong Coronavirus Link Database

Elizabeth, habryka and Ben Pace

13 Mar 2020 23:39 UTC

72 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

The Lens, Progerias and Polycausality

johnswentworth8 Mar 2020 17:53 UTC

71 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Growth rate of COVID-19 outbreaks

Bucky9 Mar 2020 23:16 UTC

70 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Coronavirus is Here

Zvi2 Mar 2020 14:10 UTC

70 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effectiveness of Fever-Screening Will Decline

jimrandomh6 Mar 2020 23:00 UTC

69 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

COVID-19′s Household Secondary Attack Rate Is Unknown

jimrandomh16 Mar 2020 23:19 UTC

63 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Alignment as Translation

johnswentworth19 Mar 2020 21:40 UTC

63 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What should we do once infected with COVID-19?

Elizabeth18 Mar 2020 4:50 UTC

62 points

58 comments1 min readLW link

Price Gouging and Speculative Costs

jefftk26 Mar 2020 1:50 UTC

61 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“What Progress?” Gwern’s 10 year retrospective

Ben Pace2 Mar 2020 6:55 UTC

61 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Tales From the Borderlands

Jacob Falkovich25 Mar 2020 19:11 UTC

60 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Does the 14-month vaccine safety test make sense for COVID-19?

orthonormal18 Mar 2020 18:41 UTC

60 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

March Coronavirus Open Thread

Elizabeth8 Mar 2020 22:45 UTC

57 points

378 comments1 min readLW link

More Dakka for Coronavirus: We need immediate human trials of many vaccine-candidates and simultaneous manufacturing of all of them

avturchin13 Mar 2020 13:35 UTC

54 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is published!

matthew.vandermerwe8 Mar 2020 21:20 UTC

54 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

An Analytic Perspective on AI Alignment

DanielFilan1 Mar 2020 4:10 UTC

54 points

45 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Against Dog Ownership

Ben Pace23 Mar 2020 9:17 UTC

54 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

(dormin.org)

mind viruses about body viruses

nostalgebraist28 Mar 2020 4:20 UTC

52 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

What is a School?

Zvi13 Mar 2020 22:00 UTC

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[UPDATED] COVID-19 cabin secondary attack rates on Diamond Princess

Bucky18 Mar 2020 22:36 UTC

50 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is the coronavirus the most important thing to be focusing on right now?

Adam Zerner18 Mar 2020 22:48 UTC

49 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19: What Do You Wish You Knew?

Elizabeth6 Mar 2020 19:57 UTC

49 points

10 comments1 min readLW link