Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott GarrabrantMay 17, 2019, 10:39 PM
287 points
55 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

“One Man’s Mo­dus Po­nens Is Another Man’s Mo­dus Tol­lens”

gwernMay 17, 2019, 10:03 PM
33 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

An­nounc­ing my YouTube channel

Samo BurjaMay 17, 2019, 5:50 PM
40 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] What makes a sci­en­tific fact ‘ripe for dis­cov­ery’?

Matt GoldenbergMay 17, 2019, 9:01 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why ex­actly is the song ‘Baby Shark’ so catchy?

Pee DoomMay 17, 2019, 6:26 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is good liter­a­ture on learned hel­pless­ness?

Pee DoomMay 17, 2019, 3:15 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of gam­ing that is hard to de­tect?

SoerenMindMay 16, 2019, 4:10 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Offer of col­lab­o­ra­tion and/​or mentorship

Vanessa KosoyMay 16, 2019, 2:16 PM
76 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

Richard_NgoMay 16, 2019, 12:58 PM
38 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2019

DreamFlasherMay 16, 2019, 11:44 AM
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Kevin Sim­ler’s “Go­ing Crit­i­cal”

habrykaMay 16, 2019, 4:36 AM
56 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

[Question] How do you know it’s time for a break?

ElizabethMay 16, 2019, 4:33 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What is this new (?) Less Wrong fea­ture? (“hid­den re­lated ques­tion”)

Said AchmizMay 15, 2019, 11:51 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fea­ture Re­quest: Self-im­posed Time Restrictions

Adam ZernerMay 15, 2019, 10:35 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’ve started us­ing NoScript

benwrMay 15, 2019, 9:32 PM
17 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Emo­tional valence as cog­ni­tion mu­ta­tor (not a bug, but a fea­ture)

SliderMay 15, 2019, 12:49 PM
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

DC LW: Psychedelics

rusalkiiMay 15, 2019, 3:14 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

colmMay 15, 2019, 12:28 AM
49 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Data Anal­y­sis of LW: Ac­tivity Levels + Age Distri­bu­tion of User Accounts

RubyMay 14, 2019, 11:53 PM
27 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Boo votes, Yay NPS

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 14, 2019, 7:07 PM
29 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

Eight Books To Read

Samo BurjaMay 14, 2019, 5:40 PM
69 points
11 comments6 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] Flash­cards for AI Safety?

Søren ElverlinMay 14, 2019, 2:37 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­grat­ing dis­agree­ing subagents

Kaj_SotalaMay 14, 2019, 2:06 PM
147 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] How to im­prove at crit­i­cal think­ing on sci­ence/​med­i­cal liter­a­ture?

hereisonehandMay 14, 2019, 11:58 AM
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Epistea Sum­mer Experiment

Jan_KulveitMay 13, 2019, 9:29 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing Fast and Hard

Jacob FalkovichMay 13, 2019, 7:58 PM
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Phys­i­cal linguistics

Yuxi_LiuMay 13, 2019, 7:30 PM
16 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

In sup­port of the in­side view and a counter to mod­est episte­mol­ogy

solomon alonMay 13, 2019, 3:21 PM
−7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LessWrong /​ SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseMay 13, 2019, 1:56 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ed Boy­den on the State of Science

Ben PaceMay 13, 2019, 1:54 AM
62 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are some “Com­mu­ni­ties and Cul­tures Differ­ent From Our Own?”

RaemonMay 12, 2019, 10:03 PM
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent utilities

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 12, 2019, 9:33 PM
149 points
83 comments26 min readLW link3 reviews

The Re­la­tion­ship Between the Village and the Mission

RaemonMay 12, 2019, 9:09 PM
137 points
70 comments18 min readLW link

Tales from the Highway

ZviMay 12, 2019, 7:40 PM
16 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Geog­ra­phy of the Room — im­pact of po­si­tion, ori­en­ta­tion, and visi­bil­ity on how of­ten ex­traverts start conversations

less_penguinyMay 12, 2019, 5:21 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesspenguiny.com)

Type-safe­ness in Shell

Martin SustrikMay 12, 2019, 11:30 AM
7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

“UDT2” and “against UD+ASSA”

Wei DaiMay 12, 2019, 4:18 AM
50 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Nar­cis­sism vs. so­cial signalling

Chris_LeongMay 12, 2019, 3:26 AM
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Why books don’t work

lifelonglearnerMay 11, 2019, 8:40 PM
17 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(andymatuschak.org)

Prob­a­bil­ity in­ter­pre­ta­tions: Examples

So8resMay 11, 2019, 8:32 PM
39 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming Lan­guages For AI

Donald HobsonMay 11, 2019, 5:50 PM
3 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

SSC Atlanta

Steve FrenchMay 11, 2019, 5:38 PM
1 point
1 commentLW link

[Question] al­ter­na­tive his­tory: what if Bayes rule had never been dis­cov­ered?

Yoav RavidMay 11, 2019, 7:29 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do the differ­ent star-types in the uni­verse (red dwarf, etc.) re­lated to hab­it­a­bil­ity for hu­man-like life?

RubyMay 11, 2019, 1:01 AM
6 points
0 commentsLW link

The Athena Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shop—June 7th-10th at EA Hotel

Linda LinseforsMay 11, 2019, 1:01 AM
26 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many “hu­man” hab­it­able planets/​stars are in the uni­verse?

RubyMay 11, 2019, 12:59 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Rob B’s Short­form Feed

Rob BensingerMay 10, 2019, 11:10 PM
21 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

The Athena Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shop—June 7th-10th at EA Hotel

Linda LinseforsMay 10, 2019, 10:08 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex Be­hav­ior from Sim­ple (Sub)Agents

moridinamaelMay 10, 2019, 9:44 PM
113 points
14 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Dis­in­cen­tives for par­ti­ci­pat­ing on LW/​AF

Wei DaiMay 10, 2019, 7:46 PM
86 points
45 comments2 min readLW link