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Chapter 6: How does it Work?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:07 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 5: How to Describe?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:07 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 4: What’s the Problem?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:04 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 3: What’s an Object?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:04 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Chapter 2: What’s Inside?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:03 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 1: What’s the Question?
ld97
Mar 2, 2020, 10:03 AM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there any value in self-quarantine (from Coronavirus), if you live with other people who aren’t taking similar precautions?
Eli Tyre
Mar 2, 2020, 7:31 AM
32
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“What Progress?” Gwern’s 10 year retrospective
Ben Pace
Mar 2, 2020, 6:55 AM
61
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
If I interact with someone with nCov for an hour, how likely am I to get nCov?
Raemon
Mar 1, 2020, 11:53 PM
38
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is Coronavirus active in Summer?
Anton Lorenzen
Mar 1, 2020, 8:57 PM
33
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
SARS, MERS and COVID-19
jmh
Mar 1, 2020, 8:53 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do 24-hour hand sanitizers actually work?
gilch
Mar 1, 2020, 8:41 PM
7
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the long-term outcomes of a catastrophic pandemic?
Matthew Barnett
Mar 1, 2020, 7:39 PM
26
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Decaf vs. regular coffee self-experiment
NaiveTortoise
Mar 1, 2020, 7:19 PM
10
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(an1lam.github.io)
Training Regime Day 16: Hamming Questions
Mark Xu
Mar 1, 2020, 6:46 PM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
UML XIII: Online Learning and Clustering
Rafael Harth
Mar 1, 2020, 6:32 PM
13
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Russian x-risks newsletter winter 2019-2020.
avturchin
Mar 1, 2020, 12:50 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Blog Post Day Retrospective
Daniel Kokotajlo
Mar 1, 2020, 11:32 AM
24
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Any systems to rate more abstract things?
Long try
Mar 1, 2020, 10:16 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Updating Thoughts on AI policy
Ben Pace
Mar 1, 2020, 7:06 AM
20
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
High Variance Productivity Advice
lynettebye
Mar 1, 2020, 7:05 AM
87
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
How to choose a massage therapist
mingyuan
Mar 1, 2020, 6:53 AM
21
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How many people in the Bay Area are infected with Covid-19 as of the end of 2/29/2020?
Pee Doom
Mar 1, 2020, 5:37 AM
10
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Inference with Partially Specified Priors
Christopher Clark
Mar 1, 2020, 5:02 AM
17
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
An Analytic Perspective on AI Alignment
DanielFilan
Mar 1, 2020, 4:10 AM
54
points
45
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
Mar 1, 2020, 3:49 AM
181
points
80
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
What Noise Does a Tambourine Make?
jefftk
Mar 1, 2020, 2:10 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What should be my triggers for initiating self quarantine re: Corona virus
Eli Tyre
Feb 29, 2020, 8:09 PM
34
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UConn Effective Altruism
jcz208
Feb 29, 2020, 7:46 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 15: CoZE
Mark Xu
Feb 29, 2020, 5:13 PM
10
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reminder: Blog Post Day (Unofficial)
Daniel Kokotajlo
Feb 29, 2020, 3:10 PM
27
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Usable implementation of IDA available
rmoehn
Feb 29, 2020, 8:54 AM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
COVID-19 - a good or bad time for extended travel?
wolverdude
Feb 29, 2020, 8:18 AM
16
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Approaches for collecting and analyzing data about yourself?
DivineMango
Feb 29, 2020, 12:09 AM
8
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Trace: Goals and Principles
johnswentworth
Feb 28, 2020, 11:50 PM
13
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What to make of Aubrey de Grey’s prediction?
Rafael Harth
Feb 28, 2020, 7:25 PM
23
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeing the Smoke
Jacob Falkovich
Feb 28, 2020, 6:26 PM
198
points
29
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Training Regime Day 14: Traffic Jams
Mark Xu
Feb 28, 2020, 5:52 PM
11
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stretching the Beat
jefftk
Feb 28, 2020, 4:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Conclusion to ‘Reframing Impact’
TurnTrout
Feb 28, 2020, 4:05 PM
40
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Refactoring EMH – Thoughts following the latest market crash
Alex_Shleizer
Feb 28, 2020, 3:53 PM
33
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Will the current COVID-19 outbreak increase the use of block-chain in supply chain management globally?
jmh
Feb 28, 2020, 2:53 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
If I were a well-intentioned AI… III: Extremal Goodhart
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 28, 2020, 11:24 AM
22
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Epistea Workshop Series: Epistemics Workshop, May 2020, UK
Nora_Ammann
,
Jan_Kulveit
,
Anna Gajdova
and
kotrfa
Feb 28, 2020, 10:37 AM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Understandable vs justifiable vs useful
MichaelA
28 Feb 2020 7:43 UTC
10
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread
Ben Pace
and
Elizabeth
28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC
218
points
337
comments
1
min read
LW
link
1
review
Draft: Models of Risks of Delivery Under Coronavirus
Elizabeth
28 Feb 2020 4:10 UTC
28
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
How to Write a News article on the Dangers of Artificial General Intelligence
maximkazhenkov
28 Feb 2020 2:14 UTC
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Reasons for Excitement about Impact of Impact Measure Research
TurnTrout
27 Feb 2020 21:42 UTC
33
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Abstract Plans Lead to Failure
Chris_Leong
27 Feb 2020 21:20 UTC
21
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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