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[Question]
Recommendations for a resource on very basic epidemiology?
Eli Tyre
Mar 14, 2020, 5:08 PM
20
points
3
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
[Question]
What will be the economic effects of no restrictions
Yoav Ravid
Mar 24, 2020, 6:48 AM
20
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How did the Coronavirus Justified Practical Advice Thread Change Your Behavior, if at All?
Elizabeth
Mar 6, 2020, 4:15 AM
20
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
4 Kinds of Learning
lsusr
Mar 8, 2020, 2:25 AM
20
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are veterans more self-disciplined than non-veterans?
Matthew Barnett
Mar 23, 2020, 5:16 AM
19
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Possible worst outcomes of the coronavirus epidemic
avturchin
Mar 14, 2020, 4:26 PM
19
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Positive Feedback → Optimization?
johnswentworth
Mar 16, 2020, 6:48 PM
19
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anthropic effects imply that we are more likely to live in the universe with interstellar panspermia
avturchin
Mar 10, 2020, 1:12 PM
19
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #92]: Learning good representations with contrastive predictive coding
Rohin Shah
Mar 25, 2020, 5:20 PM
18
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
March 19th: Daily Coronavirus Links
habryka
and
Ben Pace
Mar 21, 2020, 12:00 AM
18
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
For viruses, is presenting with fatigue correlated with causing chronic fatigue?
jimrandomh
Mar 4, 2020, 9:09 PM
18
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
mRNA vaccine development for COVID-19
ChristianKl
Mar 21, 2020, 3:17 PM
18
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How should I be thinking about the risk of air travel (re: Coronavirus)?
Eli Tyre
Mar 2, 2020, 8:10 PM
18
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some exercises for building/generating intuitions about key disagreements in AI alignment?
riceissa
Mar 16, 2020, 7:41 AM
18
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
[Meta] Do you want AIS Webinars?
Linda Linsefors
Mar 21, 2020, 4:01 PM
18
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Could you save lives in your community by buying oxygen concentrators from Alibaba?
abergal
Mar 16, 2020, 8:58 AM
18
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bogus Exam Questions
Donald Hobson
Mar 28, 2020, 12:56 PM
18
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Beantown Stomp 2020 Retrospective
jefftk
Mar 24, 2020, 2:30 AM
17
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What information, apart from the connectome, is necessary to simulate a brain?
Richard_Ngo
Mar 20, 2020, 2:03 AM
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is the Covid-19 crisis a good time for x-risk outreach?
Adam Zerner
Mar 19, 2020, 4:14 PM
17
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How does one run an organization remotely, effectively?
Raemon
Mar 20, 2020, 8:26 PM
17
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How dangerous is it to test a vaccine without animal trials?
Yoav Ravid
Mar 14, 2020, 8:51 AM
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Post/Pre
Ouroborus
Mar 6, 2020, 12:54 AM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)
Bayesian Inference with Partially Specified Priors
Christopher Clark
Mar 1, 2020, 5:02 AM
17
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why such low detected rates of COVID-19 in children?
Bucky
Mar 16, 2020, 4:52 PM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Subjective implication decision theory in critical agentialism
jessicata
Mar 5, 2020, 11:30 PM
16
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
Welcome to the Haskell Jungle
adamShimi
Mar 18, 2020, 6:58 PM
16
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My Bet Log
philh
Mar 19, 2020, 9:10 PM
16
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
The case for C19 being widespread
Hauke Hillebrandt
Mar 28, 2020, 12:07 AM
16
points
64
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Mediation From a Distance
johnswentworth
Mar 20, 2020, 10:02 PM
16
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Should we heat our houses to ~78F to reduce coronavirus risk?
jefftk
Mar 15, 2020, 3:28 PM
16
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reminder: Blog Post Day II today!
Daniel Kokotajlo
Mar 28, 2020, 11:35 AM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #89]: A unifying formalism for preference learning algorithms
Rohin Shah
Mar 4, 2020, 6:20 PM
16
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
[Question]
Why hasn’t the technology of Knowledge Representation (i.e., semantic networks, concept graphs, ontology engineering) been applied to create tools to help human thinkers?
Polytopos
Mar 9, 2020, 6:11 AM
15
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Makeshift face touch warner
rmoehn
Mar 18, 2020, 9:38 AM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
Linda Linsefors
Mar 21, 2020, 11:27 PM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kevin Simler: Outbreak
habryka
Mar 16, 2020, 10:50 PM
15
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(meltingasphalt.com)
SSC—Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Yoav Ravid
Mar 24, 2020, 6:59 AM
15
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Sarah Constantin: Oxygen Supplementation 101
habryka
Mar 20, 2020, 1:00 AM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.github.io)
[AN #91]: Concepts, implementations, problems, and a benchmark for impact measurement
Rohin Shah
Mar 18, 2020, 5:10 PM
15
points
10
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Coming Back to Biking
jefftk
Mar 7, 2020, 2:40 AM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
February 2020 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Mar 4, 2020, 7:05 PM
15
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
What is the best way to disinfect a (rental) car?
Eli Tyre
Mar 11, 2020, 6:12 AM
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
March 16th: Daily Coronavirus Links
habryka
and
Ben Pace
Mar 18, 2020, 12:00 AM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the appropriate way to communicate that we are experiencing a pandemic?
Filipe Marchesini
Mar 4, 2020, 12:02 AM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Coronavirus Research Ideas for EAs
habryka
Mar 27, 2020, 10:10 PM
14
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
[Question]
What are good ways of convincing someone to rethink an impossible dream?
aarongertler
Mar 19, 2020, 12:06 AM
14
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon
Slimepriestess
Mar 9, 2020, 7:28 AM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Robustness to fundamental uncertainty in AGI alignment
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 3, 2020, 11:35 PM
14
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
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