Prob­lem re­lax­ation as a tactic

TurnTrout22 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
119 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Val­idity>Sound­ness in Creative Writing

OpportunisticBot22 Apr 2020 22:57 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Holi­day Pitch: Reflect­ing on Covid and Connection

Raemon22 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
58 points
14 comments12 min readLW link
(secularsolstice.com)

[AN #96]: Buck and I dis­cuss/​ar­gue about AI Alignment

Rohin Shah22 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
17 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

De­scrip­tion vs simu­lated prediction

Richard Korzekwa 22 Apr 2020 16:40 UTC
26 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

[Question] Poll: ask any­thing to an all-know­ing de­mon edition

aiiixiii22 Apr 2020 16:28 UTC
6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 18: Nega­tive Vi­su­al­iza­tion

Mark Xu22 Apr 2020 16:06 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Could city de­sign im­pact spread of in­fec­tions?

jmh22 Apr 2020 14:57 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­ner al­ign­ment in the brain

Steven Byrnes22 Apr 2020 13:14 UTC
79 points
16 comments16 min readLW link

Last chance for as­sess­ing Kurzweil

Stuart_Armstrong22 Apr 2020 11:51 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How likely is the COVID-19 apoc­a­lyp­tic sce­nario?

Roko Jelavić22 Apr 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

On Platitudes

Ouroborus22 Apr 2020 5:55 UTC
28 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

[Site Meta] Fea­ture Up­date: More Tags! (Ex­per­i­men­tal)

Ruby22 Apr 2020 2:12 UTC
68 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

Wired Head­sets for Video Calls

jefftk21 Apr 2020 22:10 UTC
22 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are good defense mechanisms against dan­ger­ous bul­let bit­ing?

Mati_Roy21 Apr 2020 20:51 UTC
16 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Databases of hu­man be­havi­our and prefer­ences?

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 18:06 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 17: Deflinch­ing and Lines of Retreat

Mark Xu21 Apr 2020 17:45 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Use Face­book Blocking

Davis_Kingsley21 Apr 2020 15:50 UTC
2 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Equil­ibrium point of the so­cial evolu­tion un­der the se­lec­tive pres­sure of COVID-19?

Yandong Zhang21 Apr 2020 15:06 UTC
−2 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some fun ways to spend $100,000?

Sausage Vector Machine20 Apr 2020 22:45 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itions on Univer­sal Be­hav­ior of In­for­ma­tion at a Distance

johnswentworth20 Apr 2020 21:44 UTC
21 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark Xu20 Apr 2020 14:51 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

AI Ser­vices as a Re­search Paradigm

VojtaKovarik20 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
30 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] What con­fi­dence in­ter­val should one re­port?

Jsevillamol20 Apr 2020 10:31 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

covid-19 notes, 4/​19/​20

nostalgebraist20 Apr 2020 5:30 UTC
29 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

[Question] What are habits that a lot of peo­ple have and don’t tend to have ever ques­tioned?

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2020 5:26 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

What Hap­pens Dur­ing a Recession

Elizabeth20 Apr 2020 3:03 UTC
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Bass Whis­tle in the Browser

jefftk20 Apr 2020 2:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA20 Apr 2020 1:08 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Every sys­tem seems ran­dom from the inside

eapache19 Apr 2020 23:02 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing the Ra­tion­al­ist Move­ment to the Uninitiated

Mellivora19 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
5 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

The Ham­mer and the Mask—A call to action

Simon Fischer19 Apr 2020 13:36 UTC
18 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Web Au­dio Echo?

jefftk19 Apr 2020 2:30 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Link Sum­mary: Top 10 Repli­cated Find­ings from Be­hav­ioral Genetics

ErickBall19 Apr 2020 1:32 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] My dad got stung by a bee, and is mildly aller­gic. What are the trade­offs in­volved in de­cid­ing whether to have him go the the emer­gency room?

Eli Tyre18 Apr 2020 22:12 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence. (2019). In­terim Re­port. Wash­ing­ton, DC: Author.

JohnCDraper18 Apr 2020 8:54 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

My stum­ble on COVID-19

DirectedEvolution18 Apr 2020 4:32 UTC
39 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Helping the kids post

jefftk17 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC
87 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Bet­ter name for “Heavy-tailed­ness of the world?”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Apr 2020 20:50 UTC
28 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

My Covid-19 Think­ing: 4/​17

Zvi17 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
65 points
6 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

COVID-19: An op­por­tu­nity to help by mod­el­ling test­ing and trac­ing to in­form the UK government

JustinShovelain17 Apr 2020 17:21 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much mo­ti­va­tion do you de­rive from cu­ri­os­ity alone in your work/​re­search?

NaiveTortoise17 Apr 2020 14:04 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How su­perfore­cast­ing could be manipulated

DirectedEvolution17 Apr 2020 6:47 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Two-player Catan

jefftk17 Apr 2020 0:50 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­te­grat­ing Hid­den Vari­ables Im­proves Approximation

johnswentworth16 Apr 2020 21:43 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Treat­ments cor­re­lated with harm

Connor_Flexman16 Apr 2020 21:02 UTC
40 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Doors and Corners

Slimepriestess16 Apr 2020 18:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Eval­u­at­ing Pre­dic­tions in Hindsight

Zvi16 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
55 points
8 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)