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Literature Review For Academic Outsiders: What, How, and Why

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC

193 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Project Proposal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworth9 May 2020 18:47 UTC

58 points

43 comments7 min readLW link

Why there’s an ethanol glut and sanitizer shortage (WSJ)

William Walker9 May 2020 15:08 UTC

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wsj.com)

Shared House Setup

jefftk9 May 2020 11:30 UTC

27 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is there any scientific evidence for benefits of meditation?

CheerfulWarrior9 May 2020 8:53 UTC

16 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are examples of perennial discoveries?

Mati_Roy9 May 2020 6:17 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Corrigibility as outside view

TurnTrout8 May 2020 21:56 UTC

36 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Lessons from Isaac: Pitfalls of Reason

adamShimi8 May 2020 20:44 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

How to do remote co-working

SoerenMind8 May 2020 19:38 UTC

25 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] AI Boxing for Hardware-bound agents (aka the China alignment problem)

Logan Zoellner8 May 2020 15:50 UTC

11 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

Rationality Vienna [Virtual] Meetup, May 2020

Viliam8 May 2020 15:03 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Kids and Moral Agency

jefftk8 May 2020 12:50 UTC

30 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Failures in technology forecasting? A reply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelA8 May 2020 12:41 UTC

44 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

A non-mystical explanation of “no-self” (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC

105 points

65 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What fraction of your lifetime (0-80 years old) egoist budget would you (want to) spend on a pill that made you live for as long as you wanted (perfect invincibility), as healthily as you wanted if you knew it would become available to you once you’re 80 years old (and that you would otherwise irreversibly die)?

Mati_Roy8 May 2020 8:50 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Plans for COVID-19?

lsusr8 May 2020 4:37 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What would you do differently if you were less concerned with looking weird?

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 23:29 UTC

11 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do you (not) use a pseudonym on LessWrong?

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 19:34 UTC

10 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 5/7: Fighting Limbo

Zvi7 May 2020 19:00 UTC

27 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Meditation skill: Surfing the Urge

Max Hodges7 May 2020 17:30 UTC

16 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Kurzweil’s predictions’ individual scores

Stuart_Armstrong7 May 2020 17:10 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Multiple Arguments, Multiple Comments

lc7 May 2020 9:30 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[link] How many humans will have their brain preserved? Forecasts and trends

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 6:11 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prioritizing COVID-19 interventions & individual donations

Ian David Moss and catherio

7 May 2020 1:44 UTC

11 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Vika, Vlad Mikulik, Matthew Rahtz, tom4everitt, Zac Kenton and janleike

6 May 2020 23:51 UTC

65 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC

84 points

67 comments1 min readLW link

Coping and Cultures

Spiracular6 May 2020 22:49 UTC

50 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does isolating the high-risk suppress COVID-19?

Fahad Alkhater6 May 2020 21:18 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19: New York’s Antibody Tests 2

Zvi6 May 2020 17:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #98]: Understanding neural net training by seeing which gradients were helpful

Rohin Shah6 May 2020 17:10 UTC

22 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Introduction to forecasting worksheet

edoarad6 May 2020 13:54 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foretold.io)

AudioWorklet Latency: Firefox vs Chrome

jefftk6 May 2020 13:50 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 13:36 UTC

145 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should potential AI alignment researchers gauge whether the field is right for them?

TurnTrout6 May 2020 12:24 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to quantify uncertainty about a probability estimate?

mic6 May 2020 12:06 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Maths writer/cowritter needed: how you can’t distinguish early exponential from early sigmoid

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 9:41 UTC

41 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawford6 May 2020 1:15 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Modeling naturalized decision problems in linear logic

jessicata6 May 2020 0:15 UTC

14 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

The ways of knowing

aelwood5 May 2020 20:35 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble

Kaj_Sotala5 May 2020 19:09 UTC

130 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Competitive safety via gradated curricula

Richard_Ngo5 May 2020 18:11 UTC

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworth5 May 2020 18:05 UTC

87 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

“AI and Efficiency”, OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012)

gwern5 May 2020 16:32 UTC

47 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

[Question] I’d Like To Maximizing Profit and Happiness but My Happiness conflicts a lot with making profit...

Master MintZ5 May 2020 5:54 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Direct work vs. earn-to-give?

warrenjordan5 May 2020 5:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much money would you pay to get access to video footage of your surroundings for a year of your choice (in the past)?

Mati_Roy5 May 2020 5:50 UTC

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Constructive Definitions

Chris_Leong4 May 2020 23:50 UTC

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus

Akshat Mahajan4 May 2020 22:53 UTC

42 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Rationalist Games—Facebook Group

Mati_Roy4 May 2020 22:13 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a different angle

jmh4 May 2020 17:58 UTC

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link