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[Question] Should I self-variolate to COVID-19

Eli Tyre25 May 2020 20:29 UTC

46 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

A Taijitu symbol for Moloch and Slack

B Jacobs25 May 2020 20:03 UTC

88 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Baking is Not a Ritual

Sisi Cheng25 May 2020 18:08 UTC

125 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is a decision theory as a mathematical object?

Erik Jenner25 May 2020 13:44 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

An addendum on effective population size

willbradshaw25 May 2020 12:35 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

Why Rationalists Shouldn’t be Interested in Topos Theory

jollybard25 May 2020 5:35 UTC

75 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best tools for recording predictions?

Raemon24 May 2020 19:15 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] Finding free energy in karma

eapache24 May 2020 14:47 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Plague in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Zvi24 May 2020 12:00 UTC

40 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What ageing is and is not

willbradshaw24 May 2020 9:06 UTC

55 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)

Marcello23 May 2020 23:44 UTC

59 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Opposing a hierarchy does not imply egalitarianism

Viliam23 May 2020 20:51 UTC

7 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What is your internet search methodology ?

George3d623 May 2020 20:33 UTC

16 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Notes about psychopharmacology

ksenia23 May 2020 19:31 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(n2t.net)

Mazes Sequence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC

80 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolution is sampling error

willbradshaw23 May 2020 16:21 UTC

37 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

How can Interpretability help Alignment?

RobertKirk, Tomáš Gavenčiak and axioman

23 May 2020 16:16 UTC

37 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

In Search of Slack

Martin Sustrik23 May 2020 11:20 UTC

47 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

[Question] Is taking bacopa good for life extension?

Mati_Roy23 May 2020 8:54 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AGIs as collectives

Richard_Ngo22 May 2020 20:36 UTC

22 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Highlights of Comparative and Evolutionary Aging

johnswentworth22 May 2020 17:01 UTC

55 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The Oil Crisis of 1973

Elizabeth22 May 2020 15:50 UTC

79 points

10 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Post-crash market efficiency 1696-2020

bfinn22 May 2020 14:13 UTC

22 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Help wanted: Improving COVID-19 contact-tracing by estimating respiratory droplets

Steven Byrnes22 May 2020 14:05 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

Get It Done Now

Zvi22 May 2020 12:20 UTC

56 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

From self to craving (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC

51 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Predictions/questions about conquistadors?

Daniel Kokotajlo22 May 2020 11:43 UTC

7 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Wikipedia Edit War Update

jefftk22 May 2020 11:30 UTC

55 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What aspects of the world emotionally bothers you on an immediate personal level on a daily basis?

Mati_Roy22 May 2020 6:27 UTC

8 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

The Devil You Know

Slimepriestess21 May 2020 21:50 UTC

5 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Reflective Complaints

Raemon21 May 2020 21:11 UTC

37 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are objects that have made your life better?

Mark Xu21 May 2020 20:59 UTC

28 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Wrapping and Centering

jefftk21 May 2020 14:30 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How does publishing a paper work?

Liron21 May 2020 12:14 UTC

42 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Comparing reward learning/reward tampering formalisms

Stuart_Armstrong21 May 2020 12:03 UTC

9 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Orthogonality

lsusr21 May 2020 3:17 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What was your reasoning for deciding to have ‘your own’/ natural-birthed children?

R L21 May 2020 1:30 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If bacteria gave us a tool for bio engineering, have viruses given us a delivery mechanism?

jmh20 May 2020 22:31 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to replicate photosynthesis artificially?

basu_enterprise20 May 2020 19:45 UTC

−2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC

151 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting

Rohin Shah20 May 2020 17:30 UTC

33 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Probabilities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for reward functions

Stuart_Armstrong20 May 2020 15:19 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6

jefftk20 May 2020 12:10 UTC

12 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Meta] Three small suggestions for the LW-website

B Jacobs20 May 2020 11:18 UTC

9 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Source code size vs learned model size in ML and in humans?

riceissa20 May 2020 8:47 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life?

Thomas Kwa20 May 2020 4:55 UTC

16 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Signaling: Why People Have Conversations

liam_hinzman20 May 2020 3:18 UTC

15 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(liamhinzman.com)

[Question] What can currently be done about the “flooding the zone” issue?

the gears to ascension20 May 2020 1:02 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online summer program in the history of technology

jasoncrawford20 May 2020 0:52 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] How to convince Y that X has committed a murder with >0.999999 probability?

Colin Tang19 May 2020 22:55 UTC

1 point

34 comments1 min readLW link