A Prob­lem With Patternism

B JacobsMay 19, 2020, 8:16 PM
5 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

The Devil You Know

SlimepriestessMay 21, 2020, 9:50 PM
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do you whit­tle path-de­pen­dent (prob­a­bil­is­tic) ques­tions?

Mary ChernyshenkoMay 2, 2020, 8:53 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do any mam­mal species ex­hibit an im­mune re­sponse in some of the herd in re­sponse to the in­fec­tion in other herd mem­bers?

jmhMay 16, 2020, 5:33 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Set­tle In­vest­ment Trades Only Daily an im­prove­ment? True or False

jmhMay 11, 2020, 9:56 PM
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What work of fic­tion ex­plore in­creased trans­parency in the world?

Mati_RoyMay 13, 2020, 9:15 PM
5 points
8 commentsLW link

[Link] Ra­tion­al­ist Games—Face­book Group

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing coro­n­avirus spread from fam­ily mem­bers, room­mates, ex­tended fam­ily and close friends

nonzerosumMay 11, 2020, 10:38 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[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_RoyMay 8, 2020, 8:50 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A hi­er­ar­chy of truth

aelwoodMay 11, 2020, 9:23 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

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

micMay 6, 2020, 12:06 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

Mati_RoyMay 15, 2020, 3:53 AM
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 es­ti­mated test de­tec­tion win­dows for IgG, IgM and nasal PCR tests

nonzerosumMay 11, 2020, 10:39 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sugges­tions for mak­ing re­search as trust­wor­thy, in­tel­ligible and quickly available as possible

mickofemsworthMay 14, 2020, 2:47 PM
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

Fahad AlkhaterMay 6, 2020, 9:18 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Notes about psychopharmacology

kseniaMay 23, 2020, 7:31 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(n2t.net)

[U.S. Spe­cific] Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Re­form in the Time of Covid-19

KiranChokshiMay 1, 2020, 5:29 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What is a “Good” Pre­dic­tion?

eapacheMay 3, 2020, 4:51 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

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

R LMay 21, 2020, 1:30 AM
2 points
3 commentsLW link

[Question] Value of build­ing an on­line “knowl­edge web”

Joe KwonMay 1, 2020, 4:31 AM
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

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

Master MintZMay 5, 2020, 5:54 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] look­ing for name/​fur­ther read­ing on fal­lacy I came across

YitzMay 28, 2020, 6:01 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What do you be­lieve are the most crit­i­cal open ques­tions/​hy­pothe­ses that could in­form a more effec­tive COVID re­sponse?

nonzerosumMay 12, 2020, 5:46 PM
1 point
0 commentsLW link

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

Colin TangMay 19, 2020, 10:55 PM
1 point
34 comments1 min readLW link

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

warrenjordanMay 5, 2020, 5:52 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The ways of knowing

aelwoodMay 5, 2020, 8:35 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

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

William WalkerMay 9, 2020, 3:08 PM
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wsj.com)

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

basu_enterpriseMay 20, 2020, 7:45 PM
−2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

One sys­temic failure in particular

MoritzGMay 28, 2020, 5:25 AM
−3 points
8 comments6 min readLW link