Ex­cus­ing a Failure to Adjust

Ronny FernandezAug 26, 2020, 1:51 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How webs of mean­ing grow and change

HazardAug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex On­line Meetup: Dr David Man­heim on Co­op­er­a­tion for AI

JoshuaFoxAug 23, 2020, 10:00 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(forms.gle)

What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

PhilosophistryAug 4, 2020, 6:48 AM
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

On Defin­ing your Terms

Chris_LeongAug 19, 2020, 3:30 AM
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Should we write more about so­cial life?

DirectedEvolutionAug 19, 2020, 8:07 PM
13 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Be­com­ing an EA-in­fluencer on YouTube etc.

culturechangeAug 16, 2020, 8:09 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—Au­gust 2020

habrykaAug 6, 2020, 6:16 AM
13 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn DrescherAug 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of ‘sci­en­tific’ stud­ies that con­tra­dict what you be­lieve about your­self?

Mati_RoyAug 3, 2020, 6:11 AM
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Study Group for Progress

jasoncrawfordAug 14, 2020, 8:18 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Spend­ing Up­date 2020

jefftkAug 18, 2020, 1:40 AM
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why hasn’t there been re­search on the effec­tive­ness of zinc for Covid-19?

Rudi CAug 24, 2020, 8:58 PM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much is known about the “in­fer­ence rules” of log­i­cal in­duc­tion?

Eigil RischelAug 8, 2020, 10:45 AM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Oops, there is ac­tu­ally an event] No­tice: No LW event this weekend

Ben PaceAug 22, 2020, 1:26 AM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Burley Bee kids bike trailer review

jefftkAug 2, 2020, 5:20 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Coron­avirus and Rents II

jefftkAug 21, 2020, 2:30 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Set­ting Up a Green Screen

jefftkAug 14, 2020, 8:00 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armaturesAug 6, 2020, 11:58 PM
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Food Spend­ing Dur­ing Covid

jefftkAug 1, 2020, 5:10 PM
10 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] In­vest­ment is a use­ful so­cietal mechanism for get­ting new things made. Stock trad­ing shares some func­tion­al­ity with in­vest­ment, but seems very very in­effi­cient, at that?

mako yassAug 24, 2020, 1:18 AM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the do() op­er­a­tor?

BunthutAug 26, 2020, 9:54 PM
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On Pro­cras­ti­na­tion—The art of shap­ing your fu­ture actions

Neel NandaAug 1, 2020, 10:22 AM
10 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Sta­tus for sta­tus sake is a fact of poli­ti­cal life

Tim LiptrotAug 18, 2020, 10:06 PM
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

We­bBun­dles and URL Randomization

jefftkAug 26, 2020, 5:50 PM
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Ti­tan (the Wealth­front of ac­tive stock pick­ing) - What’s the catch?

LironAug 6, 2020, 1:06 AM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What am I miss­ing? (quan­tum physics)

kithpendragonAug 21, 2020, 12:39 PM
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much can sur­gi­cal masks help with wild­fire smoke?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 21, 2020, 3:46 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How hard would it be to change GPT-3 in a way that al­lows au­dio?

ChristianKlAug 28, 2020, 2:42 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Goal-Direct­ed­ness: What Suc­cess Looks Like

adamShimiAug 16, 2020, 6:33 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why isn’t there a LessWrong App? Is a “blog-app” sus­tain­able/​use­ful for a com­mu­nity?

Osson4Aug 2, 2020, 5:47 PM
9 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Effect of Numpy

jefftkAug 10, 2020, 1:00 AM
9 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Proofs Sec­tion 2.1 (The­o­rem 1, Lem­mas)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:54 AM
8 points
0 comments36 min readLW link

[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

curiAug 5, 2020, 8:50 AM
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 1.1 (Ini­tial re­sults to LF-du­al­ity)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:59 AM
8 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Em­pa­thetic vs In­trin­sic Oof

Ronny FernandezAug 24, 2020, 12:12 AM
8 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

So­cially-dis­tanced out­door Petrov Day cer­e­mo­nial manual

jchanAug 24, 2020, 2:11 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Please take a sur­vey on the qual­ity/​im­pact of things I’ve written

MichaelAAug 29, 2020, 10:39 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Fea­si­bil­ity of Pro­saic AGI Align­ment?

iamthouthouartiAug 21, 2020, 11:25 PM
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 1.2 (Mix­tures, Up­dates, Push­for­wards)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:57 AM
8 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Death and Taxes

ZviAug 29, 2020, 1:10 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Proofs Sec­tion 2.3 (Up­dates, De­ci­sion The­ory)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:49 AM
8 points
0 comments31 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 2.2 (Iso­mor­phism to Ex­pec­ta­tions)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:52 AM
8 points
0 comments46 min readLW link

Bayesi­ance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 18, 2020, 4:30 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing My LW Com­ment­ing Policy

curiAug 18, 2020, 4:48 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ikeAug 13, 2020, 12:30 AM
7 points
197 comments7 min readLW link

So­cial Dynamics

curiAug 10, 2020, 7:29 PM
7 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What should an Ein­stein-like figure in Ma­chine Learn­ing do?

RaziedAug 5, 2020, 11:52 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Room and Board for Peo­ple Self-Learn­ing ML or Do­ing In­de­pen­dent ML Research

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:19 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Law of Least Effort Con­tributes to the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curiAug 9, 2020, 7:38 PM
7 points
53 comments3 min readLW link