Notes on Op­ti­mism, Hope, and Trust

David Gross20 Jan 2021 23:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Con­tra StatNews: How Long to Herd Im­mu­nity?

AppliedDivinityStudies20 Jan 2021 22:06 UTC
24 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

A highly abu­sive LW mod­er­a­tor en­dan­gered dozens of peo­ple with COVID dishonesty

Joymuffin20 Jan 2021 21:13 UTC
−59 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Rec­og­niz­ing Numbers

johnswentworth20 Jan 2021 19:50 UTC
25 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How much does it cost to de­sign an app?

kjz20 Jan 2021 17:40 UTC
2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Covid: The Ques­tion of Im­mu­nity From Infection

Zvi20 Jan 2021 15:50 UTC
68 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­fra-Bayesi­anism Unwrapped

adamShimi20 Jan 2021 13:35 UTC
54 points
0 comments24 min readLW link

On fun­da­men­tal solitude

KatjaGrace20 Jan 2021 10:10 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Austin LW/​SSC Movie Dis­cus­sion: Star Trek Voy­ager, “Neme­sis”

SilasBarta20 Jan 2021 1:59 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

#3: Choos­ing a cry­on­ics provider

mingyuan20 Jan 2021 1:47 UTC
93 points
21 comments18 min readLW link

For Bet­ter Com­ment­ing, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution20 Jan 2021 1:11 UTC
76 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Deutsch and Yud­kowsky on sci­en­tific explanation

Richard_Ngo20 Jan 2021 1:00 UTC
27 points
19 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Tele­olog­i­cal Mechanism

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jan 2021 23:58 UTC
8 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion: As­tra Zeneca ap­proval date

Tim Liptrot19 Jan 2021 21:59 UTC
11 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Best of LessWrong: Jan 10 - Jan 17

knite19 Jan 2021 20:44 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Against the Back­ward Ap­proach to Goal-Directedness

adamShimi19 Jan 2021 18:46 UTC
19 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Matt Lev­ine on “Fraud is no fun with­out friends.”

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC
120 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Three types of Evidence

Rafael Harth19 Jan 2021 17:25 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Benefits of “micro-track­ing” for per­sonal health mea­sure­ments?

VipulNaik19 Jan 2021 14:58 UTC
9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Pray­ing to God

lsusr19 Jan 2021 10:25 UTC
6 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Con­vic­tion ⚖️ Skepticism

lsusr19 Jan 2021 8:04 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Demo­cratic Currency

MikkW19 Jan 2021 5:32 UTC
11 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

1Day Sooner is Hiring a Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Director

1daysooner19 Jan 2021 4:25 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.1daysooner.org)

Dis­cov­ery fic­tion for the Pythagorean theorem

riceissa19 Jan 2021 2:09 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Some thoughts on risks from nar­row, non-agen­tic AI

Richard_Ngo19 Jan 2021 0:04 UTC
35 points
21 comments16 min readLW link

Public selves

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC
40 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Short sum­mary of mAIry’s room

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Ap­peals to the Com­plex­ity/​Mys­te­ri­ous­ness/​Effi­ciency of the Brain

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC
194 points
86 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Liter­a­ture Re­view on Goal-Directedness

18 Jan 2021 11:15 UTC
80 points
21 comments31 min readLW link

(USA) N95 masks are available on Amazon

Wei Dai18 Jan 2021 10:37 UTC
54 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
87 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

Are the con­se­quences of groups usu­ally highly con­tin­gent on their de­tails?

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 1:30 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Ecolog­i­cal Perspective

Chris_Leong18 Jan 2021 1:19 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

DALL-E does sym­bol grounding

p.b.17 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci II Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic17 Jan 2021 16:58 UTC
39 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why do stocks go up?

tryactions17 Jan 2021 16:36 UTC
27 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lAc­tion his­tory and les­sons learned

Ron17 Jan 2021 15:01 UTC
34 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] How can I find trust­wor­thy dietary ad­vice?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jan 2021 13:11 UTC
30 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

What is go­ing on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC
90 points
48 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] How do you mea­sure con­for­mity?

lsusr17 Jan 2021 9:35 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Wuwei

lsusr17 Jan 2021 8:28 UTC
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Use con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ities to clear up er­ror rate confusion

Maxwell Peterson17 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­cerpt from Ar­bital Solomonoff in­duc­tion dialogue

Richard_Ngo17 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC
36 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(arbital.com)

[Question] How do I im­prove at be­ing strate­gic?

Conor17 Jan 2021 1:36 UTC
11 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­tus as a Ser­vice (Done Quick)

GuySrinivasan16 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC
44 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Why Pro­duc­tivity Sys­tems Don’t Stick

Matt Goldenberg16 Jan 2021 17:45 UTC
56 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is it the case that when hu­mans ap­prox­i­mate back­ward in­duc­tion they vi­o­late the markov prop­erty?

Quinn16 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tive thinking

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2021 2:30 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Ci­ti­zen­ship in a Republic

Theodore Roosevelt16 Jan 2021 1:33 UTC
12 points
3 comments29 min readLW link
(theodoreroosevelt.org)

AR Glasses: Much more than you wanted to know

frcassarino16 Jan 2021 0:31 UTC
12 points
6 comments17 min readLW link
(federicorcassarino.substack.com)