Re­mem­ber­ing peo­ple’s name with Anki

ArthurRainbow14 Feb 2021 16:34 UTC
8 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Most kinds of noise stress me out a lot, and I have a strong prefer­ence for silence. I tend to quickly no­tice quiet en­vi­ron­ments. Does this oc­cur to any­one else? Any idea why?

Space L Clottey14 Feb 2021 11:37 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA14 Feb 2021 8:40 UTC
17 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

“PR” is cor­ro­sive; “rep­u­ta­tion” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
307 points
93 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Bucket Bri­gade Updates

jefftk14 Feb 2021 3:30 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

This is my 100ᵗʰ post on Less Wrong

lsusr14 Feb 2021 3:11 UTC
87 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Five examples

Adam Zerner14 Feb 2021 2:47 UTC
42 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

The ecol­ogy of conviction

KatjaGrace14 Feb 2021 1:30 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Eco­nomics of Media

lsusr13 Feb 2021 23:11 UTC
63 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Re­cruit­ing for es­ports experiment

asdfrty613 Feb 2021 17:46 UTC
14 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

How Should We Re­spond to Cade Metz?

DirectedEvolution13 Feb 2021 16:11 UTC
18 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

some ran­dom par­ent­ing ideas

mike_hawke13 Feb 2021 15:53 UTC
38 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Ap­ply to Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds now

Jonas V13 Feb 2021 13:36 UTC
26 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Is MIRI ac­tu­ally hiring and does Buck Sh­legeris still work for you?

seed13 Feb 2021 10:26 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Things a Katja-so­ciety might try (Part 2)

KatjaGrace13 Feb 2021 9:20 UTC
14 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Your Cheer­ful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
262 points
82 comments17 min readLW link6 reviews

Watch­ing themselves

jefftk12 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC
48 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Po­ten­tial fac­tors in Bell Labs’ in­tel­lec­tual progress, Pt. 1

Ruby12 Feb 2021 19:26 UTC
50 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Tour­ne­sol, YouTube and AI Risk

adamShimi12 Feb 2021 18:56 UTC
36 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Su­per-fore­cast­ers as a ser­vice

frcassarino12 Feb 2021 13:35 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(federicorcassarino.substack.com)

[Question] What does the FDA ac­tu­ally do be­tween get­ting the trial re­sults and hav­ing their meet­ing?

ChristianKl12 Feb 2021 13:08 UTC
28 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Map­ping the Con­cep­tual Ter­ri­tory in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety and Alignment

jbkjr12 Feb 2021 7:55 UTC
15 points
0 comments26 min readLW link

The art of car­ing what peo­ple think

KatjaGrace12 Feb 2021 5:40 UTC
43 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

John Went­worth on “Ta­boo­ing ‘Should’ Ex­er­cise” [Sun­day Meetup 1pm]

Raemon11 Feb 2021 22:40 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­sti­tute for As­sured Au­ton­omy (IAA) newsletter

Aryeh Englander11 Feb 2021 21:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Par­ti­ci­pat­ing in a Covid-19 Vac­cine Trial

ejacob11 Feb 2021 20:35 UTC
37 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

The dan­gers of digi­tal vaccines

canaveroe11 Feb 2021 18:39 UTC
−8 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 2/​11: As Expected

Zvi11 Feb 2021 18:30 UTC
101 points
79 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Has at­tempt been made to iden­tify all mechanisms which al­lowed hu­man species to come this in terms of value al­ign­ment?

Thomas Brown11 Feb 2021 18:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Speedrun­ning my Morn­ing Makes the Coffee Taste Weird

kithpendragon11 Feb 2021 17:06 UTC
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

In bal­ance and flux

KatjaGrace11 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
119 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

[AN #137]: Quan­tify­ing the benefits of pre­train­ing on down­stream task performance

Rohin Shah10 Feb 2021 18:10 UTC
18 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

We got what’s needed for COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion com­pletely wrong

ChristianKl10 Feb 2021 7:59 UTC
61 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

A great hard day

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA10 Feb 2021 2:48 UTC
25 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Fix­ing The Good Reg­u­la­tor Theorem

johnswentworth9 Feb 2021 20:30 UTC
136 points
37 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Book re­view: The Geog­ra­phy of Thought

PeterMcCluskey9 Feb 2021 18:47 UTC
73 points
37 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Still Not in Charge

Zvi9 Feb 2021 16:00 UTC
46 points
24 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We Need Browsers as Platforms

jefftk9 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Episte­mol­ogy of HCH

adamShimi9 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC
17 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

How would free pre­dic­tion mar­kets have al­tered the pan­demic?

mike_hawke9 Feb 2021 10:55 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Against but­terfly effect

ForensicOceanography9 Feb 2021 7:46 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(forensicoceanography.wordpress.com)

Evolu­tion from dis­tinc­tion difference

KatjaGrace9 Feb 2021 5:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Pro­mot­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets With Mean­ingless In­ter­net-Point Badges

1a3orn8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
59 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Micro­morts vs. Life Expectancy

Young Buck8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What met­rics should I track when ex­per­i­ment­ing with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC
10 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Were the Great Tragedies of His­tory “Mere Rip­ples”?

philosophytorres8 Feb 2021 15:35 UTC
−24 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The dis­tinc­tion distance

KatjaGrace8 Feb 2021 7:40 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Quadratic, not logarithmic

Just Learning8 Feb 2021 3:42 UTC
84 points
23 comments1 min readLW link