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What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?
johnswentworth
Mar 15, 2021, 9:51 PM
208
points
61
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Wild Reading
DirectedEvolution
Mar 15, 2021, 9:34 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Nitric Oxide Spray… a cure for COVID19??
Shmi
Mar 15, 2021, 7:36 PM
25
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Anyone been through IFS or coherence therapy?
warrenjordan
Mar 15, 2021, 6:35 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Return to New York City
Zvi
Mar 15, 2021, 3:20 PM
19
points
6
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Feedback calibration
cousin_it
Mar 15, 2021, 2:24 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine and blood clots
jmh
Mar 15, 2021, 1:16 PM
10
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Clubhouse
lsusr
Mar 15, 2021, 3:38 AM
41
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Impact of the rationalist community who someone who aspired to be “rational”
Arthur Milchior
Mar 15, 2021, 2:54 AM
27
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 15, 2021, 1:55 AM
44
points
8
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Dark Matters
Diffractor
Mar 14, 2021, 11:36 PM
240
points
23
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Predictions for future dispositions toward Twitter
mike_hawke
Mar 14, 2021, 10:10 PM
14
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Seatbelt Extenders and Booster Seats
jefftk
Mar 14, 2021, 9:50 PM
16
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Haskenthetical update: user-defined macros
philh
Mar 14, 2021, 9:20 PM
7
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
Exploring Luck
arashparam
Mar 14, 2021, 7:12 PM
3
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AI x-risk reduction: why I chose academia over industry
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Mar 14, 2021, 5:25 PM
56
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The non-central fallacy and Law
ThomasMore
Mar 14, 2021, 3:09 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Physicalism implies experience never dies. So what am I going to experience after it does?
Szymon Kucharski
Mar 14, 2021, 2:45 PM
−1
points
1
comment
30
min read
LW
link
Internal Double Crux: Video Games
supposedlyfun
Mar 14, 2021, 11:45 AM
15
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Blue is Arbitrary
lsusr
Mar 14, 2021, 9:04 AM
64
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open loops in fiction
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 14, 2021, 8:50 AM
71
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Direct effects matter!
Aaron Bergman
Mar 14, 2021, 4:33 AM
104
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)
[Question]
How do you estimate how much you’re going to like something?
CTVKenney
Mar 14, 2021, 2:33 AM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making a Kingfisher Video
jefftk
Mar 14, 2021, 1:40 AM
13
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Apollo Creed problems and Clubber Lang problems—framing, and how to address the latter?
CraigMichael
Mar 14, 2021, 1:29 AM
18
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strong Evidence is Common
Mark Xu
Mar 13, 2021, 10:04 PM
260
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
4
reviews
(markxu.com)
Quotes from the WWMoR Podcast Episode with Eliezer
MondSemmel
Mar 13, 2021, 9:43 PM
96
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Making friends
dominicq
Mar 13, 2021, 7:23 PM
27
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
My attempt to find the meaning of existence
PeterL
Mar 13, 2021, 5:13 PM
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Changing Minds That Aren’t Mine, and The Instinct to Surrender.
Anomal3
Mar 13, 2021, 4:08 PM
14
points
13
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to use hypnagogic hallucinations as biofeedback to relieve insomnia
David Gross
Mar 13, 2021, 3:28 PM
50
points
21
comments
21
min read
LW
link
February 2021 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Mar 13, 2021, 2:57 PM
13
points
2
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Exploiting Crypto Prediction Markets for Fun and Profit
Srdjan Miletic
Mar 13, 2021, 2:31 AM
31
points
25
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Video] Intelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality Thesis
plex
Mar 13, 2021, 12:32 AM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
Mar 12, 2021, 8:02 PM
151
points
33
comments
14
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Covid 3/12: New CDC Guidelines Available
Zvi
Mar 12, 2021, 5:20 PM
101
points
28
comments
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
“Beliefs” vs. “Notions”
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Mar 12, 2021, 4:04 PM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Rigorous political science?
abramdemski
Mar 12, 2021, 3:30 PM
23
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How can we stop talking past each other when it comes to postrationality?
ChristianKl
Mar 12, 2021, 3:15 PM
−21
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review
Erich_Grunewald
Mar 12, 2021, 12:47 PM
27
points
0
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
How I come up with ideas
lsusr
Mar 12, 2021, 9:01 AM
38
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Where does the phrase “central example” come from?
Alex_Altair
Mar 12, 2021, 5:57 AM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kelly Betting Discussion
Raemon
Mar 12, 2021, 12:10 AM
20
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Impact of delaying vaccinations on the total number of deaths
qbolec
Mar 11, 2021, 11:49 PM
5
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
I want to die in an infinite universe. How philosophy led me to the deepest heights of indifferent despair.
Szymon Kucharski
11 Mar 2021 23:16 UTC
−1
points
2
comments
20
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s a good way to test basic machine learning code?
Kenny
11 Mar 2021 21:27 UTC
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learn and practice using Occam’s Razor with exercises
icompetetowin
11 Mar 2021 20:29 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)
Killing Moloch with “Nudge tech”?
nathanlippi
11 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC
0
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Four Motivations for Learning Normativity
abramdemski
11 Mar 2021 20:13 UTC
42
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Resolutions to the Challenge of Resolving Forecasts
Davidmanheim
11 Mar 2021 19:08 UTC
58
points
13
comments
6
min read
LW
link
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