The se­cret of Wikipe­dia’s success

Aaron BergmanApr 14, 2021, 10:18 PM
68 points
11 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Place-Based Pro­gram­ming—Part 1 - Places

lsusrApr 14, 2021, 10:18 PM
32 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

The con­se­quen­tial­ist case for so­cial con­ser­vatism, or “Against Cul­tural Su­per­stim­uli”

SophroniusApr 14, 2021, 9:50 PM
28 points
50 comments6 min readLW link

[AN #146]: Plau­si­ble sto­ries of how we might fail to avert an ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Rohin ShahApr 14, 2021, 5:30 PM
23 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What weird be­liefs do you have?

Dumbledore's ArmyApr 14, 2021, 10:29 AM
16 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

An Ex­er­cise in Ra­tional Co­op­er­a­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Let’s Play Hanabi

ejacobApr 14, 2021, 8:36 AM
14 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Against “Con­text-Free In­tegrity”

Ben PaceApr 14, 2021, 8:20 AM
62 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Auc­tion­ing Off the Top Slot in Your Read­ing List

mike_hawkeApr 14, 2021, 7:11 AM
22 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #2

Mark XuApr 14, 2021, 6:47 AM
32 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

What if AGI is near?

Wulky WilkinsenApr 14, 2021, 12:05 AM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Ex­treme Vac­cine Effectiveness

RubyApr 13, 2021, 9:08 PM
142 points
37 comments23 min readLW link

[Question] Mod­ified bases in mRNA vac­cines against Covid-19

BB6Apr 13, 2021, 1:00 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you deal with de­ci­sion paral­y­sis?

Raj ThimmiahApr 13, 2021, 6:01 AM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Want­ing to Suc­ceed on Every Met­ric Presented

Logan RiggsApr 12, 2021, 8:43 PM
72 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Flash­cards for De­liber­ate Practice

DirectedEvolutionApr 12, 2021, 7:07 PM
23 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How long would you wait to get Moderna/​Pfizer vs J&J?

SameerishereApr 12, 2021, 6:23 PM
25 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci April 2021: Voy­ages of the Gray Swan

abstractapplicApr 12, 2021, 6:23 PM
53 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Post-COVID In­te­gra­tion Rituals

UnrealApr 12, 2021, 4:54 PM
43 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

A New Cen­ter? [Poli­tics] [Wish­ful Think­ing]

abramdemskiApr 12, 2021, 3:19 PM
62 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

On Falsify­ing the Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis (or Em­brac­ing its Pre­dic­tions)

lorepieriApr 12, 2021, 12:12 AM
8 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

“Tak­ing your en­vi­ron­ment as ob­ject” vs “Be­ing sub­ject to your en­vi­ron­ment”

Ben PaceApr 11, 2021, 10:47 PM
87 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Bayes’ the­o­rem, plau­si­ble de­ni­a­bil­ity, and smiley faces

Adam ZernerApr 11, 2021, 8:41 PM
24 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Peo­ple Will Listen

sapphireApr 11, 2021, 4:51 PM
85 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] Luck, Skill, and Im­prov­ing at Games

Davis_KingsleyApr 11, 2021, 2:35 PM
13 points
3 commentsLW link
(towernumbernine.com)

Ben Go­ertzel’s “Kinds of Minds”

JoshuaFoxApr 11, 2021, 12:41 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Spe­cial­iz­ing in Prob­lems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworthApr 10, 2021, 10:40 PM
176 points
29 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Re­cently I bought a new laptop

TetraspaceApr 10, 2021, 8:29 PM
31 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

A Brief Re­view of Cur­rent and Near-Fu­ture Meth­ods of Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmithApr 10, 2021, 7:16 PM
82 points
33 comments15 min readLW link

A DIY cryp­tocur­rency hard­ware wallet for free

jorgesApr 10, 2021, 5:36 PM
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Re­cruit­ing for a Dis­cord Server] AI Fore­cast­ing & Threat Model­ing Workshop

QuinnApr 10, 2021, 4:15 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Forc­ing Your­self is Self Harm, or Don’t Good­hart Yourself

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 10, 2021, 3:19 PM
32 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Redis­cov­ery, the Mind’s Curare

Erich_GrunewaldApr 10, 2021, 7:42 AM
3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Some­times, it can take a while to no­tice confusion

masasinApr 10, 2021, 3:24 AM
27 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Con­vict Con­di­tion­ing Book Review

BoraskoApr 9, 2021, 10:10 PM
40 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fi­a­bil­ity Prob­lem for Su­per­ra­tional De­ci­sion Theories

BunthutApr 9, 2021, 8:33 PM
17 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Opinions on In­ter­pretable Ma­chine Learn­ing and 70 Sum­maries of Re­cent Papers

Apr 9, 2021, 7:19 PM
141 points
17 comments102 min readLW link

My Cur­rent Take on Counterfactuals

abramdemskiApr 9, 2021, 5:51 PM
54 points
57 comments25 min readLW link

[AN #145]: Our three year an­niver­sary!

Rohin ShahApr 9, 2021, 5:48 PM
19 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why un­rig­gable *al­most* im­plies uninfluenceable

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 9, 2021, 5:07 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 4/​9: Another Vac­cine Pass­port Objection

ZviApr 9, 2021, 2:50 PM
54 points
34 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beliefs as emo­tional strategies

Kaj_SotalaApr 9, 2021, 2:28 PM
75 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawfordApr 8, 2021, 10:03 PM
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chwApr 8, 2021, 9:42 PM
29 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

A Sys­tem For Evolv­ing In­creas­ingly Gen­eral Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence From Cur­rent Technologies

Tsang Chung ShuApr 8, 2021, 9:37 PM
1 point
3 comments11 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 6 - De­bate and Imi­ta­tive Gen­er­al­iza­tion with Beth Barnes

DanielFilanApr 8, 2021, 9:20 PM
26 points
3 comments60 min readLW link

Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

QuinnApr 8, 2021, 7:25 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Homeo­static Bruce

matejsuchyApr 8, 2021, 7:13 PM
13 points
8 comments10 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

A pos­si­ble prefer­ence algorithm

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2021, 6:25 PM
22 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

If you don’t de­sign for ex­trap­o­la­tion, you’ll ex­trap­o­late poorly—pos­si­bly fatally

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2021, 6:10 PM
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Statis­ti­cal Inference

Rafael HarthApr 8, 2021, 5:49 PM
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link