What am I fight­ing for?

Quinn20 Apr 2021 23:27 UTC
12 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of In­ner Align­ment Obstacles

abramdemski20 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC
80 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

Thiel on se­crets and indefiniteness

Rob Bensinger20 Apr 2021 21:59 UTC
58 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Why “put down your phone and go out­side” is Bad Ad­vice.

madilynHex20 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Hard vs Soft in fields as at­ti­tudes to­wards model collision

J Bostock20 Apr 2021 18:57 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Young kids catch­ing COVID: how much to worry?

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2021 18:03 UTC
55 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruth20 Apr 2021 17:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Crack­pot Physics: Issues

ACrackedPot20 Apr 2021 17:07 UTC
−1 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Types of generalism

Nora_Ammann20 Apr 2021 8:22 UTC
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does an app/​group for per­sonal fore­cast­ing ex­ist?

DirectedEvolution20 Apr 2021 5:04 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Ad­vice for High School #1

lsusr20 Apr 2021 4:09 UTC
93 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Iter­ated Trust Kickstarters

Raemon20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
74 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

Quick ex­am­i­na­tion of miles per micro­mort for US drivers, with ad­just­ments for safety-in­creas­ing behavior

Josh Jacobson19 Apr 2021 23:19 UTC
44 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

How can we in­crease the fre­quency of rare in­sights?

MichaelDickens19 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
19 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Wanted: Re­search As­sis­tant for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford19 Apr 2021 19:03 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

You Can Now Embed Flash­card Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!

spencerg19 Apr 2021 13:44 UTC
57 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci April 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic19 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
44 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Pa­ram­e­ter count of ML sys­tems through time?

Jsevillamol19 Apr 2021 12:54 UTC
31 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­lems of evil

Joe Carlsmith19 Apr 2021 8:06 UTC
29 points
16 comments17 min readLW link

the fat baker principle

faint reminder19 Apr 2021 7:58 UTC
−6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Bel­l­man’s Curse on Advice

nibnalin19 Apr 2021 2:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are there good classes (or just ar­ti­cles) on blog writ­ing?

Brendan Long19 Apr 2021 1:10 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing the Lot­tery Ticket Hypothesis

johnswentworth18 Apr 2021 21:45 UTC
73 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Anger

lsusr18 Apr 2021 16:14 UTC
34 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Ris­ing rents and ap­pro­pri­ate responses

dominicq18 Apr 2021 14:05 UTC
10 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

The hour I first alieved

matejsuchy17 Apr 2021 17:02 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

Defin­ing “op­ti­mizer”

Chantiel17 Apr 2021 15:38 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view and policy dis­cus­sion: di­ver­sity and complexity

victorsintnicolaas17 Apr 2021 11:36 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How long should I de­lay my sec­ond shot?

purge17 Apr 2021 8:51 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Net­works of Meaning

Erich_Grunewald17 Apr 2021 7:30 UTC
21 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] Are there any good ways to place a bet on Rad­i­calXChange and/​or re­lated ideas/​mechanisms tak­ing off in a big way? e.g. is there some­thing to in­vest $$$ in?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)17 Apr 2021 6:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alex Flint on “A soft­ware en­g­ineer’s per­spec­tive on log­i­cal in­duc­tion”

Raemon17 Apr 2021 6:56 UTC
21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

All is fair in love and war, on Zero-sum games in life

Ratios17 Apr 2021 2:11 UTC
−6 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fan17 Apr 2021 2:10 UTC
22 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What does vac­cine effec­tive­ness as a func­tion of time look like?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)17 Apr 2021 0:36 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could de­googling be a prac­tice run for some­thing more im­por­tant?

Quinn17 Apr 2021 0:03 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ra­tional Agents Kelly Bet In­fluence!

abramdemski16 Apr 2021 22:08 UTC
47 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Most Analo­gies Are Wrong

J Bostock16 Apr 2021 19:53 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

The Scout Mind­set—read-along

weft16 Apr 2021 19:43 UTC
42 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Why has nu­clear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC
144 points
49 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Prophetic Hazard

onur16 Apr 2021 10:09 UTC
−1 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some in­ter­est­ing ex­am­ples of risks mea­sured in micro­morts?

skybrian16 Apr 2021 5:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one know this web­page about Ma­chine Learn­ing?

mukashi16 Apr 2021 1:03 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Place-Based Pro­gram­ming—Part 2 - Functions

lsusr16 Apr 2021 0:25 UTC
14 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] Prospec­tus on Próspera

mike_hawke15 Apr 2021 22:48 UTC
39 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

The Na­tional Dash­board and Hu­man Progress

maxa15 Apr 2021 19:21 UTC
6 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(max2c.com)

[Question] Old post/​writ­ing on op­ti­miza­tion dae­mons?

jbkjr15 Apr 2021 18:00 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Com­put­ing Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions: Lin­ear Approximation

johnswentworth15 Apr 2021 17:47 UTC
41 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

How & when to write a busi­ness plan

bfinn15 Apr 2021 15:45 UTC
13 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

An­drés Gómez Emils­son at the As­tralCodexTen On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox15 Apr 2021 15:36 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link