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Hammertime Final Exam: Pledges, Activation Energy and Evaluating Productivity

Towards_Keeperhood20 Jun 2021 23:59 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why did the UK switch to a 12 week dosing schedule for COVID-19 vaccines?

Eli Tyre20 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC

30 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Irrational Modesty

Tomás B.20 Jun 2021 19:38 UTC

142 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Arguments against constructivism (in education)?

Viliam20 Jun 2021 13:49 UTC

18 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe Antivirals aren’t a Useful Priority for Pandemics?

Davidmanheim20 Jun 2021 10:04 UTC

24 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

10 Deadly Viruses And Bacteria Created In Labs − 6 SARS 2.0

ChristianKl19 Jun 2021 22:29 UTC

14 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(listverse.com)

Visualizing in 5 dimensions

TekhneMakre19 Jun 2021 18:15 UTC

16 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Questions about multivitamins, especially manganese

ryan_greenblatt19 Jun 2021 16:09 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Parameter counts in Machine Learning

Jsevillamol and Pablo Villalobos

19 Jun 2021 16:04 UTC

47 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Up-to-date advice about what to do upon getting COVID?

DanielFilan19 Jun 2021 2:37 UTC

31 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why did no LessWrong discourse on gain of function research develop in 2013/2014?

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 23:35 UTC

56 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Knowledge is not just precipitation of action

Alex Flint18 Jun 2021 23:26 UTC

21 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on War: Grand Strategy

johnswentworth18 Jun 2021 22:55 UTC

55 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Conditional offers and low priors: the problem with 1-boxing Newcomb’s dilemma

Andrew Vlahos18 Jun 2021 21:50 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are examples of the opposite of perverse incentives?

JohnGreer18 Jun 2021 16:04 UTC

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Assume long serving politicians are rationally maximizing their careers

Tim Liptrot18 Jun 2021 15:15 UTC

18 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Are bread crusts healthier?

Yair Halberstadt18 Jun 2021 15:12 UTC

13 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Non-poisonous cake: anthropic updates are normal

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jun 2021 14:51 UTC

27 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Fauci’s Emails and the Lab Leak Hypothesis

ChristianKl18 Jun 2021 13:55 UTC

53 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

You can now apply to EA Funds anytime! (LTFF & EAIF only)

Jonas V18 Jun 2021 13:40 UTC

41 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Biotech to make humans afraid of AI

Donald Hobson18 Jun 2021 8:19 UTC

−20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

A Reason to Expect Republics to Perform Better than Absolute Monarchies in the Long-Term

MikkW17 Jun 2021 22:22 UTC

9 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on a “Sequences Inspired” PhD Topic

goose00017 Jun 2021 20:36 UTC

7 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Pros and cons of working on near-term technical AI safety and assurance

Aryeh Englander17 Jun 2021 20:17 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What is your coronavirus prediction for Israel?

Yair Halberstadt17 Jun 2021 19:10 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 6/17: One Last Scare

Zvi17 Jun 2021 18:40 UTC

86 points

42 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The aducanumab approval

ChristianKl17 Jun 2021 14:05 UTC

18 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.sciencemag.org)

Who wants to run a B2B SaaS startup?

jefftk17 Jun 2021 13:40 UTC

12 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Apprentice Thread

Zvi17 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC

139 points

59 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet

rogersbacon17 Jun 2021 12:22 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

How to make errands fun

dominicq17 Jun 2021 11:27 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

348 points

33 comments8 min readLW link 3 reviews

Washington DC Meeetup: Reading Discussion

rocurley16 Jun 2021 23:54 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC

5 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Variables Don’t Represent The Physical World (And That’s OK)

johnswentworth16 Jun 2021 19:05 UTC

42 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #152]: How we’ve overestimated few-shot learning capabilities

Rohin Shah16 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC

22 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Announcing the Nuclear Risk Forecasting Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC

16 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

AI-Based Code Generation Using GPT-J-6B

Tomás B.16 Jun 2021 15:05 UTC

21 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(minimaxir.com)

Insufficient Values

Jozdien, Jacob Abraham and Abraham Francis

16 Jun 2021 14:33 UTC

31 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Reward Is Not Enough

Steven Byrnes16 Jun 2021 13:52 UTC

120 points

19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Open problem: how can we quantify player alignment in 2x2 normal-form games?

TurnTrout16 Jun 2021 2:09 UTC

23 points

59 comments1 min readLW link

Three Paths to Existential Risk from AI

harsimony16 Jun 2021 1:37 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Unbundling Humans, or, Unbundling Human Creation.

Sajith Pai16 Jun 2021 0:03 UTC

10 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Escaping the Löbian Obstacle

Morgan_Rogers16 Jun 2021 0:02 UTC

14 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Can someone help me understand the arrow of time?

Yair Halberstadt15 Jun 2021 17:26 UTC

6 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If instead of giving out dividends, public companies bought total market index funds, which companies would be the biggest?

Mati_Roy15 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Vignettes Workshop (AI Impacts)

Daniel Kokotajlo15 Jun 2021 12:05 UTC

47 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Stanford EA Confusion Dinner

Jack R15 Jun 2021 10:49 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bookclub Discussion: The Precipice (Intro + Chap. 1 − 2) (1/4)

Aditya Kedia15 Jun 2021 5:12 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Knowledge is not just digital abstraction layers

Alex Flint15 Jun 2021 3:49 UTC

21 points

4 comments5 min readLW link