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[Part 1] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – Models of impact and challenges

jacobjacob, ozziegooen, Elizabeth, NunoSempere and bgold

19 Dec 2019 15:50 UTC

55 points

29 comments17 min readLW link

Self-Blinded Caffeine RCT

niplav27 Jun 2023 12:38 UTC

42 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Randomized Zettelkasten Test

Josephine21 Jul 2021 17:21 UTC

32 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

adamShimi7 Mar 2022 12:01 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Long Covid Informal Study Results

Elizabeth16 Oct 2021 7:10 UTC

43 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Rationality Market Research

Raemon14 Jul 2011 19:41 UTC

79 points

86 comments7 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Definitive confirmation of shard theory

TurnTrout1 Apr 2023 7:27 UTC

161 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Self-Blinded L-Theanine RCT

niplav31 Oct 2023 15:24 UTC

50 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Positly covid survey 2: controlled productivity data

KatjaGrace4 Feb 2022 7:30 UTC

15 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Extrapolating from Five Words

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Nov 2023 23:21 UTC

37 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Please Bet On My Quantified Self Decision Markets

niplav1 Dec 2023 20:07 UTC

25 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Should I buy roofies from the darknet?

Malmesbury22 Apr 2022 15:40 UTC

13 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Experiment: Does Working More Hours Increase My Output?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC

52 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Hyperpalatable Food Hypothesis: A LessWrong Study?

BDay23 Jan 2022 5:43 UTC

23 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

Loose thoughts on AGI risk

Yitz23 Jun 2022 1:02 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Smoke without fire is scary

Adam Jermyn4 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC

51 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on an Experiment with Markets

Jeffrey Heninger23 Nov 2022 16:10 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

[Question] Do You Have an Internal Monologue?

belkarx9 Dec 2022 3:04 UTC

23 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Does GPT-4 exhibit agency when summarizing articles?

Christopher King24 Mar 2023 15:49 UTC

16 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

More experiments in GPT-4 agency: writing memos

Christopher King24 Mar 2023 17:51 UTC

5 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Go flash blinking lights at printed text right now

lukehmiles5 Nov 2023 7:29 UTC

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Simple experiments with deceptive alignment

Andreas_Moe15 May 2023 17:41 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Existentially relevant thought experiment: To kill or not to kill, a sniper, a man and a button.

AlexFromSafeTransition14 Aug 2023 10:53 UTC

−18 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Solving Math Problems by Relay

bgold and Owain_Evans

17 Jul 2020 15:32 UTC

103 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

Better thinking through experiential games

Morendil23 Oct 2009 12:59 UTC

32 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011

Psychohistorian6 May 2011 18:10 UTC

35 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

[link]Mass replication of Psychology articles planed.

beoShaffer18 Apr 2012 16:13 UTC

41 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Experiment: a good researcher is hard to find

gwern30 Apr 2012 17:13 UTC

51 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Self-experiment Protocol: Effect of Chocolate on Sleep

AspiringRationalist22 Jul 2019 3:32 UTC

30 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Experiments and Consent

jefftk10 Nov 2019 14:50 UTC

30 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Rationality and playfulness

DirectedEvolution12 Sep 2020 5:14 UTC

42 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Memorizing a Deck of Cards

Tofly16 Sep 2020 1:31 UTC

27 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Friedman’s “Prediction vs. Explanation”

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2008 6:15 UTC

9 points

79 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)

Participating in a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial #3: I Hope I feel Worse Tomorrow

ejacob5 Mar 2021 0:02 UTC

8 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Experimental longtermism: theory needs data

Jan_Kulveit and technicalities

24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC

52 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Preregistration: Air Conditioner Test

johnswentworth21 Apr 2022 19:48 UTC

112 points

59 comments9 min readLW link

Ten experiments in modularity, which we’d like you to run!

CallumMcDougall, Lucius Bushnaq and Avery

16 Jun 2022 9:17 UTC

62 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Air Conditioner Test Results & Discussion

johnswentworth22 Jun 2022 22:26 UTC

82 points

41 comments6 min readLW link

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