Software Tools

TagLast edit: 12 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC by Kaj_Sotala

Specific pieces of software (downloadable or cloud/browser-based) that may be of interest to people on this site. The focus is on software with a practical application: for games, see Gaming (videogames/tabletop).

Clipboard Filtering

jefftk14 Apr 2024 20:50 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Selection of Randomly Selected SAE Features

CallumMcDougall and Joseph Bloom

1 Apr 2024 9:09 UTC

104 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Announcing Neuronpedia: Platform for accelerating research into Sparse Autoencoders

Johnny Lin and Joseph Bloom

25 Mar 2024 21:17 UTC

86 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Community Notes by X

NicholasKees18 Mar 2024 17:13 UTC

121 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

On Devin

Zvi18 Mar 2024 13:20 UTC

147 points

30 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

If you weren’t such an idiot...

kave and Mark Xu

2 Mar 2024 0:01 UTC

111 points

59 comments2 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Fatebook for Chrome: Make and embed forecasts anywhere on the web

Adam B and Sage Future

16 Feb 2024 16:08 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Forecast your 2024 with Fatebook

Sage Future5 Jan 2024 14:07 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(fatebook.io)

Implicitly Typed C

jefftk11 Dec 2023 16:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What do you do to remember and reference the LessWrong posts that were most personally significant to you, in terms of intellectual development or general usefulness?

lillybaeum10 Dec 2023 17:52 UTC

5 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Modeling incentives at scale using LLMs

Bruno Marnette, pzahn and cmck

8 Dec 2023 18:46 UTC

7 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

Detecting What’s Been Seen

jefftk24 Nov 2023 3:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How did you integrate voice-to-text AI into your workflow?

ChristianKl20 Nov 2023 12:01 UTC

28 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

New Tool: the Residual Stream Viewer

AdamYedidia1 Oct 2023 0:49 UTC

32 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(tinyurl.com)

A tool for searching rationalist & EA webs

Daniel_Friedrich29 Sep 2023 15:23 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(ratsearch.blogspot.com)

Feedly Breaks MathML

jefftk25 Sep 2023 13:40 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How ForumMagnum builds communities of inquiry

Jim Fisher4 Sep 2023 16:52 UTC

28 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

How do I read things on the internet

Vlad Sitalo20 Aug 2023 5:43 UTC

16 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(vlad.roam.garden)

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 2 (security)

VipulNaik6 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

6 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

How to make real-money prediction markets on arbitrary topics (Outdated)

yutaka30 Jul 2023 2:11 UTC

57 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Introducing Fatebook: the fastest way to make and track predictions

Adam B and Sage Future

11 Jul 2023 15:28 UTC

127 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

(fatebook.io)

Introducing bayescalc.io

Adele Lopez7 Jul 2023 16:11 UTC

114 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

(bayescalc.io)

How to Search Multiple Websites Quickly

NicholasKross22 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Base Rate Times, news through prediction markets

vandemonian6 Jun 2023 17:42 UTC

267 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

A push towards interactive transformer decoding

R0bk31 May 2023 17:56 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(github.com)

[Question] What features would you like to see in a personal forcasting / prediction tracking app?

regnarg25 May 2023 8:18 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Confido app: bringing forecasting to everyone

regnarg25 May 2023 8:18 UTC

6 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of a GridWorld Agent-Simulator (Part 1 of N)

Joseph Bloom16 May 2023 22:59 UTC

36 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Fatebook for Slack: Track your forecasts, right where your team works

Sage Future and Adam B

11 May 2023 14:11 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

My best system yet: text-based project management

jt2 May 2023 17:44 UTC

6 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Features of Emacs that I only recently discovered

EmacsScrub16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC

12 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What are good alternatives to Predictionbook for personal prediction tracking? Edited: I originally thought it was down but it was just 500 until I though of clearing cookies.

sortega7 Apr 2023 19:18 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

AWS Has Raised Prices Before

jefftk3 Apr 2023 16:00 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Introducing AlignmentSearch: An AI Alignment-Informed Conversional Agent

BionicD0LPH1N, Fraser and TheBayesian

1 Apr 2023 16:39 UTC

79 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Deep folding docs site?

mcint28 Mar 2023 6:01 UTC

−1 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Visualise your own probability of an AI catastrophe: an interactive Sankey plot

MNoetel16 Feb 2023 12:03 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Does the AGPL Work?

jefftk13 Feb 2023 14:20 UTC

13 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Tools for finding information on the internet

RomanHauksson9 Feb 2023 17:05 UTC

78 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(roman.computer)

EigenKarma: trust at scale

Henrik Karlsson8 Feb 2023 18:52 UTC

182 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

How to export Android Chrome tabs to an HTML file in Linux (as of February 2023)

Adam Scherlis2 Feb 2023 2:03 UTC

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(adam.scherlis.com)

Polis: Why and How to Use it

brook1 Feb 2023 14:03 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Loom: Why and How to use it

brook26 Jan 2023 14:34 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Visualisation of Probability Mass

brook25 Jan 2023 15:09 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

ea.domains—Domains Free to a Good Home

plex12 Jan 2023 13:32 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Opening Facebook Links Externally

jefftk4 Jan 2023 19:00 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Localhost Security Messaging

jefftk1 Jan 2023 2:20 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What career advice do you give to software engineers?

Antb31 Dec 2022 12:01 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Logging Shell History in Zsh

jefftk21 Dec 2022 3:30 UTC

19 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Results from a survey on tool use and workflows in alignment research

jacquesthibs, Jan, janus and Logan Riggs

19 Dec 2022 15:19 UTC

79 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

Introducing Shrubgrazer

jefftk16 Dec 2022 14:50 UTC

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Wider Default Audio Player in Chrome?

jefftk12 Dec 2022 3:30 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are your thoughts on the future of AI-assisted software development?

RomanHauksson9 Dec 2022 10:04 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Why I like Zulip instead of Slack or Discord

Alok Singh7 Dec 2022 9:28 UTC

31 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any tools to convert LW sequences to PDF or any other file format?

quetzal_rainbow7 Dec 2022 5:28 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 1 (backups)

VipulNaik27 Nov 2022 18:38 UTC

17 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

User-Controlled Algorithmic Feeds

jefftk12 Nov 2022 15:20 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Lazy Python Argument Parsing

jefftk3 Nov 2022 2:20 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

POWERplay: An open-source toolchain to study AI power-seeking

Edouard Harris24 Oct 2022 20:03 UTC

27 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

Is GitHub Copilot in legal trouble?

tcelferact18 Oct 2022 16:19 UTC

35 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

New tool for exploring EA Forum, LessWrong and Alignment Forum—Tree of Tags

Filip Sondej13 Sep 2022 17:33 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: Github Copilot productivity experiment

Daniel Kokotajlo8 Sep 2022 4:41 UTC

88 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(github.blog)

History of Zero-based Months?

jefftk24 Aug 2022 20:30 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Time-logging programs and/or spreadsheets (2022)

mikbp31 Jul 2022 18:18 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Building an Epistemic Status Tracker

rcu22 Jun 2022 18:57 UTC

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Favourite new AI productivity tools?

Gabriel Mukobi15 Jun 2022 1:08 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Show LW: YodaTimer.com

Adam Zerner11 Jun 2022 8:52 UTC

27 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS

CallumMcDougall12 Apr 2022 8:28 UTC

36 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

Roam Research Mobile is Out!

Logan Riggs8 Apr 2022 19:05 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A spreadsheet/template for doing an annual review

peterslattery22 Dec 2021 23:29 UTC

12 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Ordering yourself around with an app

bfinn7 Dec 2021 0:49 UTC

9 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftk3 Dec 2021 19:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

App and book recommendations for people who want to be happier and more productive

KatWoods6 Nov 2021 17:40 UTC

137 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

Designing Low Upkeep Software

jefftk25 Sep 2021 18:50 UTC

38 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Auto-Downloder Chrome Extension

jefftk19 Sep 2021 1:30 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Best Software For Every Need

Tomás B.10 Sep 2021 2:40 UTC

173 points

220 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Tasks apps w/ time estimates to gauge how much you’ll overshoot?

emily.fan7 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How does your data backup solution setup work?

ChristianKl6 Sep 2021 9:10 UTC

12 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

The Codex Skeptic FAQ

Michaël Trazzi24 Aug 2021 16:01 UTC

49 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

A Better Web is Coming

matto21 Aug 2021 20:46 UTC

34 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

AI Safety Papers: An App for the TAI Safety Database

ozziegooen21 Aug 2021 2:02 UTC

81 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Request for comment on a novel reference work of understanding

ender12 Aug 2021 0:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Compositionality: SQL and Subways

DanB19 Jul 2021 5:37 UTC

30 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

A (somewhat beta) site for embedding betting odds in your writing

Optimization Process2 Jul 2021 1:10 UTC

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(biatob.com)

[Question] Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?

Siddhartha Gautama27 May 2021 8:20 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Kids NCurses Messenger

jefftk22 May 2021 17:50 UTC

40 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A DIY cryptocurrency hardware wallet for free

jorges10 Apr 2021 17:36 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Vim

lsusr7 Apr 2021 6:35 UTC

48 points

57 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] What’s a good way to test basic machine learning code?

Kenny11 Mar 2021 21:27 UTC

5 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Wordtune review

KatjaGrace26 Jan 2021 9:40 UTC

52 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

CollAction history and lessons learned

Ron17 Jan 2021 15:01 UTC

34 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

What I Learned From Running a Pol.is Conversation

hamnox5 Jan 2021 0:14 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] [Meta?] Using the LessWrong codebase for a blog

George3d620 Dec 2020 3:05 UTC

19 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Writing tools for tabooing?

abramdemski13 Dec 2020 19:50 UTC

15 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does there exist a detailed Bayesian COVID tracker?

Optimization Process12 Nov 2020 5:06 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Bucket Brigade Singing

jefftk3 Nov 2020 15:40 UTC

41 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Notebook for generating forecasting bets

Amandango26 Sep 2020 20:36 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Design thoughts for building a better kind of social space with many webs of trust

mako yass6 Sep 2020 2:08 UTC

54 points

41 comments11 min readLW link

(makopool.com)

Multivariate estimation & the Squiggly language

ozziegooen5 Sep 2020 4:35 UTC

44 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If there were an interactive software teaching Yudkowskian rationality, what concepts would you want to see it teach?

MikkW2 Sep 2020 5:37 UTC

25 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

microCOVID.org: A tool to estimate COVID risk from common activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

169 points

36 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(microcovid.org)

Tools for keeping focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC

128 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

How I use Google Forms in my Workflow

Harri Besceli26 Jul 2020 12:17 UTC

34 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

We’ve built Connected Papers—a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC

209 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] LW-related iOS Shortcuts?

JasperGeh25 Mar 2020 12:08 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there software for goal factoring?

philip_b18 Feb 2020 19:55 UTC

11 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes-Up: An App for Sharing Bayesian-MCQ

Louis Faucon6 Feb 2020 19:01 UTC

53 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

How time tracking can help you prioritize

lynettebye16 Dec 2019 17:07 UTC

32 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Why “Referer”?

jefftk23 Oct 2019 13:40 UTC

27 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Invisible Choices, Made by Default

lsusr20 Oct 2019 2:09 UTC

54 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Archiving Yahoo Groups

jefftk18 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC

43 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Introducing Foretold.io: A New Open-Source Prediction Registry

ozziegooen16 Oct 2019 14:23 UTC

79 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Tiddlywiki for organizing notes and research

eukaryote1 Sep 2019 18:44 UTC

42 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[Question] What is your Personal Knowledge Management system?

sayan16 Jul 2019 20:20 UTC

22 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are good practices for using Google Scholar to research answers to LessWrong Questions?

Pee Doom18 May 2019 21:44 UTC

28 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaik5 May 2019 15:21 UTC

33 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV?

bgold26 Apr 2019 17:29 UTC

25 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What LessWrong/Rationality/EA chat-servers exist that newcomers can join?

habryka31 Mar 2019 3:30 UTC

61 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing predictions

Nathan Galt28 Mar 2019 21:01 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Ideas for a fact checking widget

Yoav Ravid18 Mar 2019 14:25 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Ideas for an action coordination website

Yoav Ravid8 Mar 2019 13:32 UTC

20 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

Visualizing the power of multiple step selection processes in JS: Galton’s bean machine

gwern12 Jan 2019 17:58 UTC

27 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Internet Search Tips: how I use Google/Google Scholar/Libgen

gwern12 Dec 2018 14:50 UTC

51 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Less to Greater, Bookmarklet Edition

Three-Monkey Mind11 Oct 2018 4:21 UTC

19 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.threemonkeymind.com)

Does anyone use advanced media projects?

ryan_b20 Jun 2018 23:33 UTC

33 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

5-minute timer tool

Gust5 May 2018 15:58 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(gusbicalho.github.io)

Editor Mini-Guide

Ben Pace11 Mar 2018 20:58 UTC

22 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

How I see knowledge aggregation

zulupineapple3 Feb 2018 10:31 UTC

24 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Arbital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC

227 points

110 comments19 min readLW link

A List Of Questions & Exercises For Reviewing Your Year

Krishaan Khubchand29 Dec 2017 12:59 UTC

18 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Show LW: Diaspora Project Map and Preregistration Database

namespace5 Dec 2017 6:02 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Wikipedia pageviews: still in decline

VipulNaik26 Sep 2017 23:03 UTC

24 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Ten small life improvements

paulfchristiano20 Aug 2017 19:09 UTC

39 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast1 May 2016 22:14 UTC

65 points

30 comments21 min readLW link

Less Wrong Karma Chart Website

ScottL15 Feb 2016 12:36 UTC

36 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob Falkovich3 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC

41 points

67 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong Study Hall: Now With 100% Less Tinychat

MalcolmOcean9 Nov 2015 0:25 UTC

39 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Predict—“Log your predictions” app

Gust17 Aug 2015 16:20 UTC

26 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong EBook Creator

ScottL13 Aug 2015 21:17 UTC

62 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Jul 2015 22:30 UTC

175 points

26 comments13 min readLW link

The great decline in Wikipedia pageviews (condensed version)

VipulNaik27 Mar 2015 14:02 UTC

27 points

11 comments27 min readLW link

A map of LWers—find members of the community living near you.

acchan13 Mar 2015 17:58 UTC

48 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Exploring Botworld

So8res30 Apr 2014 22:29 UTC

34 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Recommendation request: Budgeting/accounting software for a non-profit

XFrequentist29 Jan 2014 15:16 UTC

2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Interactive Infographic on Simpson’s Paradox

Antisuji20 Sep 2013 17:37 UTC

39 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Best causal/dependency diagram software for fluid capture?

Arkanj3l8 Apr 2013 19:20 UTC

2 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Anki decks by LW users

Pablo2 Apr 2013 17:50 UTC

44 points

60 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: Self-Improving Task Management Software

rlp1027 Feb 2013 13:04 UTC

19 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

My workflow

paulfchristiano9 Dec 2012 21:16 UTC

64 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Request] Software or Articles on financial life planning

whpearson16 Mar 2012 19:06 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Hacking Less Wrong made easy: Vagrant edition

Morendil30 Jan 2012 18:51 UTC

44 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

PredictionBook: A Short Note

Jayson_Virissimo10 Nov 2011 15:10 UTC

31 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds

dreeves10 Oct 2011 2:09 UTC

80 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

Software tools for efficient scholarship

lukeprog15 Sep 2011 0:17 UTC

12 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.

AdeleneDawner22 May 2011 9:37 UTC

79 points

80 comments2 min readLW link

Software for Critical Thinking, Prof. Geoff Cumming

Mike Bishop30 Mar 2011 17:13 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Algorithm for (Human) Self-Modification

moridinamael29 Mar 2011 23:40 UTC

37 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Life-tracking application for android

Alexei11 Dec 2010 1:48 UTC

26 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

A suggestion on how to get people to read the Sequences

AdeleneDawner25 Oct 2010 19:21 UTC

43 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Power Tools

Nic_Smith19 Sep 2010 6:20 UTC

27 points

67 comments6 min readLW link

Debate tools: an experience report

Morendil5 Feb 2010 14:47 UTC

51 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

PredictionBook.com—Track your calibration

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2009 0:08 UTC

41 points

53 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Brain is Located Externally

Alicorn25 Jun 2009 22:29 UTC

32 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

Positive Bias Test (C++ program)

MBlume19 May 2009 21:32 UTC

30 points

79 comments4 min readLW link

How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight [Anti-akrasia]

dreeves18 Apr 2009 20:05 UTC

28 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

Software tools for community truth-seeking

Johnicholas10 Mar 2009 13:20 UTC

2 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

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