jimrandomh(Jim Babcock)

Karma: 20,138

LessWrong developer, rationalist since the Overcoming Bias days. Jargon connoisseur.

[Link] Still Alive—Astral Codex Ten

jimrandomh21 Jan 2021 23:20 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

jimrandomh10 Sep 2010 2:22 UTC

136 points

164 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong Now Has Dark Mode

jimrandomh10 May 2022 1:21 UTC

134 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Will COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting disability at a high rate?

jimrandomh11 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC

134 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

jimrandomh19 Sep 2012 16:19 UTC

125 points

311 comments1 min readLW link

A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic

jimrandomh14 Mar 2020 5:52 UTC

119 points

22 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

History’s Biggest Natural Experiment

jimrandomh24 Mar 2020 2:56 UTC

104 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

LW Beta Feature: Side-Comments

jimrandomh24 Nov 2022 1:55 UTC

103 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread With Experimental Feature: Reactions

jimrandomh24 May 2023 16:46 UTC

101 points

189 comments3 min readLW link

Salvage Epistemology

jimrandomh30 Apr 2022 2:10 UTC

96 points

119 comments1 min readLW link

Attributions, Karma and better discoverability for wiki/tag features

jimrandomh and habryka

2 Jun 2021 23:47 UTC

93 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon

jimrandomh13 Oct 2022 6:25 UTC

92 points

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Karma-Change Notifications

jimrandomh2 Mar 2019 2:52 UTC

91 points

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Support That Sounds Like Dissent

jimrandomh20 Mar 2009 22:28 UTC

86 points

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[Link] Musk’s non-missing mood

jimrandomh12 Jul 2021 22:09 UTC

70 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(lukemuehlhauser.com)

Effectiveness of Fever-Screening Will Decline

jimrandomh6 Mar 2020 23:00 UTC

69 points

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Infohazards vs Fork Hazards

jimrandomh5 Jan 2023 9:45 UTC

68 points

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[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC

64 points

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COVID-19′s Household Secondary Attack Rate Is Unknown

jimrandomh16 Mar 2020 23:19 UTC

63 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 22:27 UTC

56 points

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