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Issue #103
15 March, 2020 // View full list# Coronavirus
A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic // jimrandomh, 4 min
What I'm doing to fight Coronavirus // lsusr, 1 min
Growth rate of COVID-19 outbreaks // Bucky, 2 min
Crisis and opportunity during coronavirus // jacobjacob, 5 min
LessWrong Coronavirus Link Database // Elizabeth, habryka, Ben Pace, 1 min
# Epistemic
Puzzles for Physicalists // jessicata, 11 min
What are some articles that updated your beliefs a lot on an important topic? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
A Sketch of Answers for Physicalists // Chris_Leong, 3 min
A conversation on theory of mind, subjectivity, and objectivity // jessicata, 5 min
Analyticity is Determined by Definitions // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Ai
Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits // evhub, 3 min
[Article review] Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment // MichaelA, 12 min
# Anthropic
Adaptive Immune System Aging // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite
The Lens, Progerias and Polycausality // johnswentworth, 3 min
Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon // Hivewired, 1 min
Anthropic effects imply that we are more likely to live in the universe with interstellar panspermia // avturchin, 1 min
# Decision theory
Vulnerabilities in CDT and TI-unaware agents // PabloAMC, Davide_Zagami, Chris_Leong, 4 min
# Math and cs
Trace README // johnswentworth, 9 min
UML final // Rafael Harth, 19 min
Name of Problem? // johnswentworth, 1 min
# Community
I'm leaving AI alignment – you better stay // rmoehn, 5 min
Rationalists, Post-Rationalists, And Rationalist-Adjacents // orthonormal, 3 min
The Heckler's Veto Is Also Subject to the Unilateralist's Curse // Zack_M_Davis, 2 min
Thoughts on LessWrong's Infohazard Policies // Ben Pace, 9 min
# Culture war
Common Useless Objections // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Plot Economics // Venkatesh Rao, 10 min
# Misc
For, Then Against, High-Saturated-Fat Diets // Scott Alexander, 15 min Favorite
What is a School? // Zvi, 1 min
How effective are tulpas? // Raven, 2 min
Please Press "Record" // johnswentworth, 1 min
The Case for Privacy Optimism // bmgarfinkel, 38 min
# Podcasts
#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic // Waking up with Sam Harris, 66 min
106 – Talking to Strangers (with COVID-19) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 141 min
#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 78 min
# Videos of the week
How Singapore Farms Use Artificial Intelligence // CNA Insider, 2 min