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Issue #103: Full List
15 March, 2020 // View curated 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
More Dakka for Coronavirus: We need immediate human trials of many vaccine-candidates and simultaneous manufacturing of all of them // avturchin, 2 min
When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations // Benquo, 8 min
The Critical COVID-19 Infections Are About To Occur: It's Time To Stay Home [crosspost] // Impassionata, 2 min
Potential High-Leverage and Inexpensive Mitigations (which are still feasible) for Pandemics // Davidmanheim, 3 min
Stepping Up Isolation // jkaufman, 3 min
Ineffective Response to COVID-19 and Risk Compensation // Davidmanheim, 1 min
How useful are masks during an epidemic? // Elizabeth, 1 min
COVID-19 article translations site aims to bridge the knowledge gap // Mike Stop Continues, 1 min
A practical out-of-the-box solution to slow down COVID-19: Turn up the heat // Alex_Shleizer, 2 min
Model estimating the number of infected persons in the bay area // elityre, 5 min
Over $1,000,000 in prizes for COVID-19 work from Emergent Ventures // jasoncrawford, 1 min
Recommendations for a resource on very basic epidemiology? // elityre, 1 min
Possible worst outcomes of the coronavirus epidemic // avturchin, 1 min
What is the typical course of COVID-19? What are the variants? // Elizabeth, 1 min
How dangerous is it to test a vaccine without animal trials? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
What is the best way to disinfect a (rental) car? // elityre, 1 min
Why isn't increasing ventilation of public spaces part of the best practice response to the Coronovirus? // ChristianKl, 1 min
At what level of coronavirus cases in a population should the people in that population start self-quarantining? // Jeremy Hadfield, 1 min
The Danes wish to know more about the coronavirus // Ruby, 1 min
How's the case for wearing googles for COVID-19 protection when in public transportation? // ChristianKl, 1 min
How likely is it that US states or cities will prevent travel across their boarders? // elityre, 1 min
How do risks differ between locations? (re: Coronavirus) // jacobjacob, 1 min
Coronavirus tests and probability // skybrian, 1 min
Why would panic during this coronavirus pandemic be a bad thing? // adamzerner, 1 min
Estimated risk of death by coronavirus for a healthy 30 year old male ~ 1/190 // Roko Jelavić, 3 min
Ignoring Country Cohorts // baken, 1 min
Help me with bayesian thinking re:coronavirus? // hereisonehand, 1 min
Expose The Young // Robin Hanson, 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
The absurdity of un-referenceable entities // jessicata, 4 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
Why don't singularitarians bet on the creation of AGI by buying stocks? // John_Maxwell, 4 min
Why hasn't the technology of Knowledge Representation (i.e., semantic networks, concept graphs, ontology engineering) been applied to create tools to help human thinkers? // Polytopos, 1 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