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Issue #107: Full List
12 April, 2020 // View curated list
The COVID-19 lockdown makes people spend more time in bed, report lower sleep quality, and experience time dilatation. // psyarxiv.com
# Coronavirus
On R0 // Zvi, 19 min
An alarm bell for the next pandemic // AllAmericanBreakfast, 8 min
COVID-19 response as XRisk intervention // tyleralterman, 5 min
Ways you can get sick without human contact // Connor_Flexman, 7 min
Hanson & Mowshowitz Debate: COVID-19 Variolation // Ben Pace, 96 min
Would 2009 H1N1 (Swine Flu) ring the alarm bell? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
What is the impact of varying initial viral load of COVID-19? // Elizabeth, 1 min
How strong is the evidence for hydroxychloroquine? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
COVID-19: List of ideas to reduce the direct harm from the virus, with an emphasis on unusual ideas // JustinShovelain, 7 min
LW Coronavirus Agenda Update 4/6 // Elizabeth, 1 min
Why don't we have active human trials with inactivated SARS-COV-2? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What is going on in Singapore and the Philippines? // jmh, 1 min
How do you do fit-testing for KN95/N95/FFP2/FFP3 masks? // ChristianKl, 1 min
COVID-19 and the US Elections // jmh, 1 min
Would 2014-2016 Ebola ring the alarm bell? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
How do you determine temperature cutoffs for women's body-temperature? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Testing and contact tracing impact assessment model? // JustinShovelain, 1 min
What are the Nth Order Effects of the Coronavirus? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
What is the maximum number of COVID-19 tests which could be performed until the end of the year? // Roko Jelavić, 1 min
App-Based Disease Surveillance After COVID-19 // RedMan, 1 min
Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative // Scott Alexander, 13 min
Variolation Test Design // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Pandemic Dashboard: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Reply to Cowen On Variolation // Robin Hanson, 8 min
Discussion about COVID-19 non-scientific origins considered harmful // dyokomizo, 2 min
# Instrumental
What Surprised Me About Entrepreneurship // lsusr, 6 min
Ethernet Is Worth It For Video Calls // jkaufman, 2 min
[U.S. Specific] Free money (~$5k-$30k) for Independent Contractors and grant recipients from U.S. government // elityre, habryka, 7 min
Self-priming // Connor_Flexman, 3 min
Seeking opinions on the pros and cons of various telepresence tools // mingyuan, 1 min
# Epistemic
How to evaluate (50%) predictions // Rafael Harth, 10 min Favorite
The One Mistake Rule // Zvi, 2 min
The Sandwich Argument // Chris_Leong, 1 min
The Value Is In the Tails // fylo, 1 min
Hydroxychloroquine: the day science stopped // Filipe Marchesini, 3 min
Being right isn't enough. Confidence is very important. // MakoYass, 1 min
Problems with p-values // lifelonglearner, 1 min
Truth value as magnitude of predictions // George, 18 min
# Ai
Looking for AGI philosopher co-author on Draft Article: 'Optimising Peace to Constrain Risk of War from an Artificial Superintelligence' // JohnCDraper, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Choosing the Zero Point // orthonormal, 3 min Favorite
Why I'm Not Vegan // jkaufman, 2 min
# Decision theory
An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions // abramdemski, 10 min
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games // Nisan, 2 min
An extra way to gain from multiverse-wide cooperation // Sublation, 2 min
# Community
Assessing Kurzweil's 1999 predictions for 2019 // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects // Martin Sustrik, 5 min
Confessions of a Transhumanist: On Life in Known Space // Hivewired, 1 min
Mozilla Hubs Virtual Meetup 10:30 PDT, April 19th // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min
2019 Predictions: Calibration Results // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Culture war
In Defense of Politics // ChristianKl, 8 min
# Misc
Transportation as a Constraint // johnswentworth, 7 min Favorite
Curiosity: A Greedy Feeling // AllAmericanBreakfast, 11 min
Life as metaphor for everything else. // Charlie Steiner, 5 min
Organizing a Group Buy of Flour // jkaufman, 2 min
Law school taught me nothing // ketchupduck, 8 min
What We Owe to Ourselves // Evan Huus, 8 min
The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion, Part 1 // Jacobian, 11 min
The Past is Non-Deterministic // lsusr, 1 min
Kids Ear Protection // jkaufman, 1 min
Open thread: Language // Chris_Leong, 1 min
A Formal Justification of Emotions // Abe Dillon, 3 min
Zoom's security is not that bad // lc, 4 min
What should I study to understand real-world economics? (I.e., To gain financial literacy) // Rudi C, 1 min
SSCJC: Real World Depression Measurement // Scott Alexander, 5 min
Never Tell Me The Odds (Ratio) // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Podcasts
English summaries of German Covid-19 expert podcast // Chi Nguyen, 2 min
#196 — The Science of Happiness // Waking up with Sam Harris, 59 min
108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 127 min
#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything // Waking up with Sam Harris, 68 min
# Videos of the week
This AI Makes "Audio Deepfakes" // Two Minute Papers, 5 min