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Issue #143: Full List
20 December, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
FHI paper published in Science: interventions against COVID-19 // SoerenMind, 3 min
Covid 12/17: The First Dose // Zvi, 23 min
We desperately need to talk more about human challenge trials. // AllAmericanBreakfast, 5 min
# Instrumental
To listen well, get curious // benkuhn, 5 min
On Reflection // neel-nanda-1, 15 min
Hard work is irritating // Oldmanrahul, 4 min
# Epistemic
Debugging the student // adamzerner, 5 min
What confusions do people have about simulacrum levels? // johnswentworth, 1 min
Bad reductionism // adamzerner, 3 min
Do I have to trust past experience because past experience tells me that? // znajd, 1 min
Social Proof, But of What? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Ai
Extrapolating GPT-N performance // Lanrian, 29 min
How long till Inverse AlphaFold? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable // George3d6, 18 min
Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity in AI takeoff scenarios // evhub, 4 min
[link] The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
The Power of Annealing // meanderingmoose, 5 min
What are the best precedents for industries failing to invest in valuable AI research? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
All GPT skills are translation // p.b., 2 min
Updating the Roadmap to Whole Brain Emulation Part 6: NEURAL MODELING - Patient Specific Selection, Fitting and Validation // oge, 1 min
Judging AGI Output // meredev, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Duty // David_Gross, 5 min
Notes on Dignity // David_Gross, 8 min
Notes on Courtesy // David_Gross, 7 min
# Longevity
Genetic magic // KatjaGrace, 1 min
# Anthropic
Which sources do you trust the most on nutrition advice for exercise? // jacobjacob, 1 min
# Decision theory
Motive Ambiguity // Zvi, 5 min Favorite
Two Explorations // alkjash, 10 min
Decision-Making and Accountability // Ian David Moss, 5 min
Adapting to Means Testing // jkaufman, 2 min
Re Privacy Wars, Sue For Peace // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Probability theory implies Occam's razor // maxwell-peterson, 7 min
Less Basic Inframeasure Theory // Diffractor, 89 min
LBIT Proofs 1: Propositions 1-9 // Diffractor, 40 min
LBIT Proofs 2: Propositions 10-18 // Diffractor, 39 min
LBIT Proofs 3: Propositions 19-22 // Diffractor, 41 min
LBIT Proofs 4: Propositions 22-28 // Diffractor, 36 min
LBIT Proofs 5: Propositions 29-38 // Diffractor, 39 min
LBIT Proofs 6: Propositions 39-47 // Diffractor, 40 min
LBIT Proofs 7: Propositions 48-52 // Diffractor, 33 min
LBIT Proofs 8: Propositions 53-58 // Diffractor, 34 min
# Books
It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions // Ian David Moss, 6 min
# Community
LessWrong/EA New Year's Ultra Party // Ruby, 1 min
Some things I’m looking forward to in 2021: probable post-pandemic edition // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Pseudorandomness contest, Round 1 // UnexpectedValues, 3 min
Thread for making 2019 Review accountability commitments // jacobjacob, 2 min
Theasauring // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Blog plant // KatjaGrace, 1 min
# Art
The wild // KatjaGrace, 2 min
# Misc
No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid // mikkel-wilson, 9 min
What is it good for? But actually? // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Why I love stand up comedy // adamzerner, 2 min
Ideal Chess - drop chess perfected // mikkel-wilson, 7 min
Opposite attractions // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Writing tools for tabooing? // abramdemski, 1 min
Incentivizing forecasting via social media // wallowinmaya, 1 min
How to Compliment // less_penguiny, 1 min
Reliable & Private Physical Identity? // Robin Hanson, 11 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 8 // lsusr, 2 min
Hermione Granger and Newcomb's Paradox // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Can An AI Design Our Tax Policy? ? // Two Minute Papers, 5 min
Can An AI Design Our Tax Policy? ? // Two Minute Papers, 5 min