This website requires javascript to properly function. Consider activating javascript to get access to all site functionality.
LESSWRONG
LW
Login
Home
All Posts
Concepts
Library
Sequence Highlights
Rationality: A-Z
The Codex
HPMOR
Best Of
Community Events
AISC end of program presentations
Thu Jun 15
•
Online
Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Jul-Aug 2023
Sat Jun 17
•
Online
Argentines LW/SSC/EA/MIRIx - Call to All
Tue Apr 18
•
Online
EA/LW/SSC Argentina First Meeting!
Sun Jun 4
•
Online
Subscribe (RSS/Email)
About
FAQ
All Posts
Sorted by Top
Timeframe:
All time
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
Sorted by:
Magic (New & Upvoted)
Top
Top (Inflation Adjusted)
Recent Comments
New
Old
Filtered by:
All Posts
Frontpage
Curated
Questions
Events
Show Low Karma
Show Events
218
Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread
Q
Ben Pace
,
Elizabeth
,
Connor_Flexman
3y
Q
335
203
Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?
Q
Wei Dai
,
shminux
3y
Q
106
151
What are some beautiful, rationalist artworks?
Q
jacobjacob
,
Raemon
3y
Q
139
149
Where do (did?) stable, cooperative institutions come from?
Q
AnnaSalamon
,
Liron
3y
Q
72
136
LessWrong Coronavirus Agenda
Q
Elizabeth
,
Davidmanheim
3y
Q
65
134
How to Convince my Son that Drugs are Bad
Q
concerned_dad
,
[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien
6mo
Q
83
134
Will COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting disability at a high rate?
Q
jimrandomh
,
Connor_Flexman
3y
Q
11
133
Forecasting Thread: AI Timelines
Q
Ω
Amandango
,
Daniel Kokotajlo
,
Ben Pace
,
datscilly
3y
Q
Ω
97
131
why assume AGIs will optimize for fixed goals?
Q
Ω
nostalgebraist
,
Rob Bensinger
1y
Q
Ω
53
117
How Hard Would It Be To Make A COVID Vaccine For Oneself?
Q
johnswentworth
,
eillasti
2y
Q
29
117
How do we prepare for final crunch time?
Q
Ω
Eli Tyre
,
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
Q
Ω
30
117
What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?
Q
Daniel Kokotajlo
,
ChristianKl
2y
Q
86
114
Why hasn't deep learning generated significant economic value yet?
Q
Alex_Altair
,
gwern
1y
Q
88
112
Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?
Q
Wei Dai
,
Wei Dai
4y
Q
22
110
What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?
Q
Mark Xu
,
blueanchovy
3y
Q
162
107
How to think about and deal with OpenAI
Q
Rafael Harth
,
AnnaSalamon
2y
Q
68
105
($1000 bounty) How effective are marginal vaccine doses against the covid delta variant?
Q
jacobjacob
,
Connor_Flexman
2y
Q
73
104
What makes people intellectually active?
Q
abramdemski
,
Kaj_Sotala
4y
Q
64
103
Why The Focus on Expected Utility Maximisers?
Q
Ω
DragonGod
,
Scott Garrabrant
6mo
Q
Ω
79
100
Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs?
Q
Wei Dai
,
Raemon
4y
Q
22
99
How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?
Q
Ben Pace
,
LiorSuchoy
4y
Q
17
97
How do you optimize productivity with respect to your menstrual cycle?
Q
just_browsing
,
lejuletre
2y
Q
24
94
What are the open problems in Human Rationality?
Q
Raemon
,
Wei Dai
4y
Q
92
94
What is Going On With CFAR?
Q
niplav
,
AnnaSalamon
1y
Q
34
92
Convince me that humanity is as doomed by AGI as Yudkowsky et al., seems to believe
Q
Yitz
,
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1y
Q
141
91
Why aren’t more of us working to prevent AI hell?
Q
Dawn Drescher
,
Raemon
1mo
Q
101
90
Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?
Q
mako yass
,
Fluttershy
4y
Q
55
89
How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study?
Q
Eli Tyre
,
waveman
4y
Q
41
88
What should experienced rationalists know?
Q
sapphire
3y
Q
18
86
Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on?
Q
Eli Tyre
4y
Q
31
83
What evidence will tell us about the new strain? How are you updating?
Q
Zvi
,
Oskar Mathiasen
2y
Q
18
83
Seriously, what goes wrong with "reward the agent when it makes you smile"?
Q
Ω
TurnTrout
,
johnswentworth
10mo
Q
Ω
42
83
Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments
Q
Wei Dai
3y
Q
67
80
How do AI timelines affect how you live your life?
Q
Quadratic Reciprocity
,
Aditya
1y
Q
50
79
What trade should we make if we're all getting the new COVID strain?
Q
Jacob Falkovich
,
Jacob Falkovich
2y
Q
71
78
Are there specific books that it might slightly help alignment to have on the internet?
Q
AnnaSalamon
3mo
Q
25
78
A 'Practice of Rationality' Sequence?
Q
abramdemski
,
Raemon
3y
Q
25
77
Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon
Q
jacobjacob
,
gjm
3y
Q
98
76
For moderately well-resourced people in the US, how quickly will things go from "uncomfortable" to "too late to exit"?
Q
Dagon
3y
Q
11
74
Under what circumstances is "don't look at existing research" good advice?
Q
Kaj_Sotala
,
shminux
4y
Q
18
73
Is this true? @tyler_m_john: [If we had started using CFCs earlier, we would have ended most life on the planet]
Q
tailcalled
,
DirectedEvolution
2mo
Q
15
73
COVID-19 Group Testing Post-mortem?
Q
gwern
10mo
Q
6
73
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
Q
abramdemski
,
Angela Pretorius
2y
Q
34
72
Good Heart Donation Lottery
Q
Gordon Seidoh Worley
,
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
Q
14
72
How "honest" is GPT-3?
Q
Ω
abramdemski
,
gwern
3y
Q
Ω
18
72
Who are some prominent reasonable people who are confident that AI won't kill everyone?
Q
Optimization Process
6mo
Q
54
70
Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.
Q
David Gross
,
moridinamael
3y
Q
42
70
Best non-textbooks on every subject
Q
Yair Halberstadt
1y
Q
23
70
Have the lockdowns been worth it?
Q
Ben Pace
,
zhukeepa
,
rockthecasbah
3y
Q
32
70
To what extent is GPT-3 capable of reasoning?
Q
Ω
TurnTrout
,
Daniel Kokotajlo
3y
Q
Ω
73