rational
Issue #10: Full List
3 June, 2018 // View curated list
Since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month-doubling time // blog.openai.com
# Instrumental
*Another* Double Crux Framework // Raemon, 1 min Favorite
Trajectory // elriggs, 3 min
# Epistemic
Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 14 min
Understanding is translation // cousin_it, 1 min Favorite
Containment Inversion // travisrm89, 2 min
Paper: "A simple function of one parameter (θ) can fit any collection of ordered pairs {Xi,Yi} to arbitrary precision"--implications for Occam? // fortyeridania, 1 min
Epistemological Weight Class // musicmage4114, 3 min
Reality Maintenance // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Ai
The simple picture on AI safety // alexflint, 2 min
Amplification Discussion Notes // William_S, 4 min
Safety in Machine Learning // gworley, 1 min
Observer-Based Values // Kenn Brody, 3 min
May 2018 Newsletter // Rob Bensinger, 1 min
# Ea
How Pet Owners Can Help Wild Animals and The Environment // ozymandias, 3 min
# Culture war
In Search Of Missing US Suicides // Scott Alexander, 4 min Favorite
Highlights From The Comments On Basic Jobs // Scott Alexander, 32 min
Apple World // dusty, 4 min
# Misc
Monopoly: A Manifesto and Fact Post // sarahconstantin, 6 min Favorite
Meta-Honesty: Firming Up Honesty Around Its Edge-Cases // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 33 min
May gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
Into the Kiln: Insights from Tao's 'Analysis I' // TurnTrout, 11 min
Biodiversity for heretics // eukaryote, 8 min
Ineffective entrepreneurship: post-mortem of Hippo, the happiness app that never quite was // elizabeth, 1 min
Open Thread June 2018 // Elo, 1 min
Questions about the Usefulness of Self-Importance // LeoHolman, 3 min
Principled vs. Pragmatic Morality // Chris_Leong, 4 min
Sleeping Beauty Resolved (?) Pt. 2: Identity and Betting // ksvanhorn, 8 min
Shared interests vs. collective interests // Said Achmiz, 3 min
Bounded Rationality: Two Cultures // Ben Pace, 2 min
Three types of "should" // Sniffnoy, 2 min
Why kids stop asking why // Expipiplusone, 1 min
Signaling-based observations of (other) students // sil ver, 2 min
Two Types of Future Filters // Robin Hanson, 3 min
How Does Evolution Escape Local Maxima? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
More Than Death, Fear Decay // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Podcasts
#33 - Dr Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war // The 80,000 Hours team, 85 min
#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it. // The 80,000 Hours team, 138 min
#127 — Freedom from the Known // Waking up with Sam Harris, 81 min
Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests" // NYC Skeptics, 51 min
# Videos of the week
Thriving Longer: The Future of Aging | Dr. Mark Allen | TEDxPaloAlto // TEDx Talks, 12 min