rational
Issue #101
1 March, 2020 // View full list
# Instrumental
Seeing the Smoke // Jacobian, 6 min Favorite
Quarantine Preparations // jkaufman, 2 min
Slack Budget: 3 surprise problems per week // Raemon, 3 min
At what point should CFAR stop holding workshops due to COVID-19? // Adam Scholl, 1 min
COVID-19 - a good or bad time for extended travel? // wolverdude, 2 min
# Epistemic
Value of the Long Tail // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite
Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm // MichaelA, 18 min
Information hazards: Why you should care and what you can do // MichaelA, 18 min
Understandable vs justifiable vs useful // MichaelA, 4 min
# Ai
Conclusion to 'Reframing Impact' // TurnTrout, 1 min
Subagents and impact measures, full and fully illustrated // Stuart_Armstrong, 21 min
If I were a well-intentioned AI... I: Image classifier // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min
Response to Oren Etzioni's "How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization" // Daniel Kokotajlo, 9 min
How Low Should Fruit Hang Before We Pick It? // TurnTrout, 17 min
# Anthropic
What will be the big-picture implications of the coronavirus, assuming it eventually infects >10% of the world? // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
What to make of Aubrey de Grey's prediction? // Rafael Harth, 1 min
Predictive coding and motor control // steve2152, 5 min
# Decision theory
Refactoring EMH – Thoughts following the latest market crash // Alex_Shleizer, 4 min
Hoarding and Shortages // jkaufman, 1 min
Why Big Implicit Deals? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Attainable Utility Preservation: Scaling to Superhuman // TurnTrout, 9 min
Trace: Goals and Principles // johnswentworth, 9 min
Usable implementation of IDA available // rmoehn, 1 min
UML XII: Dimensionality Reduction // Rafael Harth, 12 min
# Books
Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work // Scott Alexander, 30 min Favorite
Book Review: Just Giving // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Community
Reviewing the Review // Raemon, 11 min
Epistea Workshop Series: Epistemics Workshop, May 2020, UK // Nora_Ammann, Jan_Kulveit, Anna Gajdová, kotrfa, 1 min
KC Dojo 2-18-20 // Bae's Theorem, 4 min
March Slate Star Codex Meetup // robirahman, 1 min
# Culture war
A Text Renaissance // Venkatesh Rao, 23 min
# Misc
How does electricity work literally? // Long try, 1 min Favorite
Time Binders // Hivewired, 1 min
Resource on alcohol problems // juliawise, 4 min
Thoughts about Dr Stone and Mythology // MakoYass, 3 min
The recent NeurIPS call for papers requires authors to include a statement about the potential broader impact of their work // ofer, 1 min
# Podcasts
#188 — February 28, 2020 // Waking up with Sam Harris, 32 min
Bonus episode - Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice // The 80000 Hours team, 44 min
105 – The Anthropic Principle is da bomb // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 126 min
# Rational fiction
[HPMOR] Harry - example or anti-example? // ndee, 1 min
# Videos of the week
A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins | Christopher Bahl // TED, 4 min