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Issue #102
8 March, 2020 // View full listWhat we do and don't know about Coronavirus: An ongoing up-to-date report. // ourworldindata.org
# Coronavirus
Coronavirus: Links, Speculation, Open Thread // Scott Alexander, 19 min Favorite
Coronavirus is Here // Zvi, 4 min
You've Been Exposed to COVID-19: What Do You Wish You Knew? // Elizabeth, 1 min
Covid-19: Things I'm Doing Differently // jkaufman, 2 min
If I interact with someone with nCov for an hour, how likely am I to get nCov? // Raemon, 1 min
# Instrumental
Bleach // jkaufman, 3 min
How to fly safely right now? // Ben Pace, 1 min
Training Regime Day 16: Hamming Questions // Mark Xu, 2 min
# Epistemic
Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2 // Elizabeth, jimrandomh, 7 min
Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?” // jasoncrawford, 6 min
Effectiveness of Fever-Screening Will Decline // jimrandomh, 2 min
Post/Pre // Ouroborus, 1 min
A critical agential account of free will, causation, and physics // jessicata, 15 min
# Ai
If I were a well-intentioned AI... IV: Mesa-optimising // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min
My Updating Thoughts on AI policy // Ben Pace, 10 min
Robustness to fundamental uncertainty in AGI alignment // G Gordon Worley III, 8 min
A Proof Against Oracle AI // yamar69, 1 min
# Anthropic
What are the long-term risks of a catastrophic pandemic? // Matthew Barnett, 2 min
Anthropics over-simplified: it's about priors, not updates // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Russian x-risks newsletter winter 2019-2020. // avturchin, 2 min
# Decision theory
Subjective implication decision theory in critical agentialism // jessicata, 6 min
Embedded vs. External Decision Problems // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Math and cs
Interfaces as a Scarce Resource // johnswentworth, 14 min Favorite
Matrix Multiplication // MoritzG, 1 min
I don't understand Rice's Theorem and it's killing me // lc, 2 min
UML XIII: Online Learning and Clustering // Rafael Harth, 18 min
# Relationships
Weighting Attachment in Relationship Decisions // wolverdude, 5 min
# Community
An Open Letter To The Congregation Regarding The Upcoming Holiday // Zvi, 2 min
Blog Post Day Retrospective // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
Coming Back to Biking // jkaufman, 1 min
Decaf vs. regular coffee self-experiment // NaiveTortoise, 5 min
Change Your Mind // Hivewired, 1 min
# Culture war
Motte/bailey doctrine is often a byproduct of distributed argumentation // Three-Monkey Mind, 2 min
Predictable Identities 26: Academic Identity // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
The New Uncanny Valley // Contributor, 9 min
# Misc
Simulacra and Subjectivity // Benquo, 3 min
What does Solomonoff induction say about brain duplication/consciousness? // riceissa, 2 min
How can one measure their cognitive capacities during lucid dreaming? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
Any systems to rate more abstract things? // Long try, 1 min
# Podcasts
#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures // The 80000 Hours team, 194 min
#71 - Ben Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours // The 80000 Hours team, 177 min
#189 — Wealth & Happiness // Waking up with Sam Harris, 71 min
# Videos of the week
Can We Detect Neural Image Generators? // Two Minute Papers, 5 min