rational
Issue #109: Full List
26 April, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
The Chilling Effect of Confiscation // jkaufman, 1 min
How four guys helped redirect Japan's coronavirus policy // Taran, 1 min
On New York’s Antibody Tests // Zvi, 15 min
covid-19 notes, 4/19/20 // nostalgebraist, 11 min
My Covid-19 Thinking: 4/23 pre-Cuomo Data // Zvi, 25 min
The Hammer and the Mask - A call to action // SimonF, 1 min
How likely is the COVID-19 apocalyptic scenario? // Roko Jelavić, 2 min
The Puzzling Linearity of COVID-19 // Radford Neal, 1 min
Analysis of COVID-19 superspread events (linkpost) // Jay Molstad, 1 min
Could city design impact spread of infections? // jmh, 1 min
Vouch For Pandemic Passports // Robin Hanson, 8 min
Covid 19 as a Fermi Paradox Zoo Hypothesis Subset (Laboratory Hypothesis) Nudge Point // JohnCDraper, 3 min
Subpoena Futures // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Equilibrium point of the social evolution under the selective pressure of COVID-19? // Yandong Zhang, 1 min
A proof of the existence of the ending moment of the COVID-19 // Yandong Zhang, 1 min
# Instrumental
Training Regime Day 19: Hamming Questions for Potted Plants // Mark Xu, 4 min Favorite
Do you trust the research on handwriting vs. typing for notes? // NaiveTortoise, 2 min
Wired Headsets for Video Calls // jkaufman, 2 min
Training Regime Day 20: OODA Loop // Mark Xu, 8 min
Training Regime Day 16: Hamming Questions // Mark Xu, 5 min
Forbidden Technology // lsusr, 1 min
Training Regime Day 18: Negative Visualization // Mark Xu, 2 min
# Epistemic
Every system seems random from the inside // eapache, 1 min
What are good defense mechanisms against dangerous bullet biting? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
What confidence interval should one report? // Jsevillamol, 1 min
# Ai
Inner alignment in the brain // steve2152, 18 min
Linkpost: DeepMind team on specification gaming // JoshuaFox, 1 min
AI Services as a Research Paradigm // VojtaKovarik, 4 min
What makes counterfactuals comparable? // Chris_Leong, 3 min
What are the relative speeds of AI capabilities and AI safety? // NunoSempere, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Is ethics a memetic trap ? // George, 7 min
# Longevity
Link Summary: Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics // ErickBall, 4 min
# Anthropic
Database of existential risk estimates // MichaelA, 5 min
Fast Takeoff in Biological Intelligence // eapache, 2 min
# Decision theory
The Inefficient Market Hypothesis // lsusr, 2 min Favorite
What's Hard About Long Tails? // johnswentworth, 2 min
Why Does Govt Do Stuff? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Intuitions on Universal Behavior of Information at a Distance // johnswentworth, 10 min
# Community
Retracting on Facebook // jkaufman, 1 min
Online Meetup: Forecasting workshop // JoshuaFox, 1 min
Don't Use Facebook Blocking // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
# Culture war
Sex, Lies, and Canaanites // Jacobian, 17 min
# Misc
What Happens During a Recession // Elizabeth, 5 min
On Platitudes // Ouroborus, 2 min
What are habits that a lot of people have and don't tend to have ever questioned? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
What are some fun ways to spend $100,000? // Sausage Vector Machine, 1 min
Why is my (our?) reasoning process noisy? // emanuele ascani, 2 min
Poll: ask anything to an all-knowing demon edition // yamar69, 1 min
What are the externalities of predictions on wars? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
Should theories have a control group // George, 6 min
What are some possible ways in which we can resolve the main issues of remote work in order to make it mainstream at least in the relevant fields? // Raghu Veer S, 1 min
Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est // Scott Alexander, 5 min
The Amish Health Care System // Scott Alexander, 16 min
What Can Money Buy Directly? // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Podcasts
#199 — April 23, 2020 // Waking up with Sam Harris, 37 min
109 – What Have We Been Consuming? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 97 min
# Videos of the week
A camera that can see around corners | David Lindell // TED, 7 min