rational
Issue #110
3 May, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
On “COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons” // Zvi, 13 min
Peter's COVID Consolidated Brief - 29 Apr // peter_hurford, 38 min
[Link] COVID-19 causing deadly blood clots in younger people // orthonormal, 1 min
Market-shaping approaches to accelerate COVID-19 response: a role for option-based guarantees? // DerekF, Davidmanheim, 7 min
Emergency Central Planning // jefftk, 1 min
# Instrumental
Just stop saying wrong things // lc, 7 min
The Best Virtual Worlds for "Hanging Out" // Raemon, 11 min
Meditation: the screen-and-watcher model of the human mind, and how to use it // femtogrammar, 7 min
Training Regime Day 25: Resolve Cycles 2 // Mark Xu, 1 min
Growth mindset for better sex // agentydragon, 2 min
# Epistemic
Negative Feedback and Simulacra // Elizabeth, 10 min Favorite
Against bayesianism // ricraz, 7 min
What truths are worth seeking? // Natália Mendonça, 3 min
Post/meta-skepticism I // Ouroborus, 3 min
How do you whittle path-dependent (probabilistic) questions? // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min
# Ai
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI ethics and superintelligence // Kaj_Sotala, 8 min
Motivating Abstraction-First Decision Theory // johnswentworth, 5 min
How does iterated amplification exceed human abilities? // riceissa, 2 min
What is the alternative to intent alignment called? // ricraz, 1 min
"Don't even think about hell" // emmab, 1 min
# Anthropic
UAP and Global Catastrophic Risks // avturchin, 1 min
Prolonging life is about the optionality, not about the immortality // George, 10 min
# Decision theory
Why anything that can be for-profit, should be // jasoncrawford, 7 min Favorite
Generalized Efficient Markets and Academia // johnswentworth, 2 min
Melting democracy // ricraz, 7 min
A speculative incentive design: self-determined price commitments as a way of averting monopoly // MakoYass, 1 min
# Math and cs
Topological metaphysics: relating point-set topology and locale theory // jessicata, 3 min
# Books
A Book Review // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
# Ea
Interview with Aubrey de Grey, chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation // emanuele ascani, 17 min
MIRI’s largest grant to date! // Rob Bensinger, 1 min
# Relationships
It's Not About The Nail // eapache, 2 min
# Community
SlateStarCodex 2020 Predictions: Buy, Sell, Hold // Zvi, 19 min
I do not like math // lsusr, 1 min
Helping Lily Make Dinner // jefftk, 2 min
2020 predictions // Bucky, 9 min
Predictions For 2020 // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Culture war
Reopen Protest Sign Survey // jefftk, 3 min
# Misc
"God Rewards Fools" // JacobKopczynski, 2 min
Should we be reassessing the argument for globalization? // jmh, 1 min
Give Yourself Gout For Fame And Profit // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Podcasts
FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville // Palus Astra, 65 min
EP51 Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration // . , 78 min
c01: Building an Original Science Fiction World // Constellation Podcast, 75 min
The Mind Killer Episode 3 – Opening Up // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 76 min
#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours // The 80000 Hours team, 133 min
# Videos of the week
Crisis support for the world, one text away | Nancy Lublin // TED, 11 min