rational
Issue #111
10 May, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid-19: New York’s Antibody Tests 2 // Zvi, 13 min
Prioritizing COVID-19 interventions & individual donations // Ian David Moss, catherio, 23 min
COVID-19 from a different angle // jmh, 1 min
Does isolating the high-risk suppress COVID-19? // Fahad Alkhater, 1 min
Why Openers Are Winning // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Instrumental
Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments // Wei_Dai, 1 min Favorite
How to do remote co-working // SoerenMind, 1 min
# Epistemic
Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Failures in technology forecasting? A reply to Ord and Yudkowsky // MichaelA, 13 min
On Negative Feedback and Simulacra // Zvi, 36 min
Constructive Definitions // Chris_Leong, 3 min
# Ai
"AI and Efficiency", OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012) // gwern, 1 min
Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity // Vika, vlad_m, Matthew Rahtz, tom4everitt, xrchz, Zac Kenton, janleike, 7 min
Competitive safety via gradated curricula // ricraz, 5 min
Corrigibility as outside view // TurnTrout, 4 min
How should potential AI alignment researchers gauge whether the field is right for them? // TurnTrout, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Kids and Moral Agency // jefftk, 1 min
# Anthropic
What information on (or relevant to) modal immortality do you recommend? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
[link] How many humans will have their brain preserved? Forecasts and trends // Mati_Roy, 1 min
Non-UFO Local Alien Clues // Robin Hanson, 9 min
# Decision theory
Individual Rationality Needn't Generalize to Rational Consensus // Akshat Mahajan, 4 min
# Math and cs
Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs // johnswentworth, 5 min
Scott Garrabrant's problem on recovering Brouwer as a corollary of Lawvere // Rupert, 2 min
Named Distributions as Artifacts // George, 17 min
# Books
How uniform is the neocortex? // zhukeepa, 13 min Favorite
Insights from Euclid's 'Elements' // TurnTrout, 4 min
Book Review: Narconomics // ketchupduck, 8 min
# Community
Shared House Setup // jefftk, 3 min
Rationality Vienna [Virtual] Meetup, May 2020 // Viliam, 1 min
[Link] Rationalist Games -- Facebook Group // Mati_Roy, 1 min
I'd Like To Maximizing Profit and Happiness but My Happiness conflicts a lot with making profit... // Master MintZ, 1 min
# Culture war
TFW No Incels // Jacobian, 1 min
Leaking into the Future // Venkatesh Rao, 8 min
# Misc
A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble // Kaj_Sotala, 14 min
A non-mystical explanation of "no-self" (three characteristics series) // Kaj_Sotala, 24 min
Coping and Cultures // Spiracular, 4 min
How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model? // jasoncrawford, 2 min
Hate Crime Statistics // jefftk, 1 min
# Podcasts
#76 - Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what we should reopen first // The 80000 Hours team, 112 min
Extra: Memetic Warfare & Pandemic Responses with John Robb // . , 36 min
c02: Remain Indoors // Constellation, 88 min
EP52 Steven Levy on Facebook: The Inside Story // . , 90 min
# Videos of the week
A global pandemic calls for global solutions | Larry Brilliant // TED, 15 min