rational
Issue #113
24 May, 2020 // View full listZero-Sum Thinking: Win–Win denial is pervasive, with buyers consistently seen as less likely to benefit from transactions than sellers. // www.econlib.org
# Coronavirus
Farrell On Who Pushes To Open // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Coronalinks 5/18/20: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Starts Looking Like A Dance // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Instrumental
What are objects that have made your life better? // Mark Xu, 1 min Favorite
Get It Done Now // Zvi, 1 min
Reflective Complaints // Raemon, 1 min
How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life? // Thomas Kwa, 1 min
Is taking bacopa good for life extension? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
# Epistemic
From self to craving (three characteristics series) // Kaj_Sotala, 13 min
# Ai
Learning and manipulating learning // Stuart_Armstrong, 12 min
AGIs as populations // ricraz, 5 min
Reward functions and updating assumptions can hide a multitude of sins // Stuart_Armstrong, 11 min
The Mechanistic and Normative Structure of Agency // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
Probabilities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for reward functions // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Nihilism doesn't matter // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
A Problem With Patternism // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
# Longevity
In Search of Slack // Martin Sustrik, 7 min
# Anthropic
Highlights of Comparative and Evolutionary Aging // johnswentworth, 2 min
# Decision theory
The Oil Crisis of 1973 // Elizabeth, 3 min Favorite
Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria // eapache, 3 min
Isn't Tesla stock highly undervalued? // Liron, 2 min
Post-crash market efficiency 1696-2020 // bfinn, 3 min
Why you should minimax in two-player zero-sum games // Nisan, 1 min
# Math and cs
Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization" // Zack_M_Davis, 6 min
Orthogonality // lsusr, 1 min
Haskenthetical // philh, 15 min
Replication Dynamics Bridge to RL in Thermodynamic Limit // Zachary Robertson, 3 min
# Ea
Effective altruism and criticism toward activism: Answer to a paradox // ArthurRainbow, 5 min
# Community
What aspects of the world emotionally bothers you on an immediate personal level on a daily basis? // Mati_Roy, 1 min
# Culture war
Wikipedia Edit War Update // jefftk, 2 min
What can currently be done about the "flooding the zone" issue? // lahwran, 1 min
# Misc
Why Artists Study Anatomy // Sisi Cheng, 2 min Favorite
Pointing to a Flower // johnswentworth, 11 min
How does publishing a paper work? // Liron, 1 min
English Bread Regulations // jefftk, 7 min
Signaling: Why People Have Conversations // liam_hinzman, 3 min
# Podcasts
#78 - Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress // The 80000 Hours team, 131 min
111 – Rational Practices in Everyday Living // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min
#77 - Professor Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19 // The 80000 Hours team, 97 min
EP54 Robert Conan Ryan on Boom & Bust Cycles // . , 99 min
# Rational fiction
"Starwink" by Alicorn // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
# Videos of the week
DeepMind Made A Superhuman AI For 57 Atari Games! ? // Two Minute Papers, 7 min