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Issue #114: Full List
31 May, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Should I self-variolate to COVID-19 // elityre, 2 min
Plague in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey // Zvi, 1 min
Covid-19 5/29: Dumb Reopening // Zvi, 3 min
The High Cost of Masks // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Time to Mitigate, Not Contain // Robin Hanson, 7 min
Pandemic Futarchy Design // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Instrumental
Wrist Issues // jefftk, 5 min
Why take notes: what I get from notetaking and my desiderata for notetaking systems // crabman, 1 min
# Epistemic
How to (not) do a literature review // Katarina Slama, 6 min
A taxonomy of Cruxes // elityre, 9 min
Your abstraction isn't wrong, it's just really bad // George, 20 min
# Ai
An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI // evhub, 47 min
OpenAI announces GPT-3 // gwern, 1 min Favorite
GPT-3: a disappointing paper // nostalgebraist, 9 min
# Longevity
Why We Age, Part 1: What ageing is and is not // willbradshaw, 8 min Favorite
Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adaptive theories // willbradshaw, 12 min
An addendum on effective population size // willbradshaw, 3 min
# Anthropic
On the construction of the self // Kaj_Sotala, 20 min
Why aren’t we testing general intelligence distribution? // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
# Decision theory
What is a decision theory as a mathematical object? // ejenner, 1 min
Predicted Land Value Tax: a better tax than an unimproved land value tax // michaelcohen, 3 min
# Math and cs
Why Rationalists Shouldn't be Interested in Topos Theory // jollybard, 5 min
# Community
Trust-Building: The New Rationality Project // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
Should we stop using the term 'Rationalist'? // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
AI Safety Discussion Days // Linda Linsefors, 3 min
# Culture war
Is fake news bullshit or lying? // HarperSachs, 4 min
Bush Did North Dakota // Scott Alexander, 5 min
Creationism, Unchallenged // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Art
A Taijitu symbol for Moloch and Slack // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
# Misc
Baking is Not a Ritual // Sisi Cheng, 5 min
Shuttling between science and invention // jasoncrawford, 7 min
Our Need for Need // eapache, 5 min
The principle of no non-Apologies // agentydragon, 2 min
Updated Hierarchy of Disagreement // Bob Jacobs, 2 min
What are the best tools for recording predictions? // Raemon, 1 min
Notes about psychopharmacology // ksenia, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP56 Art Brock on Holo Tech // . , 77 min
c04: The Simple Answer is Monkeys // Constellation, 63 min
Currents 002: Brian Hanley on Releasing the Vaccines // . , 35 min
EP55 Jack Murphy on Leaving the Left // . , 98 min
# Rational fiction
Speculations on the Future of Fiction Writing // johnswentworth, 2 min
“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory // Scott Alexander, 28 min
# Videos of the week
A COVID-19 "exit" strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy | Uri Alon // TED, 15 min