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Issue #116: Full List
14 June, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Can Covid-19 spread by surface transmission? // Raemon, 1 min
Covid-19 6/11: Bracing For a Second Wave // Zvi, 8 min
Coronavirus as a test-run for X-risks // SDM, 21 min
COVID-19: The Illusion of Stability // PeterMcCluskey, 6 min
# Instrumental
For moderately well-resourced people in the US, how quickly will things go from "uncomfortable" to "too late to exit"? // Dagon, 1 min
Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew? // Elizabeth, 1 min
Why do all out attacks actually work? // lc, 4 min
BBE W1: HMCM and Notetaking Systems // Spiracular, 6 min
BBE W1: Personal Notetaking Desiderata Walkthrough // Spiracular, 7 min
Keep: Move checked items to bottom // jefftk, 1 min
# Epistemic
Pragmatism and Completeness // G Gordon Worley III, 2 min
# Ai
The Obligatory GPT-3 Post // Scott Alexander, 13 min Favorite
Preparing for "The Talk" with AI projects // Daniel Kokotajlo, 3 min
GAN Discriminators Don't Generalize? // tryactions, 1 min
More on disambiguating "discontinuity" // alenglander, 3 min
Goal-directedness is behavioral, not structural // adamShimi, 3 min
No Recent Automation Revolution // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Does equanimity prevent negative utility? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
What does “torture vs. dust specks” imply for insect suffering? // Tejas Subramaniam, 1 min
# Decision theory
Dutch-Booking CDT: Revised Argument // abramdemski, 18 min
Self-Predicting Markets // eapache, 2 min
Ideology/narrative stabilizes path-dependent equilibria // elityre, 6 min
Good and bad ways to think about downside risks // MichaelA, 13 min
# Math and cs
Public Static: What is Abstraction? // johnswentworth, 15 min
Cartesian Boundary as Abstraction Boundary // johnswentworth, 6 min
Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics // lsusr, 2 min
An Illustrated Proof of the No Free Lunch Theorem // lifelonglearner, 1 min
# Books
Are there good ways to find expert reviews of popular science books? // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
[Link] "Will He Go?" book review (Scott Aaronson) // ioannes_shade, 1 min
Legibility: Notes on "Man as a Rationalist Animal" // Hazard, 4 min
# Ea
What gripes do you have with Mustachianism? // adamzerner, 1 min
Maximizing impact at startup with high EA potential? // knite, 1 min
# Relationships
A Practical Guide to Conflict Resolution: Comprehension // eapache, 5 min
A Practical Guide to Conflict Resolution: Communication // eapache, 2 min
# Community
We've built Connected Papers - a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers // discordy, 2 min Favorite
An online prediction market with reputation points // wilf, 1 min
Thomas Kwa's Bounty List // Thomas Kwa, 1 min
# Culture war
Two Kinds of Mistake Theorists // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
On Our Own // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Philosopher Kings in Blue? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Fun
Short essays on various things I've watched // philh, 15 min
# Misc
Testing Hanson's hypothesis about the uselessness of health care. // JoshuaFox, 1 min
The "Hard" Problem of Consciousness Thinks Meaning Is Isolated: It's Relational // Hazard, 5 min
Down with Solomonoff Induction, up with the Presumptuous Philosopher // Charlie Steiner, 2 min
Is there anything like a "meta-encyclopedia"? // Pablo_Stafforini, 1 min
How do you find good content on Youtube? // Rudi C, 1 min
Toward A University Department of Generalists // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Wordy Wernicke’s // Scott Alexander, 1 min
Missing Model: Too Much Do-Gooding // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP59 Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology // . , 95 min
c06: The Standard Clock Rate of Everything // Constellation, 108 min
Currents 004: Michael Vassar on Passive-Aggressive Revolution // . , 45 min
EP58 Jake Bornstein on Leadership & Change // . , 87 min
# Videos of the week
To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others | Dean Furness // TED, 12 min