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Issue #117: Full List
21 June, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid-19 6/18: The Virus Goes South // Zvi, 8 min
Second Wave? // jefftk, 1 min
Coronavirus and Rents // jefftk, 2 min
# Instrumental
Using a memory palace to memorize a textbook. // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min Favorite
The point of a memory palace // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
What should I teach to my future daughter? // Anabel RC, 1 min
# Epistemic
What's Your Cognitive Algorithm? // Raemon, 15 min
What is meant by Simulcra Levels? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Ai
My take on CHAI’s research agenda in under 1500 words // alexflint, 5 min
Results of $1,000 Oracle contest! // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
The ground of optimization // alexflint, 32 min
Relating HCH and Logical Induction // abramdemski, 5 min
Image GPT // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
If AI is based on GPT, how to ensure its safety? // avturchin, 1 min
List of public predictions of what GPT-X can or can't do? // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
Relevant pre-AGI possibilities // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
What are the high-level approaches to AI alignment? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
# Decision theory
The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders // FactorialCode, 1 min
You Can Do Futarchy Yourself // Tetraspace Grouping, 6 min
What are some Civilizational Sanity Interventions? // elityre, 4 min
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Math and cs
High-School Algebra for Data Structures // johnswentworth, 1 min
Apple Pie from Scratch // lsusr, 1 min
# Books
Where to Start Research? // Elizabeth, 4 min Favorite
# Ea
‘Maximum’ level of suffering? // Anirandis, 1 min
Are All Existential Risks Equivalent to a Lack of General Collective Intelligence? And is GCI therefore the Most Important Human Innovation in the History and Immediate Future of Mankind? // williamsae, 6 min
# Relationships
Practical Conflict Resolution: A Taxonomy of Disagreement // eapache, 11 min
# Community
[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update // lsusr, 1 min
Creating better infrastructure for controversial discourse // Rudi C, 2 min
Sunday Jun 21st – Online Talks by Curated Authors // Ben Pace, jacobjacob, 1 min
# Culture war
$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis // Taymon Beal, 1 min
Is utilitarianism the result of a Conflict Theory singularity? // spkoc, 7 min
Open Thread 156.25 + Signal Boost For Steve Hsu // a reader, 1 min
The Commanding Heights of Culture // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Misc
How alienated should you be? // Vaniver, 5 min
Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Innovation and Dependence // smaslennikov, 3 min
The Vision Of Vilazodone And Vortioxetine // Scott Alexander, 14 min
# Podcasts
c07: The Intergalactic Space Phone // Constellation, 81 min
Currents 006: Jim Coan on Our Social Recession // . , 47 min
Currents 005: John Robb on Protest Tactics & Reforms // . , 32 min
EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse // . , 102 min
113 – Refining Niceness with Wes Fenza // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 115 min
# Rational fiction
God and Moses have a chat // Yitz, 7 min
# Videos of the week
NVIDIA’s AI Recreated PacMan! ? // Two Minute Papers, 6 min