rational
Issue #118
28 June, 2020 // View full list
Do commercially available probiotics actually do anything? According to some studies, they can even backfire, delaying gut microbiome recovery after antibiotics. // www.cbsnews.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 6/25: The Dam Breaks // Zvi, 12 min
Has anyone explored deliberate infection with milder coronavirus strains for cross-immunity? // polyamorousRobot, 1 min
A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem // Davidmanheim, 11 min
# Instrumental
My weekly review habit // benkuhn, 4 min Favorite
Half-Baked Products and Idea Kernels // Liron, 1 min
Five Ways To Prioritize Better // lynettebye, 25 min
Personal experience of coffee as nootropic // ryan-wong, 2 min
How do you Murphyjitsu essentially risky activities? // 9eB1, 1 min
# Epistemic
Radical Probabilism [Transcript] // abramdemski, 7 min
Missing dog reasoning [Transcript] // eukaryote, 6 min
Map Errors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory // orthonormal, 2 min
The affect heuristic and studying autocracies // rockthecasbah, 3 min
An agile approach to pre-research // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
# Ai
GPT-3 Fiction Samples // gwern, 1 min Favorite
Plausible cases for HRAD work, and locating the crux in the "realism about rationality" debate // riceissa, 12 min
Models, myths, dreams, and Cheshire cat grins // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Modelling Continuous Progress // SDM, 8 min
AI Benefits Post 1: Introducing “AI Benefits” // Cullen_OKeefe, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Atemporal Ethical Obligations // evan-huus, 2 min Favorite
Are Humans Fundamentally Good? // LoganCole, 1 min
# Anthropic
Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve // lsusr, 4 min
Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory // Hazard, 10 min
# Decision theory
Institutional Senescence // sustrik, 3 min
Industry and workers // smaslennikov, 5 min
Mediators of History // johnswentworth, 4 min
The Dark Miracle of Optics // suspended-reason, 9 min
Abstraction, Evolution and Gears // johnswentworth, 5 min
# Math and cs
Prediction = Compression [Transcript] // alkjash, 10 min
Deriving General Relativity // lsusr, 2 min
Quick Look #1 Diophantus of Alexandria // JohnBuridan, 2 min
The Indexing Problem // johnswentworth, 4 min
4 Dimensions // lsusr, 1 min
# Books
Black Death at the Golden Gate (book review) // PeterMcCluskey, 5 min
# Ea
Risk-Aversion Sets Life Value // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Relationships
Do Women Like Assholes? // Jacobian, 20 min
# Culture war
New York Times, Please Do Not Threaten The Safety of Scott Alexander By Revealing His True Name // Zvi, 2 min
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott // rudi-c, 1 min
DontDoxScottAlexander.com - A Petition // Benito, 1 min
News = Advertising // lsusr, 2 min
Fight the Power // Jacobian, 8 min
# Misc
Betting with Mandatory Post-Mortem // abramdemski, 1 min
Don't Make Your Problems Hide // orthonormal, 2 min
Don't punish yourself for bad luck // Sherrinford, 3 min
Public Positions and Private Guts [Transcript] // Vaniver, 7 min
Negotiating With Yourself [Transcript] // orthonormal, 6 min
# Podcasts
Currents 007: David Fuller on the IDW // The Jim Rutt Show, 51 min
#80 - Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it // The 80000 Hours team, 133 min
EP61 Howard Reingold on Our Digital Past & Future // The Jim Rutt Show, 81 min
# Videos of the week
Image GPT: Generative Pretraining from Pixels (Paper Explained) // Yannic Kilcher, 31 min