rational
Issue #119
5 July, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/2: It Could Be Worse // Zvi, 21 min
Second Wave Covid Deaths? // jkaufman, 2 min
Somerville Mask Usage // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
Thoughts as open tabs // ryan-wong, 2 min Favorite
PSA: Cars don't have 'blindspots' // romeostevensit, 1 min
How ought I spend time? // quinn-dougherty, 1 min
How to decide to get a nosejob or not? // snog toddgrass, 1 min
What's the most easy, fast, efficient way to create and maintain a personal Blog? // ferdinand-cachoeira, 1 min
# Epistemic
Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on "Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models" // Zack_M_Davis, 5 min
Noise on the Channel // abramdemski, 12 min
Causality and its harms // George3d6, 14 min
Abstractions on Inconsistent Data // evan-huus, 2 min
# Ai
Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI // Palus Astra, 83 min
Splitting Debate up into Two Subsystems // Nandi, 4 min
The "AI Debate" Debate // cocoa, 3 min
How do takeoff speeds affect the probability of bad outcomes from AGI? // KR, 9 min
AI Benefits Post 2: How AI Benefits Differs from AI Alignment & AI for Good // Cullen_OKeefe, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
The Illusion of Ethical Progress // lsusr, 3 min Favorite
# Anthropic
Gary Marcus vs Cortical Uniformity // steve2152, 10 min
Problem-Owners Tolerate Risk // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now // johnswentworth, 5 min Favorite
Board Games As Policy Arguments // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Seeking Robust Credible Expertise Buyers // Robin Hanson, 7 min
# Math and cs
Gödel's Legacy: A game without end // Hazard, 15 min
Classifying games like the Prisoner's Dilemma // philh, 8 min
Goals and short descriptions // Michele Campolo, 6 min
# Books
How to Find Sources in an Unreliable World // pktechgirl, 2 min Favorite
# Ea
Self-sacrifice is a scarce resource // mingyuan, 5 min
Does the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (self-)identify as an EA-aligned organization? // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min
Second-Order Existential Risk // Ideopunk, 3 min
# Relationships
Poly Domestic Partnerships // jkaufman, 3 min
I am Bad at Flirting; Realizing that by Noticing Confusion // snog toddgrass, 5 min
Non offensive word for people who are not single-magisterium-Bayes thinkers // rockthecasbah, 1 min
# Community
Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood // suspended-reason, 24 min
A reply to Agnes Callard // Vaniver, 3 min
C̶a̶m̶b̶r̶i̶d̶g̶e̶ Virtual LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
# Misc
The allegory of the hospital // Evan Rysdam, 2 min
The silence is deafening – Devon Zuegel // Benito, 1 min
Replicated cognitive bias list? // moderock, 1 min
Let There be Sound: A Fristonian Meditation on Creativity // jollybard
Spoiler-Free Review: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (plus a Spoilerific section) // Zvi, 21 min
# Podcasts
c08: The Legend of Jerry // Constellation, 22 min
114 – Epistemic Rigor and BLM // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 115 min
Advice on how to read our advice (Article) // The 80000 Hours team, 15 min
EP62 Zak Stein on Education, Tech & Religion // The Jim Rutt Show, 120 min
# Rational fiction
The Book of HPMOR Fanfics // MathieuRoy, 1 min
Harry Potter and methods of rationality alternative ending. // klen-salubri, 1 min
# Videos of the week
Sharing the Benefits of AI: The Windfall Clause // Robert Miles, 11 min
OpenAI Model Generates Python Code // Fazil Babu, 4 min