rational
Issue #12
17 June, 2018 // View full listBumblebees use invisible temperature patterns on flowers to make foraging decisions // elifesciences.org
# Instrumental
Simplified Poker Conclusions // Zvi, 6 min Favorite
We Agree: Speeches All Around! // JohnBuridan, 2 min
Empire Theory, Part 1: Competitive Landscape // Samo Burja, 10 min
# Epistemic
The Well-Being Machine // Sarah Perry, 17 min Favorite
Weak arguments against the universal prior being malign // X4vier, 3 min
Admiring the Guts of Things. // Melkor, 3 min
Meta-Credence // Galfour, 1 min
Epistemological Braces // musicmage4114, 7 min
# Ai
A general model of safety-oriented AI development // Wei_Dai, 1 min
Announcing the second AI Safety Camp // Lachouette, 1 min
Worrying about the Vase: Whitelisting // TurnTrout, 13 min
AI and the paperclip problem (or: Economist solves control problem with one weird trick!) // fortyeridania, 1 min
Fundamentals of Formalisation Level 4: Formal Semantics Basics // crabman, 1 min
# Books
The Case Against Education: Why Do Employers Tolerate It? // An1lam, 1 min
# Ea
Geoffrey Miller on Effective Altruism and Rationality // Jacobian, 1 min Favorite
# Misc
Oops on Commodity Prices // sarahconstantin, 2 min Favorite
Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game // Scott Garrabrant, 1 min
On the Chatham House Rule // Scott Garrabrant, 5 min
Anthropics made easy // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min
Front Row Center // Zvi, 2 min
# Podcasts
085: Grab Bag of Short Topics // Review the Future, 64 min
#129 — An Insider’s View of Medicine // Waking up with Sam Harris, 76 min
Rationally Speaking #210 - Stuart Ritchie on "Conceptual objections to IQ testing" // NYC Skeptics, 57 min
# Videos of the week
Civilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming // Isaac Arthur, 36 min