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Issue #12: Full List

Bumblebees 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

Chekov’s Gun and the Principle of Sufficient Reason // Venkatesh Rao, 6 min

Epistemic Relevance and Salience // Galfour, 1 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

Aligned AI May Depend on Moral Facts // gworley, 1 min

How many philosophers accept the orthogonality thesis ? Evidence from the PhilPapers survey // Paperclip Minimizer, 3 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

[Math] Towards Proof Writing as a Skill In Itself // Andrew Quinn, 2 min

Front Row Center // Zvi, 2 min

Thoughts on the Inner Bruce // LeoHolman, 3 min

Resolving the Dr Evil Problem // Chris_Leong, 3 min

SIAM Lecture: How Paradoxes Shape Mathematics and Give Us Self-Verifying Computer Programs // ldsrrs, 1 min

The Curious Prisoner Puzzle // Chris Leong, 1 min

Links 6/18: Linkonberry Jam // Scott Alexander, 10 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