rational
Issue #121: Full List
19 July, 2020 // View curated list
Growth mindset fails to replicate: either unrelated to educational attainment or has a very small negative influence. // www.sciencedirect.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/16: Becoming the Mask // Zvi, 19 min
What do we now know about long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Public Figures Contracting COVID-19 as Positive Event // mc, 1 min
Against Reopening Ottawa // evan-huus, 5 min
What is the current state of knowledge around COVID-19 at-home remedies? // Dorikka, 1 min
What is the current process for increases testing? // jmh, 1 min
Possible new pneumonia in Kazahkstan (July 2020) // Jay, 1 min
# Instrumental
Automatically Turning Off Computer at Night // Raemon, 2 min
# Epistemic
Anthropomorphizing Humans // johnswentworth, 2 min
Update more slowly! // Davidmanheim, 2 min
Calibration Practice: Retrodictions on Metaculus // Raemon, 1 min
Divergence causes isolated demands for rigor // George3d6, 9 min
Science eats its young // George3d6, 13 min
Calibrate words, not just probabilities // mikkel-wilson, 2 min
# Ai
Lessons on AI Takeover from the conquistadors // daniel-kokotajlo, 6 min Favorite
Collection of GPT-3 results // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Why is pseudo-alignment "worse" than other ways ML can fail to generalize? // nostalgebraist, 3 min
How should AI debate be judged? // abramdemski, 7 min
Classification of AI alignment research: deconfusion, "good enough" non-superintelligent AI alignment, superintelligent AI alignment // crabman, 2 min
Alignment proposals and complexity classes // evhub, 16 min
New paper: AGI Agent Safety by Iteratively Improving the Utility Function // Koen.Holtman, 8 min
Environments as a bottleneck in AGI development // ricraz, 7 min
AGI Agent Safety by Iteratively Improving the Utility Function // Koen.Holtman, 8 min
Can an agent use interactive proofs to check the alignment of succesors? // PabloAMC, 1 min
Lessons on AI Takeover from the conquistadors [Transcript] // daniel-kokotajlo, 6 min
AI Benefits Post 4: Outstanding Questions on Selecting Benefits // Cullen_OKeefe, 6 min
What are the mostly likely ways AGI will emerge? // crizCraig, 1 min
# Decision theory
Six economics misconceptions of mine which I've resolved over the last few years // Buck, 11 min Favorite
Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study) // aphyer, 9 min
Dremeling // JacobKopczynski, 1 min
# Math and cs
The Goldbach conjecture is probably correct; so was Fermat's last theorem // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
What counts as defection? // TurnTrout, 6 min
Gödel Incompleteness: For Dummies // jollybard, 3 min
Why associative operations? // Evan Rysdam
# Books
Book Review: Fooled by Randomness // Sherrinford, 6 min
Notes — Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Relationships
My Dating Plan ala Geoffrey Miller // snog toddgrass, 4 min
# Community
Telling more rational stories // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
Roll for Sanity // evan-huus, 5 min
# Misc
School Has It Backwards // proshowersinger, 2 min
Mazes and Duality [Transcript] // johnswentworth, 7 min
Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle // Zack_M_Davis, 15 min
Meta-preferences are weird [Transcript] // jacobjacob, 6 min
What You Are // 4thWayWastrel, 1 min
How big of an issue are patent trolls to the average startup? // ChristianKl, 1 min
How to persuade people/groups out of sunk cost fallacy? // michael-flood-1, 1 min
What are the best tools you have seen to keep track of knowledge around testable statements? // migueltorrescosta, 1 min
# Podcasts
Currents 009: Gregg Henriques on Theory Of Meta-Cultural Transition // The Jim Rutt Show, 71 min
c09: Alone in a Serengeti // Constellation, 78 min
EP66 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Knowledge // The Jim Rutt Show, 96 min
115 – Does Rationality Actually Do Anything? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 117 min
EP65 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Complexity // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Rational fiction
Null-boxing Newcomb’s Problem // yitz, 4 min
# Videos of the week
Can an AI Learn Lip Reading? // Two Minute Papers, 6 min