rational
Issue #123
2 August, 2020 // View full list
Arguments for driverless dilemmas in the context of autonomous vehicles are "too contrived to be of practical use and an inappropriate method for making decisions" // drive.google.com
# Coronavirus
New Paper on Herd Immunity Thresholds // Zvi, 11 min
Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole // Zvi, 13 min
Food Spending During Covid // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
Attention is your scarcest resource // benkuhn, 5 min
Engaging Seriously with Short Timelines // deluks917, 4 min
Free Educational and Research Resources // wearsshoes, 7 min
How I use Google Forms in my Workflow // harri-besceli, 3 min
Jam is obsolete // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
Enforcing Type Distinction // lionhearted, 2 min
Why You Might Want a New Way to Visualize Biases // dtm, 3 min
"Go west, young man!" - Preferences in (imperfect) maps // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
The Conceited Folly of Certainty // Deep Dives, 24 min
The Future of Science // ricraz, 9 min
# Ai
Are we in an AI overhang? // andyljones, 5 min Favorite
Developmental Stages of GPTs // orthonormal, 8 min
What specific dangers arise when asking GPT-N to write an Alignment Forum post? // matthew-barnett, 1 min
Predictions for GPT-N // hippke, 1 min
You Can Probably Amplify GPT3 Directly // zachary-robertson, 7 min
# Anthropic
Would a halfway copied brain emulation be at risk of having different values/identity? // Ghatanathoah, 2 min
# Decision theory
Generalized Efficient Markets in Political Power // johnswentworth, 10 min
The Era Of Unlimited Everything: Unlimited Materials & Unlimited Money // jdampolargo, 12 min
Asset Prices Consistently Violate Efficient Market Hypothesis // Liron, 1 min
Improving local governance in fragile states - practical lessons from the field // rockthecasbah, 6 min
What Future Areas Matter Most? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Pure Bayesianism vs Newcomb's Paradox // le-nguyen-hoang-1, 18 min
Godel in second-order logic? // abhimanyu-pallavi-sudhir, 1 min
Structured Tasks for Language Models // zachary-robertson, 1 min
# Ea
Billionaire Economics // Virgil Kurkjian, 1 min Favorite
# Community
Delegate a Forecast // Amandango, 1 min
Online LessWrong Community Weekend, September 11th-13th // Linda Linsefors, 2 min
Rationalist Reading Group (Online) // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
# Culture war
The Curse of Cursory Idealism // Deep Dives, 3 min
# Misc
What a 20-year-lead in military tech might look like // daniel-kokotajlo, 20 min Favorite
Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed // gworley, 3 min
Can you gain weirdness points? // NicholasKross, 1 min
Parameters of Privacy // Raemon, 7 min
Incentivized Guardians // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Podcasts
#83 - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons // The 80000 Hours team, 143 min
EP69 Rachel Haywire on Free Thinking & Expression // The Jim Rutt Show, 67 min
c10: Infinite Zebras // Constellation, 93 min
Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species // The Jim Rutt Show, 52 min
116 – Truth, Falsity, and Censorship // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 141 min
# Videos of the week
What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis // TED, 10 min