rational
Issue #125
16 August, 2020 // View full list
Triangular theory of love replicates across multiple (25) nations. N=7,332. // drive.google.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 8/13: Same As It Ever Was // Zvi, 21 min
Do we have updated data about the risk of ~ permanent chronic fatigue from COVID-19? // elityre, 1 min
Imagine a World Where Governments Treated COVID-19 Properly // jdampolargo, 4 min
# Instrumental
You Need More Money // gilch, 9 min Favorite
How to Lose a Fair Game // gilch, 9 min
Investment idea: basket of tech stocks weighted towards AI // ioannes_shade, 2 min
Repeat Until Broke // gilch, 5 min
# Epistemic
This Territory Does Not Exist // ike, 9 min Favorite
Fantasy-Forbidding Expert Opinion // yamabiko, 3 min
Sentence by Sentence: "Why Most Published Research Findings are False" // AllAmericanBreakfast, 58 min
Strong implication of preference uncertainty // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
How webs of meaning grow and change // Hazard, 12 min
# Ai
Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms // adam_scholl, 6 min Favorite
My Understanding of Paul Christiano's Iterated Amplification AI Safety Research Agenda // Chi Nguyen, 47 min
Alignment By Default // johnswentworth, 13 min
Will OpenAI's work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI? // adamShimi, 1 min
Is OpenAI increasing the existential risks related to AI? // adamShimi, 1 min
# Anthropic
Existential Risk is a single category // sil-ver, 1 min
What's the evidence on falling testosteron and sperm counts in men? // Self-Embedded Agent, 1 min
# Decision theory
Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.) // sustrik, 27 min
Does crime explain the exceptional US incarceration rate? // braces, 3 min
Money creation and debt // AnthonyC, 1 min
Social Interfaces // thoughtfulmadison, 3 min
Utility functions without a maximum // abhimanyu-pallavi-sudhir, 1 min
# Math and cs
Effect of Numpy // jkaufman, 1 min
# Books
RE "The Conspiracy against the Human Race," by Thomas Ligotti // Callmesalticidae, 19 min
Book review: Architects of Intelligence by Martin Ford (2018) // ofer, 2 min
# Community
Writing Piano Songs: A Journey // elriggs, 6 min
An Invitation to the Guild of Servants — Alpha // moridinamael, 1 min
Room and Board for People Self-Learning ML or Doing Independent ML Research // SamuelKnoche, 1 min
misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism // MakoYass, 3 min
Petrov Day 2020 Virtual Celebration // parsley, 1 min
# Misc
The Best Educational Institution in the World // SamuelKnoche, 11 min
On Need-Sets // Marcello, 2 min
Many-worlds versus discrete knowledge // jessica.liu.taylor, 1 min
Moloch and multi-level selection // thoughtfulmadison, 3 min
The Law of Least Effort Contributes to the Conjunction Fallacy // curi, 3 min
# Podcasts
#84 - Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked // The 80000 Hours team, 178 min
Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism // The Jim Rutt Show, 39 min
117 – The Guild of Servants // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 108 min
c11: Core Rules of the Constellation // Constellation, 53 min
EP71 Philip Howard on Computational Propaganda // The Jim Rutt Show, 62 min
# Videos of the week
The risky way to speed up a coronavirus vaccine // Vox, 9 min