rational
Issue #126: Full List
23 August, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 8/20: A Little Progress // Zvi, 21 min
What price would you pay for the RadVac Vaccine and why? // bgold, 1 min
Exposure or Contacts? // jkaufman, 2 min
How much can surgical masks help with wildfire smoke? // gworley, 1 min
Coronavirus and Rents II // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
On Systems - Living a life of zero willpower // neel-nanda-1, 14 min Favorite
"The Holy Grail" of portfolio management // Alexei, 6 min
Live a life you feel excited about // neel-nanda-1, 8 min
On Creativity - The joys of 5 minute timers // neel-nanda-1, 7 min
# Epistemic
Multitudinous outside views // Davidmanheim, 3 min
Epistemic Comparison: First Principles Land vs. Mimesis Land // ozziegooen, 3 min
How More Knowledge is Making Us Dumber // jdampolargo, 3 min
On Defining your Terms // Chris_Leong, 2 min
Which way should we update about uncertain events, over time? // Milton, 1 min
# Ai
Forecasting Thread: AI Timelines // Amandango, 2 min Favorite
Looking for adversarial collaborators to test our Debate protocol // beth-barnes, 1 min
AI safety as featherless bipeds *with broad flat nails* // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Alex Irpan: "My AI Timelines Have Sped Up" // Vaniver, 1 min
Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control // abramdemski, 8 min
GPT-3, belief, and consistency // skybrian, 2 min
Learning human preferences: optimistic and pessimistic scenarios // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min
Thoughts on the Feasibility of Prosaic AGI Alignment? // iamthouthouarti, 1 min
Goal-Directedness: What Success Looks Like // adamShimi, 2 min
The Ant Farm // JimBaler, 2 min
# Anthropic
RE "Technology and the Future of Persons", by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013) // Callmesalticidae, 6 min
Lost Advanced Civilizations // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Decision theory
The Wrong Side of Risk // gilch, 4 min
Market Misconceptions // gilch, 6 min
Why don't countries, like companies, more often merge? // vishrut-arya, 1 min
Efficient Market Frontier // Alexei, 12 min
How to Pick the Wrong Side // gilch, 4 min
A way to beat superrational/EDT agents? // abhimanyu-pallavi-sudhir, 1 min
Analyzing Blackmail Being Illegal (Hanson and Mowshowitz related) // curi, 10 min
# Math and cs
What's a Decomposable Alignment Topic? // elriggs, 1 min
# Ea
Becoming an EA-influencer on YouTube etc. // culturechange, 1 min
# Community
Survey Results: 10 Fun Questions for LWers // Benito, 4 min
Should we write more about social life? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Updating My LW Commenting Policy // curi, 4 min
Spending Update 2020 // jkaufman, 3 min
Branch from the Apricot Tree // apricotSwarm, 1 min
# Culture war
The US Already Has A Wealth Tax // jkaufman, 1 min
The Human Condition // sustrik, 6 min
Status for status sake is a fact of political life // rockthecasbah, 1 min
Breadth, Humor Show Privilege // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Misc
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately? // jasoncrawford, 14 min Favorite
Search versus design // alexflint, 44 min
What am I missing? (quantum physics) // kithpendragon, 1 min
Inoculating against Psychedelic Woo // mikkel-wilson, 7 min
# Podcasts
#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy // The 80000 Hours team, 128 min
EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic // The Jim Rutt Show, 109 min
# Videos of the week
Art in the age of machine intelligence | Refik Anadol // TED, 12 min