rational
Issue #128
6 September, 2020 // View full listPeople cannot form and maintain unbiased beliefs while advocating for a cause, even when financially incentivized to form true beliefs. // drive.google.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/3: Meet the New CDC // Zvi, 14 min
When should I be concerned about my Oura measurements indicating COVID-19? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Instrumental
Stop pressing the Try Harder button // neel-nanda-1, 4 min
Plans / prepping for possible political violence from upcoming US election? // anon03, 1 min
Estimating the ROI of Insulation // jkaufman, 3 min
Helping people to solve their problems // neel-nanda-1, 11 min
# Epistemic
Why is Bayesianism important for rationality? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Why would code/English or low-abstraction/high-abstraction simplicity or brevity correspond? // curi, 1 min
A Policy for Biting Bullets // evan-huus, 5 min
Wittgenstein’s Revenge // Contributor, 1 min
# Ai
interpreting GPT: the logit lens // nostalgebraist, 12 min
Reflections on AI Timelines Forecasting Thread // Amandango, 5 min
Using GPT-N to Solve Interpretability of Neural Networks: A Research Agenda // elriggs, 2 min
(Humor) AI Alignment Critical Failure Table // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
From GPT to AGI // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Anthropic
Hello ordinary folks, I'm the Chosen One // dadadarren, 3 min
Emotional valence vs RL reward: a video game analogy // steve2152, 4 min
Anthropic Reasoning and Perspective-Based Arguments // dadadarren, 2 min
# Decision theory
The Box Spread Trick: Get rich slightly faster // thomas-kwa, 7 min
Common Econ Critiques // Robin Hanson, 11 min
# Math and cs
Multivariate estimation & the Squiggly language // ozziegooen, 8 min
Li and Vitalyi's bad scholarship // alanf, 4 min
# Ea
Announcing: Progress Studies Reading Group. // Sami_beanz, 1 min
# Relationships
Conflict, the Rules of Engagement, and Professionalism // habryka4, 9 min
# Community
Online LessWrong Community Weekend // Linda Linsefors, 2 min
SlateStarCodex Online Meetup: Connor Leahy on GPT-N // JoshuaFox, 1 min
Virtual Rationality Congress 2020 // Sophie Strobl, 1 min
# Culture war
Alarmism // Basil Marte, 2 min
# Misc
What's the best overview of common Micromorts? // Raemon, 1 min
If there were an interactive software teaching Yudkowskian rationality, what concepts would you want to see it teach? // mikkel-wilson, 1 min
Remote Work Is Teleportation Lite // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Podcasts
Ben Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat) // The 80000 Hours team, 57 min
EP75 Nick Chater: “The Mind Is Flat” // The Jim Rutt Show, 99 min
# Videos of the week
How much sleep do you really need? | Sleeping with Science, a TED series // TED, 2 min