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Issue #129: Full List
13 September, 2020 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/10: Vitamin D // Zvi, 19 min
Efficacy of Vitamin D in helping with COVID // df-fd, 1 min
In 1 year and 5 years what do you see as "the normal" world. // jmh, 1 min
Decision theory analysis of whether vaccines should be distributed prior to the completion of stage three trials please // rockthecasbah, 1 min
# Instrumental
Capturing Ideas // abramdemski, 10 min
‘Ugh fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task (Rob Wiblin) // habryka4, 2 min
Choose simplicity and structure. // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
# Epistemic
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers // habryka4, 2 min
How To Fermi Model // habryka4, 12 min
The Four Children of the Seder as the Simulacra Levels // Zvi, 19 min
On Chesterton's Fence // trentbrick, 12 min
Notes on good judgement and how to develop it (80,000 Hours) // habryka4, 1 min
Zen and Rationality: Map and Territory // gworley, 2 min
Reference Classes // Chris_Leong, 5 min
The Short Case for Verificationism // ike, 1 min
Resist epistemic (and emotional) learned helplessness! // AllAmericanBreakfast, 8 min
# Ai
on “learning to summarize” // nostalgebraist, 9 min Favorite
"Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback" - OpenAI // Rekrul, 1 min
How Much Computational Power Does It Take to Match the Human Brain? // habryka4, 1 min
How easily can we separate a friendly AI in design space from one which would bring about a hyperexistential catastrophe? // Anirandis, 2 min
Safety via selection for obedience // ricraz, 6 min
Do mesa-optimizer risk arguments rely on the train-test paradigm? // ben-cottier, 1 min
Safer sandboxing via population separation // ricraz, 5 min
The universality of computation and mind design space // alanf, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
The ethics of breeding to kill // George3d6, 7 min
# Anthropic
Luna First, But Not To Live There // NathanielMRouth, 6 min
Leslie's Firing Squad Can't Save The Fine-Tuning Argument // dadadarren, 4 min
# Decision theory
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island // dynomight, 6 min
Social Capital Paradoxes // abramdemski, 4 min
Specialized Innovation Is Easier // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
CTWTB: Paths of Computation State // johnswentworth, 4 min
# Books
Indignation in response to the 1890 census // jasoncrawford, 1 min
# Relationships
Loneliness and the paradox of choice // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min Favorite
Loneliness // AllAmericanBreakfast, 15 min
# Community
Updates Thread // adamzerner, 1 min Favorite
Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim // efim, 3 min
Austin Petrov Day: 6:30pm 9/26 // jchan, 1 min
Petrov Day celebration // Senarin, 1 min
Reading Discussion Group // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
Budapest Meetup at Margit Sziget, Sept 20 at 2pm // timothy-underwood-1, 1 min
Update On My Situation // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Culture war
Escalation Outside the System // jkaufman, 2 min
Changes in Reality // evan-huus, 1 min
# Misc
Design thoughts for building a better kind of social space with many webs of trust // MakoYass, 14 min
Ice // Hivewired, 7 min
Rationality and playfulness // AllAmericanBreakfast, 14 min
Should some variant of longtermism identify as a religion? // MakoYass, 2 min
A Toy Model of Hingeyness // Bob Jacobs, 5 min
# Podcasts
Episode 119 – If You’re A Human, You’re Already Losing To GPT-3 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 122 min
c13: Create the Illusion You’re Exclusive // Constellation, 72 min
Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article) // The 80000 Hours team, 27 min
EP76 Max Borders on the Social Singularity // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Videos of the week
Big data, small farms and a tale of two tomatoes | Erin Baumgartner // TED, 15 min