rational
Issue #131: Full List
27 September, 2020 // View curated list
Meta-analysis: With increasing age, individual differences in religiousness are increasingly determined by genes, a pattern known from the realm of intelligence. // www.google.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/24: Until Morale Improves // Zvi, 14 min
Prepare for COVID-19 Human Challenge Trials — A Petition in Canada (and soon, the UK) // abierohrig, 2 min
# Instrumental
Scheduling Algorithm for a PhD Student // rockthecasbah, 1 min
# Epistemic
The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Zen and Rationality: Just This Is It // gworley, 2 min
Up close and personal with the world // dominicq, 1 min
Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min
What is complexity science? (Not computational complexity theory) How useful is it? What areas is it related to? // crabman, 3 min
[Link] Where did you get that idea in the first place? | Meaningness // Kenny, 1 min
Epistemic Reserve Notes // Mike Elias, 5 min
# Ai
Clarifying “What failure looks like” (part 1) // Sam Clarke, 20 min
Human Biases that Obscure AI Progress // phylliida-dev, 4 min
Needed: AI infohazard policy // vanessa-kosoy, 2 min
Where is human level on text prediction? (GPTs task) // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
AI Advantages [Gems from the Wiki] // habryka4, 2 min
A long reply to Ben Garfinkel on Scrutinizing Classic AI Risk Arguments // soren-elverlin-1, 1 min
Anthropomorphisation vs value learning: type 1 vs type 2 errors // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
My (Mis)Adventures With Algorithmic Machine Learning // AHartNtkn, 48 min
Dehumanisation *errors* // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
David Deutsch on Universal Explainers and AI // alanf, 2 min
# Anthropic
Forecasting Thread: Existential Risk // Amandango, 2 min
# Decision theory
Comparative Advantage is Not About Trade // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite
Most People Aren't Fishermen // proshowersinger, 5 min
About a local variation of Rock-Paper-Scissors and how it self-negated its own problematic dynamic // KyriakosCH, 2 min
I have discovered a new kind of unemployment. // Nathan Brooks, 2 min
Abstract Views Are Coming // Robin Hanson, 2 min
The World Forager Elite // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Elois Ate Your Flying Car // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Relationships
Shittests are actually good // snog toddgrass, 3 min
# Community
Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020 // Benito, 3 min
The rationalist community's location problem // mingyuan, 5 min
Surviving Petrov Day // MathieuRoy, 2 min
Petrov Day is not about unilateral action // sen, 1 min
Petrov Event Roundup 2020 // Raemon, 1 min
# Culture war
I'm Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don't Like It // jkaufman, 1 min
# Misc
Notebook for generating forecasting bets // Amandango, 1 min
Losing the forest for the trees with grid drawings // adamzerner, 2 min
Distributed public goods provision // paulfchristiano, 5 min
How often do series C startups fail to exit? // jessica-shu, 1 min
Are aircraft carriers super vulnerable in a modern war? // Liron, 1 min
How To Pick A Quack: Theory // Robin Hanson, 8 min
The Big and the Small // Tim Urban, 4 min
# Podcasts
EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe // The Jim Rutt Show, 109 min
Currents 012: Andrew Taggart on Narcissism, Culture & Dying // The Jim Rutt Show, 59 min
Ben Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat) // The 80000 Hours team, 84 min
120 – Why Can’t We Brain Good? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 120 min
c15: Rulesy and Unclear // Constellation, 57 min
EP78 Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz // The Jim Rutt Show, 75 min
# Rational fiction
Has anyone written stories happening in Hanson's em world? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
# Videos of the week
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Puts An AI Into Your Brain! ? // Two Minute Papers, 8 min