rational
Issue #132
4 October, 2020 // View full list
No improvement after the replication crisis: Social sciences are not getting better, and citation counts are unrelated to truth. There are still several things that can be done. // fantasticanachronism.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 10/1: The Long Haul // Zvi, 11 min
# Instrumental
A simple device for indoor air management // Grothor, 3 min
Tips for the most immersive video calls // benkuhn, 18 min
Your Standards are Too High // neel-nanda-1, 17 min
On Option Paralysis - The Thing You Actually Do // neel-nanda-1, 7 min
Muting on Group Calls // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
Words and Implications // johnswentworth, 9 min
Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew // dynomight, 8 min
Learning how to learn // neel-nanda-1, 17 min
is scope insensitivity really a brain error? // Kaarlo Tuomi, 1 min
How to not be an alarmist // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
# Ai
Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3 // paulfchristiano, 3 min
AI safety from first principles: Introduction // ricraz, 2 min
“Unsupervised” translation as an (intent) alignment problem // paulfchristiano, 4 min
AI safety from first principles: Superintelligence // ricraz, 11 min
AI safety from first principles: Goals and Agency // ricraz, 18 min
# Anthropic
Industrial literacy // jasoncrawford, 3 min
Attention to snakes not fear of snakes: evolution encoding environmental knowledge in peripheral systems // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min
# Decision theory
What Decision Theory is Implied By Predictive Processing? // johnswentworth, 1 min
Seek Upside Risk // neel-nanda-1, 10 min
Examples of self-governance to reduce technology risk? // Jia, 1 min
Yay Parliaments // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Math and cs
Math That Clicks: Look for Two-Way Correspondences // TurnTrout, 3 min
KL Divergence as Code Patching Efficiency // zachary-robertson, 9 min
# Books
Notes: The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Ea
Evaluating Life Extension Advocacy Foundation // emanuele-ascani, 6 min
The case for Life Extension Advocacy Foundation // emanuele-ascani, 6 min
# Community
On Destroying the World // Chris_Leong, 5 min
Postmortem to Petrov Day, 2020 // Benito, 11 min
Numeracy neglect - A personal postmortem // vlad.proex, 10 min
On "Not Screwing Up Ritual Candles" // Raemon, 3 min
Blog posts as epistemic trust builders // adamzerner, 1 min
# Culture war
Rulesy Folks Push Paternalism // Robin Hanson, 6 min
The Trump-Biden Debate // Tim Urban, 11 min
Why Not Clearer Legitimacy? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Our Hidden Motive To Submit // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Fun
Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon // jacobjacob, 2 min
Puzzle Games // Scott Garrabrant, 7 min
# Misc
"Win First" vs "Chill First" // lionhearted, 3 min
Not all communication is manipulation: Chaperones don't manipulate proteins // ChristianKl, 2 min
Holy Grails of Chemistry // chemslug, 1 min
What are good rationality exercises? // Benito, 1 min
Three car seats? // jkaufman, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare // The Jim Rutt Show, 88 min
c16: A Slug Crossing a Lawn in Realtime // Constellation, 74 min
EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking // The Jim Rutt Show, 98 min
# Rational fiction
What are examples of Rationalist fable-like stories? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
What hard science fiction stories also got the social sciences right? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
# Videos of the week
When A.I. Becomes Creative // ColdFusion, 15 min