rational
Issue #133
11 October, 2020 // View full list
Study finds that anti-money laundering policy has less than 0.1% impact on financial crime and compliance costs exceed recovered criminal funds by > 100x. // www.ledgerinsights.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 10/8: October Surprise // Zvi, 37 min
COVID Strategy 101 // mike-harris-1, 21 min
What was your behavioral response to covid-19 ? // George3d6, 2 min
Dancing With Covid // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
The Felt Sense: What, Why and How // Kaj_Sotala, 16 min Favorite
Thoughts on ADHD // romeostevensit, 3 min
How to reach 80% of your goals. Exactly 80%. // Stuckwork, 1 min
Rule of Equal and Opposite Advice & Slack // aaron-teetor, 1 min
On Slack - Having room to be excited // neel-nanda-1, 16 min
# Epistemic
Can we hold intellectuals to similar public standards as athletes? // ozziegooen, 3 min Favorite
Large Effects Can't Prove Small Causes // Bucky, 5 min
Domains of truth // mxln, 5 min
# Ai
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values // rohinmshah, 7 min
AI race considerations in a report by the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services // Radamantis, 15 min
Brainstorming positive visions of AI // jungofthewon, 1 min
If GPT-6 is human-level AGI but costs $200 per page of output, what would happen? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Shouldn't there be a Chinese translation of Human Compatible? // MakoYass, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Forcing Freedom // vlad.proex, 8 min
Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
Linking Goals to Moral Theory [crosspost] // FCCC, 20 min
# Anthropic
Rationality and Climate Change // andrea-mulazzani, 1 min Favorite
How worried are the relevant experts about a magnetic pole reversal? // Evan Rysdam, 1 min
Inaccessible finely tuned RNG in humans? // Sandi, 1 min
Buying micro-biostasis // MathieuRoy, 6 min
Not Even Evidence // Dach, 10 min
# Decision theory
Upside decay - why some people never get lucky // brianlui, 6 min
Lessons on Value of Information From Civ // johnswentworth, 3 min
Alpha α and Beta β // lsusr, 2 min
How to Price a Futures Contract // lsusr, 2 min
# Math and cs
Why isn't JS a popular language for deep learning? // willclarktech, 1 min
# Books
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: A summary // jasoncrawford, 13 min
Review and Summary of 'Moral Uncertainty' // fin, 1 min
The Socialist Manifesto // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Community
The Treacherous Path to Rationality // Jacobian, 13 min
The Darwin Game // lsusr, 2 min
One hub, or many? // abramdemski, 1 min
Babble challenge: 50 ways to escape a locked room // jacobjacob, 3 min
Fermi Challenge: Trains and Air Cargo // Benito, 1 min
# Culture war
Political Lottery in Switzerland // sustrik, 1 min
Is libertarianism unsustainable? Why? // vishrut-arya, 1 min
# Misc
Philosophy of Therapy // DaystarEld, 19 min
Open Communication in the Days of Malicious Online Actors // ozziegooen, 1 min
Some elements of industrial literacy // jasoncrawford, 1 min
[Link] Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts—Stephen Wolfram Writings // Kenny, 1 min
More Questions about Trees // digital_carver, 1 min
# Podcasts
Currents 013: Rob Malda on the Slashdot Story // The Jim Rutt Show, 44 min
EP83 Michel Bauwens on Our Commons Transition // The Jim Rutt Show, 82 min
c17: Religion in the Constellation // Constellation, 81 min
121 – Crony Beliefs // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 137 min
EP82 Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future // The Jim Rutt Show, 93 min
# Videos of the week
The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne // TED, 12 min