rational
Issue #135: Full List
25 October, 2020 // View curated list
The jobs of tomorrow: the engineers, researchers and marketers of today could be the data scientists of tomorrow // www.weforum.org
# Coronavirus
Covid 10/22: Europe in Crisis // Zvi, 19 min
Effective Epidemiology // mike-harris-1, 11 min
You have recovered from SARS-CoV-2. Now what? // jorge-velez, 6 min
Optimum Prevention // Robin Hanson, 1 min
We Are Over-Preventing Covid // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Instrumental
My case for starting blogging // neel-nanda-1, 18 min
Group debugging guidelines & thoughts // Kaj_Sotala, 13 min
Retain flexibility with habits? // vroomerify, 1 min
Should I prefer to get a tax refund, or not to? // MichaelDickens, 1 min
# Epistemic
No Causation without Reification // gworley, 3 min
“Prediction” and “explanation” are not causation // jasoncrawford, 1 min
Learning is (Asymptotically) Computationally Inefficient, Choose Your Exponents Wisely // shminux, 4 min
Adjusting probabilities for the passage of time, using Squiggle // Radamantis, 4 min
# Ai
The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min
Box inversion hypothesis // jan-kulveit, 4 min
Humans are stunningly rational and stunningly irrational // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
GPT-X, Paperclip Maximizer? Analyzing AGI and Final Goals // meanderingmoose, 7 min
When was the term "AI alignment" coined? // capybaralet
What's the difference between GAI and a government? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Virtue ethics and why the rationalist community might care about it. // David_Gross, 6 min
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings // dynomight, 4 min
Powerless Moral Evaluation // SocratesDissatisfied, 5 min
# Longevity
What is the current bottleneck on genetic engineering of human embryos for improved IQ // elityre, 1 min
# Anthropic
(How) should we pursue human longevity? // milan-cvitkovic, 1 min
What is our true life expectancy? // adamzerner, 1 min
# Decision theory
The Darwin Game - Rounds 0 to 10 // lsusr, 5 min
How to Catalyze Cooperation in Media Sharing // zachary-robertson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Message Length // Zack_M_Davis, 12 min
# Books
Book Review: Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto // billmei, 12 min
# Community
A tale from Communist China // Wei_Dai, 2 min Favorite
Launching Forecast, a community for crowdsourced predictions from Facebook // rebecca-kossnick, 3 min
What posts do you want written? // mark-xu, 1 min
Stupid Questions October 2020 // ChristianKl, 1 min
Should we use qualifiers in speech? // adamzerner, 1 min
Rationalist Town Hall: Pandemic Edition // Benito, 2 min
Betting Thread // Amandango, 1 min
Babble challenge: 50 ways of solving a problem in your life // jacobjacob, 2 min
As a Washed Up Former Data Scientist and Machine Learning Researcher What Direction Should I Go In Now? // Darklight, 3 min
The Trouble With Babbles // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Cambridge, MA Rationalist Reading Group // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
# Culture war
Changing the size of Congress // jkaufman, 2 min
Contra-Counting Coalitions Value Variety // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Misc
The bads of ads // KatjaGrace, 3 min Favorite
PredictIt: Presidential Market is Increasingly Wrong // Zvi, 5 min
Problems Involving Abstraction? // johnswentworth, 1 min
Courage, and how to get some // David_Gross, 5 min
Local Solar Time // jkaufman, 2 min
"Little glimpses of empathy" as the foundation for social emotions // steve2152, 6 min
The Uncertainty of Death and Taxes // Zvi, 12 min
Just For Fun // proshowersinger, 3 min
An Open Letter On Love // nroman, 6 min
Has anyone researched specification gaming with biological animals? // capybaralet, 1 min
Finding Leverage: System Thinking & Change Management // JASmithy, 7 min
What colour were the shadows? // mary-chernyshenko, 1 min
Personal Energy Apps // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP86 Nadav Zeimer on Educational Reform // The Jim Rutt Show, 87 min
#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us // The 80000 Hours team, 144 min
Currents 016: Robin Hanson on Are We Living In A Simulation? // The Jim Rutt Show, 49 min
122 – EARN IT vs America // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 105 min
EP85 Gar Alperovitz on Reinventing Our Systems // The Jim Rutt Show, 84 min
YANSS 190 – How we can escape the psychological trap of learned helplessness //
Currents 015: Jessica Flack & Melanie Mitchell on Complexity // The Jim Rutt Show, 53 min
# Videos of the week
How humanity can reach the stars | Philip Lubin // TED, 8 min