rational
Issue #136
1 November, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/29: All We Ever Talk About // Zvi, 27 min
Trick-or-treating in Covid Times // jkaufman, 1 min
How can I reconcile these COVID test false-negative numbers? // Optimization Process, 2 min
How should one deal with life threatening infections or air planes? // Nacruno96, 1 min
Increasing Isolation Again // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) // alkjash, 10 min Favorite
Desperation hamster wheels // nicole-ross, 7 min
Memory reconsolidation for self-affection // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
# Epistemic
How do you read the news critically? // ChristianKl, 11 min
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge // Samo Burja, 11 min
Taking Ideas Seriously is Hard // neilkakkar, 1 min
# Ai
AI risk hub in Singapore? // daniel-kokotajlo, 5 min
"Inner Alignment Failures" Which Are Actually Outer Alignment Failures // johnswentworth, 5 min
Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds // DanielFilan, 9 min
Responses to Christiano on takeoff speeds? // ricraz, 1 min
"Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling", Henighan et al 2020 {OA} // gwern
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Honesty // David_Gross, 19 min
# Anthropic
What risks concern you which don't seem to have been seriously considered by the community? // ete, 1 min
# Decision theory
The Darwin Game - Round 1 // lsusr, 1 min
# Math and cs
A Correspondence Theorem // johnswentworth, 14 min
Integers as Compression // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Books
Book review: Age Later // PeterMcCluskey, 4 min
# Relationships
Does playing hard to get work? AB testing for romance // amplemaple, 6 min
# Community
Aim to explain, not persuade // lsusr, 1 min
Top Time Travel Interventions? // abramdemski, 1 min
Babble challenge: 50 consequences of intelligent ant colonies // jacobjacob, 5 min
Secular Solstice Online (Americas) // Raemon, 1 min
Sam Altman at SlateStarCodex Online Meetup // JoshuaFox, 1 min
# Culture war
Models predicting significant violence in the US? // kdbscott, 3 min
Which headlines and narratives are mostly clickbait? // Pontor, 1 min
A Call For Cancel Courts // Robin Hanson, 3 min
What Are Parents Owed? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Win-Win Babies As Infrastructure // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Fun
Spoiler-Free Review and then Semi-Walkthrough: Star Traders: Frontiers // Zvi, 29 min
# Misc
What's holding back outsourcing to cloud labs? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Whence the symptoms of social media? // KatjaGrace, 2 min
But what kinds of puppets are we? // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Reasons that discussions might feel hopeless // gogishvilli, 2 min
Why does History assume equal national intelligence? // HumaneAutomation, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP88 Nancy Hillis & Bruce Sawhill on Art & Complexity // The Jim Rutt Show, 66 min
Currents 018: The Future Thinkers Smart Village // The Jim Rutt Show, 60 min
How much does a vote matter? (Article) // The 80000 Hours team, 31 min
Currents 017: Bret Weinstein on Unity 2020 // The Jim Rutt Show, 86 min
c18: Hobbies Don’t Count // Constellation, 5 min
# Videos of the week
3 steps to stop remote work burnout | The Way We Work, a TED series // TED, 4 min