rational
Issue #137
8 November, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 11/5: Don’t Mention the War // Zvi, 36 min
Teach People to Recognize the Sound of Covid? // jkaufman, 2 min
Covid-19 IFR from a Bayesian point of view // mwacksen, 3 min
Covid 'Mink variant' // henryaj, 1 min
Why are deaths not increasing with infections in the US? // rockthecasbah, 1 min
# Instrumental
Gifts Which Money Cannot Buy // johnswentworth, 3 min
Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions // lynettebye, 11 min
Don't read news // Eli_, 1 min
Non Polemic: How do you personally deal with "irrational" people? // andrea-mulazzani, 5 min
# Epistemic
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth // johnswentworth, 5 min Favorite
Three more stories about causation // cousin_it, 1 min
What is the right phrase for "theoretical evidence"? // adamzerner, 2 min
Observe, babble, and prune // AllAmericanBreakfast, 10 min
# Ai
the scaling “inconsistency”: openAI’s new insight // nostalgebraist, 11 min
Automated intelligence is not AI // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment? // mark-xu, 19 min
Confucianism in AI Alignment // johnswentworth, 7 min
"model scores" is a questionable concept // allswellthatsmaxwell, 7 min
# Meta-ethics
Ethics in Many Worlds // fin, 11 min
Notes on Industriousness // David_Gross, 5 min
Notes on piety // David_Gross, 3 min
Notes on Justice (as a virtue) // David_Gross, 10 min
# Anthropic
Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction // jeff-ladish, 13 min
Three Open Problems in Aging // johnswentworth, 5 min
Join The Universe // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Where do (did?) stable, cooperative institutions come from? // AnnaSalamon, 5 min Favorite
How can I bet on short timelines? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Kelly Bet or Update? // abramdemski, 5 min
Generalize Kelly to Account for # Iterations? // abramdemski, 1 min
Should students be allowed to give good teachers a bonus? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
# Math and cs
Generalized Heat Engine // johnswentworth, 9 min
Multiple Worlds, One Universal Wave Function // evhub, 31 min
Generalized Heat Engine II: Thermodynamic Efficiency Limit // johnswentworth, 8 min
Sleeping Julia: Empirical support for thirder argument in the Sleeping Beauty Problem // alex-v, 2 min
The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric // lsusr, 1 min
# Books
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall // jasoncrawford, 13 min
A summary review on The Age of Em // oge, 1 min
# Ea
Notes on Compassion // David_Gross, 20 min
Surface Thoughts Suck // Dach, 4 min
# Community
Location Discussion Takeaways // mingyuan, 15 min
SubOnlyStackFans // Jacobian, 4 min
Bucket Brigade Singing // jkaufman, 2 min
Predictions made by Mati Roy in early 2020 // MathieuRoy, 20 min
Babble Challenge: 50 thoughts on stable, cooperative institutions // jacobjacob, 3 min
# Culture war
The Power & Tragedy of Names // SocratesDissatisfied, 5 min
Cowering To Genocide: Uighur Persecution And The World’s Last Hope // willbobaggins, 5 min
Six Struggles Surrounding Status // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Prestige As Mob-Enforced Dominance // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Prestige in US Today // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Misc
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch // Viliam, 2 min
Why philosophy of science? // ricraz, 2 min
Share your personal stories of prediction markets // rockthecasbah, 1 min
Can we prime people to take risk? // tonyoconnor, 2 min
Zeno's Paradoxes - Dichotomy + Archilles and the Tortoise // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP90 Joshua Epstein on Agent-Based Modeling // The Jim Rutt Show, 75 min
#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know // The 80000 Hours team, 109 min
123 – Stuff Has Been Weird Lately // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 124 min
c19: Public Worlds Set Up to Solve Problems // Constellation
EP89 Lene Andersen on Metamodernity // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Videos of the week
Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it | Sophie Howe // TED, 5 min