rational
Issue #139
22 November, 2020 // View full listCS researchers are concerned about the ethics of work in facial recognition // www.nature.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 11/19: Don’t Do Stupid Things // Zvi, 29 min
I made an N95-level mask at home, and you can too // billmei, 9 min
How the Moderna vaccine works, and a note about mRNA vaccines // jean-nassar, 1 min
Thanksgiving and Covid // jkaufman, 3 min
Comparing Covid and Tobacco // rockthecasbah, 1 min
# Instrumental
Spend twice as much effort every time you attempt to solve a problem // Jsevillamol, 2 min
Working in Virtual Reality: A Review // ozziegooen, 7 min
Zen and Rationality: Skillful Means // gworley, 2 min
Inadequacy is not completely irrational // devansh-khandekar, 1 min
# Epistemic
Beware Experiments Without Evaluation // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
Anatomy of a Gear // johnswentworth, 8 min
Epistemic Progress // ozziegooen, 6 min
Simpson's paradox and the tyranny of strata // dynomight, 4 min
Why is there a "clogged drainpipe" effect in idea generation? // jacobjacob, 2 min
# Ai
Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety // Andrew_Critch, 51 min
AGI Predictions // Amandango, 4 min
Inner Alignment in Salt-Starved Rats // steve2152, 12 min
Persuasion Tools: AI takeover without AGI or agency? // daniel-kokotajlo, 11 min
Should we postpone AGI until we reach safety? // otto-barten, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Normativity // abramdemski, 10 min
Notes on Loyalty // David_Gross, 9 min
Notes on Honor // David_Gross, 9 min
Notes on Prudence // David_Gross, 5 min
# Anthropic
Solomonoff Induction and Sleeping Beauty // ike, 2 min
# Decision theory
Thoughts on Voting Methods // abramdemski, 6 min
Extortion beats brinksmanship, but the audience matters // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
UDT might not pay a Counterfactual Mugger // winwonce, 2 min
# Math and cs
The central limit theorem in terms of convolutions // maxwell-peterson, 4 min
Examples of Measures // maxwell-peterson, 3 min
Range and Forecasting Accuracy // niplav, 25 min
# Books
Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Introduction // lsusr, 1 min
Sunzi's《Methods of War》- War // lsusr, 1 min
# Ea
How do you evaluate whether a $500 donation to a project that you know well is a good idea? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Community
Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong // Amandango, 1 min
The Darwin Game - Rounds 21-500 // lsusr, 1 min
Rationalists from the UK -- what are your thoughts on Dominic Cummings? // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
The Darwin Game - Rounds 10 to 20 // lsusr, 1 min
# Culture war
2020 Election: Prediction Markets versus Polling/Modeling Assessment and Postmortem // Zvi, 25 min
Centrists Outside The Overton Window // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
Writing to think // adamzerner, 6 min
What would a world of widespread statistical numeracy look like? // Pontor, 1 min
Easy Conspiracy Tests // Robin Hanson, 1 min
The Real Problem // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP94 Shahin Farshchi on Self-Driving Tech // The Jim Rutt Show, 80 min
c20: Novel Worlds Pitch Session // Constellation, 83 min
Currents 019: Alexander Beiner on Indigenous Narcissism // The Jim Rutt Show, 60 min
124 – Longevity // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 128 min
EP93 Brent Cooper on Critique, Consensus & Politics // The Jim Rutt Show, 86 min
# Videos of the week
Near-Perfect Virtual Hands For Virtual Reality! ? // Two Minute Papers, 4 min