rational
Issue #142
13 December, 2020 // View full list
AI conformity bias: erroneous algorithmic advice is highly persuasive, even in the context of simple tasks. Concerning for managers, policymakers, and Human-AI collaboration efforts. // www.researchgate.net
# Coronavirus
Covid 12/10: Vaccine Approval Day in America // Zvi, 25 min
# Instrumental
The Good Life Quantified // Jacobian, 6 min
# Epistemic
The Incomprehensibility Bluff // SocratesDissatisfied, 7 min Favorite
Where Did You Hear This: How Priming Can Affect Your Everyday Life // Liam Goddard, 1 min
Countering Self-Deception: When Decoupling, When Decontextualizing? // strangepoop, 1 min
# Ai
Avoiding Side Effects in Complex Environments // TurnTrout, 2 min
Chance that "AI safety basically [doesn't need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by default unless we’re completely completely careless" // quinn-dougherty, 5 min
Conservatism in neocortex-like AGIs // steve2152, 9 min
Launching the Forecasting AI Progress Tournament // Tamay, 1 min
Summary of AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety (ARCHES) // peterbarnett, 15 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Chastity // David_Gross, 8 min
Notes on Fairness // David_Gross, 8 min
Notes on Know-how // David_Gross, 4 min
# Anthropic
The Flynn Effect Clarified // PeterMcCluskey, 5 min
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor // MakoYass, 1 min
Death Positive Movement // lejuletre, 2 min
An argument for personal identity transfer. // Gadersd, 7 min
If Aliens Are Near // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Parable of the Dammed // johnswentworth, 2 min Favorite
Epistemic Warfare // Gentzel, 2 min
Quick Thoughts on Immoral Mazes // abramdemski, 6 min
Number-guessing protocol? // abramdemski, 1 min
# Math and cs
How long does it take to become Gaussian? // maxwell-peterson, 4 min
An elegant proof of Laplace’s rule of succession // UnexpectedValues, 9 min
Minimal Maps, Semi-Decisions, and Neural Representations // zachary-robertson, 5 min
Does Math actually create or is it simply an attribute? // Insomnimatic, 1 min
# Books
Books That Are Not Meant for Everyone // kirsten-hacker, 9 min
# Community
Walk to a San Francisco FedEx // KatjaGrace, 4 min
My Weirdest Experience // bridgett-kay, 1 min
Why are delicious biscuits obscure? // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Pre-Hindsight Prompt: Why did 2021 NOT bring a return to normalcy? // mike_hawke, 1 min
Please Take the 2020 Effective Altruism Survey // peter_hurford, 1 min
# Culture war
Containment Thread on the Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
# Fun
D&D.Sci Evaluation and Ruleset // abstractapplic, 3 min
# Misc
Cultural accumulation // KatjaGrace, 3 min
Why quantitative methods are heartwarming // KatjaGrace, 3 min
What technologies could cause world GDP doubling times to be <8 years? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Unexplored modes of language // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Toward A Culture of Persuasion // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
# Podcasts
Announcing the Technical AI Safety Podcast // quinn-dougherty, 2 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 6 // lsusr, 2 min
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 7 // lsusr, 1 min
Are AIs filtering out bestselling novels from submitted work? If they filter out your story and rewrite it, is that criminal? // kirsten-hacker, 11 min
# Videos of the week
Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don't they? | Myles Allen // TED, 10 min