rational
Issue #144
27 December, 2020 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over // Zvi, 38 min
How Hard Would It Be To Make A COVID Vaccine For Oneself? // johnswentworth, 1 min
What evidence will tell us about the new strain? How are you updating? // Zvi, 1 min
What trade should we make if we're all getting the new COVID strain? // Jacobian, 1 min
New SARS-CoV-2 variant // TheMajor, 2 min
# Instrumental
100 Tips for a Better Life // Ideopunk, 11 min
parenting rules // dave-orr, 4 min
My favorite essays of life advice // benkuhn, 7 min
How to eradicate the desire to check time-wasting sites // TheTrueSquidward, 2 min
Using spaced repetition to make the most out of blog posts and books // timot.cool, 3 min
# Epistemic
Alike minds think great // UnexpectedValues, 13 min
The First Sample Gives the Most Information // mark-xu, 1 min
Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics // abramdemski, 4 min
On Robin Hanson’s “Social Proof, but of What?” // Zvi, 33 min
# Ai
MIRI: 2020 Updates and Strategy // RobbBB, 1 min
Debate update: Obfuscated arguments problem // beth-barnes, 20 min
Defusing AGI Danger // mark-xu, 10 min
TAI Safety Bibliographic Database // JessRiedel, 19 min
Operationalizing compatibility with strategy-stealing // evhub, 5 min
# Meta-ethics
Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes” // joekc, 4 min
Moral moralizing // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Notes on Fitness // David_Gross, 5 min
Moral intuitions are surprisingly variable // Bob Baker, 2 min
Notes on Moderation, Balance, & Harmony // David_Gross, 7 min
# Longevity
What to Look For in a Biological Clock // Josh Mitteldorf, 13 min
# Anthropic
The Long Term Future of History // Robin Hanson, 2 min
How Far Aggressive Aliens? Part 2. // Robin Hanson, 5 min
How Far Aggressive Aliens? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Long Views Are Competitive // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Confidence Intervals seen as pixel stripes // qbolec, 18 min
# Books
Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Planning Attacks // lsusr, 2 min
Epistemology Volume of "A Map That Reflects the Territory" Set - My Personal Commentary // hamnox, 8 min
Consciousness of abstraction // Richard_Kennaway, 9 min
# Ea
2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison // Larks, 86 min
# Community
Secular Solstice 2020 // jkaufman, 2 min
How Lesswrong helped me make $25K: A rational pricing strategy // kareemabukhadra, 3 min
Interactive exploration of LessWrong and other large collections of documents // vpetukhov, 11 min
Gauging the conscious experience of LessWrong // VermillionStuka, 1 min
# Culture war
What is the actual feasibility of a unified world order? // ashwin-sridhar, 1 min
# Art
Netflix's "Start-Up" and sincere work dramatization // maxwell-peterson, 7 min
# Misc
When life was literally full of crap // jasoncrawford, 6 min
The Best Visualizations on Every Subject // ryan_b, 1 min
What are the unwritten rules of academia? // yitz, 1 min
Can we model technological singularity as the phase transition? // Just Learning, 5 min
# Podcasts
Announcing AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast // DanielFilan, 1 min
New Eliezer Yudkowsky interview on We Want MoR, the HPMOR Podcast // moridinamael, 1 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 9 // lsusr, 2 min
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 10 // lsusr, 4 min
# Videos of the week
The medical test paradox: Can redesigning Bayes rule help? // habryka4, 1 min
Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech | Sharon Weinberger // TED, 11 min