rational
Issue #146
10 January, 2021 // View full list
Earnings penalties that come with mental illness: Depression: -34%; BD: -38% $; Schizophrenia: -74% $. But treatments for mental illness help eliminate a significant portion of these $$$ penalties. // www.barbarabiasi.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 1/7: The Fire of a Thousand Suns // Zvi, 35 min
Fourth Wave Covid Toy Modeling // Zvi, 17 min
COVID-19: home stretch and fourth wave Q&A // habryka4, 13 min
Politics of the Pandemic: Why Pandemic Policies are Repealed and How to Change That // rockthecasbah, 8 min
# Instrumental
Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners // jkaufman, 2 min
How to Write Like Kaj Sotala // mr-hire, 6 min
Thoughts on Mustachianism // adamzerner, 13 min
A dozen habits that work for me // mike_hawke, 1 min
Ways to be more agenty? // NicholasKross, 1 min
# Epistemic
Science in a High-Dimensional World // johnswentworth, 9 min
Grokking illusionism // joekc, 10 min
Thoughts on personal identity // joekc, 12 min
The despair of normative realism bot // joekc, 22 min
Linguistic Freedom // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Ai
DALL-E by OpenAI // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Eight claims about multi-agent AGI safety // ricraz, 5 min
The Case for a Journal of AI Alignment // adamShimi, 5 min
Review of 'But exactly how complex and fragile?' // TurnTrout, 10 min
The National Defense Authorization Act Contains AI Provisions // ryan_b, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Attention // David_Gross, 20 min
The Rube Goldberg Machine of Morality // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
# Longevity
Cryonics signup guide #1: Overview // mingyuan, 6 min
What's up with the Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Why is loss of muscle cells not considered one of the hallmarks of aging? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Anthropic
Are UFOs just drones? // Kenny, 1 min
Out-of-body reasoning (OOBR) // jon-zero, 5 min
Why We Can’t See Grabby Aliens // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Try-Menu-Combo Filter Steps // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
Condition-directedness // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Genius is (mostly) comparative // amir-gamil, 5 min
# Books
Lessons from “The Book of My Life” // bmgarfinkel, 19 min
Review: The Gioconda Smile // KatjaGrace, 4 min
What technical-ish books do you recommend that are readable on Kindle? // rudi-c, 1 min
# Community
Retrospective on Teaching Rationality Workshops // neel-nanda-1, 34 min
What currents of thought on LessWrong do you want to see distilled? // ryan_b, 1 min
The Sense-Making Web // Chris_Leong, 6 min
Credence polls for 26 claims from the 2019 Review // jacobjacob, 2 min
Predictions for 2021 (+ a template for yours) // epiphi, 4 min
# Culture war
Don't Use Your Favorite Weapon // aaronb50, 7 min
Fight Me: Incumbent religions still get too much leeway // mike_hawke, 4 min
Practical post on 4 #ProRep methods (Proportional Representation) // jameson-quinn, 13 min
Utopianism // Mateusz Mazurkiewicz, 2 min
Will Donald Trump complete his first term? // jorge-velez, 1 min
# Misc
Johannes Kepler, Sun Worshipper // Ruby, 2 min
On writing like a butterfly // KatjaGrace, 4 min
Logic Like a Lawyer // lsusr, 1 min
Parable - Soryu destroyer of maps // exrhizo, 4 min
Centrally planned war // KatjaGrace, 1 min
# Videos of the week
The end of globalization (and the beginning of something new) | Mike O'Sullivan // TED, 13 min