rational
Issue #147: Full List
17 January, 2021 // View curated list
Artificial Intelligence was better than human intuition at reading people's political orientation from their faces, correctly classifying 72% of liberal-conservative face pairs. // www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
# Coronavirus
RationalWiki on face masks // Viliam, 3 min
Covid 1/14: To Launch a Thousand Shipments // Zvi, 28 min
A vastly faster vaccine rollout // KatjaGrace, 5 min
Base rate of RCT from developing countries finding unexpected effects // MichaelLowe, 1 min
# Instrumental
Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick // mr-hire, 4 min
The impact merge // joekc, 5 min
How should you go about valuing your time? // adamzerner, 1 min
What to do if you can't form any habits whatsoever? // jean-nassar, 1 min
What skills or habits have lasting value through time? // Duff, 1 min
Distinguishing goals from chores // amir-gamil, 5 min
A workshop on Life Influences // Elo, 4 min
# Epistemic
Overconfidence // lsusr, 3 min
Discussion on the choice of concepts // KatjaGrace, 2 min
"If" is in the map // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Fittingness: Rational success in concept formation // Polytopos, 7 min
Any examples of people analyzing/critiquing scientific studies or papers? // warrenjordan, 1 min
# Ai
Why I'm excited about Debate // ricraz, 8 min
Imitative Generalisation (AKA 'Learning the Prior') // beth-barnes, 14 min
Review of Soft Takeoff Can Still Lead to DSA // daniel-kokotajlo, 6 min
Thoughts on Iason Gabriel’s Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment // alexflint, 4 min
Transparency and AGI safety // jylin04, 36 min
Review of 'Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More' // TurnTrout, 2 min
Grey Goo Requires AI // harsimony, 5 min
Prediction can be Outer Aligned at Optimum // Lanrian, 13 min
Some recent survey papers on (mostly near-term) AI safety, security, and assurance // alenglander, 2 min
An Exploratory Toy AI Takeoff Model // niplav, 14 min
AI Alignment Using Reverse Simulation // bvssvni, 1 min
A potential problem with reduced impact // Chantiel, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?) // joekc, 11 min
Notes on Gratitude // David_Gross, 18 min
Shouldn't it matter to the victim? // joekc, 18 min
# Longevity
Neurocryopreservation vs whole-body preservation // mingyuan, 14 min
How much harder is it to revive a neuro-only cryonics patient? // MathieuRoy, 2 min
Genetic Engineering: How would you change your DNA? // felix-karg, 1 min
# Decision theory
Efficiency Wages: A Double-Edged Sword // aaronb50, 6 min
# Math and cs
A Toy-Model of Instrumental Abstraction // zachary-robertson, 3 min
# Ea
What charities can I donate to for preventing another pandemic? // calsem, 1 min
# Community
Group house norms really do seem toxic to many people. // deluks917, 3 min
Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis // UnexpectedValues, 24 min
Voting Phase for 2019 Review // Raemon, 3 min
The time I got really into poker // KatjaGrace, 2 min
2020: Forecasting in Review. // Radamantis, 11 min
Status as a Service (Done Quick) // GuySrinivasan, 7 min
Any rationalist judges? // kjz, 1 min
Arithmophobia // teja-prabhu-1, 1 min
# Culture war
Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples // Raemon, 3 min
In Defense of Twitter's Decision to Ban Trump // ragintumbleweed, 6 min
Will we witness the compassion of a nation? // kithpendragon, 3 min
How to solve the argument about what the algorithm should do // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
Are there examples of rationalists getting censored for COVID-19 related communication? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Three thoughts on Deplatforming // raman-malykhin, 7 min
Mini thoughts on mintheism // CraigMichael, 8 min
Prediction: The Defense Department Will Blame Trump for the Slow Response on Jan. 7, 2021 // rockthecasbah, 2 min
# Fun
D&D.Sci II: The Sorceror's Personal Shopper // abstractapplic, 2 min
# Misc
What is the currency of the future? 5 suggestions. // ViktorThink, 2 min
Meditations on faith // ricraz, 6 min
AR Glasses: Much more than you wanted to know // frcassarino, 21 min
The Future of Biological Warfare // lsusr, 4 min
Meditative thinking // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Deconditioning Aversion to Dislike // lsusr, 1 min
What’s good about haikus? // KatjaGrace, 1 min
A different dictionary // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Zen and Rationality: Karma // gworley, 1 min
Physicist's dissociation // Mateusz Mazurkiewicz, 1 min
Citizenship in a Republic // Theodore Roosevelt, 34 min
Does GenZ have a shorter attention span? // srijan-singh, 1 min
# Rational fiction
The True Face of the Enemy // TheTrueSquidward, 12 min
# Videos of the week
6 big ethical questions about the future of AI | Genevieve Bell // TED, 14 min