rational
Issue #149: Full List
31 January, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 1/28: Muddling Through // Zvi, 43 min
Tentative covid surface risk estimates // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Covid: Bill Gates and Vaccine Production // Zvi, 8 min
Covid Canada Jan25: low & slow // malcolmocean, 4 min
How likely is it that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory? // CTVKenney, 1 min
You can send people KN95s // jkaufman, 1 min
Did convalescent plasma therapy drive the evolution of more infectious covid strains? // Angela Pretorius, 1 min
# Instrumental
Li’l pots // KatjaGrace, 5 min
Define Your Learning Goal: Competence Or Broad Knowledge // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Fight Akrasia and Decision Fatigue with DIY Productivity Software // DanB, 2 min
Non-Coercive Perfectionism // mr-hire, 3 min
Spaced Repetition Systems for Intuitions? // alex-ray, 1 min
Calibrated estimation of workload // kerspoon, 6 min
How do you build resilient personal systems? // raj-thimmiah, 1 min
# Epistemic
Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategy // johnswentworth, 4 min
Catching the Spark // BrienneYudkowsky, 43 min
Where numbers come from // eigil-rischel, 5 min
On clinging // joekc, 10 min
Confirmation Bias in Action // Jacobian, 16 min
What is up with spirituality? // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Build Your Number Sense // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
Limiting Causality by Complexity Class // Bunthut, 1 min
The maximally relativistic zeitgeist // ForensicOceanography, 3 min
State, Art, Identity // musq, 3 min
A perspective on covariate adjustment and confounding in randomized experiments. // Darren, 1 min
# Ai
Wordtune review // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Optimal play in human-judged Debate usually won't answer your question // Joe_Collman, 15 min
Play with neural net // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Policy restrictions and Secret keeping AI // donald-hobson, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
Dumb Dichotomies in Ethics, Part 1: Intentions vs Consequences // aaronb50, 4 min
Notes on Judgment and Righteous Anger // David_Gross, 6 min
Is Immortality Ethical? // harsimony, 3 min
Notes on Forgiveness // David_Gross, 26 min
# Longevity
A study on air purifiers and birth weight // braces, 3 min
#4.1: Types of life insurance // mingyuan, 11 min
#4.3: Cryonics-friendly insurance agents // mingyuan, 7 min
#4.2: Cryonics-friendly life insurance carriers // mingyuan, 5 min
How is Cryo different from Pascal's Mugging? // evan-huus, 1 min
#4.4: The insurance underwriting process // mingyuan, 3 min
Reasons against anti-aging // mark-miro, 1 min
Universal Clock implies Universal Clockwork // Josh Mitteldorf, 10 min
# Anthropic
Dissolving Sleeping Beauty // Chris_Leong, 4 min
# Decision theory
Taking money seriously // dominicq, 6 min
The GameStop Situation: Simplified // jorge-velez, 4 min
New Empty Units // jkaufman, 1 min
What are some real life Inadequate Equilibria? // elityre, 3 min
Extracting Money from Causal Decision Theorists // Caspar42, 1 min
Thoughts on the $GME situation // pranav-sharma, 1 min
Roundabout Strategy // NicholasKross, 10 min
# Math and cs
What's the big deal about Bayes' Theorem? // AVoropaev, 4 min
What is a VNM stable set, really? // Nisan, 8 min
# Ea
Qualia Research Institute: History & 2021 Strategy // andzuck, 13 min
AMA on EA Forum: Ajeya Cotra, researcher at Open Phil // ajeya-cotra, 1 min
# Community
AISU 2021 // Linda Linsefors, 1 min
Sam Harris understates his social media vices // mike_hawke, 1 min
When Hope Fails // resurgam, 8 min
Coordination attempt: Facilitating conversational splinters in Gathertown // femtogrammar, 1 min
# Misc
Unpopularity of efficiency // KatjaGrace, 1 min
The Upper Limit of Value // Davidmanheim, 3 min
Has anyone on LW written about material bottlenecks being the main factor in making any technological progress? // George3d6, 1 min
Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Coventry Patmore's "Magna Est Veritas" // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Decrypting the DaVinci Code // kirsten-hacker, 14 min
Revelation and mathematics // George3d6, 6 min
Senior quote ideas // LeeR_Sync, 1 min
[Link] Philosophers’ Non-Profit Offers Free Online Critical Thinking Course // David_Gross, 1 min
# Videos of the week
How AI can help shatter barriers to equality | Jamila Gordon // TED, 5 min