rational
Issue #15: Full List
8 July, 2018 // View curated list
Contrary to hypotheses, priming had no effect on technical skill in a field experiment in Chinese high schools (n=11,624) // journals.sagepub.com
# Instrumental
Debt is an Anti-investment // Jacobian, 7 min Favorite
[WIP] Object-Level: Centralizing Information and Experimenting // Galfour, 3 min
# Epistemic
Goodhart Taxonomy: Agreement by Ben Pace // Ben Pace, 8 min
# Ai
Paul’s research agenda FAQ by zhukeepa // zhukeepa, 23 min Favorite
Overcoming Clinginess in Impact Measures by TurnTrout // TurnTrout, 9 min
Another take on agent foundations: formalizing zero-shot reasoning by zhukeepa // zhukeepa, 14 min
Alignment Newsletter #13: 07/02/18 by rohinmshah // rohinmshah, 10 min
Making a Difference Tempore: Insights from ‘Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction’ by TurnTrout // TurnTrout, 9 min
An introduction to worst-case AI safety // Tobias_Baumann, 1 min
RFC: Mental phenomena in AGI alignment // gworley, 6 min
# Anthropic
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right? by Jan_Kulveit // Jan_Kulveit, 1 min Favorite
SSC Journal Club: Dissolving The Fermi Paradox // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Books
Maps of Meaning // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Book review: Pearl's Book of Why // PeterMcCluskey, 7 min
# Ea
Are ethical asymmetries from property rights? by KatjaGrace // KatjaGrace, 3 min Favorite
The Values-to-Actions Decision Chain by Remmelt Ellen // Remmelt Ellen, 11 min
# Misc
Geoffrey Miller on Polyamory and Mating // Jacobian, 1 min Favorite
The 10% Improvement Problem by norswap // norswap, 1 min
What will we do with the free energy? by ChristianKl // ChristianKl, 1 min
June gwern.net newsletter by gwern // gwern, 1 min
Yay Marriage // Robin Hanson, 1 min
OT105: Ethelthread The Unthready // Scott Alexander, 1 min
The Craft And The Codex // Scott Alexander, 3 min
On Authority // quanticle, 1 min
An optimization process for democratic organizations // selylindi, 1 min
Towards dissolving the mystery of consciousness // GeometryOfTheShadows, 1 min
obvious epiphanies // nBrown, 2 min
# Podcasts
YANSS 124 - Belief Change Blindness // , 40 min
YANSS 124 - Status Quo Rationalization // , 45 min
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast) // , 35 min
127 - Selfie // , 83 min
128 - Happy Brain // , 88 min
129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast) // , 33 min
130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast) // , 30 min
131 - The Marshmallow Replication // You Are Not So Smart, 52 min
#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables // Waking up with Sam Harris, 94 min
63 – Rational Fiction // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 79 min
# Videos of the week
How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI | Max Tegmark // TED, 17 min