rational
Issue #150: Full List
7 February, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Making Vaccine // johnswentworth, 7 min Favorite
Covid 2/4: Safe and Effective Vaccines Aplenty // Zvi, 32 min
[Link] Sarah Constantin on RaDVaC // Orborde
Vaccinated Socializing // jkaufman, 2 min
Covid cafes // KatjaGrace, 3 min
O2 Curve Review: Well Worth the Money // evan-huus, 6 min
# Instrumental
The 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth // lynettebye, 7 min
The World is Full of Wasted Motion // neel-nanda-1, 12 min
Feedback for learning // KatjaGrace, 1 min
For those who advocate Anki // jmh, 1 min
A Gentle Introduction on How to Use Anki to Improve Your Memory // simbyotic, 16 min
Self-Criticism Can Be Wrong And Harmful // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
Early career choices to maximise learning? // Eugleo, 1 min
Does anyone else sometimes "run out of gas" when trying to think? // Evan Rysdam, 1 min
# Epistemic
Smuggled frames // artyom-kazak, 7 min
Networking and Expert Consulting As Rationality Bottlenecks // AllAmericanBreakfast, 8 min
Believing in things you cannot see // joekc, 12 min
Researching and Reasoning About Bardiya // lionhearted, 2 min
The InDirect-Check Sweet Spot // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Ai
Deepmind has made a general inductor ("Making sense of sensory input") // MakoYass, 1 min
Distinguishing claims about training vs deployment // ricraz, 10 min
OpenAI: "Scaling Laws for Transfer", Hernandez et al. // Lanrian, 1 min
Evolutions Building Evolutions: Layers of Generate and Test // ete, 7 min
A Critique of Non-Obstruction // Joe_Collman, 4 min
Creating AGI Safety Interlocks // Koen.Holtman, 11 min
Counterfactual Planning in AGI Systems // Koen.Holtman, 6 min
Graphical World Models, Counterfactuals, and Machine Learning Agents // Koen.Holtman, 13 min
How could natural language look like if it hadn't evolved from speech? // newroscientist, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Frugality // David_Gross, 14 min
Has there been any work done on the ethics of changing people's minds? // mcorvin, 1 min
# Longevity
Current cryonics impressions // KatjaGrace, 1 min
#6: Optional additional steps // mingyuan, 10 min
#5: Making your cryonics arrangements official // mingyuan, 3 min
# Anthropic
Is the world becoming better? // invertedpassion, 6 min
Clarifications on tech stagnation // jasoncrawford, 1 min
Humans Are Early // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Prisoner's Dilemmas : Altruism :: Battles of the Sexes : Convention // cocoa, 4 min
More on Experts Vs. Elites // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Experts Versus Elites // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
The Lottery Paradox // Liam Goddard, 1 min
Bayesian inference on 1st order logic // daniel-abolafia, 20 min
Has anybody used quantification over utility functions to define "how good a model is"? // eigil-rischel, 2 min
# Books
Lean Startup Reading Comprehension Quiz // Raemon, 1 min
# Community
Reflections on the cryonics sequence // mingyuan, 2 min
2019 Review: Voting Results! // Raemon, 5 min
How to Absorb a Shared Success Script (while also thinking you're living without one) // Hazard, 19 min
Creating A Kickstarter for Coordinated Action // Lumpyproletariat, 11 min
Is the influence of money pervasive, even on LessWrong? // shanen, 1 min
# Misc
The Story of the Reichstag // sustrik, 2 min
Late-talking kids and "Einstein syndrome" // steve2152, 6 min
Oceans of snails // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Why are clinical trials so expensive? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What it means to be lucky // amir-gamil, 5 min
The Fear Experiments // Tim Lyons, 7 min
Ways of being with you // KatjaGrace, 1 min
What does flow feel like for "mental activities"? // Hazard, 1 min
Learning Normativity: Language // Bunthut, 10 min
Speaking of the efficiency of utopia // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Counter-Signaling On Aliens // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Rational fiction
Three Stories about not Thinking too Hard // ejacob, 3 min
# Videos of the week
Perfect Virtual Hands - But At A Cost! ? // Two Minute Papers, 6 min