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Issue #154: Full List
7 March, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Takeaways from one year of lockdown // mingyuan, 6 min
Covid 3/4: Declare Victory and Leave Home // Zvi, 16 min
Attempt at a gears model of getting infected with COVID-19 // ChristianKl, 1 min
What other peptide vaccines might it be useful to make? // jacobjacob, 1 min
How do you run a fit-test for a mask at home when you don't have fancy equipment? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Participating in a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial #3: I Hope I feel Worse Tomorrow // ejacob, 5 min
Germs and Politics // Will_Crowley, 12 min
Separate-To-Make-Equal Vaccine Queues? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Instrumental
Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom // tanagrabeast, 41 min
Texas Freeze Retrospective: meetup notes // jchan, 13 min
Enabling Children // lincolnquirk, 4 min
Check OK, babble-read, optimize (how I read textbooks) // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
Tap Water and Filtration // manaterra, 1 min
# Epistemic
We should not raise awareness // lsusr, 3 min
The Flexibility of Abstract Concepts // lsusr, 5 min
Noticing and Overcoming Bias // neel-nanda-1, 8 min
# Ai
Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute // daniel-kokotajlo, 15 min Favorite
The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models // ajeya-cotra, 46 min
MIRI comments on Cotra's "Case for Aligning Narrowly Superhuman Models" // RobbBB, 32 min
Takeaways from the Intelligence Rising RPG // quinn-dougherty, 14 min
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
How does bee learning compare with machine learning? // guicosta, 29 min
GPT-3 and the future of knowledge work // fowlertm, 2 min
How might cryptocurrencies affect AGI timelines? // Telofy, 2 min
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning // Dr. Birdbrain, 3 min
Curiosity about Aligning Values // esweet, 1 min
Connecting the good regulator theorem with semantics and symbol grounding // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Some recent interviews with AI/math luminaries. // fowlertm, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
What ethical thought experiments can be reversed? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
Subjectivism and moral authority // joekc, 17 min
# Anthropic
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis // avturchin, 1 min
# Decision theory
A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance // cata, 13 min
Kelly *is* (just) about logarithmic utility // abramdemski, 15 min
A non-logarithmic argument for Kelly // Bunthut, 2 min
A thought on gym membership models and from there the whole world… // Curious Couch Potato, 10 min
An Org Games Example // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
A Semitechnical Introductory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 69 min
How To Think About Overparameterized Models // johnswentworth, 7 min
Naïve Set Theory - Part 1: Construction of Sets // sai-sasank-y, 3 min
# Books
Book review: "A Thousand Brains" by Jeff Hawkins // steve2152, 23 min
Notes on "Bioterror and Biowarfare" (2006) // MichaelA, 4 min
# Ea
Limits of Giving // jkaufman, 1 min
When I left Google // jkaufman, 2 min
# Community
"If You're Not a Holy Madman, You're Not Trying" // abramdemski, 3 min
Project: Debiasing Politics via Crowdsourcing // Leonid, 2 min
Grading myself on SSC's 2020 predictions // knite, 1 min
Open & Welcome Thread – March 2021 // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
AI Safety Beginners Meetup (Pacific Time) // Linda Linsefors, 1 min
# Culture war
02/28/2021 - Myanmar Diaries; Context // rockthecasbah, 6 min
The Puce Tribe // mike_hawke, 6 min
Idea selection // krbouchard, 2 min
# Misc
I'm still mystified by the Born rule // So8res, 12 min
Economic Class // lsusr, 4 min
Are the Born probabilities really that mysterious? // adele-lopez-1, 1 min
How to end stagnation? // jasoncrawford, 4 min
Thoughts On Computronium // Darklight, 3 min
Privacy vs proof of character // DanielFilan, 4 min
Does making unsteady incremental progress work? // peterbarnett, 1 min
Why Selective Breeding is a Bad Way to do Genetic Engineering // GeneSmith, 2 min
What (feasible) augmented senses would be useful or interesting? // AprilSR, 1 min
Progressive avant-gardes // ForensicOceanography, 1 min
Russian x-risks newsletter winter 2020-2021: free vaccines for foreigners, bird flu outbreak, one more nuclear near-miss in the past and one now, new AGI institute. // avturchin, 1 min
Good brainteasers for children? // ejacob, 1 min
Good, Evil and (?)Indifferent God Challanges // Szymon Kucharski, 3 min
A Formula for the Value of Existential Risk Reduction // harsimony, 4 min
# Rational fiction
AIDungeon 3.1 // yair-halberstadt, 2 min
# Videos of the week
The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione // TED, 12 min