rational
Issue #155
14 March, 2021 // View full list
Marx was right: Religious rituals bind people together using the body's own opiates, an effect that is canceled out by anti-opiates. // royalsocietypublishing.org
# Coronavirus
Covid 3/12: New CDC Guidelines Available // Zvi, 29 min
Simple Tricks to Improve KN95 Masks // dawangy, 2 min
Quarantine variety // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Impact of delaying vaccinations on the total number of deaths // qbolec, 3 min
# Instrumental
Contrarian Writing Advice // lsusr, 1 min
How to use hypnagogic hallucinations as biofeedback to relieve insomnia // David_Gross, 24 min
If you've learned from the best, you're doing it wrong // George3d6, 8 min
How I Meditate // gworley, 2 min
Making friends // dominicq, 3 min
# Epistemic
Strong Evidence is Common // mark-xu, 1 min
Defending the non-central fallacy // matthew-barnett, 7 min
The average North Korean mathematician // Elmer of Malmesbury, 9 min
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality // Yvain, 17 min
The three existing ways of explaining the three characteristics of existence // Kaj_Sotala, 16 min
# Ai
CLR's recent work on multi-agent systems // JesseClifton, 15 min
Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Goal-Directedness // mark-xu, 5 min
Open Problems with Myopia // mark-xu, 9 min
De-confusing myself about Pascal's Mugging and Newcomb's Problem // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Four Motivations for Learning Normativity // abramdemski, 5 min
# Meta-ethics
Care and demandingness // joekc, 13 min
Thoughts on the Repugnant Conclusion // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min
# Longevity
Weight and Aging: A Paradox, Part 1 // Josh Mitteldorf, 5 min
# Anthropic
Unconvenient consequences of the logic behind the second law of thermodynamics // marco-discendenti, 2 min
Will Martian G be enough to make healthy baseline babies? // BossSleepy, 1 min
Do Foo Fighters Show Our Snafu Fubar Future? // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Non-Grabby Legacies // Robin Hanson, 2 min
SETI Optimism is Human Future Pessimism // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Decision theory
Exploiting Crypto Prediction Markets for Fun and Profit // srdjan-miletic, 6 min
Even Inflationary Currencies Should Have Fixed Total Supply // mikkel-wilson, 2 min
A Primer on United States Treasuries // jorge-velez, 3 min
# Books
Book Notes: Scaling, Why is Animal Size so Important? // ketchupduck, 8 min
# Ea
Why Hasn't Effective Altruism Grown Since 2015? // kohaku-none, 11 min
Responses and Testimonies on EA Growth // kohaku-none, 18 min
Why does Applied Divinity Studies think EA hasn’t grown since 2015? // KatjaGrace, 4 min
# Community
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis // Vaniver, 1 min Favorite
Deflationism isn't the solution to philosophy's woes // RobbBB, 9 min
Introducing Metaforecast: A Forecast Aggregator and Search Tool // Radamantis, 4 min
How I come up with ideas // lsusr, 1 min
How can we stop talking past each other when it comes to postrationality? // ChristianKl, 2 min
# Misc
What I'd change about different philosophy fields // RobbBB, 5 min
Animal faces // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Resolutions to the Challenge of Resolving Forecasts // Davidmanheim, 6 min
[Prediction] The Consequences of Radical Reform // lsusr, 6 min
Rigorous political science? // abramdemski, 1 min
# Podcasts
Quotes from the WWMoR Podcast Episode with Eliezer // MondSemmel, 4 min
AXRP Episode 5 - Infra-Bayesianism with Vanessa Kosoy // DanielFilan, 43 min
# Videos of the week
Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology | Olivia Arthur // TED, 9 min