rational
Issue #156: Full List
21 March, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 3/18: An Expected Quantity of Blood Clots // Zvi, 18 min
Nitric Oxide Spray... a cure for COVID19?? // shminux, 1 min
AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine and blood clots // jmh, 1 min
AstraZeneca vaccine shows no protection against Covid-19 variant from Africa // gytis-daujotas, 1 min
What are the best resources to point people who are skeptical of getting vaccinated for COVID-19 to? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Instrumental
The best things are often free or cheap // adamzerner, 3 min
Unnecessary Boredom Bias // Mathisco, 4 min
Product orientation // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
Seatbelt Extenders and Booster Seats // jkaufman, 1 min
Sharing a Car // jkaufman, 1 min
What are some good resources on workflow or productivity for mathematicians? // bideup, 1 min
# Epistemic
Chaos Induces Abstractions // johnswentworth, 8 min
"Objective vs Social Reality" vs "Simulacra 1/3" // Raemon, 1 min
Feedback calibration // cousin_it, 1 min
Link: How to Star-Man // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Exploring Luck // arashparam, 6 min
How do you estimate how much you're going to like something? // CTVKenney, 1 min
The non-central fallacy and Law // ThomasMore, 5 min
# Ai
AI x-risk reduction: why I chose academia over industry // capybaralet, 3 min
Intermittent Distillations #1 // mark-xu, 12 min
Is RL involved in sensory processing? // steve2152, 5 min
Partial-Consciousness as semantic/symbolic representational language model trained on NN // Joe Kwon, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Against neutrality about creating happy lives // joekc, 13 min
# Longevity
Acetylcholine = Learning rate (aka plasticity) // steve2152, 5 min
# Anthropic
Dark Matters // Diffractor, 18 min Favorite
An Antropic Argument for Post-singularity Antinatalism // monkaap, 3 min
Physicalism implies experience never dies. So what am I going to experience after it does? // Szymon Kucharski, 35 min
Can an economy keep on growing? // invertedpassion, 7 min
What Holds Up A North Pole of Dust? // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Decision theory
Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat // sustrik, 21 min Favorite
The EMH is False - Specific Strong Evidence // deluks917, 7 min
Direct effects matter! // aaronb50, 6 min
Voting-like mechanisms which address size of preferences? // abramdemski, 9 min
Trust status sigmoidally // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
Fisherian Runaway as a decision-theoretic problem // Bunthut, 3 min
Sell Tax Rights To Make Agents // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Math and cs
What's So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions? // johnswentworth, 8 min
Why sigmoids are so hard to predict // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min
On Attempts to Transcend our Models of Numbers // Chris_Leong, 10 min
# Books
Book Club: Software Design for Flexibility // stuhlmueller, 1 min
# Community
Some blindspots in rationality and effective altruism // remmelt-ellen, 11 min
Clubhouse // lsusr, 5 min
What the "rationalist community" represents to me // ArthurRainbow, 10 min
On LessWrong/Rationality and Political Debates // sophia_xu, 2 min
Return to New York City // Zvi, 19 min
Babble Challenge: 50 Ways to Overcome Impostor Syndrome // rockthecasbah, 1 min
Anyone been through IFS or coherence therapy? // warrenjordan, 1 min
# Culture war
Politics is way too meta // RobbBB, 13 min Favorite
Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two // jaspax, 6 min
# Misc
Conspicuous saving // matthew-barnett, 2 min
Blue is arbitrary // lsusr, 1 min
Ads are everywhere, and it's not okay // damiensnyder, 5 min
Predictions for future dispositions toward Twitter // mike_hawke, 2 min
Conversation Exchange Statistics // lsusr, 2 min
“Meditation for skeptics” – a review of two books, and some thoughts // Sherrinford, 14 min
What are fun little puzzles / games / exercises to learn interesting concepts? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
Why is rhetoric taboo among rationalists? // TOoHNA, 1 min
Wild Reading // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Who Wants Good Advice? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Live And Learn // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Kinds of Potential // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Our Default Info System: Status And Gossip // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Rational fiction
Open loops in fiction // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
# Videos of the week
The value of your humanity in an automated future | Kevin Roose // TED, 10 min