rational
Issue #157
28 March, 2021 // View full list# Coronavirus
Another RadVac Testing Update // johnswentworth, 6 min
Covid 3/25: Own Goals // Zvi, 23 min
Canada Covid Update: thinking out loud // malcolmocean, 4 min
The Strange Case of the Amarillo Option // adaminoue, 1 min
Why is COVID reinfection rate still so uncertain. // gleb, 1 min
# Instrumental
How You Can Gain Self Control Without "Self-Control" // spencerg, 27 min
Calibrating Adequate Food Consumption // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
# Epistemic
A parable of brightspots and blindspots // remmelt-ellen, 3 min
# Ai
My research methodology // paulfchristiano, 19 min
My AGI Threat Model: Misaligned Model-Based RL Agent // steve2152, 19 min
Coherence arguments imply a force for goal-directed behavior // KatjaGrace, 13 min
Against evolution as an analogy for how humans will create AGI // steve2152, 30 min
Generalizing Power to multi-agent games // midco, 7 min
# Meta-ethics
Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers // RobbBB, 59 min
# Longevity
Weight and Aging: a Paradox, Part 2 // Josh Mitteldorf, 9 min
# Anthropic
On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism // joekc, 14 min
A dashboard for progress // jasoncrawford, 2 min
The Price Of Space Is Friendship // sxae, 3 min
Are Expansive Aliens Obvious? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Given Our Date, Is Sun Birth Late? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Process Orientation // lincolnquirk, 6 min
Making a Cheerful Bid // AllAmericanBreakfast, 2 min
Why 1-boxing doesn't imply backwards causation // Chris_Leong, 4 min
Super Hostile Takeovers // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
Think like an educator about code quality // adamzerner, 10 min
Moving Data Around is Slow // SatvikBeri, 1 min
# Books
[Book Review] Destiny Disrupted // lsusr, 10 min
# Ea
Demand offsetting // paulfchristiano, 6 min
# Community
A Retrospective Look at the Guild of Servants: Alpha Phase // moridinamael, 13 min
Selling Attention for Money // mikkel-wilson, 5 min
CFAR rEUnion (September 24-27, 2021) // jiri-nadvornik, 1 min
[event] Cryonics icebreaker // MathieuRoy, 1 min
# Misc
Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower // Yvain, 7 min
The best frequently don't rise to the top // adamzerner, 4 min
Communication Requires Common Interests or Differential Signal Costs // Zack_M_Davis, 3 min
Burmese Days, Mar 22; Rules of the Game and Preference Falsification in the Army // rockthecasbah, 3 min
Some things I've learned in college // aaronb50, 8 min
# Videos of the week
Is Google Translate Sexist? Gender Stereotypes in Statistical Machine Translation // Yannic Kilcher, 12 min