rational
Issue #159
11 April, 2021 // View full list
Efforts to fuse AI and neuroscience into a single mathematical field: Predictive coding can approximate backpropagation without needing nonlocal information transfer. It is also biologically plausible. // astralcodexten.substack.com
# Coronavirus
Monastery and Throne // Jacobian, 12 min
Covid 4/9: Another Vaccine Passport Objection // Zvi, 18 min
Sometimes, it can take a while to notice confusion // jean-nassar, 6 min
Is there any plausible mechanisms for why taking an mRNA vaccine might be undesirable for a young healthy adult? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
There Is No Control System For COVID // mike-harris-1, 11 min
# Instrumental
Specializing in Problems We Don't Understand // johnswentworth, 9 min Favorite
Recently I bought a new laptop // tetraspace-grouping, 3 min
Forcing Yourself is Self Harm, or Don't Goodhart Yourself // gworley, 6 min
Homeostatic Bruce // matejsuchy, 12 min
Metis And Bodybuilders // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Epistemic
Beliefs as emotional strategies // Kaj_Sotala, 10 min
Reflective Bayesianism // abramdemski, 16 min
Curious Inquiry and Rigorous Training // AllAmericanBreakfast, 5 min
Our compressed perception // pchvykov, 2 min
Two Unexpected Multiple Hypothesis Testing Problems // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Ai
Another (outer) alignment failure story // paulfchristiano, 14 min Favorite
Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro // johnswentworth, 7 min
Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers // lifelonglearner, 111 min
Solving the whole AGI control problem, version 0.0001 // steve2152, 32 min
What will GPT-4 be incapable of? // mtrazzi
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Perseverance // David_Gross, 11 min
How do you reconcile the lack of choice that children have in being born? // Bayu, 1 min
# Longevity
Air Quality and Cognition // chw, 18 min
Aging: A Surprisingly Tractable Problem // quinn-dougherty, 1 min
Noise Pollution and Cognition // chw, 5 min
# Anthropic
Historical Examples of Opposition to Technological Progress // chw, 8 min
To Beat Aliens, We Must Become Aliens // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Don't Sell Your Soul // Jacobian, 10 min
Ranked Choice Voting is Arbitrarily Bad // kohaku-none, 4 min
Preventing overcharging by prosecutors // ChristianKl, 1 min
My Current Take on Counterfactuals // abramdemski, 26 min
Identifiability Problem for Superrational Decision Theories // Bunthut, 2 min
# Math and cs
Vim // lsusr, 10 min
An Informal Introduction to Solomonoff Induction and Pascal Mugging // mtrazzi, 3 min
Insights from "All of Statistics": Statistical Inference // sil-ver, 20 min
# Books
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie // jasoncrawford, 23 min
Convict Conditioning Book Review // Borasko, 14 min
Your Book Review: Order Without Law // Scott Alexander, 60 min
Your Book Review: On The Natural Faculties // Scott Alexander, 30 min
# Community
[Recruiting for a Discord Server] AI Forecasting & Threat Modeling Workshop // quinn-dougherty, 1 min
2020 predictions - Politics, Econ, Tech // Bucky, 3 min
# Culture war
Reviving Freedom of ‘Religion’ // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Fun
IQcaptcha enters beta // ballerburg9005, 1 min
# Misc
If my previous research is wrong, what are my options ? // [email protected], 1 min
The innocent gene // joekc, 10 min
What do you think would be the best investment policy for a cryonics trust? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
Homage to the Hive, part 3 (or maybe 4) // tristan-miano, 2 min
Rediscovery, the Mind's Curare // Erich_Grunewald, 4 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 6 - Debate and Imitative Generalization with Beth Barnes // DanielFilan, 75 min
AXRP Episode 6 - Debate with Beth Barnes // DanielFilan, 75 min
#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media // The 80000 Hours team, 120 min
c31: You Must Save One Child For Each Person You Murder // Constellation, 66 min
YANSS 203 – How to build a sailboat of self-actualization to explore the sea of human potential //
# Rational fiction
I'm from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA // Benito, 72 min Favorite
The Accord // timothy-underwood-1, 1 min
Real Vs. Fake Stories: Complements or Substitutes? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Videos of the week
What is Tabfund? // Tabfund, 1 min