rational
Issue #16
15 July, 2018 // View full list
Despite massive exposure to looptail G, and despite having the ability to read text printed with this form, many readers lack accurate knowledge of the shape. // www.sciencealert.com
# Instrumental
Functional Institutions are the Exception // Samo Burja, 7 min Favorite
Hedonic Audit // Sarah Perry, 1 min
Letting Go III: Unilateral or GTFO // johnswentworth, 2 min
# Epistemic
On the Role of Counterfactuals in Learning // Max Kanwal, 3 min
# Ai
Mathematical Mindset // komponisto, 3 min Favorite
Conceptual problems with utility functions // Dacyn, 2 min
Agents That Learn From Human Behavior Can't Learn Human Values That Humans Haven't Learned Yet // steven0461, 1 min
Three anchorings: number, attitude, and taste // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Alignment Newsletter #14 // rohinmshah, 11 min
# Anthropic
Boltzmann Brains and Within-model vs. Between-models Probability // Charlie Steiner, 3 min
Probability is a model, frequency is an observation: Why both halfers and thirders are correct in the Sleeping Beauty problem. // shminux, 2 min
# Ea
RAISE is looking for full-time content developers // toonalfrink, 1 min
# Misc
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 19 min Favorite
Expected Pain Parameters // Alicorn, 2 min
A Sarno-Hanson Synthesis // moridinamael, 4 min
Complete Class: Consequentialist Foundations // abramdemski, 13 min
Context Windows: A Model of Unproductive Disagreement // Zachary Jacobi, 6 min
# Podcasts
#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism // The 80,000 Hours team, 124 min
#132 — Freeing the Hostages // Waking up with Sam Harris, 77 min
Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics" // NYC Skeptics, 48 min
# Videos of the week
How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential | Hugh Herr // TED, 15 min