rational
Issue #160
18 April, 2021 // View full list
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks: How do artificial neural networks represent human emotions? // distill.pub
# Coronavirus
Covid 4/15: Are We Seriously Doing This Again // Zvi, 11 min
The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness // Ruby, 27 min
How long would you wait to get Moderna/Pfizer vs J&J? // Sameerishere, 1 min
What does vaccine effectiveness as a function of time look like? // capybaralet, 1 min
How long should I delay my second shot? // purge, 1 min
# Instrumental
Wanting to Succeed on Every Metric Presented // elriggs, 3 min
Training the YouTube Algorithm // lsusr, 1 min
On Sleep Procrastination: Going To Bed At A Reasonable Hour // iamef, 10 min
Auctioning Off the Top Slot in Your Reading List // mike_hawke, 1 min
Using Flashcards for Deliberate Practice // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
# Epistemic
The secret of Wikipedia's success // aaronb50, 7 min
Against "Context-Free Integrity" // Benito, 6 min
"Taking your environment as object" vs "Being subject to your environment" // Benito, 4 min
Placebo effect report: chiropractic adjustment // supposedlyfun, 4 min
Bayes' theorem, plausible deniability, and smiley faces // adamzerner, 4 min
# Ai
What if AGI is near? // Wulky Wilkinsen, 1 min
Intermittent Distillations #2 // mark-xu, 11 min
Defining "optimizer" // Chantiel, 1 min
# Anthropic
On Falsifying the Simulation Hypothesis (or Embracing its Predictions) // lorenzo-rex, 6 min
# Decision theory
[ACX Linkpost] Prospectus on Próspera // mike_hawke, 1 min Favorite
People Will Listen // deluks917, 5 min
Superrational Agents Kelly Bet Influence! // abramdemski, 5 min
Are there opportunities for small investors unavailable to big ones? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
All is fair in love and war, on Zero-sum games in life // Ratios, 5 min
# Math and cs
Place-Based Programming - Part 1 - Places // lsusr, 1 min
Computing Natural Abstractions: Linear Approximation // johnswentworth, 8 min
Place-Based Programming - Part 2 - Functions // lsusr, 1 min
The Variational Characterization of Expectation // zachary-robertson, 2 min
# Books
Why has nuclear power been a flop? // jasoncrawford, 19 min Favorite
The Scout Mindset - read-along // weft, 1 min
Ben Goertzel's "Kinds of Minds" // JoshuaFox, 1 min
A Zoologist’s Guide to Our Past // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Your Book Review: Progress And Poverty // Scott Alexander, 74 min
# Community
Post-COVID Integration Rituals // Unreal, 4 min
D&D.Sci April 2021: Voyages of the Gray Swan // abstractapplic, 2 min
What weird beliefs do you have? // Dumbledore's Army, 1 min
Andrés Gómez Emilsson at the SlateStarCodex Online Meetup // JoshuaFox, 1 min
# Culture war
The consequentialist case for social conservatism, or “Against Cultural Superstimuli” // Sophronius, 7 min
A New Center? [Politics] [Wishful Thinking] // abramdemski, 3 min
# Fun
An Exercise in Rational Cooperation and Communication: Let's Play Hanabi // ejacob, 8 min
# Misc
The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated // dynomight, 8 min
Hell is wasted on the evil // lsusr, 4 min
Could degoogling be a practice run for something more important? // quinn-dougherty, 1 min
[LINK] Luck, Skill, and Improving at Games // Davis_Kingsley
# Podcasts
The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first // , 3 min
EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox // The Jim Rutt Show, 89 min
# Videos of the week
Do Neural Networks Think Like Our Brain? OpenAI Answers! ? // Two Minute Papers, 10 min