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Issue #161: Full List
25 April, 2021 // View curated list
Vaccine-Inequality: Nearly half of doses administered so far have gone to high-income countries — just 16 percent of the world’s population. // www.washingtonpost.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 4/22: Crisis in India // Zvi, 15 min
Young kids catching COVID: how much to worry? // steve2152, 5 min
Estimating COVID cases & deaths in India over the coming months // GeneSmith, 1 min
How to Make Your Own Vaccine Passport (if you're a U.S. citizen) // gabriel-holmes, 3 min
Vaccination and House Rules // jkaufman, 2 min
Why don't we vaccinate people against smallpox any more? // maximkazhenkov, 1 min
# Instrumental
[Letter] Advice for High School // lsusr, 5 min
Quick examination of miles per micromort for US drivers, with adjustments for safety-increasing behavior // joshjacobson, 1 min
Why “put down your phone and go outside” is Bad Advice. // madi_hexa, 1 min
Does an app/group for personal forecasting exist? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Are there good classes (or just articles) on blog writing? // korin43, 1 min
Apps / tools for combatting sleep procrastination? // iamef, 1 min
How to test tiny skills? // NicholasKross, 1 min
# Epistemic
How to Play a Support Role in Research Conversations // johnswentworth, 5 min
Types of generalism // Nora_Ammann, 2 min
How can we increase the frequency of rare insights? // MichaelDickens, 5 min
Bellman's Curse on Advice // nibnalin, 4 min
# Ai
Three reasons to expect long AI timelines // matthew-barnett, 14 min
Updating the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis // johnswentworth, 3 min
Gradations of Inner Alignment Obstacles // abramdemski, 10 min
Parameter count of ML systems through time? // Jsevillamol, 1 min
Probability theory and logical induction as lenses // alexflint, 7 min
NTK/GP Models of Neural Nets Can't Learn Features // interstice, 3 min
Where are intentions to be found? // alexflint, 11 min
Naturalism and AI alignment // Michele Campolo, 9 min
Is there anything that can stop AGI development in the near term? // Wulky Wilkinsen, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Anger // lsusr, 2 min
Problems of evil // joekc, 21 min
# Anthropic
The Fall of Rome: Why It's Relevant, And Why We're Mistaken // LukeOnline, 3 min
The Fall of Rome, II: Energy Problems? // LukeOnline, 4 min
Managed Competition or Competing Managers? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Paper review: A Cryptographic Solution to a Game Theoretic Problem // victorsintnicolaas, 6 min
Rising rents and appropriate responses // dominicq, 2 min
Explaining Regulation // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
Two Designs // SatvikBeri, 3 min
Löb's theorem simply shows that Peano arithmetic cannot prove its own consistency // rhaps0dy, 1 min
# Books
What books are for: a response to "Why books don't work." // aaronb50, 7 min
Thiel on secrets and indefiniteness // RobbBB, 11 min
Your Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True // Scott Alexander, 18 min
Your Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? // Scott Alexander, 22 min
Book Review: Global Economic History // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Relationships
Iterated Trust Kickstarters // Raemon, 12 min
# Community
Let's Rename Ourselves The "Metacognitive Movement" // AllAmericanBreakfast, 8 min
D&D.Sci April 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset // abstractapplic, 3 min
Faerie Rings // hamnox, 1 min
# Culture war
Election results in Central Europe match some pre-WW1 borders // ForensicOceanography, 3 min
No, Really, Why Are So Many Christians In Colombia Converting To Orthodox Judaism? // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Fun
SMBC about Eliezer // IrenicTruth, 1 min
# Misc
Hard vs Soft in fields as attitudes towards model collision // Jemist, 2 min
What am I fighting for? // quinn-dougherty, 16 min
Do Your Thoughts Scale? // Robin Hanson, 7 min
Try-Two Contest Board // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
Currents 030: Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Consilience Project // The Jim Rutt Show, 86 min
135 – Live Episode #2 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 156 min
#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country // , 156 min
EP122 Ashley Colby on Subsistence Agriculture // The Jim Rutt Show, 77 min
c32: Escape from Naturalist World // Constellation, 62 min
# Rational fiction
In Defence of Spock // zac-hatfield-dodds, 1 min
# Videos of the week
How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer // Vox, 8 min