rational
Issue #163: Full List
9 May, 2021 // View curated list
Win–win denial: People have a strong tendency to misperceive trade as a zero-sum game in which buyers get the short end of the stick. // psyarxiv.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 5/6: Vaccine Patent Suspension // Zvi, 23 min
Let's Go Back To Normal // Connor_Flexman, 13 min
What do the reported levels of protection offered by various vaccines mean? // capybaralet, 1 min
What do we know about how much protection COVID vaccines provide against transmitting the virus to others? // capybaralet
Crowdfunding Vaccine Development // frank-bellamy, 1 min
What do we know about how much protection COVID vaccines provide against long COVID? // capybaralet
Did they use serological testing for COVID vaccine trials? // capybaralet, 1 min
# Instrumental
[link] If something seems unusually hard for you, see if you're missing a minor insight // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Fractal Conversations vs Holistic Response // abramdemski, 3 min
What are the greatest near-future risks or dangers to you as an individual? // nim, 1 min
Car Seats Three Across // jkaufman, 1 min
Android Video with External Microphone // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) // eukaryote, 9 min Favorite
Maps of Maps, and Empty Expectations // Nora_Ammann, 17 min
Occam’s Guillotine // Hivewired, 11 min
Why Is It Hard To Acknowledge Preferences? // Scott Alexander, 5 min
If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Ai
Less Realistic Tales of Doom // mark-xu, 4 min
April 15, 2040 // Nisan, 3 min
Parsing Chris Mingard on Neural Networks // alexflint, 7 min
Life and expanding steerable consequences // alexflint, 4 min
Mundane solutions to exotic problems // paulfchristiano, 5 min
Pre-Training + Fine-Tuning Favors Deception // mark-xu, 3 min
Parsing Abram on Gradations of Inner Alignment Obstacles // alexflint, 7 min
[timeboxed exercise] write me your model of AI human-existential safety and the alignment problems in 15 minutes // quinn-dougherty, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism // Erich_Grunewald, 1 min
Dumb dichotomies in ethics, part 2: instrumental vs. intrinsic values // aaronb50, 4 min
Decontextualizing Morality // ACrackedPot, 6 min
# Longevity
The Neuralink Monkey Demo // scroogemcduck1, 1 min
Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Mitochondria Part 1: Turnover Rates // Jemist, 4 min
Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Mitochondria Part 3: Predictions and Retrospective // Jemist, 2 min
Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Mitochondria Part 2: Glucose Metabolism // Jemist, 3 min
# Anthropic
Simulation theology: practical aspect. // Just Learning, 4 min
UFOs Shows Govt. Competence As Either Surprisingly High Or Low // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Theories Of Unnatural Selection // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Why quantitative finance is so hard // lsusr, 5 min
The Schelling Game (a.k.a. the Coordination Game) // jchan, 3 min
Domain Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma: FairBot // Gurkenglas, 2 min
Could MMRPGs be used to test economic theories? // yair-halberstadt, 1 min
# Math and cs
a visual explanation of Bayesian updating // jan-christian-refsgaard, 3 min
Taking the outside view on code quality // adamzerner, 2 min
# Books
Zero to One: A Minimum Viable Review // dominicq, 6 min
Thoughts on Re-reading Brave New World // chemslug, 5 min
Your Book Review: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson // Scott Alexander, 9 min
Your Book Review: Through The Eye Of A Needle // Scott Alexander, 22 min
Book Review: A Brief History Of Neoliberalism // Scott Alexander, 30 min
# Ea
Small and Vulnerable // deluks917, 4 min
# Community
MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion // RobbBB, 13 min Favorite
Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
My Journey to the Dark Side // Hivewired, 21 min
What are your favorite examples of adults in and around this community publicly changing their minds? // nim, 1 min
# Misc
Why I Work on Ads // jkaufman, 5 min
Thoughts on Ad Blocking // jkaufman, 1 min
Migraine hallucinations, phenomenology, and cognition // Richard_Kennaway, 1 min
Why are the websites of major companies so bad at core functionality? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What questions should we ask ourselves when trying to improve something? // weathersystems, 2 min
The Debunking of Debunking // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Storytelling — The American Tradition // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Podcasts
Announcing The Inside View Podcast // mtrazzi, 1 min
Currents 032: Tyson Yunkaporta on Spirits, GameB & Protopias // The Jim Rutt Show, 69 min
#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism // , 158 min
YANSS 204 – Why belief is not a conscious choice and certainty is a feeling, not a conclusion //
136 – Obviously (and Legally) Murder // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 164 min
EP124 Jim Hackett on Ford, Electric Cars & More // The Jim Rutt Show, 95 min
# Rational fiction
Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser // lsusr, 5 min
Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins // lsusr, 4 min
Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
AI Makes Near-Perfect DeepFakes in 40 Seconds! ? // Two Minute Papers, 7 min