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Issue #164: Full List
16 May, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 5/13: Moving On // Zvi, 21 min
Vaccine Rollout as Wheeled-Luggage Problem // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Louisiana Gets Vaccine Passports Right // gabriel-holmes, 1 min
Unthinkable Thoughts // Josh Mitteldorf, 8 min
# Instrumental
Is driving worth the risk? // adamzerner, 8 min
Under Pressure // Alex Hollow, 1 min
Meditations on Kotzebue // adaminoue, 1 min
# Epistemic
Deliberately Vague Language is Bullshit // lsusr, 1 min
The case for hypocrisy // aaronb50, 6 min
Zvi's Law of No Evidence // lsusr, 1 min
Does butterfly affect? // pchvykov, 2 min
We can understand value only through endless self-reflection // riccardo-volpato, 8 min
How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful? // Erich_Grunewald, 18 min
Implementing the Second Virtue: Feel the Emotions Which Fit the Facts // LukeOnline, 5 min
# Ai
Agency in Conway’s Game of Life // alexflint, 11 min
Challenge: know everything that the best go bot knows about go // DanielFilan, 2 min
Formal Inner Alignment, Prospectus // abramdemski, 19 min
Understanding the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis // alexflint, 9 min
Suppose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent? // hunterglenn, 1 min
Thoughts on Iterated Distillation and Amplification // Waddington, 24 min
Yampolskiy on AI Risk Skepticism // gworley, 1 min
Intermittent Distillations #3 // mark-xu, 13 min
Who has argued in detail that a current AI system is phenomenally conscious? // Robbo, 1 min
Mostly questions about Dumb AI Kernels // HorizonHeld, 10 min
How do we build organisations that want to build safe AI? // sxae, 10 min
# Meta-ethics
What is the strongest argument you know for antirealism? // Michele Campolo, 1 min
Restricted Antinatalism on Subagents // Josephine, 2 min
# Anthropic
When The Tabooed Taboo // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Parsing Pictures of Mars Muck // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Academia as Company Hierarchy // Virgil Kurkjian, 21 min Favorite
Technocratic Plimsoll Line // sustrik, 6 min
Do you think TDT/FDT imply magic is real? // emmab, 1 min
Why Democracy? // sxae, 17 min
Review and Comparison: Onto-Cartography & Promise Theory // Josephine, 6 min
Can Bitcoin transition from PoW to PoS? // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
Helping refugees by trading their territorial rights. // mardukofbabylon, 1 min
# Math and cs
How to compute the probability you are flipping a trick coin // lsusr, 1 min
Testing the FLEDGE Prototype // jkaufman, 1 min
Hypothesis Space Entropy // lsusr, 2 min
# Books
What is the best chemistry textbook? // maxwell-peterson, 1 min
Your Book Review: Addiction By Design // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Community
Concerning not getting lost // alexflint, 5 min
# Culture war
Sympathy for the ferryman of Hades, or why we should keep Trump off Twitter // CraigMichael, 8 min
Theses On The Current Moment // Scott Alexander, 9 min
The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars // Scott Alexander, 37 min
# Misc
Peekskill Lyme Incidence // jkaufman, 1 min
Utopic Nightmares // Jozdien, 6 min
Massachusetts Lyme Reporting // jkaufman, 1 min
Massachusetts Tick-Borne Disease Distribution // jkaufman, 1 min
Biological Holism: A New Paradigm? // Waddington, 24 min
Welcome To The Terrible World Of Prescription-Only Apps // Scott Alexander, 10 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 7 - Side Effects with Victoria Krakovna // DanielFilan, 53 min
#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry // , 146 min
EP125 Samo Burja on Societal Decline: Part 2 // The Jim Rutt Show, 80 min
# Rational fiction
The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem // lsusr, 1 min
# Videos of the week
AI made this music video | What happens when OpenAI's CLIP meets BigGAN? // Yannic Kilcher, 13 min