rational
Issue #165
23 May, 2021 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 5/20: The Great Unmasking // Zvi, 19 min
Announcing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge // followtheargument, 2 min
# Instrumental
Get your gun license // Alex Hollow, 2 min
How refined is your art of note-taking? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Thinking About Generators // jkaufman, 1 min
Solar Production Data // jkaufman, 3 min
Power Outage Chances // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
There is no No Evidence // malcolmocean, 4 min
The Reebok effect // jan-christian-refsgaard, 1 min
On "Epistemic Trespassing" and Intellectual Modesty // Aidan_Kierans, 11 min
Research Motivations and "The Division of Cognitive Labor" // Aidan_Kierans, 6 min
Abstractions and translation // amir-gamil, 2 min
# Ai
Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers // evhub, 2 min
SGD's Bias // johnswentworth, 3 min
AI Safety Research Project Ideas // Owain_Evans, 4 min
The Variational Characterization of KL-Divergence, Error Catastrophes, and Generalization // zachary-robertson, 2 min
Response to "What does the universal prior actually look like?" // cocoa, 22 min
# Meta-ethics
Concerning The Ultimate Moral Theory - Reversible Utilitarianism // Jonas Hallgren, 3 min
# Anthropic
What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity? // daniel-kokotajlo, 5 min Favorite
Does NASA Take Alien Life Seriously? // ejacob, 5 min
Panspermia Siblings // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality? // jasoncrawford, 5 min
Saving Time // Scott Garrabrant, 4 min
Are PS5 scalpers actually bad? // willbradshaw, 3 min
What is the biggest crypto news of the past year? // mike_hawke, 1 min
How to determine the value of optionality? // sphericaltree, 1 min
# Books
Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books // jan-christian-refsgaard, 4 min
Your Book Review: The Accidental Superpower // Scott Alexander, 37 min
# Relationships
Love on Cartesian Planes // bksilv3r, 28 min
# Community
I'm Sorry Fluttershy // deluks917, 2 min
Re: Fierce Nerds // lsusr, 5 min
# Culture war
Status Trumps Argument // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars // Scott Alexander, 21 min
Who Watches Discrimination Watchers? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Misc
Sabien on "work-life" balance // RobbBB, 1 min
The Argument For Spoilers // abramdemski, 5 min
The Web is Turning into Cable TV // matto, 4 min
Time & Memory // abramdemski, 2 min
What should we expect from ARPA-H? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Podcasts
#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome // , 171 min
137 – Can You Consent to Listening to this Episode? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 144 min
EP126 Jordan Gruber & James Fadiman on Our Symphony of Selves // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Rational fiction
Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap // lsusr, 3 min
Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind // lsusr, 3 min
# Videos of the week
Meet Your Virtual AI Stuntman! ?? // Two Minute Papers, 7 min