rational
Issue #166
30 May, 2021 // View full list
Vitamin S: Even short interactions with strangers can yield psychological benefits that people don't get in their private environment. // journals.sagepub.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown // Zvi, 15 min
COVID Suicides: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Epistemic
(Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
The Homunculus Problem // abramdemski, 4 min
Questions are tools to help answerers optimize utility // ozziegooen, 5 min
Two Definitions of Generalization // ozziegooen, 2 min
Data on forecasting accuracy across different time horizons and levels of forecaster experience // CharlesD, 18 min
# Ai
Decoupling deliberation from competition // paulfchristiano, 11 min
Predict responses to the "existential risk from AI" survey // RobbBB, 3 min
List of good AI safety project ideas? // alenglander, 1 min
Controlling Intelligent Agents The Only Way We Know How: Ideal Bureaucratic Structure (IBS) // justin-bullock, 7 min
Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers // paulfchristiano, 20 min
# Meta-ethics
The Practice & Virtue of Discernment // ozziegooen, 12 min
# Anthropic
Is nuclear war indeed unlikely? // Just Learning, 2 min
How likely is our view of the cosmos? // yitz, 1 min
Biologists Taboo Artificial Life // Robin Hanson, 1 min
The Biological Universe // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
If individual performance is Pareto distributed, how should we reform education? // yhoiseth, 1 min
The BTC equilibriumating and the ETH one-eightening // BossSleepy, 16 min
Antifragility in Games of Chance, Research, and Debate // AllAmericanBreakfast, 5 min
# Math and cs
Don't feel bad about not knowing basic things // adamzerner, 5 min
Finite Factored Sets // Scott Garrabrant, 31 min
Freaking blockchains: How do they work? // norswap, 1 min
# Books
Book review: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less // aaronb50, 27 min
Books on Infant and Early Childhood Development? // moderock, 1 min
Your Book Review: Humankind // Scott Alexander, 30 min
Book Review: Arabian Nights // Scott Alexander, 17 min
# Ea
Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones - Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them? // Siddhartha Gautama, 1 min
# Community
Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists // spencerg, 7 min
Wrist Update // jkaufman, 1 min
What are your personal (public) Hamming questions? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
What's your visual experience when reading technical material? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
# Culture war
What's your peace plan? // CraigMichael, 8 min
Roemer’s Socialism // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Misc
[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050 // lsusr, 9 min Favorite
A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum // reviewer, 17 min
Signalling lack of familiarity with outsiders or outside knowledge, to raise status among your in-group peers? // orthogenesis, 3 min
Is there a term for 'the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead'? // freedomandutility, 1 min
Aphantasia // peterson-yook, 1 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 7.5 - Forecasting Transformative AI from Biological Anchors with Ajeya Cotra // DanielFilan, 84 min
#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world // , 95 min
EP128 on Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 3 // The Jim Rutt Show, 105 min
EP127 Jonathan Rowson on The Moves That Matter // The Jim Rutt Show, 94 min
# Rational fiction
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - A Short Summary // Jsevillamol, 5 min
# Videos of the week
You have free will if I don't like you // Ideas Sleep Furiously, 5 min