rational
Issue #167
6 June, 2021 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 6/3: No News is Good News // Zvi, 6 min
What is the Risk of Long Covid after Vaccination? // dawangy, 1 min
Is there a way to test your personal COVID vaccine response? How do corticosteroids impact response? // Sameerishere, 3 min
Are there reasons to think mixing vaccines is dangerous? // maxwell-peterson, 1 min
# Instrumental
Assessing Interest in Group Trip to Secure Panamanian Residency [Imminent Rules Change] // joshjacobson, 1 min
Pomodoros worked during a day: an analysis of Alex’s data // Derek-Jones, 3 min
Which activities do you prefer to better recover productivity? // Just Learning, 1 min
Electric heat pumps (Mini-Splits) vs Natural gas boilers // steve2152, 4 min
# Epistemic
If You Want to Find Truth You Need to Step Into Cringe // Writer, 5 min
Paper Review: Mathematical Truth // Alex Hollow, 3 min
Summaries of uncertain priors // skybrian, 1 min
# Ai
Power dynamics as a blind spot or blurry spot in our collective world-modeling, especially around AI // Andrew_Critch, 7 min
An Intuitive Guide to Garrabrant Induction // mark-xu, 29 min
Rogue AGI Embodies Valuable Intellectual Property // mark-xu, 4 min
"Existential risk from AI" survey results // RobbBB, 13 min
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence announces 1,75 trillion parameters model, Wu Dao 2.0 // Ozyrus, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Which animals can suffer? // Just Learning, 1 min
Unattributed Good // fidnie, 3 min
Strength, not courage, is the second component of goodness // srdjan-miletic, 1 min
Moral Costs Of Chicken Vs. Beef // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Longevity
Anatomy, diseases and aging damage // ChristianKl, 5 min
Hypothesis: lab mice have more active transposons then wild mice // ChristianKl, 1 min
Restoration of energy homeostasis by SIRT6 extends healthy lifespan // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
What Do Treatments For Accelerated Aging Tell Us About Normal Aging? // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Anthropic
SIA is basically just Bayesian updating on existence // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
UFOs and Status // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Networks of Trust vs Markets // henrik-karlsson, 6 min Favorite
Selection Has A Quality Ceiling // johnswentworth, 4 min
Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism // UnexpectedValues, 24 min
The Nature of Counterfactuals // Chris_Leong, 6 min
# Math and cs
Finite Factored Sets: Introduction and Factorizations // Scott Garrabrant, 15 min
# Books
Your Book Review: Where's My Flying Car? // Scott Alexander, 12 min
Your Book Review: The Collapse Of Complex Societies // Scott Alexander, 22 min
# Ea
What is the most effective way to donate to AGI XRisk mitigation? // JoshuaFox, 1 min
# Community
Why don't long running conversations happen on LessWrong? // adamzerner, 2 min
Rationalists should meet Integral Theory // Elo, 4 min
# Misc
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush // dynomight, 9 min Favorite
How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste // jasoncrawford, 17 min Favorite
TEAM: a dramatically improved form of therapy // Jakob_J, 4 min
Rules for Epistemic Warfare? // Gentzel, 2 min
Zen and Rationality: Continuous Practice // gworley, 1 min
# Podcasts
Currents 033: Connor Leahy on Deep Learning // The Jim Rutt Show, 53 min
138 – Are Teens People? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 189 min
YANSS 207 – How a slight change of plans often leads to a major change of mind //
EP129 Stephanie Lepp on Deep Reckonings // The Jim Rutt Show, 81 min
# Rational fiction
Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 1 // lsusr, 4 min
On making fictional miracles seem plausible // yair-halberstadt, 4 min
# Videos of the week
David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | Lex Fridman Podcast #189 // Lex Fridman, 101 min