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Issue #17: Full List
22 July, 2018 // View curated list
Traits currently being selected against in modern humans: intelligence; educational achievement (UK; N ≈ 500,000) // www.pnas.org
# Instrumental
How To Use Bureaucracies // Samo Burja, 10 min Favorite
Probabilistic decision-making as an anxiety-reduction technique // RationallyDense, 1 min
Quiver Doodles // Venkatesh Rao, 9 min
Computing Utilities in Real-Life (Practical Decision Making) // Galfour, 1 min
# Ai
Look Under the Light Post // gworley, 5 min Favorite
Announcement: AI alignment prize round 3 winners and next round // cousin_it, 1 min
Compact vs. Wide Models // Vaniver, 4 min
Solving the AI Race Finalists // gworley, 1 min
Figuring out what Alice wants, part I // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Can few-shot learning teach AI right from wrong? // Charlie Steiner, 7 min
Stable Pointers to Value III: Recursive Quantilization // abramdemski, 4 min
Mechanism Design for AI // Tobias_Baumann, 1 min
Conceptual problems with utility functions, second attempt at explaining // Dacyn, 1 min
"Artificial Intelligence" (new entry at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) // fortyeridania, 1 min
(AI alignment) Now is special // Andrew Quinn, 1 min
Figuring out what Alice wants, part II // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
Alignment Newsletter #15: 07/16/18 // rohinmshah, 18 min
# Anthropic
Anthropic Probabilities: a different approach // sil ver, 39 min
# Books
Economists Rarely Say “Nothing But” // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Culture war
An optimistic explanation of the outrage epidemic // chaosmage, 3 min
The Whole City Is Center // Scott Alexander, 21 min
Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Misc
Research Debt // elizabeth, 1 min Favorite
A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a (Good!) Therapist // squidious, 11 min
The Psychology Of Resolute Agents // Chris_Leong, 6 min
Simple Metaphor About Compressed Sensing // ryan_b, 1 min
Sentimental Cartography // Scott Alexander, 2 min
Probability is Real, and Value is Complex // abramdemski, 6 min
Generalized Kelly betting // Linda Linsefors, 2 min
OT106: Alexios I Commentos // Scott Alexander, 1 min
Buridan's ass in coordination games // jessicata, 10 min
# Podcasts
#133 — Globalism on the Brink // Waking up with Sam Harris, 74 min
64 – Magick with David Youssef // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 94 min
#37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it. // The 80,000 Hours team, 104 min
# Videos of the week
Why Does Time Exist at All? | Sean Carroll | English Subtitles // Ernesto S. Ferreira, 15 min