rational
Issue #170
27 June, 2021 // View full list
Welcome Polygenically Screened Babies: We're at an inflection point in the embryonic selection process // astralcodexten.substack.com
# Coronavirus
Two non-obvious lessons from microcovid.org // catherio, 1 min
Covid 6/24: The Spanish Prisoner // Zvi, 11 min
What will be the aftermath of the US intelligence lab leak report? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Maybe Antivirals aren’t a Useful Priority for Pandemics? // Davidmanheim, 4 min
Why did the UK switch to a 12 week dosing schedule for COVID-19 vaccines? // elityre, 3 min
# Instrumental
Reinforcing Habits // lynettebye, 5 min
Scaling Networks of Trust // henrik-karlsson, 12 min
To the Robobassinet and Progress // jkaufman, 3 min
Self-Responsibility // hath, 6 min
Burst work or steady work? // NicholasKross, 1 min
# Epistemic
Four Components of Audacity // lsusr, 1 min
Arguments against constructivism (in education)? // Viliam, 4 min
# Ai
Frequent arguments about alignment // john-schulman, 5 min
I’m no longer sure that I buy dutch book arguments and this makes me skeptical of the "utility function" abstraction // elityre, 5 min
Empirical Observations of Objective Robustness Failures // jbkjr, 10 min
Discussion: Objective Robustness and Inner Alignment Terminology // jbkjr, 11 min
Hardware for Transformative AI // ViktorThink, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
On the limits of idealized values // joekc, 43 min
How can there be a godless moral world ? // amaury-lorin, 1 min
# Longevity
War on Cancer II // ChristianKl, 17 min
# Anthropic
Anthropics and Embedded Agency // dadadarren, 2 min
UFOs – What The Hell? // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Report UFOs as Physical Likelihood Ratios // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Give Tyler His Due // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
The Point of Trade // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 4 min Favorite
ELI12: how do libertarians want wages to work? // TekhneMakre, 2 min
An animated introduction to longtermism (feat. Robert Miles) // Writer, 4 min
Improving parliamentary information processing // victorsintnicolaas, 3 min
Mantic Monday 6/21/21 // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Books
Announcing the Replacing Guilt audiobook // gianlucatruda, 1 min
Cliffnotes to Craft of Research parts I, II, and III // quinn-dougherty, 19 min
# Community
Why you should try a live reading session // nihal-m, 4 min
# Culture war
[Letter] Imperialism in the Rationalist Community // lsusr, 2 min
# Misc
Irrational Modesty // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min
The homework assignment incentives, and why it's now so extreme // andrew-vlahos, 4 min
Idea: Give the Nobel peace prize to institution designers // rockthecasbah, 1 min
Types of Friends // cole-killian, 2 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 9 - Finite Factored Sets with Scott Garrabrant // DanielFilan, 72 min
Currents 036: Melanie Mitchell on Why AI is Hard // The Jim Rutt Show, 42 min
Currents 035: Steve Barbour on Mining Bitcoin with Methane // The Jim Rutt Show, 60 min
#103 - Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data // , 143 min
EP133 Robert Tercek on Digital Strategies // The Jim Rutt Show, 99 min
# Rational fiction
Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 7 // lsusr, 3 min
Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 6 // lsusr, 2 min
D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax // abstractapplic, 3 min
# Videos of the week
Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193 // Lex Fridman, 179 min