rational
Issue #171
4 July, 2021 // View full list
Dark personality traits like manipulation, egocentricity, and callousness (for men) increase throughout adolescence, peak in young adulthood, and gradually decline with age. // www.sciencedirect.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/1: Don’t Panic // Zvi, 11 min
How do the ivermectin meta-reviews come to so different conclusions? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What precautions should fully-vaccinated people still be taking? // Sameerishere, 10 min
How would you run the statistics on whether Ivermectin helped India reduce COVID-19 cases? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What's the effective R for the Delta variant of COVID-19? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Instrumental
Intentionally Making Close Friends // neel-nanda-1, 21 min Favorite
A quantitative introduction to churning // electroswing, 10 min
Positive Expectations; how to build Hopefulness // Jemist, 3 min
# Epistemic
Simulacrum Levels of Trust // alkexr, 4 min
Opinionated Uncertainty // AllAmericanBreakfast, 14 min
# Ai
Experimentally evaluating whether honesty generalizes // paulfchristiano, 10 min
How will OpenAI + GitHub's Copilot affect programming? // smountjoy, 1 min
The Language of Bird // johnswentworth, 3 min
Sam Altman and Ezra Klein on the AI Revolution // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Do incoherent entities have stronger reason to become more coherent than less? // KatjaGrace, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on Kindness // David_Gross, 21 min
# Longevity
New Dementia Trial Results // PeterMcCluskey, 4 min
# Anthropic
Nuclear Strategy in a Semi-Vulnerable World // Jackson Wagner, 21 min
The Coming Cosmic Control Conflict // Robin Hanson, 4 min
We Moderns Are Status-Drunk // Robin Hanson, 9 min
# Decision theory
Intro to Debt Crises // Connor_Flexman, 12 min
Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams // tom4everitt, 10 min
Causes of a Debt Crisis—Economic // Connor_Flexman, 10 min
The Unexpected Hanging Paradox // Chris_Leong, 4 min
Replace Govt As Career Agent // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
Trying to approximate Statistical Models as Scoring Tables // Jsevillamol, 9 min
Eponymous Laws Part 2: Laws of Programming and Software Development // rogersbacon, 1 min
# Books
Is it true that most studies in Kahneman's 'Thinking fast and slow' are not replicable and the book is largely not supported by evidence? // davy-jones, 1 min
Highlights From The Comments On "How Asia Works" // Scott Alexander, 18 min
Book Review: How Asia Works // Scott Alexander, 32 min
# Community
Online LessWrong Community Weekend // EGI, 1 min
A (somewhat beta) site for embedding betting odds in your writing // Optimization Process, 1 min
# Misc
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine? // jasoncrawford, 14 min
Optimism about Social Technology // mike_hawke, 1 min
Voicing Voice // Eh_Yo_Lexa, 4 min
Should VS Would and Newcomb's Paradox // dadadarren, 2 min
You Don’t Want To Know Your Limit // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Podcasts
#104 - Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics // , 140 min
EP135 Dennis Waters on Behavior & Culture in One Dimension // The Jim Rutt Show, 82 min
EP134 Forrest Landry on Non-Relative Ethics // The Jim Rutt Show, 103 min
140 – Trigger Warning: Old Men Yelling at Clouds // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 140 min
# Videos of the week
[ML News] GitHub Copilot - Copyright, GPL, Patents & more | Brickit LEGO app | Distill goes on break // Yannic Kilcher, 27 min