rational
Issue #172
11 July, 2021 // View full list
Facebook vs Boston Dynamics: Facebook AI now enables robots, purely trained in simulations, to adapt rapidly to changing real-world conditions. // ai.facebook.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/8: Delta Takes Over // Zvi, 13 min
We Still Don't Know If Masks Work // mike-harris-1, 3 min
For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot // joshjacobson, 4 min
Will the US have more than 100,000 new daily COVID-19 cases before January 1, 2022? // jorge-velez, 1 min
Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 36 min
# Instrumental
The topic is not the content // aaronb50, 6 min
You are allowed to edit Wikipedia // ChristianKl, 1 min
Chess and cheap ways to check day to day variance in cognition // KPier, 3 min
For reducing caffeine dependence, does daily maximum matter more, or does total daily intake matter more? // maxwell-peterson, 1 min
Resources On Mental Health And Finding A Therapist // lynettebye, 5 min
# Epistemic
Rationality Yellow Belt Test Questions? // moridinamael, 1 min
Consequences of Bayesian Epistemology? // benjamin-hendricks, 1 min
Opinion Entrenchment // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Ai
How much chess engine progress is about adapting to bigger computers? // paulfchristiano, 7 min
BASALT: A Benchmark for Learning from Human Feedback // rohinmshah, 1 min
A world in which the alignment problem seems lower-stakes // TurnTrout, 2 min
Is keeping AI "in the box" during training enough? // tgb, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
In-group loyalty is social cement // david-hugh-jones, 3 min
# Longevity
You should ask for a third-party audit of your cryopreservation // oge, 1 min
# Anthropic
Are coincidences clues about missed disasters? It depends on your answer to the Sleeping Beauty Problem. // Harlan, 9 min
Anthropic Effects in Estimating Evolution Difficulty // mark-xu, 4 min
Practical anthropics summary // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Anthropics in infinite universes // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Seeing ANYTHING Other Than Huge-Civ Is Bad News // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Improving capital gains taxes // paulfchristiano, 3 min
Intermittent Distillations #4 // mark-xu, 11 min
The Efficient Market Hypothesis in Research // libai, 3 min
Should government set interest rates? // yhoiseth, 1 min
# Math and cs
An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming // parsley, 9 min
A simple example of conditional orthogonality in finite factored sets // DanielFilan, 6 min
A second example of conditional orthogonality in finite factored sets // DanielFilan, 2 min
Finite Factored Sets: Conditional Orthogonality // Scott Garrabrant, 14 min
# Books
Book Review: Order Without Law // philh, 60 min
# Culture war
Can group identity be a force for good? // UnexpectedValues, 7 min
# Misc
Relentlessness // Alicorn, 2 min
Musing on the Many Worlds Hypothesis // David_Gross, 1 min
The news attention span // damiensnyder, 2 min
Intelligence without Consciousness // andrew-vlahos, 1 min
Model City Monday // Scott Alexander, 10 min
# Podcasts
[cross-post with EA Forum] The EA Forum Podcast is up and running // D0TheMath, 1 min
Currents 037: Sam Harris on Surviving Our Smartphones // The Jim Rutt Show, 36 min
EP136 Harvey Reid on Troubadour Music // The Jim Rutt Show, 101 min
# Rational fiction
Potential Bottlenecks to Taking Over The World // johnswentworth, 7 min
Jackpot! An AI Vignette // bgold, 2 min
# Videos of the week
[ML News] Facebook AI adapting robots | Baidu autonomous excavators | Happy Birthday EleutherAI // Yannic Kilcher, 23 min