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Issue #173: Full List
18 July, 2021 // View curated list# Coronavirus
Covid 7/15: Rates of Change // Zvi, 20 min
We have some evidence that masks work // technicalities, 6 min
# Instrumental
How to Sleep Better // marius-hobbhahn, 18 min Favorite
Reflecting on building my own tools from scratch and 'inventing on principle' // amir-gamil, 5 min
A new option for building lumenators // Alex_Altair, 4 min
Media Diet: Cultivating Voice, Deliberate Action, and Alive Time // Eh_Yo_Lexa, 2 min
# Epistemic
The Mountaineer's Fallacy // alex-power, 1 min
The inescapability of knowledge // alexflint, 6 min
A cognitive algorithm for "free will." // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
# Ai
[Link] Musk's non-missing mood // jimrandomh, 1 min
What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near? // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min
Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements // mark-xu, 8 min
Experimentation with AI-generated images (VQGAN+CLIP) | Solarpunk airships fleeing a dragon // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
A closer look at chess scalings (into the past) // hippke, 5 min
Benchmarking an old chess engine on new hardware // hippke, 5 min
AlphaFold 2 paper released: "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold", Jumper et al 2021 // gwern
(2009) Shane Legg - Funding safe AGI // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min
What will the twenties look like if AGI is 30 years away? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
The More Power At Stake, The Stronger Instrumental Convergence Gets For Optimal Policies // TurnTrout, 6 min
Model-based RL, Desires, Brains, Wireheading // steve2152, 16 min
Equivalent of Information Theory but for Computation? // Jemist, 1 min
# Longevity
Longtermism vs short-termism for personal life extension // MathieuRoy, 2 min
# Anthropic
Anthropic decision theory for self-locating beliefs // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Doing Intelligent Design Right // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Large corporations can unilaterally ban/tax ransomware payments via bets // ryan_greenblatt, 2 min
Reasons for Punishment // yair-halberstadt, 2 min
Analyzing Punishment as Preventation // yair-halberstadt, 4 min
Use Prediction Markets To Fund Investigative Reporting // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Math and cs
"If and Only If" Should Be Spelled "Ifeff" // jimrandomh, 1 min
Generalizing Koopman-Pitman-Darmois // johnswentworth, 13 min
Generalising Logic Gates // Jemist, 5 min
Underlying model of an imperfect morphism // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
The Additive Summary Equation // johnswentworth, 9 min
# Books
When beliefs become identities, truth-seeking becomes hard // Writer, 4 min
Book Review: Crazy Like Us // Scott Alexander, 24 min
# Ea
Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects // abergal, 12 min
# Community
Re: Competent Elites // lsusr, 3 min
Ideal College Education for an Aspiring Rationalist? // Collisteru, 1 min
How to make more people interested in rationality? // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
How to reach out to non-rationalists? // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
# Misc
Winston Churchill, futurist and EA // jasoncrawford, 5 min
(Brainstem, Neocortex) ≠ (Base Motivations, Honorable Motivations) // steve2152, 10 min
Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful // KatjaGrace, 10 min
Imaginary reenactment to heal trauma – how and when does it work? // Kaj_Sotala, 3 min
Lafayette: traffic vessels // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Fixing the arbitrariness of game depth // cousin_it, 2 min
Lafayette: empty traffic signals // KatjaGrace, 2 min
What are some examples from history where a scientific theory predicted a significant experimental observation in advance? // Insub, 1 min
Is social theory our doom? // pchvykov, 2 min
Eponymous Laws Part 3: Miscellaneous // rogersbacon, 4 min
Seeking Samsara // jblue, 5 min
# Podcasts
Currents 038: Connor Leahy on Artificial Intelligence // The Jim Rutt Show, 65 min
141 – Raising Younglings // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 126 min
EP137 Ken Stanley on Neuroevolution // The Jim Rutt Show, 90 min
#105 - Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways // , 174 min
# Videos of the week
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database // DeepMind, 1 min