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Issue #175: Full List
1 August, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/29: You Play to Win the Game // Zvi, 28 min
Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways // Connor_Flexman, 17 min
What weird treatments should people who lost their taste from COVID try? // maxwell-peterson, 1 min
How to bayesian update on multiple covid tests? // rchplg, 1 min
Is there a theoretical upper limit on the R0 of Covid variants? // CraigMichael, 1 min
A reasonable debate about Ivermectin // CraigMichael, 1 min
# Instrumental
When writing triggers memory reconsolidation // adamzerner, 3 min
How much do variations in diet quality determine individual productivity? // Natália Mendonça, 1 min
Come Build Affordable Housing! // jkaufman, 5 min
My Productivity Tips and Systems // Jack Ryan, 6 min
What's your personal TAP setup? // raj-thimmiah, 1 min
# Epistemic
Black ravens and red herrings // matthew-barnett, 1 min
What does knowing the heritability of a trait tell me in practice? // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min
When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions // Hazard, 1 min
Importance of Ideas and People We Disagree With // Olitness, 8 min
What are some triggers that prompt you to do a Fermi estimate, or to pull up a spreadsheet and make a simple/rough quantitative model? // elityre, 1 min
More Useful Way of Answering "Mind vs. Body" Problem // Olitness, 1 min
Evidence that adds up // TekhneMakre, 2 min
A Framework for Disagreements // anshul-jain-1, 3 min
The World is Continuous, Not Discrete // anshul-jain-1, 2 min
When Does Worrying About Things Trade Off Against Worrying About Other Things? // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Ai
DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min Favorite
How much compute was used to train DeepMind's generally capable agents? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Refactoring Alignment (attempt #2) // abramdemski, 9 min
Did they or didn't they learn tool use? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Very Unnatural Tasks? // Orfeas, 1 min
Updated Look At Long-Term AI Risks // Scott Alexander, 4 min
Contra Acemoglu On...Oh God, We're Doing This Again, Aren't We? // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Meta-ethics
Torture vs Specks: Sadist version // andrew-sauer, 1 min
# Longevity
A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic // Bob Baker, 6 min Favorite
# Anthropic
The biological intelligence explosion // Rob Lucas, 4 min
Brin’s UFO Questions // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Slack Has Positive Externalities For Groups // johnswentworth, 6 min
Risk Premiums vs Prediction Markets // SimonM, 7 min
Prediction-based-Medicine instead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Authority-based-Medicine // ChristianKl, 3 min
Do we have a term for the issue with quantifying policy effect Scott Alexander stumbled on multiple times? // yhoiseth, 2 min
# Math and cs
An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 2 // parsley, 11 min
Uncertainty can Defuse Logical Explosions // Jemist, 3 min
# Community
Academic Rationality Research // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Culture war
Failing safely is the anomaly // andrew-vlahos, 3 min
# Misc
Cognitive Impacts of Cocaine Use // Xodarap, 2 min
Brief thoughts on inefficient writing systems // srdjan-miletic, 2 min
A conversation about cooking, science, and creativity // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Neuroscience things that confuse me right now // steve2152, 10 min
Can I teach myself scientific creativity? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
Mediocratopia: 10 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Will Tech Help Totalitarians? // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Mantic Monday 7/26 // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Podcasts
#106 - Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work // , 113 min
142 – Do This // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 152 min
EP138 Brian Arthur on the Nature of Technology // The Jim Rutt Show, 91 min
# Videos of the week
Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #206 // Lex Fridman, 150 min