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Issue #179

Millenials not doing as badly as people think: Millennials are actually about as wealthy per-capita as GenX and Boomers were at their age. // economistwritingeveryday.com

# Coronavirus

COVID/Delta advice I'm currently giving to friends // RobbBB, 9 min

Covid 8/26: Full Vaccine Approval // Zvi, 18 min

# Instrumental

Research productivity tip: "Solve The Whole Problem Day" // steve2152, 4 min

# Epistemic

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor // johnswentworth, 4 min

Generator Systems: Coincident Constraints // Jemist, 2 min

18 possible meanings of "I Like Red" // ozziegooen, 4 min

Framing Practicum: Incentive // aysajan, 4 min

Framing Practicum: Turnover Time // johnswentworth, 4 min

# Ai

Could you have stopped Chernobyl? // carlos-ramirez, 9 min

Introduction to Reducing Goodhart // Charlie Steiner, 3 min

Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI Alignment // niplav, 9 min

Randal Koene on brain understanding before whole brain emulation // steve2152, 3 min

Extraction of human preferences ?→? // arunraja-hub, 5 min

# Meta-ethics

Moral Golems Assume Uncertainty // Erich_Grunewald, 8 min

# Anthropic

The Validity of Self-Locating Probabilities (Pt. 2) // dadadarren, 2 min

# Decision theory

Can you control the past? // joekc, 58 min

MIRI/OP exchange about decision theory // RobbBB, 12 min

Yet More Modal Combat // donald-hobson, 2 min

Why Taxes Or Control, Not Subsidies? // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Math and cs

The Codex Skeptic FAQ // mtrazzi, 2 min

Better Password Peppering // Yoav Ravid, 3 min

# Books

A brief review of The Scout Mindset // adamzerner, 3 min

# Ea

Altruism Under Extreme Uncertainty // lsusr, 2 min

Carbon Costs Quantified // Scott Alexander, 10 min

# Community

We need a new philosophy of progress // jasoncrawford, 3 min

For me the Christianity deal-breaker was meekness // tcelferact, 4 min

# Culture war

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor Of California? // Scott Alexander, 7 min

# Misc

Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities // ben-smith, 1 min

Amyloid Plaques: Chemical Streetlight, Medical Goodhart // Jemist, 2 min

Flirting with postmodernism // toonalfrink, 1 min

Philosophy Web - Project Proposal // SocratesDissatisfied, 2 min

Highlights From The Comments On Missing School // Scott Alexander, 23 min

# Podcasts

Cognitive scientist Joel Chan on metascience, scaling and automating innovation, collective intelligence, and tools for thought. // fowlertm, 1 min

#110 - Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass // , 166 min

144 – The Guild Of The Rose (beta) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 111 min

YANSS 213 – How to improve your chances of nudging the vaccine hesitant away from hesitancy and toward vaccination //

# Videos of the week

The Tools Needed to Improve a Billion Lives | Feedback Loop Ep. 16 - Toby Ord // Singularity University, 51 min