rational
Issue #179
29 August, 2021 // View full listMillenials 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
# Videos of the week
The Tools Needed to Improve a Billion Lives | Feedback Loop Ep. 16 - Toby Ord // Singularity University, 51 min