rational
Issue #18: Full List
29 July, 2018 // View curated list
A loss ends up robbing football fans of about four times the amount of happiness they might have gained from a win. // www.washingtonpost.com
# Instrumental
Saving the world in 80 days: Epilogue // elriggs, 2 min Favorite
Strategies of Personal Growth // Raemon, 5 min
Fading Novelty // lifelonglearner, 7 min
The risk of an American Civil War is remote // Samo Burja, 9 min
# Epistemic
Simplicio and Sophisticus // Zvi, 5 min
# Ai
Algo trading is a central example of AI risk // Vanessa Kowalski, 1 min
July 2018 Newsletter // Rob Bensinger, 1 min
Robustness to fundamental uncertainty in AGI alignment // gworley, 1 min
Narrow AI Nanny: Reaching Strategic Advantage via Narrow AI to Prevent Creation of the Dangerous Superintelligence // avturchin, 27 min
ISO: Name of Problem // johnswentworth, 1 min
Computational efficiency reasons not to model VNM-rational preference relations with utility functions // AlexMennen, 3 min
Alignment Newsletter #16: 07/23/18 // rohinmshah, 14 min
Fundamentals of Formalisation Level 6: Turing Machines and the Halting Problem // crabman, 1 min
Exorcizing the Speed Prior? // abramdemski, 3 min
# Anthropic
Some intuition on why consciousness seems subjective // SoerenMind, 8 min
Anthropics: A Short Note on the Fission Riddle // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Books
Dalio’s Principles // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Community
Meetups Everywhere 2018 // Scott Alexander, 3 min
Replace yourself first if you're moving to the Bay // Raemon, 5 min
# Culture war
Model-building and scapegoating // Benquo, 2 min
Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics // Scott Alexander, 22 min
# Art
12 Virtues of Rationality posters/icons // habryka, 1 min
# Fun
Armpit Futures // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min Favorite
Verses Composed Upon Reading A Review From TripAdvisor // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Misc
Top Left Mood // Jacobian, 1 min Favorite
Compulsory Licensing Of Backroom IT? // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Counterfactual outcome state transition parameters // Anders_H, 7 min
Decisions are not about changing the world, they are about learning what world you live in // shminux, 13 min
Reasonability and Questions about CDT // Galfour, 5 min
Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room // Benquo, 3 min
The Experimental Apparatus // Elo, 1 min
Don't Get Distracted by the Boilerplate // johnswentworth, 2 min
rattumb debate: Are cognitive biases a good thing ? // Paperclip Minimizer, 1 min
Prediction Markets: When Do They Work? // Zvi, 12 min
The Evil Genie Puzzle // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Opinion Article Against Measuring Impact // ole.koksvik, 1 min
General Evolvable Brains // Robin Hanson, 4 min
The problem of other minds // Elo, 1 min
Open Thread 106.5 // Scott Alexander, 1 min
Let's Discuss Functional Decision Theory // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Bayesian Reasoning with Unsong Theodicy means we shouldn't destroy the universe // pku, 1 min
Who Wants The Job? // Zvi, 2 min
# Podcasts
#38 - Prof Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make a much happier world // The 80,000 Hours team, 119 min
Rationally Speaking #213 - Dean Simonton on "The causes of scientific and artistic genius" // NYC Skeptics, 66 min
# Videos of the week
A.I. Learns Nobel Prize Experiment in Just 1 Hour! // ColdFusion, 9 min