rational
Issue #180: Full List
5 September, 2021 // View curated list
Perception is an active process: People's expectations of what they were about to see were already readable in the early visual input sites of the brain. // academic.oup.com
# Coronavirus
Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem // pktechgirl, 12 min
Covid 9/2: Long Covid Analysis // Zvi, 18 min
Exercise Trade Offs // pktechgirl, 3 min
How much COVID protection is gained from protecting your eyes? // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
How much should we still worry about catching COVID? [Links and Discussion Thread] // MichaelStJules, 3 min
Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 26 min
# Instrumental
Nonspecific discomfort // cousin_it, 3 min
Kids Roaming // jkaufman, 1 min
Tasker actions which save me time and sanity // just_browsing, 2 min
# Epistemic
[Crosspost] On Hreha On Behavioral Economics // Yvain, 27 min Favorite
Beware of small world puzzles // adrian-arellano-davin, 4 min
A lost 80s/90s metaphor: playing the demo // CraigMichael, 5 min
Death by a Single Cut // lsusr, 2 min
Forecasting Newsletter: August 2021 // Radamantis, 9 min
Antidotes to Number Numbness // Collisteru, 3 min
Blind Spots in Science and Culture // rogersbacon, 18 min
Why has the replication crisis affected RCT-studies but not observational studies? // dynomight, 1 min
# Ai
Call for research on evaluating alignment (funding + advice available) // beth-barnes, 5 min
The Most Important Century: Sequence Introduction // HoldenKarnofsky, 5 min
Grokking the Intentional Stance // jbkjr, 24 min
A short introduction to machine learning // ricraz, 8 min
Alignment Research = Conceptual Alignment Research + Applied Alignment Research // adamShimi, 5 min
Why the technological singularity by AGI may never happen // hippke, 1 min
US Military Global Information Dominance Experiments // Radamantis, 4 min
Is there a name for the theory that "There will be fast takeoff in real-world capabilities because almost everything is AGI-complete"? // capybaralet, 1 min
Superintelligent Introspection: A Counter-argument to the Orthogonality Thesis // AllAmericanBreakfast, 5 min
Thoughts on gradient hacking // ricraz, 4 min
Competent Preferences // Charlie Steiner, 6 min
Are there substantial research efforts towards aligning narrow AIs? // Rossin, 2 min
What could small scale disasters from AI look like? // CharlesD, 1 min
NIST AI Risk Management Framework request for information (RFI) // alenglander, 2 min
The Governance Problem and the "Pretty Good" X-Risk // Zach Stein-Perlman, 13 min
Reward splintering as reverse of interpretability // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
# Longevity
Hope and False Hope // TekhneMakre, 7 min
# Anthropic
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild // HoldenKarnofsky, 10 min
World War Zero // lsusr, 6 min
We Live in an Era of Unprecedented World Peace // lsusr, 1 min
Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels // LRudL, 31 min
What will be the most important resource after the information age? // actuallynotaustralian, 1 min
# Decision theory
A Small Vacation // DanB, 11 min
The Coordination Frontier: Sequence Intro // Raemon, 7 min
The Solow-Swan model of economic growth // matthew-barnett, 12 min
Addendum to "Amyloid Plaques: Medical Goodhart, Chemical Streetlight" // Jemist, 2 min
Competition Cuts Spite // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
Information At A Distance Is Mediated By Deterministic Constraints // johnswentworth, 11 min
A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos // sam-enright, 6 min
Lakshmi's Magic Rope: An Intuitive Explanation of Ramanujan Primes // AllAmericanBreakfast, 13 min
Quantum particles and classical filaments // From_Branes_to_Brains, 4 min
An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 4 // gilch, 10 min
Causal without correlation, how? // MoritzG, 1 min
# Books
Book review: Shut Out // PeterMcCluskey, 12 min
# Community
Training My Friend to Cook // lsusr, 3 min
Guide to Warwick, New York // Zvi, 14 min
Improving rationality / scout mindset on a debate group // alenglander, 1 min
An Actual Plan To Improve // njv, 8 min
Virtual Machine Learning Conferences: The Good and the Bad // libai, 3 min
# Culture war
I Want to Live in The Truly Free World, not in America // mikkel-wilson, 2 min
# Fun
[Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy // lsusr, 1 min
# Misc
Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Infectious Disease // lsusr, 2 min
Growth of prediction markets over time? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
We are failing to see how much better off humanity could be (transparent monsters part 2) // Writer, 4 min
Untangling // TekhneMakre, 2 min
# Podcasts
YANSS 214 – Exploring Genius //
EP140 Robin Dunbar on Friendship // The Jim Rutt Show, 106 min
# Rational fiction
[Review] Edge of Tomorrow (2014) // lsusr, 1 min
D&D.Sci Pathfinder: Return of the Gray Swan // aphyer, 5 min
# Videos of the week
Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218 // Lex Fridman, 112 min