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Issue #182: Full List
19 September, 2021 // View curated listVitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety: The Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship in AI Existential Safety is targeted at students applying to start their PhD or Postdoc in 2022. // forum.effectivealtruism.org
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/17: Done Biden His Time // Zvi, 36 min
Lessons from covid predictions: Always use multiple models // pku, 3 min
# Instrumental
How feeling more secure feels different than I expected // Kaj_Sotala, 3 min
Writing On The Pareto Frontier // johnswentworth, 3 min
Film Study for Research // jsteinhardt, 6 min
Childcare III // jkaufman, 5 min
Equal Parenting Advice for Dads // jkaufman, 3 min
What should one's policy regarding dental xrays be? // BossSleepy, 1 min
# Epistemic
Optimizing Multiple Imperfect Filters // johnswentworth, 6 min
Research speedruns // drossbucket, 4 min
# Ai
I wanted to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky but he's busy so I simulated him instead // lsusr, 6 min
Jitters No Evidence of Stupidity in RL // 1a3orn, 4 min
The theory-practice gap // Buck, 7 min
How truthful is GPT-3? A benchmark for language models // Owain_Evans, 6 min
GPT-Augmented Blogging // lsusr, 15 min
Immobile AI makes a move: anti-wireheading, ontology change, and model splintering // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Economic AI Safety // jsteinhardt, 6 min
Investigating AI Takeover Scenarios // SDM, 32 min
Great Power Conflict // Zach Stein-Perlman, 5 min
# Anthropic
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation // lsusr, 4 min
Digital People Would Be An Even Bigger Deal // HoldenKarnofsky, 14 min
Digital People FAQ // HoldenKarnofsky, 18 min
# Decision theory
This Can't Go On // HoldenKarnofsky, 9 min
Oracle predictions don't apply to non-existent worlds // Chris_Leong, 3 min
# Books
Book review: The Checklist Manifesto // Swimmer963, 5 min
Review of A Map that Reflects the Territory // william-gasarch, 21 min
Truth + Reason = The True Religion? // David_Gross, 22 min
“Who’s In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain” // David_Gross, 4 min
Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public // Scott Alexander, 17 min
Book Review: Modi - A Political Biography // Scott Alexander, 25 min
# Ea
The Motivated Reasoning Critique of Effective Altruism // Linch, 27 min
# Relationships
Dating Minefield vs. Dating Playground // Vlad Loweren, 4 min
Comments on Jacob Falkovich on loneliness // alexflint, 19 min
# Misc
How factories were made safe // jasoncrawford, 22 min
How to deal with probabilities in the presence of clones? // anchpop, 1 min
[Linkpost] Partial Derivatives and Partial Narratives // mike_hawke, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP141 Heather Heying on Confronting Hyper-Novelty // The Jim Rutt Show
How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) // Rationally Speaking, 77 min
#111 - Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms // , 200 min
# Rational fiction
Harry Potter and the Methods of Psychomagic | Chapter 1: Affect // Henry Prowbell, 8 min
# Videos of the week
This is Why Techno Optimism Still Makes Sense | Feedback Loop Ep 19 - Kevin Kelly // Singularity University, 49 min
GPT-3 is a LIAR - Misinformation and fear-mongering around the TruthfulQA dataset // Yannic Kilcher, 13 min