rational
Issue #183: Full List
26 September, 2021 // View curated list
The much invoked "unconscious" may be nothing more than "the invisible gorilla" in our mind. // psyarxiv.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/23: There Is a War // Zvi, 29 min
How dangerous is Long COVID for kids? // Viliam, 1 min
The Effectiveness Of Masks is Limited // mike-harris-1, 7 min
# Instrumental
Walkie-Talkies // jkaufman, 1 min
How should dance venues best protect the drinks of attendees? // maxwell-peterson, 1 min
How do you learn to take more beautiful pictures with a camera? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Epistemic
Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Update // johnswentworth, 10 min
Three enigmas at the heart of our reasoning // alexflint, 10 min
Shared Frames Are Capital Investments in Coordination // johnswentworth, 17 min
Sigmoids behaving badly: arXiv paper // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
David Wolpert on Knowledge // alexflint, 16 min
The Worldview of David Deutsch // alexander-1, 9 min
Yay Argument Orientation // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Ai
Redwood Research’s current project // Buck, 17 min
Announcing the Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety! // DanielFilan, 1 min
What is Compute? - Transformative AI and Compute [1/4] // lennart, 22 min
Neural net / decision tree hybrids: a potential path toward bridging the interpretability gap // nathan-helm-burger, 15 min
Forecasting Transformative AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI? // HoldenKarnofsky, 11 min
What are good models of collusion in AI? // EconomicModel, 1 min
A sufficiently paranoid non-Friendly AGI might self-modify itself to become Friendly // RomanS, 1 min
How much should you be willing to pay for an AGI? // logan-zoellner, 1 min
Pathways: Google's AGI // le-nguyen-hoang-1, 1 min
Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models // jan-2, 14 min
AI, learn to be conservative, then learn to be less so: reducing side-effects, learning preserved features, and going beyond conservatism // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
This War of Mine // lsusr, 2 min
# Anthropic
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1 // Writer, 10 min
# Decision theory
Where do your eyes go? // alkjash, 17 min
"Rational Agents Win" // KingSupernova, 2 min
Matt Levine spots IRL Paperclip Maximizer in Reddit // Nebu, 2 min
Accidental Optimizers // aysajan, 3 min
Weird models of country development? // Connor_Flexman, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 11 // Venkatesh Rao, 10 min
# Math and cs
Designing Low Upkeep Software // jkaufman, 1 min
What is the evidence on the Church-Turing Thesis? // Morpheus, 1 min
# Books
[Book Review] "The Alignment Problem" by Brian Christian // lsusr, 7 min
[Book Review] Altered Traits // lsusr, 13 min
Insights from Modern Principles of Economics // TurnTrout, 15 min
Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil // David_Gross, 4 min
[Summary] "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by David Griffiths - Part 1 // lsusr, 4 min
Book Review: Homo Deus // Collisteru, 13 min
Book Review: Who We Are and How We Got Here // yair-halberstadt, 18 min
# Ea
GiveWell Donation Matching // jkaufman, 2 min
# Community
The 2021 Less Wrong Darwin Game // lsusr, 9 min
Common knowledge facts about Leverage Research 1.0 // BayAreaHuman, 5 min
# Culture war
How's it going with the Universal Cultural Takeover? Part I // david-hugh-jones, 10 min
How's it going with the Universal Cultural Takeover? Part II // david-hugh-jones, 4 min
Elite Biases Make Policy Biases // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Misc
Ten Hundred Megaseconds // philh, 2 min
Emotional microscope // pchvykov, 3 min
Whither Tartaria? // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Podcasts
Review: Martyr Made Podcast // pktechgirl, 10 min
AXRP Episode 11 - Attainable Utility and Power with Alex Turner // DanielFilan, 66 min
146 – What Is A Rationalist? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 139 min
# Videos of the week
How far can we scale up? Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns (Article Review) // Yannic Kilcher, 20 min