rational
Issue #184: Full List
3 October, 2021 // View curated list
Meta-analysis: Meat consumption is positively related to mental health. // www.tandfonline.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 9/30: People Respond to Incentives // Zvi, 20 min
# Instrumental
Sunscreen: much more than you wanted to know // pierre-vandenberghe, 7 min
Consider Taking Zinc Every Time You Travel // pktechgirl, 3 min
# Epistemic
Blood Is Thicker Than Water ? // Zack_M_Davis, 15 min
Beware Superficial Plausibility // Celer, 4 min
Reachability Debates (Are Often Invisible) // Jemist, 2 min
The underappreciated value of original thinking below the frontier // Emrik North, 2 min
Forecasting Newsletter: September 2021. // Radamantis, 7 min
The Paradox of Expert Opinion // Emrik North, 5 min
What do determinists here think about free will and Chalmer's hard problem of consciousness? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
Why We Should Always Distrust Our Certainties // ted-reynolds, 2 min
How does forecast quantity impact forecast quality on Metaculus? // CharlesD, 9 min
Wisdom of the crowds? // Maiwaaro23, 1 min
The Mind Is A Shaky Control System // AllAmericanBreakfast, 3 min
# Ai
Beyond fire alarms: freeing the groupstruck // KatjaGrace, 66 min
Brain-inspired AGI and the "lifetime anchor" // steve2152, 15 min
My take on Vanessa Kosoy's take on AGI safety // steve2152, 39 min
Unsolved ML Safety Problems // jsteinhardt, 3 min
Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agents // johnswentworth, 7 min
Takeoff Speeds and Discontinuities // SDM, 17 min
[Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang // lsusr, 1 min
Meta learning to gradient hack // quintin-pope, 3 min
A brief review of the reasons multi-objective RL could be important in AI Safety Research // ben-smith, 12 min
Proposal: Scaling laws for RL generalization // flodorner, 13 min
Some Existing Selection Theorems // johnswentworth, 4 min
My Hypermind Arising Intelligence Forecasts and Reflections // elifland, 3 min
What Selection Theorems Do We Expect/Want? // johnswentworth, 9 min
AI learns betrayal and how to avoid it // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Forecasting Compute - Transformative AI and Compute [2/4] // lennart, 21 min
AISC5 Retrospective: Mechanisms for Avoiding Tragedy of the Commons in Common Pool Resource Problems // ariel-kwiatkowski, 7 min
Is progress in ML-assisted theorem-proving beneficial? // MakoYass, 1 min
Any writeups on GPT agency? // Ozyrus, 1 min
Collection of arguments to expect (outer and inner) alignment failure? // Sam Clarke, 1 min
Transformative AI and Compute [Summary] // lennart, 11 min
What Heuristics Do You Use to Think About Alignment Topics? // elriggs, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
The Trolley Problem // lsusr, 2 min
# Longevity
# Anthropic
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elgans After 10 Years // niconiconi, 6 min Favorite
The Simulation Hypothesis Undercuts the SIA/Great Filter Doomsday Argument // mark-xu, 8 min
100 Years Of Existential Risk // jdp, 39 min
SIA > SSA, part 1: Learning from the fact that you exist // joekc, 20 min
SIA > SSA, part 2: Telekinesis, reference classes, and other scandals // joekc, 43 min
SIA > SSA, part 3: An aside on betting in anthropics // joekc, 9 min
SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the presumptuous philosopher // joekc, 27 min
# Decision theory
EA Hangout Prisoners' Dilemma // jeff-ladish, 4 min
Prosocial Capitalism // scafaria, 1 min
Chris Dixon's Crypto Claims are Logically Flimsy // Liron, 1 min
[linkpost] Vitalik Buterin on Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics // mike_hawke, 1 min
Problems with using approval voting to elect to a multi-individual body? // RyanCarey, 1 min
Beware Centralization // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Books
A review of Steven Pinker's new book on rationality // matthew-barnett, 7 min
[Book review] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer // samuel-marks, 27 min
[Book Review] "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane // lsusr, 8 min
Review: The End Is Always Near // pktechgirl, 3 min
[Book Review] "Houdini on Magic" by Harry Houdini // lsusr, 7 min
Book Review: The Scout Mindset // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Ea
Issues with Giving Multiplier // jkaufman, 7 min
From Manchester to Beirut: The power of education to change lives // [email protected], 5 min
# Relationships
Easily Top 20% // Jacobian, 11 min
Sex-Positivity is Countercultural // Jacobian, 3 min
# Community
The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us! // habryka4, 4 min
Updates from Leverage Research: History and Recent Progress // LarissaRowe, 10 min
You can talk to EA Funds before applying // evhub, 1 min
The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them // Nora_Ammann, 29 min
# Culture war
Dominic Cummings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Silicon Valley // ChristianKl, 1 min
To Cut Inequality, Face Hard Choices // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Misc
Where's my magic sword? // lsusr, 2 min
Schools probably do do something // yair-halberstadt, 1 min
How does The Circle grow, exactly? // Raemon, 12 min
Contra Paul Christiano on Sex // George3d6, 11 min
How can one train philosophical skill? // abramdemski, 1 min
How to measure (human) impact? // rodeo_flagellum, 1 min
From The Great Man to The Great Founder Theory: Bezos, Musk, and Systrom // hivemindsingularity, 1 min
# Podcasts
Currents 043: Lene Rachel Andersen on Bildung // The Jim Rutt Show, 48 min
EP142 Robert Tercek on the Metaverse // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Rational fiction
Bayeswatch 10: Spyware // lsusr, 5 min
AI takeoff story: a continuation of progress by other means // Edouard Harris, 12 min
Interview with Skynet // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | Lex Fridman Podcast #226 // Lex Fridman, 90 min