rational
Issue #185
10 October, 2021 // View full list
The argument for a carbon price: "It is a policy that changes the entire system" // ourworldindata.org
# Coronavirus
Covid 10/7: Steady as She Goes // Zvi, 8 min
Vax passports - theory and practice // gabriel-holmes, 7 min
# Instrumental
How much slower is remote work? // jsteinhardt, 4 min
What makes us happy and depressed? // marius-hobbhahn, 23 min
Do you like excessive sugar? // amaury-lorin, 1 min
What to read instead of news? // ekritose, 1 min
How can one identify the absolute safest car in practice rather than theory? // rockwell, 1 min
# Epistemic
“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up // pktechgirl, 4 min
Trust and The Small World Fallacy // DPiepgrass, 16 min
# Ai
How to think about and deal with OpenAI // sil-ver, 1 min
Safety-capabilities tradeoff dials are inevitable in AGI // steve2152, 4 min
Intelligence or Evolution? // ramana-kumar, 3 min
Is GPT-3 already sample-efficient? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
The Dark Side of Cognition Hypothesis // cameron-berg, 20 min
# Meta-ethics
Cheap food causes cooperative ethics // lsusr, 1 min Favorite
Engaging with hypotheticals as they are defined // damiensnyder, 5 min
Dissolving the Experience Machine Objection // leogao, 2 min
# Longevity
To every people according to their language // yair-halberstadt, 3 min
# Anthropic
Possible Worlds after Prediction Take-off // isaduan, 4 min
‘Long Reflection’ Is Crazy Bad Idea // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Decision theory
What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean? // johnswentworth, 9 min Favorite
How do bounded utility functions work if you are uncertain how close to the bound your utility is? // Ghatanathoah, 3 min
# Books
(Book Review) The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality // Xylitol, 21 min
[Book Review] Evolution of Sex // Alex Hollow, 10 min
Book summary: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids // Optimization Process, 5 min
Book Review: Churchill and Orwell // SDM, 13 min
What can we learn from traditional societies? // adrian-arellano-davin, 12 min
# Community
Glen Weyl: "Why I Was Wrong to Demonize Rationalism" // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Considerations on Compensation // T3t, 6 min
What role should LW play in AI Safety? // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Culture war
Andrew Yang on "The Priests of the Decline" // timothy-johnson, 1 min
Are democratic elections incompetence-as-a-service? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
# Fun
No Really, There Are No Rules! // Jemist, 2 min
Noragami // lsusr, 2 min
# Misc
Perceptual dexterity: a case study // Duncan_Sabien, 4 min
Apprenticeship Online // henrik-karlsson, 14 min
Appropriately Gray Products // adamzerner, 5 min
How to build a mind - neuroscience edition // jan-2, 14 min
Candy Innovation // jkaufman, 1 min
# Podcasts
Currents 044: Zak Stein on Propaganda and the Information War // The Jim Rutt Show, 95 min
#112 - Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications // , 228 min
147 – Newcomblike Problems Are The Norm // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 89 min
# Rational fiction
Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Terraforming Mars in 3 Just Simple Steps! // Sabine Hossenfelder, 10 min