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Issue #187: Full List
24 October, 2021 // View curated list
Subtleties of studying social media and teenagers: Large-scale, long-term study mostly gives the all-clear as regards the dangers of intensive social media use for adolescents; however, clarifies some key risks indicators. // www.sciencedirect.com
# Coronavirus
How much should you update on a COVID test result? // mayleaf, 10 min
Covid 10/21: Rogan vs. Gupta // Zvi, 24 min
Coordination Motivation: The Pandemic // Raemon, 4 min
Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID // Tornus, 9 min
# Instrumental
Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think // mark-xu, 7 min
What's Stopping You? // neel-nanda-1, 21 min
30-ish focusing tips // Raymond D, 6 min
[Update] Without a phone for 10 days // benjamin-spiegel, 2 min
Experimenting with Android Digital Wellbeing // yair-halberstadt, 3 min
What health-related tips do you have for buying meat? // adamzerner, 1 min
# Epistemic
Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options // Duncan_Sabien, 16 min Favorite
Causal vs Predictive Models, and the Causal Taboo // Hazard, 2 min
Epistemic Strategies of Selection Theorems // adamShimi, 12 min
Predictive Categories Make Bad Causal Variables // Hazard, 8 min
How to deal with unknown probability distributions? // samuel-shadrach, 2 min
Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher // jan-2, 8 min
Noticing the Value of Noticing Confusion // TheTrueSquidward, 3 min
# Ai
Boring machine learning is where it's at // George3d6, 4 min
Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie // Owain_Evans, 11 min
[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup // daniel-hendrycks, 2 min
My ML Scaling bibliography // gwern
AGI Safety Fundamentals curriculum and application // ricraz, 9 min
Moravec's Paradox Comes From The Availability Heuristic // james.lucassen, 2 min
Inference cost limits the impact of ever larger models // SoerenMind, 2 min
[Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang, Part 2 // lsusr, 2 min
AMA on Truthful AI: Owen Cotton-Barratt, Owain Evans & co-authors // Owain_Evans, 1 min
On The Risks of Emergent Behavior in Foundation Models // jsteinhardt, 3 min
Epistemic Strategies of Safety-Capabilities Tradeoffs // adamShimi, 6 min
Naive self-supervised approaches to truthful AI // ryan_greenblatt, 2 min
Has anyone done decision theories using turing machines? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
# Longevity
Quick Look: Altitude and Child Development // pktechgirl, 3 min
# Anthropic
How Do Aliens Differ? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
Humans are the universal economic bottleneck // Dach, 2 min
Are people here still looking for crypto tips? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
Where are the quick, easy wins? // Barry_Cotter, 2 min
What Makes Stuff Rot? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 12 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Books
Book review: Lost Connections by Johann Hari // maia, 12 min
Book Review: The Ethics of What We Eat // Jonah_O, 13 min
Book Review: 'Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House' // TranscendetalIdealist, 18 min
[Book Review] "Suffering-focused Ethics" by Magnus Vinding // KStub, 30 min
# Ea
Prioritization Research for Advancing Wisdom and Intelligence // ozziegooen, 5 min
# Community
Petrov Day Retrospective: 2021 // Ruby, 11 min
Listen to top LessWrong posts with The Nonlinear Library // ea247, 9 min
Successful Mentoring on Parenting, Arranged Through LessWrong // supposedlyfun, 8 min
An Idea for a More Communal Petrov Day in 2022 // Benito, 2 min
# Culture war
Explaining Capitalism Harder // jkaufman, 1 min
NATO: Cognitive Warfare Project // ChristianKl, 1 min
Are Political Freedoms a Fluke? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
I Don’t Know How To Count That Low // pktechgirl, 3 min
Scout Mindset and Latter-Day Saint Apostasy // Erich_Grunewald, 21 min
In the shadow of the Great War // jasoncrawford, 1 min
Young Scientists // alex-ray, 5 min
Emergent modularity and safety // ricraz, 4 min
Distributed research journals based on blockchains // blackstampede, 1 min
Stoicism vs the Methods of Rationality // TheTrueSquidward, 3 min
Chilling Effects // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Podcasts
#114 - Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people // , 102 min
We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show // , 3 min
#113 - Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India // , 125 min
c33: Outline Part 1 // Constellation, 80 min
EP144 John Vervaeke Part 2: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis // The Jim Rutt Show, 116 min
148 – Decisions, Decisions // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 123 min
# Videos of the week
[Linkpost] Hormone-disrupting plastics and reproductive health // Self-Embedded Agent, 1 min
How I learned to love pseudoscience // Sabine Hossenfelder, 13 min