rational
Issue #188: Full List
31 October, 2021 // View curated list
The youngest kids in class are more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disorder – immaturity mistaken for psychological dysfunction (N = 388,650). // acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 10/28: An Unexpected Victory // Zvi, 10 min
Effectiveness of Moderna booster shot and mix-and-match? // warrenjordan, 1 min
# Instrumental
Deliberate Play // jsteinhardt, 6 min
Start with a Title // lsusr, 1 min
My current thinking on money and low carb diets // adamzerner, 12 min
No, really, can "dead" time be salvaged? // NicholasKross, 1 min
Walking and Navigating // [email protected], 2 min
Analytics for personal search history // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
How to generate idea/solutions to solve a problem? // warrenjordan, 1 min
# Epistemic
Goodhart's Imperius // Duncan_Sabien, 8 min
Why do humans want to be less wrong? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
Epistemic Minor Leagues // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Ai
True Stories of Algorithmic Improvement // johnswentworth, 6 min Favorite
A very crude deception eval is already passed // beth-barnes, 2 min
Request for proposals for projects in AI alignment that work with deep learning systems // abergal, 6 min
Selfishness, preference falsification, and AI alignment // jessica.liu.taylor, 16 min
Forecasting progress in language models // matthew-barnett, 14 min
Interpretability // abergal, 13 min
Truthful and honest AI // abergal, 16 min
Hegel vs. GPT-3 // Bezzi, 2 min
Stuart Russell and Melanie Mitchell on Munk Debates // alexflint, 3 min
Techniques for enhancing human feedback // abergal, 3 min
Phil Trammell on Economic Growth Under Transformative AI // mtrazzi, 67 min
Must true AI sleep? // mardukofbabylon, 1 min
Measuring and forecasting risks // abergal, 14 min
Google announces Pathways: new generation multitask AI Architecture // Ozyrus, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 6 min Favorite
I Really Don't Understand Eliezer Yudkowsky's Position on Consciousness // Jemist, 4 min
Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness // RobbBB, 26 min
Consequentialism may cost you // samuel-shadrach, 9 min
Save the kid, ruin the suit; Acceptable utility exchange rates; Distributed utility calculations; Civic duties matter // spkoc, 5 min
A system of infinite ethics // Chantiel, 9 min
# Anthropic
On the Universal Distribution // joekc, 40 min
Don't Use the "God's-Eye View" in Anthropic Problems. // dadadarren, 2 min
Better and Worse Ways of Stating SIA // dadadarren, 3 min
# Decision theory
An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach // Zvi, 10 min Favorite
We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society // lsusr, 4 min
Postmodern Warfare // lsusr, 2 min
P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better // ramana-kumar, 6 min
Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday? // idontwanttodie, 1 min
An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Los Angeles // Zvi, 10 min
A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Economy // lorenzo-rex, 1 min
Can TDT establish common knowledge with imperfect clones? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
# Books
Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth // alexander-1, 12 min
[TL;DR] "Training for the New Alpinism" by Steve House and Scott Johnston // lsusr, 7 min
Everything Studies on Cynical Theories // DanielFilan, 1 min
# Ea
X-Risk, Anthropics, & Peter Thiel's Investment Thesis // Jackson Wagner, 23 min
# Relationships
Dating profiles from first principles: heterosexual male profile design // Xodarap, 17 min
Impressive vs honest signaling // adamzerner, 8 min
# Community
Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results // RationalElf, 11 min
Unlock the Door // lincolnquirk, 2 min
Which of our online writings was used to train GPT-3? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
# Culture war
Tell the Truth // lsusr, 2 min
God Is Great // mahdi-complex, 15 min
Voting for people harms people // CraigMichael, 2 min
# Fun
Recommending Understand, a Game about Discerning the Rules // MondSemmel, 5 min
# Misc
They don't make 'em like they used to // jasoncrawford, 2 min
Leadership // lsusr, 1 min
How Much is a Sweet? // jkaufman, 1 min
Nanosystems are Poorly Abstracted // Jemist, 6 min
Child Walksheds // jkaufman, 1 min
An ‘Amazon’ of Online College? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Podcasts
EP145 John Vervaeke Part 3: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis // The Jim Rutt Show, 110 min
# Rational fiction
Harry Potter and the Methods of Psychomagic | Chapter 2: The Global Neuronal Workspace // Henry Prowbell, 11 min
What are fiction stories related to AI alignment? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
# Videos of the week
[ML News] Google introduces Pathways | OpenAI solves Math Problems | Meta goes First Person // Yannic Kilcher, 36 min