rationalnewsletter

Issue #189

Good news from the reproducibility front via the State of AI 2021 report: "26% of research papers make their code available and 60% make use of PyTorch." It almost doubled (up by 15%) compared to last year. // stateof.ai

# Coronavirus

Covid 11/4: The After Times // Zvi, 7 min

Does it make sense to get 2 flu vaccines? // dawangy, 1 min

Comparing Options For Safer Events // jkaufman, 6 min

Indoor dancing is safe enough // jkaufman, 2 min

Vaccine Requirements, Age, and Fairness // jkaufman, 1 min

# Instrumental

App and book recommendations for people who want to be happier and more productive // ea247, 8 min Favorite

Money Stuff // Jacobian, 8 min

Depositions and Rationality // pablo-repetto-1, 4 min

Both or Nothing // Chris_Leong, 4 min

How do I keep myself/S1 honest? // BossSleepy, 1 min

# Epistemic

Disagreeables and Assessors: Two Intellectual Archetypes // ozziegooen, 4 min

Mantic Monday 11/1/21 // Scott Alexander, 10 min

# Ai

Study Guide // johnswentworth, 19 min

EfficientZero: human ALE sample-efficiency w/MuZero+self-supervised // gwern, 1 min

Comments on OpenPhil's Interpretability RFP // paulfchristiano, 9 min

Y2K: Successful Practice for AI Alignment // Darmani, 6 min

Drug addicts and deceptively aligned agents - a comparative analysis // jan-2, 14 min

# Meta-ethics

Notes on Shame // David_Gross, 19 min

# Anthropic

Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem // RomanS, 6 min

Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively // Daniel_Eth, 19 min

Nightclubs in Heaven? // Jemist, 3 min

# Decision theory

Concentration of Force // Duncan_Sabien, 15 min Favorite

Paths Forward: Scaling the Sharing of Information and Solutions // Zvi, 26 min

Nate Soares on the Ultimate Newcomb's Problem // RobbBB, 1 min

May I ask for some help getting started with crypto? // SlainLadyMondegreen, 1 min

# Books

[Book Review] "The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray // lsusr, 28 min

Dictator Book Club: Orban // Scott Alexander, 19 min

# Community

Speaking of Stag Hunts // Duncan_Sabien, 23 min

Has LessWrong Been Mind-Killed on the Topic of God and Religion? // mahdi-complex, 4 min

CFAR, responsibility and bureaucracy // ChristianKl, 10 min

Where do you live? // DPiepgrass, 1 min

# Misc

2020 PhilPapers Survey Results // RobbBB, 17 min

The Opt-Out Clause // Raymond D, 1 min

Substack Ho? // Zvi, 4 min

Is genetics "dark"? // david-hugh-jones, 5 min

What specifically is the computation -> qualia theory? // lc, 3 min

# Podcasts

Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein) // Rationally Speaking, 78 min

Currents 045: Dorian Abbot on Protecting Academic Freedom // The Jim Rutt Show, 44 min

c34: Outline Part 2 // Constellation, 90 min

149 – The Roots of Progress // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 116 min

YANSS 218 – How anxiety hides in our unhealthy habits, why you can’t think your way out of it, and science says you should do instead //

# Rational fiction

Feature Selection // Zack_M_Davis, 19 min

Effective Evil // lsusr, 3 min

Transcript: "You Should Read HPMOR" // TurnTrout, 6 min

# Videos of the week

Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens. // Rational Animations, 12 min