rational
Issue #189
7 November, 2021 // View full list# 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
# 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