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Issue #19: Full List
5 August, 2018 // View curated list
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when we (all of humanity) have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. In 2018, it fell on August 1. // www.weforum.org
# Instrumental
The Succession Problem // Samo Burja, 5 min Favorite
The Feedback Problem // Elo, 1 min
Emotional Training Model // Elo, 5 min
On knowing the Future // Лu Лinveгa, 1 min
# Ai
A Gym Gridworld Environment for the Treacherous Turn // Michaël Trazzi, 3 min
Alignment Newsletter #17 // rohinmshah, 15 min
Safely and usefully spectating on AIs optimizing over toy worlds // AlexMennen, 3 min
Sandboxing by Physical Simulation? // moridinamael, 1 min
# Math and cs
Counterfactuals, thick and thin // Nisan, 1 min
Applying Bayes to an incompletely specified sample space // abstractapplic, 7 min
# Culture war
Anti-tribalism and positive mental health as high-value cause areas // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
# Fun
What are your plans for the evening of the apocalypse? // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
# Misc
Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 7 min Favorite
Pretense // TurnTrout, 1 min
Open Thread August 2018 // Elo, 1 min
July gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
Fixing science via a basic income // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min
Finland Museum Tour 1/??: Tampere Art Museum // Kaj_Sotala, 5 min
Impulsivity in The Procrastination Equation // rk, 1 min
Bayesianism (Subjective or Objective) // Nathaniel Knoll, 1 min
Boilerplate // Sarah Perry, 9 min
Links 7/18: URL Mountains // Scott Alexander, 11 min
OT107: Kaleidoscopen Thread // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Podcasts
65 – Religion, and The Intelligent Social Web // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 94 min
#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race // Waking up with Sam Harris, 116 min
# Videos of the week
Earth Overshoot Day 2018 falls on August 1st // Sustainability Illustrated, 3 min