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Issue #190: Full List
14 November, 2021 // View curated list# Coronavirus
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com] // pktechgirl, 1 min Favorite
Covid 11/11: Winter and Effective Treatments Are Coming // Zvi, 15 min
Coordination Skills I Wish I Had For the Pandemic // Raemon, 8 min
Is there a clearly laid-out write-up of the case to drop Covid precautions? // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
It's Ok to Dance Again // jkaufman, 1 min
# Instrumental
Preprint is out! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder // Fabienne, 1 min
Worth checking your stock trading skills // at_the_zoo, 4 min
Self-education best practices // sean-mcaneny, 1 min
# Epistemic
Steelman solitaire: how to take playing devil's advocate to the next level // ea247, 6 min
Investigating Fabrication // BrienneYudkowsky, 18 min
Average probabilities, not log odds // AlexMennen, 6 min
Excerpts from Veyne's "Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?" // RobbBB, 19 min
# Ai
Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions // RobbBB, 42 min
Why I'm excited about Redwood Research's current project // paulfchristiano, 8 min
Comments on Carlsmith's “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?” // So8res, 49 min
What exactly is GPT-3's base objective? // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min
How do we become confident in the safety of a machine learning system? // evhub, 39 min
What are red flags for Neural Network suffering? // marius-hobbhahn, 14 min
Stop button: towards a causal solution // tailcalled, 12 min
Possible research directions to improve the mechanistic explanation of neural networks // delton137, 11 min
Long Term Memory is the Missing Component in Deep Learning // pando, 5 min
AGI is at least as far away as Nuclear Fusion. // logan-zoellner, 1 min
Measuring and Forecasting Risks from AI // jsteinhardt, 4 min
What’s the likelihood of only sub exponential growth for AGI? // M. Y. Zuo, 1 min
Using blinders to help you see things for what they are // adamzerner, 2 min
AI alignment via causal analysis and design of agents // PabloAMC, 8 min
Hardcode the AGI to need our approval indefinitely? // MichaelStJules, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Erase Button // Astor, 1 min
# Anthropic
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 2 // Writer, 16 min Favorite
You Don't Need Anthropics To Do Science // dadadarren, 2 min
# Decision theory
A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics // Vitor, 13 min
Relaxation-Based Search, From Everyday Life To Unfamiliar Territory // johnswentworth, 10 min
[linkpost] Crypto Cities // mike_hawke, 1 min
A Defense of Functional Decision Theory // Heighn, 12 min
How much of the supply-chain issues are due to monetary policy? // ChristianKl, 1 min
RandomWalkNFT: A Game Theory Exercise // jorge-velez, 2 min
Avoiding Negative Externalities - a theory with specific examples - Part 1 // M. Y. Zuo, 7 min
# Community
Transcript for Geoff Anders and Anna Salamon's Oct. 23 conversation // RobbBB, 68 min
Jumping into Web3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Culture war
Highlights From The Comments On Orban // Scott Alexander, 28 min
# Misc
Sci-Hub sued in India // Connor_Flexman, 9 min
There Meat Come A Scandal... // NicholasKross, 3 min
Against the idea that physical limits are set in stone // samuel-shadrach, 2 min
Minds Almost Meeting // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Secrets Of The Great Families // Scott Alexander, 14 min
Model City Monday 11/8/21 // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Videos of the week
Virtual Reality Fluid Drawing Is Here! ? // Two Minute Papers, 5 min