rational
Issue #191: Full List
21 November, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 11/18: Paxlovid Remains Illegal // Zvi, 17 min
Which booster shot to get and when? // NormanPerlmutter, 2 min
Did EcoHealth create SARS-CoV-2? // jamal, 1 min
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 59 min
# Instrumental
You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be // charlie.rs, 14 min
Why I am no longer driven // dominicq, 4 min
Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review // VipulNaik, 35 min
# Epistemic
Worst Commonsense Concepts? // abramdemski, 3 min
The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity // david-hugh-jones, 3 min
# Ai
How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency // johnswentworth, 15 min
Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer // Zvi, 18 min
Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 120 min
What would we do if alignment were futile? // grant-demaree, 4 min
Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 49 min
A positive case for how we might succeed at prosaic AI alignment // evhub, 7 min
Corrigibility Can Be VNM-Incoherent // TurnTrout, 9 min
Two Stupid AI Alignment Ideas // aphyer, 4 min
My understanding of the alignment problem // danieldewey, 3 min
Re: Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer // lsusr, 18 min
Super intelligent AIs that don't require alignment // yair-halberstadt, 8 min
"Summarizing Books with Human Feedback" (recursive GPT-3) // gwern
More detailed proposal for measuring alignment of current models // beth-barnes, 9 min
Why do you believe AI alignment is possible? // samuel-shadrach, 1 min
"Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero": probing AZ over time // jsd
My current uncertainties regarding AI, alignment, and the end of the world // dominicq, 2 min
Quantilizer ≡ Optimizer with a Bounded Amount of Output // itaibn0, 2 min
What are some contributions of alignment research to society today? // alexander-1, 1 min
What are the mutual benefits of AGI-human collaboration that would otherwise be unobtainable? // M. Y. Zuo, 1 min
Does anyone know what Marvin Minsky is talking about here? // delton137, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Why Save The Drowning Child: Ethics Vs Theory // Raymond D, 5 min
# Longevity
[linkpost] Project Blueprint: ‘Measuring and then maximally reversing the quantified biological age of my organs’ // matteodimaio, 1 min
# Decision theory
Quadratic Voting and Collusion // leogao, 1 min
Forecasting: Zeroth and First Order // jsteinhardt, 5 min
Equity premium puzzles // ege-erdil, 14 min
Dan Luu on Persistent Bad Decision Making (but maybe it's noble?) // pktechgirl, 1 min
A pharmaceutical stock pricing mystery // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
The Greedy Doctor Problem // jan-2, 14 min
Taking a simplified model // dominicq, 1 min
Will World Government Rot? // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Books
[Book Review] "Sorceror's Apprentice" by Tahir Shah // lsusr, 8 min
# Ea
An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists (second version) // bice, 3 min
# Community
Sasha Chapin on bad social norms in rationality/EA // Kaj_Sotala, 6 min
Education on My Homeworld // lsusr, 6 min
Experience on Methotrexate // jkaufman, 2 min
Reaction and Reply to Sasha Chapin on Bad In-group Norms // NicholasKross, 4 min
# Culture war
The Coming World Ruling Class // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Misc
Competence/Confidence // Duncan_Sabien, 1 min
Televised sports exist to gamble with testosterone levels using prediction skill // Lucent, 1 min
Streaming Science on Twitch // alex-ray, 3 min
Open question: Math proofs that would enable you become a world dictator // samuel-shadrach, 4 min
Awesome-github Post-Scarcity List // lorenzo-rex, 1 min
[Linkpost] Paul Graham 101 // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families // Scott Alexander, 23 min
Mantic Monday 11/15 // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Podcasts
#116 - Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all // , 225 min
c35: Outline Part 3, Interstitials // Constellation, 77 min
150 – The Procrastination Equation // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min
EP147 John Vervaeke Part 5: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis // The Jim Rutt Show, 116 min
YANSS 219 – How social science is helping social media fight the spread of misinformation //
# Rational fiction
What the future will look like // avantika.mehra, 3 min
# Videos of the week
Research talk: NUWA: Neural visual world creation with multimodal pretraining // Microsoft Research, 23 min