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Issue #192: Full List
28 November, 2021 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over // Zvi, 22 min
Rapid Increase of Highly Mutated B.1.1.529 Strain in South Africa // dawangy, 1 min
Paxlovid Remains Illegal: 11/24 Update // Zvi, 8 min
Covid 11/25: Another Thanksgiving // Zvi, 26 min
Why don't our vaccines get updated to the delta spike protein? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Use Tools For What They're For // AllAmericanBreakfast, 10 min
Responding to common objections to the FDA unbanning Paxlovid *right now* // delton137, 1 min
French long COVID study: Belief vs Infection // Bucky, 5 min
Should PAXLOVID be given preventively? // ChristianKl, 1 min
How much Bayesian evidence from rapid antigen and PCR tests? // mingyuan, 1 min
Pascalian Medicine // Scott Alexander, 9 min
Highlights From The Comments On The FDA And Paxlovid // Scott Alexander, 5 min
Highlights From The Comments On Ivermectin // Scott Alexander, 21 min
When Will The FDA Approve Paxlovid? // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Instrumental
Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits // alyssavance, 5 min
# Epistemic
Split and Commit // Duncan_Sabien, 8 min
Frame Control // Aella, 28 min
Why do you need the story? // George3d6, 5 min
Even if you're right, you're wrong // DanielFilan, 1 min
Argument Foreplay // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Ai
AI Safety Needs Great Engineers // andyljones, 4 min
AI Tracker: monitoring current and near-future risks from superscale models // Edouard Harris, 4 min
Potential Alignment mental tool: Keeping track of the types // donald-hobson, 2 min
I currently translate AGI-related texts to Russian. Is that useful? // Tapatakt, 1 min
[linkpost] Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero // quintin-pope, 1 min
From language to ethics by automated reasoning // Michele Campolo, 6 min
Some real examples of gradient hacking // Oliver Sourbut, 2 min
How could a friendly AI deal with humans trying to sabotage it? (like how present day internet trolls introduce such problems) // M. Y. Zuo, 1 min
EfficientZero: How It Works // 1a3orn, 35 min
Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss “Takeoff Speeds” // Rob Bensinger, 75 min
Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress // Rob Bensinger, 85 min
# Meta-ethics
Eat the cute animals instead // andrew-vlahos, 1 min
Tentative Anger // adamzerner, 6 min
Morally underdefined situations can be deadly // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
# Anthropic
Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition // jbkjr, 39 min
How common are abiogenesis events? // Dach, 1 min
# Decision theory
Vitalik: Cryptoeconomics and X-Risk Researchers Should Listen to Each Other More // EmersonSpartz, 6 min
First Strike and Second Strike // lsusr, 1 min
Coordinating the Unequal Treaties // lsusr, 2 min
Slightly advanced decision theory 102: Four reasons not to be a (naive) utility maximizer // jan-2, 18 min
# Math and cs
A Bayesian Aggregation Paradox // Jsevillamol, 7 min
Laplace's rule of succession // ege-erdil, 8 min
Comment on "Deception as Cooperation" // Zack_M_Davis, 8 min
Finding the Central Limit Theorem in Bayes' rule // maxwell-peterson, 4 min
Base Rates and Reference Classes // jsteinhardt, 5 min
# Misc
The Meta-Puzzle // DanielFilan, 3 min
Why Study Physics? // johnswentworth, 3 min
Kriorus update: full bodies patients were moved to the new location in Tver // avturchin, 1 min
[linkpost] Why Going to the Doctor Sucks (WaitButWhy) // mike_hawke, 1 min
[Linkpost] Being Normal by Brian Caplan // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
Giving Up On T-Mobile // jkaufman, 2 min
What’s the weirdest way to win this game? // adam-scherlis, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP148 Antonio Damasio on Feeling and Knowing // The Jim Rutt Show, 72 min
# Videos of the week
How A NYTimes Reporter Collects Royalties From Hundreds of Musicians // Benn Jordan, 20 min