rational
Issue #196
26 December, 2021 // View full list
The Mirrortable by Balaji Srinivasan: How blockchain will streamline and internationalize the logistical mess of angel investing. // balajis.com
# Coronavirus
Omicron Post #9 // Zvi, 24 min
What’s Up With the CDC Nowcast? // Zvi, 6 min
Get Set, Also Go // Zvi, 20 min
Highlights From The Comments On Diseasonality // Scott Alexander, 7 min
The FDA Has Punted Decisions About Luvox Prescription To The Deepest Recesses Of The Human Soul // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Instrumental
Should I delay having children to take advantage of polygenic screening? // MathieuRoy, 1 min Favorite
Experiences raising children in shared housing // juliawise, 7 min
Business Writing Example #2 // lsusr, 1 min
Parenting: "Try harder next time" is bad advice for kids too // steve2152, 1 min
Prerequisite Skills // lsusr, 1 min
# Epistemic
Law of No Evidence // Zvi, 5 min
On (Not) Reading Papers // jan-2, 8 min
Beware using words off the probability distribution that generated them. // donald-hobson, 2 min
Prioritizing Information // jsteinhardt, 8 min
Addendum To "No Evidence" Post // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Ai
Reply to Eliezer on Biological Anchors // HoldenKarnofsky, 18 min
Worst-case thinking in AI alignment // Buck, 7 min
Transformer Circuits // evhub, 3 min
2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison // Larks, 91 min
Risks from AI persuasion // beth-barnes, 37 min
# Meta-ethics
Falsifying Ethical Values // lsusr, 5 min
Converging toward a Million Worlds // Joe Kwon, 3 min
# Decision theory
Perpetual Dickensian Poverty? // jkaufman, 1 min
A Short Note on My Value Notion // aysajan, 3 min
Morality and constrained maximization, part 1 // joekc, 13 min
Is there a term / better way of phrasing the general case where an intervention helps certain individuals do better at zero-sum games but doesn’t provide any external value? // freedomandutility, 1 min
Manipulation resistance of futarchy // harper-owen, 1 min
# Math and cs
Six Specializations Makes You World-Class // lsusr, 2 min
Understanding the tensor product formulation in Transformer Circuits // Frederik, 2 min
Are "non-computable functions" always hard to solve in practice? // Morpheus, 1 min
# Books
[Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen // lsusr, 10 min
# Ea
Two (very different) kinds of donors // Duncan_Sabien, 3 min
# Community
Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition // Benito, 4 min
Quis cancellat ipsos cancellores? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Misc
Random facts can come back to bite you // tailcalled, 2 min
Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Conserving Evidence // gworley, 1 min
Hedging the Possibility of Russia invading Ukraine // jorge-velez, 1 min
Karnataka Hospital Insurance Experiment // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Three Types of Generalists // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
#119 - Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won't touch // , 85 min
EP 150 Jeremy Lent on the Web of Meaning // The Jim Rutt Show, 79 min
# Rational fiction
Worldbuilding exercise: The Highwayverse. // yair-halberstadt, 14 min
# Videos of the week
GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models // Yannic Kilcher, 42 min