rational
Issue #197
2 January, 2022 // View full list
Meta AI's "fill in the gap" self-supervised algorithm: Toward machines that learn from observing the world around them. // ai.facebook.com
# Coronavirus
Omicron: My Current Model // Zvi, 12 min
COVID Skepticism Isn't About Science // jaspax, 9 min
Personal Response to Omicron // jkaufman, 1 min
CDC Changes Isolation Guidelines // Zvi, 18 min
What are sane reasons that Covid data is treated as reliable? // Valentine, 2 min
# Instrumental
Internet Literacy Atrophy // pktechgirl, 3 min
What are the pros and cons of seeking a formal diagnosis of autism? // Dumbledore's Army, 2 min
Walkthrough: Filing a UK self-assessment tax return // philh, 26 min
How does one learn (music) more efficiently? // nicole-dieker, 1 min
# Epistemic
Taboo Truth // Bjartur Tómas, 2 min
Conversation as path traversal // adamzerner, 5 min
More accurate models can be worse // tailcalled, 4 min
From Considerations to Probabilities // jsteinhardt, 6 min
Can each event in the world be attributed conditions under which it occurs? // maciej-jalocha, 1 min
# Ai
Eliciting Latent Knowledge Via Hypothetical Sensors // John_Maxwell_IV, 6 min
Why don't governments seem to mind that companies are explicitly trying to make AGIs? // ozziegooen, 2 min
Counterexamples to some ELK proposals // paulfchristiano, 8 min
Reverse-engineering using interpretability // beth-barnes, 6 min
AI Fire Alarm Scenarios // PeterMcCluskey, 8 min
# Anthropic
A Summary Of Anthropic's First Paper // Sam Ringer, 9 min
# Decision theory
How to not renege prosocially, prosocially // michael-cohn, 3 min
Does Braess's paradox show up in markets? // TekhneMakre, 2 min
The Debtor's Revolt // Vaniver, 1 min
To Innovate, Unify or Fragment? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Innovation Liability Nightmare // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
This Year I Tried To Teach Myself Math. How Did It Go? // Borasko, 13 min
# Books
On Stateless Societies // sustrik, 3 min
# Ea
Increased Availability and Willingness for Deployment of Resources for Effective Altruism and Long-Termism // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min
# Community
Merry Christmas // lsusr, 1 min
The Machine that Broke My Heart // lsusr, 2 min
Ben Pace's Controversial Picks for the 2020 Review // Benito, 10 min
Solstice Quaker Darkness Circling // Raemon, 2 min
We Choose To Align AI // johnswentworth, 3 min
# Misc
Ten Minutes with Sam Altman // lsusr, 4 min
Genetics: It sometimes skips a generation is a terrible explanation! // jan-christian-refsgaard, 1 min
Why did computer science get so galaxy-brained? // NicholasKross, 1 min
Exegesis // rogersbacon, 24 min
# Podcasts
An interview with Danica Remy on protecting the Earth from asteroids. // fowlertm, 2 min
#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable // , 103 min
Currents 048: Welf von Hören on Potential // The Jim Rutt Show, 47 min
# Rational fiction
Don't Look Up (Film Review) // NicholasKross, 8 min
[Review] The Matrix Resurrections // lsusr, 1 min
A good rational fiction about IT-inspired magic system? // qbolec, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258 // Lex Fridman, 165 min