rational
Issue #20
12 August, 2018 // View full list
Two teams have used CRISPR gene-editing to stuff all of yeast’s genetic material — save a few non-essential pieces — into just one or two chromosomes. // www.nature.com
# Instrumental
A Rationalist's Guide to... // devils_rights_advocate, 2 min Favorite
Learning strategies and the Pokemon league parable // Jsevillamol, 4 min
Cargo Cult, Self-Improvement, and What to Do // Sherrinford, 6 min
# Ai
Human-Aligned AI Summer School: A Summary // Michaël Trazzi, 4 min
AI Reading Group Thoughts (1/?): The Mandate of Heaven // Alicorn, 4 min
Alignment Newsletter #18 // rohinmshah, 11 min
Fundamentals of Formalisation Level 7: Equivalence Relations and Orderings // crabman, 1 min
Economic policy for artificial intelligence // fortyeridania, 1 min
# Anthropic
The Sleeping Beauty Problem and The Doomsday Argument Can Be Explained by Perspective Inconsistency // dadadarren, 1 min
# Decision theory
Logical Counterfactuals for Perfect Predictors // Chris_Leong, 7 min
Probabilistic Tiling (Preliminary Attempt) // Diffractor, 11 min
A Short Note on UDT // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Books
Sanctimonious Econ Critics // Robin Hanson, 14 min
# Community
EA Tourism: London, Blackpool and Prague // Jsevillamol, 2 min
SSC Meetups Everywhere 2018 // habryka, 1 min
SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Misc
Logarithms and Total Utilitarianism // pvs, 4 min Favorite
Ontological uncertainty and diversifying our quantum portfolio // Roko Jelavić, 4 min
Tarpits and Antiflocks // Carlos Bueno, 4 min
Before You Get Too Excited About That Trigger Warning Study… // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Podcasts
#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions // The 80,000 Hours team, 137 min
Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus" // NYC Skeptics, 50 min
# Videos of the week
DeepMind's AI Takes An IQ Test // Two Minute Papers, 3 min