rational
Issue #200: Full List
30 January, 2022 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Covid 1/27/22: Let My People Go // Zvi, 19 min
What are the counterarguments to a Faustian Vaccine Hypothesis? ($2k charity bounty) // abstractapplic, 3 min
# Instrumental
What happened when I applied metrics to my piano practice (a five-part essay about the process of learning) // nicole-dieker, 3 min
Excessive Nuance and Derailing Conversations // alexander-1, 4 min
5x5 Go Board // jkaufman, 1 min
Iterating fast: voice dictation as a form of babble // gytis-daujotas, 4 min
You have to create your own personal finance system // nicole-dieker, 5 min
What should a student who is already a decent programmer do over the summer? // shuffled-cantaloupe, 1 min
Wireless Outlet Switching // jkaufman, 1 min
Ideas for avoiding optimizing the wrong things day-to-day? // Jack Ryan, 1 min
How would you learn absolute pitch? // Thomas Sepulchre, 1 min
The Skill of Writing Facetiously // lhc, 2 min
Mildly Photochromic Lenses? // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
Hyperpalatable Food Hypothesis: A LessWrong Study? // BDay, 1 min Favorite
List of Probability Calibration Exercises // KingSupernova, 1 min
Forecasting Newsletter: Looking back at 2021 // Radamantis, 11 min
Words are Imprecise Telepathy // Aquifax, 2 min
The Map of the Map // Aquifax, 1 min
Bounded Distrust // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Ai
Is AI Alignment a pseudoscience? // mocny-chlapik, 1 min
Search Is All You Need // blake8086, 3 min
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What's the problem & Why work on it now? // steve2152, 28 min
ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes // jsteinhardt, 7 min
Aligned AI Needs Slack // shminux, 1 min
Deconfusing Deception // Jemist, 2 min
Causality, Transformative AI and alignment - part I // marius-hobbhahn, 9 min
Arguments about Highly Reliable Agent Designs as a Useful Path to Artificial Intelligence Safety // riceissa, 1 min
How feasible/costly would it be to train a very large AI model on distributed clusters of GPUs? // Anonymous, 1 min
# Decision theory
NFTs, Coin Collecting, and Expensive Paintings // leogao, 6 min
Nuanced and Extreme Countersignaling // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min
Crypto low risk profits // ike, 1 min
A little game theory on discursive conflict // david-hugh-jones, 7 min
Newcomb's Lottery Problem // Heighn, 1 min
Newcomb's Grandfather // yair-halberstadt, 1 min
Quest for Holy Grail of Hedging in Retail Portfolios! // milo, 2 min
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems // Scott Alexander, 34 min
# Math and cs
Why rationalists should care (more) about free software // RichardJActon, 5 min
# Books
Book notes: "The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life" // juliawise, 10 min
Me on Tyler on Bryan on Labor // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Ea
Long Term Charities: Apply for SFF Funding // Zvi, 28 min
# Community
Patron Saint Holidays // Raemon, 2 min
Vavilov Day Starts Tomorrow // pktechgirl, 2 min
Vavilov Day Discussion Post // pktechgirl, 1 min
# Misc
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses // Owain_Evans, 3 min
Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress? // jasoncrawford, 9 min
CICO is a weird reference class // andre-popovitch, 2 min
Advertising as a Parasite on the Semantic Commons // ThomasMore, 3 min
Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’ // sam-enright, 3 min
Coping with Undecidability // Morpheus, 5 min
Freudianism among the 17th century Wendat // David_Gross, 1 min
Against That Poverty And Infant EEGs Study // Scott Alexander, 7 min
New Sport of Debate? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
154 – Two General Thinkers Discuss General Thinking // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 132 min
c37: Script Draft 1, Beats 2-3 // Constellation, 30 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 3 // lsusr, 1 min
# Videos of the week
Never Share Your Phone With A Stranger | Offline Digital Security Tips // Sumsub, 16 min