rational
Issue #201
6 February, 2022 // View full list
Richard Ngo from OpenAI shares AGI Safety Fundamentals alignment curriculum for anyone interested in AGI safety. // twitter.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 2/3/22: Loosening Bounds // Zvi, 20 min
The Urgency of Normal: An Exercise in Bounded Distrust // Zvi, 13 min
Convoy // Zvi, 9 min
Help me understand the rationale of the NIH to not recommend Fluvoxamine for COVID treatment. // df-fd, 1 min
Is asymptomatic transmission less common after vaccination? // korin43, 1 min
# Instrumental
Reflections on six months of fatherhood // jasoncrawford, 5 min
An Experiment in Habit Changing - 5 Week Retrospective // Eh_Yo_Lexa, 9 min
A Quick Look At 20% Time // pktechgirl, 4 min
Is there a better choice than "Stop After Win" (or does double-checking lead to failure loops)? // nicole-dieker, 5 min
Trying harder works, sometimes // Kaveh-Sedghi, 2 min
# Epistemic
On Bounded Distrust // Zvi, 69 min
Retrospective forecasting // ege-erdil, 5 min
Why Do I Think I Have Values? // Jemist, 2 min
Meaning of Words - An Exercise for Active Thinking // aysajan, 7 min
Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Ai
Competitive programming with AlphaCode // Algon, 18 min
OpenAI Solves (Some) Formal Math Olympiad Problems // mtrazzi, 2 min
QNR prospects are important for AI alignment research // Eric Drexler, 13 min
Empirical Findings Generalize Surprisingly Far // jsteinhardt, 7 min
Alignment versus AI Alignment // alexflint, 27 min
# Meta-ethics
On infinite ethics // joekc, 61 min
Autopilot Ethics And The Illusory Self // George3d6, 4 min
Contra Infinite Ethics, Utility Functions // kyleherndon, 1 min
# Anthropic
SIA becomes SSA in the multiverse // avturchin, 5 min
# Decision theory
Impossibility results for unbounded utilities // paulfchristiano, 9 min
Design policy to be testable // yair-halberstadt, 2 min
Money-generating environments vs. wealth-building environments (or "my thoughts on the stock market") // nicole-dieker, 8 min
Against Day Fines // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Why Inequality Fell Then Rose // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Confidence intervals seem to be rarely useful, in and of themselves // anorangic, 4 min
# Books
Immune, In a Nutshell // Jsevillamol, 19 min
Good books about overcoming coordination problems? // sean-aubin, 1 min
Foreign Policy Is Incoherent // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Ea
ACX Grants ++: The First Half // Scott Alexander, 51 min
# Community
Where can I read about the Roko's Basilisk drama? // theflowerpot, 1 min
2022 ACX Predictions: Buy/Sell/Hold // Zvi, 22 min
Why Do I Suck? // Scott Alexander, 13 min
Predictions For 2022 // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Culture war
How would you go about testing a political theory like Neofeudalism? // FinalFormal2, 1 min
# Misc
Before Colour TV, People Dreamed in Black and White // sam-enright, 2 min
I Am a Dimensional Traveller from a World of Highly Sensitive Rationalists // Aquifax, 2 min
Observed patterns around major technological advancements // Grothor, 12 min
Can we grow cars instead of building them? // pchvykov, 1 min
Bryan Caplan meets Socrates // sam-enright, 9 min
# Podcasts
EP 151 Daniel Mezick on Ritual and Hierarchy // The Jim Rutt Show, 75 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 5 // lsusr, 2 min
Career Day: A Short Story // michael-flood-1, 20 min
# Videos of the week
Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266 // Lex Fridman, 121 min