rational
Issue #202: Full List
13 February, 2022 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
The Long Long Covid Post // Zvi, 64 min
Does needle anxiety drive vaccine hesitancy? // matthew-barnett, 4 min
Why do people avoid vaccination? // KatjaGrace, 5 min
Covid 2/10/22: Happy Birthday // Zvi, 24 min
Decreasing Isolation Further // jkaufman, 2 min
# Instrumental
Theses on Sleep // guzey, 41 min Favorite
If you say "don't lose focus," what does that actually tell you to focus on? // nicole-dieker, 4 min
# Epistemic
Epistemic Legibility // pktechgirl, 24 min Favorite
Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity // matthew-barnett, 12 min
Our philosophical thought experiments aren’t good enough and we can do better // Dead Hour Canoe, 5 min
The Defeat of Reason? // M. Y. Zuo, 7 min
Building cars we don’t understand // pchvykov, 2 min
A Solution to the Desire-Action Conundrum // Bluestorm_321, 3 min
Heuristics That Almost Always Work // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Ai
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences // jan-2, 9 min
Hypothesis: gradient descent prefers general circuits // quintin-pope, 14 min
A broad basin of attraction around human values? // Wei_Dai, 2 min
EleutherAI's GPT-NeoX-20B release // leogao, 1 min
Metaculus launches contest for essays with quantitative predictions about AI // tamay-besiroglu, 1 min
Paradigm-building: Introduction // cameron-berg, 2 min
Capability Phase Transition Examples // gwern
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 3. Two subsystems: Learning & Steering // steve2152, 30 min
How complex are myopic imitators? // Vivek, 18 min
Uncompetitive programming with GPT-3 // Bezzi, 2 min
Paradigm-building: The hierarchical question framework // cameron-berg, 3 min
Appendix: More Is Different In Other Domains // jsteinhardt, 5 min
[Linkpost] TrojanNet: Embedding Hidden Trojan Horse Models in Neural Networks // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
Inferring utility functions // jan-2, 9 min
Idea: build alignment dataset for very capable models // quintin-pope, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
"Moral progress" vs. the simple passage of time // HoldenKarnofsky, 3 min
# Longevity
Why rationalists are not much concerned about mortality? // alex_lw, 1 min
If you want to live longer, become President // Bezzi, 9 min
# Anthropic
Full Non-Indexical Conditioning Also Assumes A Self Sampling Process. // dadadarren, 3 min
Reverse engineering of the simulation // jan-betley, 1 min
# Decision theory
Your Enemies Can Use Your Prediction Markets Against You // lsusr, 2 min
Prediction Markets are for Outcomes Beyond Our Control // lsusr, 1 min
Create a prediction market in two minutes on Manifold Markets // austin-chen, 4 min
Chaos and Stability // lsusr, 4 min
Bet on Rare Undesirable Outcomes when Seeding a Prediction Market // lsusr, 2 min
How to Legally Conduct "Rationalist Bets" in California? // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
Defending Functional Decision Theory // Heighn, 14 min
Can Combined Agents Limit Drugs? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
The Passage Of Polymarket // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Math and cs
Most likely is not likely // Elmer of Malmesbury, 2 min
A Nice Representation of the Laplacian // DanielFilan, 1 min
Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities // paulfchristiano, 5 min
# Books
The Planiverse // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Ea
Simplify EA Pitches to "Holy Shit, X-Risk" // neel-nanda-1, 12 min
Paradigm-building from first principles: Effective altruism, AGI, and alignment // cameron-berg, 16 min
ACX Grants ++: The Second Half // Scott Alexander, 49 min
So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program // Scott Alexander, 30 min
# Community
Experimenting with microsolidarity crews // 4thWayWastrel, 4 min
# Culture war
Brainwashing is Sorcery // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
No, human life was not a misery until the 1950s // david-hugh-jones, 5 min
To Match the Greats, Don’t Follow In Their Footsteps // HoldenKarnofsky, 4 min
The case for "mental strength" // VipulNaik, 11 min
Meditation and Neuroscience, some odds and ends // zeek123, 13 min
Rituals and symbolism // TsviBT, 2 min
Soup design: Everyone likes it, but few know how // [email protected], 1 min
An argument against excessive consumption of coffee from 1674 // M. Y. Zuo, 3 min
Designing environments to select designs // pchvykov, 2 min
# Podcasts
c38: Script Draft 1, Beats 4-5 // Constellation, 54 min
YANSS 225 – How a better understanding of neuromarketing can make you a smarter consumer //
EP 152 Gary Bengier on Hard-Science Futures // The Jim Rutt Show, 89 min
155 – Normal Predictions, and Change is Bad // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 100 min
# Rational fiction
To Change the World // lsusr, 7 min
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 6 // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267 // Lex Fridman, 120 min