rational
Issue #203: Full List
20 February, 2022 // View curated list
Apparently, deep learning models can tell male from female eyeballs with 87% accuracy but no one knows why. // www.nature.com
# Coronavirus
Convoy Continued // Zvi, 19 min
Covid 2/17/22: Coasting Downwards // Zvi, 34 min
Bazant: An alternate covid calculator // pktechgirl, 2 min
# Instrumental
Observations about writing and commenting on the internet // dynomight, 13 min
A scheme for sampling durable goods first-hand before making a purchase // riceissa, 2 min
Why Parents Should Let Their Children Play More Video Games // Anna Yurovskikh, 6 min
Have you noticed costs of being anticipatory? // Jack Ryan, 1 min
Encouragement to Instill Confidence? // Zvi, 5 min
Analog rewritable tablet // NormanPerlmutter, 1 min
Productivity Notes I // matto, 5 min
# Epistemic
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws // Benito, 10 min Favorite
The metaphor you want is "color blindness," not "blind spot." // Duncan_Sabien, 3 min
Monks of Magnitude // Duncan_Sabien, 5 min
Rock is Strong // Zvi, 32 min
The Territory // BrienneYudkowsky, 6 min
Knowing // BrienneYudkowsky, 6 min
Intro to Naturalism: Orientation // BrienneYudkowsky, 8 min
Observation // BrienneYudkowsky, 3 min
Interlude: On Realness // BrienneYudkowsky, 3 min
Paper is True // Zvi, 7 min
Becoming Stronger as Epistemologist: Introduction // adamShimi, 4 min
The Three Little Piggies of Rationality // sam-enright, 3 min
What The Foucault // adamShimi, 4 min
An analogy as the midwife of thermodynamics // adamShimi, 8 min
Some limitations of reductionism about epistemology // ricraz, 4 min
Strevens on scientific explanation // ricraz, 8 min
Against reductionist epistemology // ricraz, 4 min
On Disagreement, Again // Robin Hanson, 8 min
# Ai
Why I'm co-founding Aligned AI // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Compute Trends Across Three eras of Machine Learning // Jsevillamol, 2 min
[Link] Eric Schmidt's new AI2050 Fund // alenglander, 1 min
Implications of automated ontology identification // alexflint, 28 min
REPL's: a type signature for agents // scottviteri, 2 min
What Does The Natural Abstraction Framework Say About ELK? // johnswentworth, 7 min
How harmful are improvements in AI? + Poll // tilman-ra, 10 min
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 4. The “short-term predictor” // steve2152, 15 min
Some Hacky ELK Ideas // johnswentworth, 6 min
Is ELK enough? Diamond, Matrix and Child AI // adamShimi, 4 min
HCH and Adversarial Questions // David Udell, 32 min
REPL's and ELK // scottviteri, 1 min
Thoughts on Dangerous Learned Optimization // peterbarnett, 5 min
Is the competition/cooperation between symbolic AI and statistical AI (ML) about historical approach to research / engineering, or is it more fundamentally about what intelligent agents "are"? // edward-hammond, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Some thoughts on vegetarianism and veganism // ricraz, 4 min
Defending One-Dimensional Ethics // HoldenKarnofsky, 20 min
Is veganism morally correct? // FinalFormal2, 1 min
# Longevity
Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health? // George3d6, 14 min Favorite
Love and Longevity // Josh Mitteldorf, 5 min
# Anthropic
Simulation arguments // joekc, 80 min
# Decision theory
Non-Fungible Costs // hawk-ebia, 3 min
Mechanism design / queueing theory for government to sell visas // RyanCarey, 1 min
# Math and cs
Epsilon is not a probability, it's a cop-out // shminux, 1 min
Abstractions as Redundant Information // johnswentworth, 18 min
A compilation of misuses of statistics // younes-kamel, 15 min
# Books
Book review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism // ricraz, 5 min
Book Review: Sadly, Porn // Scott Alexander, 47 min
# Community
Twitter thread on postrationalists // elityre, 5 min
Losing My Religion // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Culture war
Why The Increase In LGBTQ Population? // blackstampede, 1 min
# Misc
Whence the sexes? // ricraz, 3 min
Why you are psychologically screwed up // Alleged Wisdom, 11 min
The innocent self // ricraz, 3 min
Abundance and scarcity; working forwards and working backwards // quinn-dougherty, 9 min
How do you think about mildly technical people trying to advance science and technology? // [email protected], 1 min
Returns on cognition of different board games // Morpheus, 1 min
Memory decay in human brains from options pricing theory // jalex-stark-1, 8 min
The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Podcasts
#121 - Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good // , 184 min
Trailer For Bonus Aella // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 2 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 7 // lsusr, 1 min
# Videos of the week
The Russian Economy Is On Pace To Lose $7.3 Trillion... // Logically Answered, 11 min