rational
Issue #204: Full List
27 February, 2022 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Microcovid Becoming Less Useful // jkaufman, 2 min
Covid 2/24/22: The Next War // Zvi, 14 min
# Instrumental
Do, Then Think // George3d6, 6 min
Reward Good Bets That Had Bad Outcomes // neel-nanda-1, 10 min
# Epistemic
Butterfly Ideas // pktechgirl, 3 min
Learning By Writing // HoldenKarnofsky, 12 min
The Art and Science of Intuition Pumping // adamShimi, 11 min
Cryptoepistemology // davidad, 2 min
Artificial Wordcels // Jacobian, 11 min
Capturing Uncertainty in Prediction Markets // hawk-ebia, 2 min
Divergentism // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Play Money And Reputation Systems // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Ai
Alignment research exercises // ricraz, 8 min
A comment on Ajeya Cotra's draft report on AI timelines // matthew-barnett, 8 min
The Big Picture Of Alignment (Talk Part 1) // johnswentworth, 1 min
How do new models from OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic perform on TruthfulQA? // Owain_Evans, 11 min
ELK Proposal: Thinking Via A Human Imitator // TurnTrout, 13 min
More GPT-3 and symbol grounding // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
What's the easiest way to currently generate images with machine learning? // ChristianKl, 1 min
The Big Picture Of Alignment (Talk Part 2) // johnswentworth, 1 min
Favorite / most obscure research on understanding DNNs? // Vivek, 1 min
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 5. The “long-term predictor”, and TD learning // steve2152, 25 min
Transformer inductive biases & RASP // Vivek, 1 min
Better a Brave New World than a dead one // yitz, 4 min
Two Challenges for ELK // derek-shiller, 5 min
Trust-maximizing AGI // jan-2, 10 min
Anticorrelated Noise Injection for Improved Generalization // tailcalled, 1 min
2 (naive?) ideas for alignment // JonathanMoregard, 1 min
Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work // Scott Alexander, 39 min
# Longevity
Interview with Nectome CEO Robert McIntyre - Brain Preservation, Personal Identity, AGI, and More // JohnGreer, 7 min
# Anthropic
Breaking the SIA with an exponentially-Sleeping Beauty // kellerjordan, 4 min
Was the K-T event a Great Filter? // Yoreth, 2 min
Questions about simulating consciousness // joshua-clymer, 3 min
# Decision theory
Why would GDP X GDP Per Capita be used as a measurement of power? What's the purpose of squaring GDP? // dqups1, 1 min
Can We Tame Political Minds? // Robin Hanson, 7 min
Self-Set Legal Liability // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
A mathematical derivation of total hedonistic Utilitarianism from simple normative axioms // joshua-clymer, 4 min
# Books
Review: G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” // David_Gross, 6 min
Books Worthy of Integration // Roven Skyfal, 2 min
Summary/Review/Quotes of "The WEIRDest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich // Torello, 1 min
# Relationships
How satisfied should you expect to be with your partner? // Vaniver, 3 min
# Culture war
Russia has Invaded Ukraine // lsusr, 3 min
Convoy Crackdown // Zvi, 17 min
Russian x-risks newsletter winter 21-22, war risks update. // avturchin, 3 min
Seeking models of LW’s aversion to religion // Visible_Ignorance, 8 min
Review: Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” // David_Gross, 31 min
Ambiguity causes conflict // ege-erdil, 9 min
# Misc
Harms and possibilities of schooling // TsviBT, 15 min
My attitude towards death // ricraz, 7 min
What would a thriving progress movement look like? // jasoncrawford, 2 min
Some Technical Problems With Measuring Happiness (and some solutions) // alexander-de-vries, 18 min
# Rational fiction
Practitioner: Novice // high-council, 1 min
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 8 // lsusr, 1 min
# Videos of the week
How a no-fly zone would change the war in Ukraine // Vox, 6 min