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Issue #206: Full List
13 March, 2022 // View curated list
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report and points out what needs to be done to mitigate global warming to less than two degrees (ºC). // www.carbonbrief.org
# Instrumental
How to Best Use Twitter // Zvi, 20 min
Don't Let Personal Domains Expire // jkaufman, 1 min
Ways to invest your wealth if you believe in a high-variance future? // Alex_Altair, 1 min
Via productiva - my writing and productivity framework // jan-2, 13 min
Nuclear Preparedness Guide // tragedyofthecomments, 12 min
Preparing for Power Outages in Disasters // tragedyofthecomments, 3 min
Water Preparedness for Disasters // tragedyofthecomments, 3 min
Bugout Bags for Disasters // tragedyofthecomments, 4 min
Food Preparedness for Disasters // tragedyofthecomments, 4 min
# Epistemic
Meadow Theory // Duncan_Sabien, 19 min
Against Thinking About The Unactionable // George3d6, 10 min
Arguments are good for helping people reason about things // AprilSR, 1 min
Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing // adamShimi, 9 min
Treat Examples as World-Building // adamShimi, 1 min
Effects are correlated, policy outcomes are not, and multi-factor explanations are hard // thomas-kehrenberg, 17 min
# Ai
We're already in AI takeoff // Valentine, 9 min
ELK prize results // paulfchristiano, 25 min
On presenting the case for AI risk // alenglander, 4 min
Ask AI companies about what they are doing for AI safety? // michael-chen, 2 min
A Longlist of Theories of Impact for Interpretability // neel-nanda-1, 5 min
Projecting compute trends in Machine Learning // Tamay, 7 min
Why work at AI Impacts? // Katja, 15 min
Preserving and continuing alignment research through a severe global catastrophe // A_donor, 5 min
[MLSN #3]: NeurIPS Safety Paper Roundup // dan-hendrycks, 4 min
Deep Dives: My Advice for Pursuing Work in Research // scasper, 3 min
The Proof of Doom // johnlawrenceaspden, 3 min
Is There a Valley of Bad Civilizational Adequacy? // lbThingrb, 2 min
Value extrapolation, concept extrapolation, model splintering // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Compute Trends — Comparison to OpenAI’s AI and Compute // lennart, 3 min
Are there any impossibility theorems for strong and safe AI? // david-johnston, 1 min
ELK Sub - Note-taking in internal rollouts // Hoagy, 6 min
Deriving Our World From Small Datasets // Capybasilisk, 3 min
Personal imitation software // Flaglandbase, 1 min
# Anthropic
Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad // MakoYass, 4 min
The First-Person Perspective Is Not A Random Sample // dadadarren, 6 min
# Decision theory
On continuous decision boundaries // eeegnu, 3 min
# Math and cs
Accelerated [Honors] Calculus // lsusr, 1 min
If your solution doesn't work, make it work // ege-erdil, 5 min
Algorithmic Measure of Emergence v2.0 // interstice, 5 min
The journey of models of Super-Turing computation, Part I // Donta Lee, 1 min
# Books
Book review of "Mengzi" // currymj, 14 min
Book review: The Dawn of Everything // PeterMcCluskey, 9 min
# Community
Beyond micromarriages // ricraz, 4 min
# Culture war
America's Invisible Graveyard: Understanding the Moral Implications of Western sanctions // ebrodey, 3 min
Ukraine Post #2: Options // Zvi, 29 min
What's the best ratio for Africans to starve compared to Ukrainians not dying in the war? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Help Ukraine // ubik, 1 min
It's not WWIII if 5/6 of humanity remains neutral // lsusr, 1 min
What’s the chance a smart London resident dies of a Russian nuke in the next month? // DanielFilan, 5 min
Covid 3/10/22: We Have a Plan // Zvi, 15 min
Ukraine update 06/03/2022 // ViktoriaMalyasova, 3 min
Why is the war in Ukraine particularly dangerous for the world? // mikbp, 1 min
Lower Risk of Nuclear war? // arunto, 1 min
Will Russia default, and if so, will it lead to financial crisis? // sanxiyn, 1 min
Advice For Unwoke Academic? // Scott Alexander, 6 min
Ukraine Thoughts And Links // Scott Alexander, 17 min
# Misc
Why Rome? // Erich_Grunewald, 10 min
Bear Surprise Freedom Network // CraigMichael, 5 min
Being Moral is an end goal. // yair-halberstadt, 1 min
Prediction Market News/Ticker? // Raelifin, 1 min
Infohazards, hacking, and Bricking—how to formalize these concepts? // yitz, 5 min
Your Future Self's Credences Should Be Unpredictable to You // David Udell, 2 min
From Norms to Law In War // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
c39: Script Draft 1, Beats 6-9 // Constellation, 37 min
Currents 056: Julyan Davey on Weaving a Non-Dual Civilization // The Jim Rutt Show, 52 min
157 – A Fistful of Topics // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 82 min
YANSS 227 – How games can teach us how to see the future coming so we can feel ready for anything //
# Rational fiction
It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World // gwern, 19 min
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 10 // lsusr, 2 min
Patricia Hall & The Warlock Curse // Jsevillamol, 1 min
# Videos of the week
The latest IPCC report explained in less than 8 minutes feat. @ClimateAdam // zentouro, 7 min