rational
Issue #208: Full List
27 March, 2022 // View curated listYou can plant an undetectable backdoor in any deep learning model. // twitter.com
# Coronavirus
Your risk of developing long COVID is probably high // Siebe, 4 min
Covid 3/24/22: Respite // Zvi, 15 min
# Instrumental
Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional // thomas-kwa, 2 min
How I fixed exercise // gabriel-1, 8 min
How to ventilate // jkaufman, 2 min
Research on how pattern-finding contributes to memorization? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Men Will Literally Have Completely Different Mental Processes Instead Of Going To Therapy // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Epistemic
Searching for outliers // benkuhn, 21 min
Flywheels of progress // jasoncrawford, 4 min
Christopher Alexander's architecture for learning // henrik-karlsson, 11 min
Fake Journal Club proposal // gwern
Chesterton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish // joel-burget, 1 min
Magic, tricks, and high-dimensional configuration spaces // pchvykov, 2 min
The Ontics and The Decouplers // hawk-ebia, 7 min
Lesson Plan: Biases in Quantity Estimation // abstractapplic, 6 min
Circular Counterfactuals "Only that which Happens is Possible" // JohnBuridan, 11 min
Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Ai
Lessons After a Couple Months of Trying to Do ML Research // KevinRoWang, 7 min
Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation // johnswentworth, 9 min
Research Hamming Questions // johnswentworth, 4 min
We cannot directly choose an AGI's utility function // azsantosk, 3 min
Some observations about ELK // leogao, 3 min
Natural Value Learning // chrisvm, 4 min
Why will an AGI be rational? // azsantosk, 2 min
Agency and Coherence // David Udell, 3 min
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 9. Takeaways from neuro 2/2: On AGI motivation // steve2152, 29 min
Progress Report 1: interpretability experiments & learning, testing compression hypotheses // nathan-helm-burger, 2 min
Compute Governance: The Role of Commodity Hardware // jan-2, 8 min
# Anthropic
Primitive Perspectives and Sleeping Beauty // dadadarren, 7 min
# Decision theory
What if fiat money was created at a fixed rate and given to government? // ViktorThink, 1 min
On expected utility, part 3: VNM, separability, and more // joekc, 33 min
On expected utility, part 4: Dutch books, Cox, and Complete Class // joekc, 23 min
Sensible Antitrust // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Rational and irrational infinite integers // Viliam, 6 min
What are the best elementary math problems you know? // ege-erdil, 1 min
You must on average be improving to not guarantee failure. // eeegnu, 2 min
# Books
The Dawn of Everything: a review // david-hugh-jones, 6 min
# Ea
Brain preservation to prevent involuntary death: a possible cause area // Andy_McKenzie, 12 min
# Community
Consciousness Mini-Survey Results // sil-ver, 2 min
# Culture war
How to prevent authoritarian revolts? // lc, 1 min
Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information // Zvi, 33 min
Ukraine Post #6: More Data and Peace Terms // Zvi, 26 min
My mistake about the war in Ukraine // ege-erdil, 3 min
Cyberwar escalation // ChristianKl, 1 min
A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History // mahdi-complex, 17 min
Albert Hirschman on liberalism and nationalism // david-hugh-jones, 5 min
# Misc
Is Metaculus Slow to Update? // SimonM, 2 min
Experimental longtermism: theory needs data // Jan_Kulveit, 4 min
Know of any randomised trials teaching debiasing in schools? Want to help review them, or would that review help your work? // mnoetel, 4 min
In the very near future the internet will answer all of our questions and that makes me sad // David_Gross, 1 min
Game that might improve research productivity // Jack Ryan, 1 min
Different Is The Generator, Not A Side Effect // George3d6, 4 min
# Podcasts
Even more curated conversations with brilliant rationalists // spencerg, 17 min
Currents 059: Samo Burja on RU->UKR 23-MAR-2022 // The Jim Rutt Show, 55 min
Currents 058: John Robb on Russia-Ukraine Outcomes // The Jim Rutt Show, 56 min
EP 153 Forrest Landry on Small Group Method // The Jim Rutt Show, 98 min
158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 136 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 12 // lsusr, 1 min
# Videos of the week
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview // TED, 66 min