rational
Issue #209
3 April, 2022 // View full list
A study in Nature Geoscience suggests that global tree restoration could cause substantial and regionally variable changes in water availability. // www.nature.com
# Coronavirus
They Don’t Know About Second Booster // Zvi, 7 min
Covid 3/31/2022: More of the Same // Zvi, 13 min
# Instrumental
Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage // TurnTrout, 14 min Favorite
How to Make Your Article Change People's Minds or Actions? (Spoiler: Do User Testing Like a Startup Would) // yonatan-cale-1, 1 min
Mental nonsense: my anti-insomnia trick // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Noobs Need Rules // Jacobian, 7 min
A bicycle for your memory // sortega, 9 min
# Epistemic
How Money Fails to Track Value // JustinShovelain, 6 min
To Make Better Software, Do What Artists Do // matto, 11 min
The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Ai
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models // 1a3orn, 6 min
[Link] Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models // nostalgebraist, 1 min
Gears-Level Mental Models of Transformer Interpretability // KevinRoWang, 7 min
Humans pretending to be robots pretending to be human // Richard_Kennaway, 1 min
Manhattan project for aligned AI // chrisvm, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented” // HoldenKarnofsky, 18 min
Consequentialist veganism // tslarm, 2 min
Moral Anti-Realism: Introduction & Summary // Lukas_Gloor, 8 min
# Longevity
GlyNAC improves biomarkers in humans and extends lifespan in rodents // Josh Mitteldorf, 4 min
# Anthropic
Great Filter Steps With Set-Backs & Dead-Ends // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Accounting For College Costs // johnswentworth, 9 min
Beyond Blame Minimization // physicaleconomics, 4 min
Moloch and the sandpile catastrophe // eric-raymond, 3 min
How Does The Finance Industry Generate Real Economic Value? // johnswentworth, 7 min
Using Prediction Markets to Guide Government Policy // lsusr, 1 min
# Math and cs
The Halting Problem and the Impossible Photocopier // Jemist, 1 min
Sums and products // ege-erdil, 13 min
How I repeatedly failed to use Tobit modelling on censored data // abstractapplic, 11 min
Intro to hacking with the lambda calculus // LRudL, 30 min
Optional stopping // ege-erdil, 7 min
# Books
Book review: Very Important People // ricraz, 3 min
A Summary of "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman // tommy-biggnus, 4 min
Summary: "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler // pablo-repetto-1
# Community
Taking Good Heart Tokens Seriously, So Help Me God // Jackson Wagner, 7 min
Unfinished Projects Thread // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
Sydney AI Safety Fellowship Review // Chris_Leong, 10 min
Community Building: Micro vs. Macro // Chris_Leong, 4 min
# Culture war
[NSFW Review] Interspecies Reviewers // lsusr, 2 min
Ukraine Post #7: Prediction Market Update // Zvi, 11 min
How many generals does Russia have left? // yitz, 1 min
Real biosafety is socially inconvenient // ChristianKl, 3 min
Who Gets Self-Determination? // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Fun
MIRI announces new "Death With Dignity" strategy // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 22 min Favorite
Replacing Karma with Good Heart Tokens (Worth $1!) // Benito, 5 min
Using prediction markets to generate LessWrong posts // matthew-barnett, 1 min
Announcing Impact Island: A New EA Reality TV Show // Linch, 4 min
Good Heart Donation Lottery // gworley, 2 min
# Misc
20 Modern Heresies // rogersbacon, 19 min
The lure of technocracy // jasoncrawford, 5 min
The Opposite Of Autism // Capybasilisk, 3 min
Fermi Estimates and Dyson Designs // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Idol Words // Scott Alexander, 18 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 13 - First Principles of AGI Safety with Richard Ngo // DanielFilan, 59 min
#125 - Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders // , 133 min
Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education // The Jim Rutt Show, 43 min
Monarchy Reactions – post Episode 158 discussion (Teaser) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 15 min
# Rational fiction
Moses and the Class Struggle // lsusr, 5 min
Anti-Corruption Market // lsusr, 3 min
Luna Lovegood and the Bayesian Conspiracy // lsusr, 1 min
Psyche-Sort // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283 // Lex Fridman, 175 min