rational
Issue #217
19 June, 2022 // View full list# Instrumental
Perils of optimizing in social contexts // owencb, 2 min
Don't Over-Optimize Things // owencb, 5 min
Favourite new AI productivity tools? // gabe-mukobi, 1 min
The best 'free solo' (rock climbing) video // Kenny, 3 min
What's the goal in life? // k8n, 1 min
# Epistemic
Our mental building blocks are more different than I thought // marius-hobbhahn, 17 min
[Link] "The madness of reduced medical diagnostics" by Dynomight // Kenny, 1 min
[Link] New SEP article on Bayesian Epistemology // alenglander, 1 min
# Ai
Contra Hofstadter on GPT-3 Nonsense // rictic, 1 min
Humans are very reliable agents // alyssavance, 3 min
Slow motion videos as AI risk intuition pumps // Andrew_Critch, 1 min
Contra EY: Can AGI destroy us without trial & error? // nikita-sokolsky, 18 min
A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn // So8res, 12 min
# Meta-ethics
Lifeguards // akash-wasil, 3 min
Pure Altruism // Matt Goldwater, 4 min
# Anthropic
Why don't we think we're in the simplest universe with intelligent life? // ADifferentAnonymous, 1 min
UFOs as USA PsychOp // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Georgism, in theory // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution? // Davis Kedrosky, 14 min
Is there a worked example of Georgian taxes? // Dagon, 1 min
An Approach to Land Value Taxation // harsimony, 5 min
1689: Uncovering the World New Institutionalism Created // Davis Kedrosky, 11 min
# Math and cs
A Butterfly's View of Probability // gabriel-wu, 14 min
Crypto-fed Computation // aaguirre, 9 min
Intuitive Explanation of AIXI // thomas-larsen, 6 min
Optimization power as divergence from default trajectories // joshua-clymer, 6 min
Why the Kaldor-Hicks criterion can be non-transitive // Rupert, 1 min
# Books
Forecasting Fusion Power // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy // Scott Alexander, 22 min
# Community
I applied for a MIRI job in 2020. Here's what happened next. // ViktoriaMalyasova, 9 min
Announcing the Clearer Thinking Regrants program // spencerg, 1 min
BBC Future covers progress studies // jasoncrawford, 3 min
# Culture war
Against Active Shooter Drills // Zvi, 8 min
What's the information value of government hearings? // Kenny, 2 min
Why did Russia invade Ukraine? // Bohaska
# Misc
In defense of flailing, with foreword by Bill Burr // lc, 4 min
Infohazards and inferential distances // acylhalide, 6 min
Security analysis of 'cloud chemistry labs'? // Kenny, 1 min
Peer Review: Nightmares // Scott Alexander, 8 min
Why Be Romantic // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Podcasts
Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding // The Jim Rutt Show, 79 min
#132 - Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems // , 162 min
164 – Pregnancy is Body Horror // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 112 min
Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AI // The Jim Rutt Show, 61 min
# Videos of the week
Large Language Models as a Cultural Technology // Simons Institute, 15 min