rational
Issue #220
10 July, 2022 // View full list# Instrumental
Babysitting as Parenting Trial? // jkaufman, 3 min
Predicting Parental Emotional Changes? // jkaufman, 1 min
Tarnished Guy who Puts a Num on it // Jacobian, 5 min
Trigger-Action Planning // CFAR 2017, 15 min
I’ve become a medical mystery and I don’t know how to effectively get help // CraigMichael, 2 min
# Epistemic
ITT-passing and civility are good; "charity" is bad; steelmanning is niche // RobbBB, 7 min
A Pattern Language For Rationality // Vaniver, 18 min
Cognitive Dissonance on Cognitive Capability // niederman, 1 min
Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Ai
AI Forecasting: One Year In // jsteinhardt, 6 min
Principles for Alignment/Agency Projects // johnswentworth, 5 min
Human values & biases are inaccessible to the genome // TurnTrout, 6 min
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk // AISafetyIsNotLongtermist, 4 min
The curious case of Pretty Good human inner/outer alignment // PavleMiha, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
Some thoughts on Animals // nitinkhanna, 2 min
# Longevity
Being a donor for Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/y) // anton-rodenhauser, 10 min
# Anthropic
Our Level In the Great Filter // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Decision theory
Decision theory and dynamic inconsistency // paulfchristiano, 11 min
Understanding updatelessness in the context of EDT and CDT // Sylvester Kollin, 8 min
Imperial Russia was doing fine without the Soviets // Davis Kedrosky, 17 min
Seeking opinions on the current and forward state of cryptocurrencies. // jmh, 1 min
# Math and cs
Assorted thoughts about abstraction // adamzerner, 8 min
# Books
Book Review: The Righteous Mind // ErnestScribbler, 42 min
Your Book Review: The Outlier // Scott Alexander, 24 min
# Ea
When Giving People Money Doesn’t Help // Zvi, 12 min
# Community
Carrying the Torch: A Response to Anna Salamon by the Guild of the Rose // moridinamael, 7 min
Changes in Community Dynamics: A Follow-Up to 'The Berkeley Community & the Rest of Us' // Evan_Gaensbauer, 4 min
# Culture war
Genders Discrimination // Jacobian, 5 min
# Fun
SOMA - A story about Consciousness // johannes-c-mayer, 1 min
# Misc
Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains // GeneSmith, 12 min
My vision of a good future, part I // jeff-ladish, 10 min
User research as a barometer of software design // adamzerner, 3 min
Nature abhors an immutable replicator... usually // MSRayne, 3 min
How to Become a World Historical Figure (Péladan's Dream) // rogersbacon, 36 min
# Podcasts
EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A. // The Jim Rutt Show, 109 min
EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality // The Jim Rutt Show, 121 min
# Rational fiction
Report from a civilizational observer on Earth // owencb, 6 min
# Videos of the week
Lex Fridman plays chess with Demis Hassabis // Lex Fridman, 9 min