rational
Issue #225
14 August, 2022 // View full list
'The Follower' is a software that searches how an Instagram photo was taken with the help of AI and open cameras. // driesdepoorter.be
# Instrumental
How and why to turn everything into audio // ea247, 5 min
Prependix: Building a Bugs List prompts // CFAR 2017, 1 min
# Epistemic
Introducing Pastcasting: A tool for forecasting practice // aaron-ho-1, 1 min
Paper reading as a Cargo Cult // jem-mosig, 5 min
Proposal: Consider not using distance-direction-dimension words in abstract discussions // moridinamael, 5 min
Argument by Intellectual Ordeal // lc, 6 min
What is an agent in reductionist materialism? // Valentine, 1 min
# Ai
DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments // Vika, 16 min
Language models seem to be much better than humans at next-token prediction // Buck, 17 min
Oversight Misses 100% of Thoughts The AI Does Not Think // johnswentworth, 1 min
How To Go From Interpretability To Alignment: Just Retarget The Search // johnswentworth, 3 min
Interpretability/Tool-ness/Alignment/Corrigibility are not Composable // johnswentworth, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Lamentations, Gaza and Empathy // yair-halberstadt, 3 min
What kind of moral framework would you spread if you could decide? // NinaR, 1 min
Moral Progress Is Not Like STEM Progress // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools // aaronb50, 9 min
How to bet against civilizational adequacy? // Wei_Dai, 1 min
What are some good arguments against building new nuclear power plants? // RomanS, 1 min
Are ya winning, son? // Nathan1123, 2 min
How would Logical Decision Theories address the Psychopath Button? // Nathan1123, 1 min
# Math and cs
What is estimational programming? Squiggle in context // quinn-dougherty, 8 min
# Books
Your Book Review: God Emperor Of Dune // Scott Alexander, 20 min
# Community
Troll Timers // Screwtape, 3 min
Dissent Collusion // Screwtape, 3 min
# Culture war
A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Misc
The lessons of Xanadu // jasoncrawford, 9 min
All the posts I will never write // Self-Embedded Agent, 8 min
Steganography in Chain of Thought Reasoning // alex-ray, 6 min
Content generation. Where do we draw the line? // Q Home, 2 min
Dissolve: The Petty Crimes of Blaise Pascal // JohnBuridan, 7 min
# Podcasts
Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom // PeterH, 2 min
#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine // , 54 min
c41: Script Draft 1, beats 15-17 // Constellation, 22 min
168 – Unions Are Governments // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 161 min
# Rational fiction
A sufficiently paranoid paperclip maximizer // RomanS, 2 min
The Host Minds of HBO's Westworld. // Nerret, 3 min
# Videos of the week
AI stalks influencers in the wild to expose horrors of high-tech surveillance // b 00, 1 min