rational
Issue #227
28 August, 2022 // View full list
Whisper: Near human-level speech recognition, open-sourced. // openai.com
# Instrumental
Nate Soares' Life Advice // CatGoddess, 3 min
Ways to increase working memory, and/or cope with low working memory? // NicholasKross, 1 min
# Epistemic
Embracing the Opposition's Point // Yulia, 6 min
Please (re)explain your personal jargon // nathan-helm-burger, 4 min
We See The Sacred From Afar, To See It Together // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Ai
Some conceptual alignment research projects // ricraz, 3 min
AI art isn't "about to shake things up". It's already here. // Davis_Kingsley, 3 min
AGI Timelines Are Mostly Not Strategically Relevant To Alignment // johnswentworth, 1 min
The Shard Theory Alignment Scheme // David Udell, 2 min
Finding Goals in the World Model // jeremy-gillen, 14 min
# Anthropic
Is population collapse due to low birth rates a problem? // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
# Math and cs
Basin broadness depends on the size and number of orthogonal features // TheMcDouglas, 8 min
Variational Bayesian methods // ege-erdil, 9 min
# Books
[Review] The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer // arjun-panickssery, 14 min
Your Book Review: Kora In Hell // Scott Alexander, 13 min
Book Review: What We Owe The Future // Scott Alexander, 28 min
# Ea
Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Community
Your posts should be on arXiv // JanBrauner, 3 min
Double Crux In A Box // Screwtape, 4 min
# Misc
On Car Seats as Contraception // Zvi, 43 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 17 - Training for Very High Reliability with Daniel Ziegler // DanielFilan, 43 min
EP 163 Benedict Beckeld on Western Self-Contempt // The Jim Rutt Show, 94 min
c42: Script Draft 1, Beats 18-21 // Constellation, 45 min
169 – S&E BS re AGI // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 132 min
# Rational fiction
everything is okay // carado-1, 8 min
The Bunny: An EA Short Story // JohnGreer, 7 min
# Videos of the week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era // Greylock, 35 min