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Issue #23: Full List
2 September, 2018 // View curated list# Instrumental
Player of Games // Jacobian, 14 min Favorite
You Play to Win the Game // Zvi, 2 min
Aumann’s Agreement Revisited // agilecaveman, 9 min
# Epistemic
Unknown Knowns // Zvi, 2 min
Zetetic explanation // Benquo, 6 min
Theories of Pain // mingyuan, 11 min
Seperate Top-Down, Bottom-Up Brain Credit // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Ai
Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers // DanielFilan, 3 min
Using expected utility for Good(hart) // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
HLAI 2018 Field Report // G Gordon Worley III, 6 min
Do what we mean vs. do what we say // rohinmshah, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #21 // rohinmshah, 8 min
Corrigibility doesn't always have a good action to take // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
# Anthropic
How Do You Value a Human Being? // Venkatesh Rao, 9 min Favorite
[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI // avturchin, 1 min
Spaceship Earth Explores Culture Space // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Decision theory
VOI is Only Nonnegative When Information is Uncorrelated With Future Action // Diffractor, 2 min
Cooperative Oracles // Diffractor, 15 min
Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Math and cs
Computational complexity of RL with traps // Vadim Kosoy, 1 min
# Fun
Psychology Replication Quiz // Ben Pace, 1 min
My Market Board Game // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
History of the Development of Logical Induction // Scott Garrabrant, 5 min
On memetic weapons // ioannes_shade, 6 min
Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient // Scott Alexander, 2 min
Links 8/18: URLin Wall // Scott Alexander, 8 min
Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Podcasts
#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher // The 80,000 Hours team, 138 min
#136 — Digital Humanism // Waking up with Sam Harris, 63 min
The Sword of Good // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 64 min
# Videos of the week
The little risks you can take to increase your luck | Tina Seelig // TED, 11 min