rational
Issue #24
9 September, 2018 // View full list
Everywhere in the world women live longer than men, and the advantage is increasing over time. Available data shows that women didn’t live longer than men in the 19th century. // ourworldindata.org
# Instrumental
A Process for Dealing with Motivated Reasoning // Ikaxas, 3 min
An Ontology of Systemic Failures: Dragons, Bullshit Mountain, and the Cloud of Doom // ialdabaoth, 5 min
What is your relationship with your self? // Elo, 6 min
# Ai
AI Governance: A Research Agenda // habryka, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #22 // rohinmshah, 7 min
Moral realism and AI alignment // Caspar42, 1 min
# Anthropic
Social Media Consciousness // Sarah Perry, 15 min Favorite
Resurrection of the dead via multiverse-wide acausual cooperation // avturchin, 8 min
A Coming Hypocralypse? // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Decision theory
When wishful thinking works // AlexMennen, 3 min
Counterfactuals and reflective oracles // Nisan, 6 min
# Math and cs
Hypothesis about how social stuff works and arises // lahwran, 6 min
nostalgebraist - bayes: a kinda-sorta masterpost // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Entropic Regret I: Deterministic MDPs // Vadim Kosoy, 18 min
# Books
Beauty bias: "Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelder // avturchin, 1 min
# Community
[Hammertime Final Exam] Accommodate Yourself; Kindness Is An Epistemic Virtue; Privileging the Future // tcheasdfjkl, 5 min
No standard metric for CFAR workshops? // ioannes_shade, 2 min
Ask Us Anything: Submit Questions Asking About What We Think SSC is Wrong About, and Why // Evan_Gaensbauer, 2 min
# Culture war
Sexism Inflation // Robin Hanson, 3 min
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition? // Scott Alexander, 24 min
[ACC Entry] Should Childhood Vaccination Be Mandatory? // Scott Alexander, 25 min
[ACC Entry] Are Islam And Liberal Democracy Compatible? // Scott Alexander, 56 min
[ACC Entry] Does The Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students? // Scott Alexander, 32 min
# Art
I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler // Jacobian, 1 min
# Fun
On Robin Hanson’s Board Game // Zvi, 21 min
# Misc
Birth order effect found in Nobel Laureates in Physics // Bucky, 5 min
Impact Measure Desiderata // TurnTrout, 6 min
Interpretive Labor // Benquo, 1 min
Great Founder Theory // Samo Burja, 7 min
Commitments Explain Gaps // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Podcasts
Rationally Speaking #216 - Diana Fleischman on "Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist" // NYC Skeptics, 46 min Favorite
# Rational fiction
Exhalation // Ted Chiang, 30 min Favorite
# Videos of the week
Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future [Video] // Samo Burja, 1 min Favorite
How cancer cells communicate — and how we can slow them down | Hasini Jayatilaka // TED, 10 min