rational
Issue #251
12 February, 2023 // View full list
One of the key results in the modern minimum wage literature may have been overturned - and a significant unemployment effect found after all // www.socsci.uci.edu
# Instrumental
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month // sberens, 12 min Favorite
Living Nomadically: My 80/20 Guide // ea247, 1 min
Acting Normal is Good, Actually // gworley, 3 min
Stuff I Recommend You Use // arjun-panickssery, 3 min
# Epistemic
Rationality-related things I don't know as of 2023 // adamzerner, 3 min
Here's Why I'm Hesitant To Respond In More Depth // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Crowds Are Wise (And One's A Crowd) // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Ai
Cyborgism // nick_kees, 44 min
We Found An Neuron in GPT-2 // Josephm, 10 min
SolidGoldMagikarp II: technical details and more recent findings // mwatkins, 16 min
Anomalous tokens reveal the original identities of Instruct models // janus, 9 min
On The Current Status Of AI Dating // nikita-brancatisano, 7 min
# Meta-ethics
Inequality Penalty: Morality in Many Worlds // shminux, 7 min
# Anthropic
Only Physics Computes // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
EigenKarma: trust at scale // henrik-karlsson, 5 min
Why is Everyone So Boring? By Robin Hanson // TrevorWiesinger, 1 min
# Math and cs
Modal Fixpoint Cooperation without Löb's Theorem // Andrew_Critch, 2 min
# Books
Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria // matthew-barnett, 2 min
# Relationships
In Defense of Chatbot Romance // Kaj_Sotala, 13 min
Sex is Good, Actually // gworley, 4 min
# Culture war
Religion is Good, Actually // gworley, 5 min
# Fun
GPT-175bee // adam-scherlis, 2 min
# Misc
Why Are Bacteria So Simple? // aysja, 15 min Favorite
Who invented knitting? The plot thickens // eukaryote, 22 min
# Podcasts
Podcast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong / Lightcone Infrastructure // DanielFilan, 1 min
#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable // , 162 min
EP 175 Nick Chater and Morten Christiansen on The Language Game // The Jim Rutt Show, 93 min
YANSS 252 – Why procrastination is neither a weakness nor a character flaw //
180 – YIMBY in CA with Brian Hanlon // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 105 min
# Videos of the week
Top YouTube channel Veritasium releases video on Sleeping Beauty Problem // Alex_Altair