rational
Issue #253
26 February, 2023 // View full list
Copilot is now behind an average of 46% code // github.blog
# Instrumental
A Way To Be Okay // Duncan_Sabien, 12 min
Another Way to Be Okay // gretta-duleba, 7 min
Buddhist Psychotechnology for Withstanding Apocalypse Stress // romeostevensit, 5 min
Feelings are Good, Actually // gworley, 5 min
Are there rationality techniques similar to staring at the wall for 4 hours? // TrevorWiesinger, 1 min
# Epistemic
On Investigating Conspiracy Theories // Zvi, 5 min
Somewhat against "just update all the way" // tailcalled, 1 min
How to Read Papers Efficiently: Fast-then-Slow Three pass method // lahwran, 6 min
# Ai
Cognitive Emulation: A Naive AI Safety Proposal // NPCollapse, 7 min
AI #1: Sydney and Bing // Zvi, 73 min
The idea that ChatGPT is simply “predicting” the next word is, at best, misleading // bill-benzon, 6 min
There are (probably) no superhuman Go AIs: strong human players beat the strongest AIs // Taran, 4 min
There are no coherence theorems // dan-hendrycks, 26 min
# Meta-ethics
What moral systems (e.g utilitarianism) are common among LessWrong users? // hollowing, 1 min
# Anthropic
A Stranger Priority? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effective Altruism (my dissertation) // joekc, 1 min
# Decision theory
Big Mac Subsidy? // jkaufman, 2 min
Law Free Zones // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Books
Tim Urban’s What’s Our Problem? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Book Review: The Geography Of Madness // Scott Alexander, 32 min
# Relationships
Building and Entertaining Couples // Jacobian, 5 min
Relationship Orientations // DaystarEld, 3 min
# Community
[Link] A community alert about Ziz // DanielFilan, 2 min
Consent Isn't Always Enough // jkaufman, 3 min
# Culture war
Politics is the Fun-Killer // adamzerner, 2 min
# Misc
Russell Conjugations list & voting thread // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Who Can Words Hurt? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
Bankless Podcast: 159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky // bayesed, 1 min
Full Transcript: Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Bankless podcast // remember, 67 min
EP 179 Gregg Henriques Part 3: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap // The Jim Rutt Show, 105 min
Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3 // The Jim Rutt Show, 58 min
181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 73 min
# Videos of the week
Video/animation: Neel Nanda explains what mechanistic interpretability is // DanielFilan, 1 min
159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky // Bankless Shows, 109 min