rational
Issue #255
12 March, 2023 // View full list
Human brain was thought to be special relative to other primates in the size of the temporal lobes, involved in functions such as language. Newer data once again shows that the human brain is just a scaled up primate brain // onlinelibrary.wiley.com
# Instrumental
How to Support Someone Who is Struggling // David Zeller, 6 min
A Brief Defense of Athleticism // Wofsen, 1 min
Under-Appreciated Ways to Use Flashcards - Part II // florence-hinder, 5 min
Use the Nato Alphabet // xida-ren, 1 min
# Ai
Anthropic's Core Views on AI Safety // zac-hatfield-dodds, 2 min
Against LLM Reductionism // Erich_Grunewald, 28 min
Why Not Just Outsource Alignment Research To An AI? // johnswentworth, 11 min
Google's PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model // PandaFusion, 1 min
Introducing Leap Labs, an AI interpretability startup // jessica-cooper, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Alignment works both ways // Karl von Wendt, 2 min
# Decision theory
Dice Decision Making // Stuckwork, 3 min
Will the Bitcoin fee market actually work? // TropicalFruit, 1 min
# Math and cs
Hoarding Gmail-accounts in a post-CAPTCHA world? // alexander-gietelink-oldenziel, 1 min
# Books
What's Not Our Problem // Jacobian, 11 min
# Community
Abuse in LessWrong and rationalist communities in Bloomberg News // whistleblower67, 7 min
What do you think is wrong with rationalist culture? // tailcalled
# Culture war
Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade // Scott Alexander, 10 min
# Misc
The Kids are Not Okay // Zvi, 38 min
Is religion locally correct for consequentialists in some instances? // robert-feinstein-1, 1 min
Kelly Bets On Civilization // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Podcasts
YANSS 254 – How to have productive conversations in a polarized political environment //
Currents 084: Mirta Galesic on Global Collective Behavior // The Jim Rutt Show, 72 min