rational
Issue #256: Full List
19 March, 2023 // View curated list
# Coronavirus
Nose / throat treatments for respiratory infections // juliawise, 9 min
What I did to reduce the risk of Long COVID after getting COVID // Sameerishere, 10 min
# Instrumental
Dan Luu on "You can only communicate one top priority" // Raemon, 3 min Favorite
Minor Life Optimization: Consider Ordering Your Food To-Go // sudo, 1 min
Why self-improvement? // adamzerner, 2 min
# Epistemic
Parasitic Language Games: maintaining ambiguity to hide conflict while burning the commons // Hazard, 16 min
The epistemic virtue of scope matching // jasoncrawford, 5 min
What problems do African-Americans face? An initial investigation using Standpoint Epistemology and Surveys // tailcalled, 18 min
Three levels of exploration and intelligence // Q Home, 25 min
# Ai
An AI risk argument that resonates with NYTimes readers // Julian Bradshaw, 1 min
ChatGPT (and now GPT4) is very easily distracted from its rules // dmcsh, 1 min
An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity // James_Miller, 15 min
Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty // HoldenKarnofsky, 27 min
ARC tests to see if GPT-4 can escape human control; GPT-4 failed to do so // christopher-king, 1 min
GPT can write Quines now (GPT-4) // Andrew_Critch, 1 min
Want to predict/explain/control the output of GPT-4? Then learn about the world, not about transformers. // strawberry calm, 6 min
What Discovering Latent Knowledge Did and Did Not Find // Fabien, 13 min
Towards understanding-based safety evaluations // evhub, 6 min
GPT-4 solves Gary Marcus-induced flubs // jskatt, 1 min
Success without dignity: a nearcasting story of avoiding catastrophe by luck // HoldenKarnofsky, 18 min
GPT-4: What we (I) know about it // Robert_AIZI, 15 min
# Meta-ethics
your terminal values are complex and not objective // carado-1, 2 min
# Longevity
Cryonics companies should let people make conditions for reawakening // andrew-vlahos, 4 min
Harold Katcher’s Last Rat // Josh Mitteldorf, 2 min
# Anthropic
the quantum amplitude argument against ethics deduplication // carado-1, 2 min
# Decision theory
"Liquidity" vs "solvency" in bank runs (and some notes on Silicon Valley Bank) // rossry, 14 min
"You'll Never Persuade People Like That" // Zack_M_Davis, 2 min
On the Crisis at Silicon Valley Bank // Zvi, 48 min
# Ea
Write a Book? // jkaufman, 3 min
# Relationships
Gold, Silver, Red: A color scheme for understanding people // michael-soareverix, 4 min
# Community
Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices // habryka4, 20 min
"Publish or Perish" (a quick note on why you should try to make your work legible to existing academic communities) // capybaralet, 1 min
Conceding a short timelines bet early // matthew-barnett, 1 min
Here, have a calmness video // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Decentralized Exclusion // jkaufman, 2 min
How I Run Solstice, Step by Step // maia, 19 min
# Misc
When will computer programming become an unskilled job (if ever)? // lc, 1 min
Grading on Word Count // niederman, 1 min
Why Do Transgender People Report Hypermobile Joints? // Scott Alexander, 7 min
Why I Am Not (As Much Of) A Doomer (As Some People) // Scott Alexander, 16 min
# Podcasts
Bayes Blast 4 – The Waluigi Effect // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 12 min
Currents 086: Monica Anderson on Bubble City // The Jim Rutt Show, 53 min
Currents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-Unfoldment // The Jim Rutt Show, 78 min
Bayes Blast 3 – Dynamics Can Arise If You Nudge // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 9 min
#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious // , 192 min
Bayes Blast 2 – Logan’s Model of EA Burnout // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 9 min
# Rational fiction
Will 2023 be the last year you can write short stories and receive most of the intellectual credit for writing them? // lc, 1 min
# Videos of the week
A bunch of videos for intuition building (2x speed, skip ones that bore you) // lahwran, 3 min