rational
Issue #27
30 September, 2018 // View full list
First lab demo of driving malaria mosquitoes to extinction with CRISPR gene drive and no evolved resistance. // www.nature.com
# Instrumental
Criticism Scheduling and Privacy // Lulie, 17 min Favorite
Direct Primary Care // sarahconstantin, 1 min
Code Switch // Elo, 1 min
other people are occasionally rather weird // niclas, 2 min
# Epistemic
Bridging syntax and semantics with Quine's Gavagai // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
# Ai
Deep learning - deeper flaws? // ricraz, 5 min
New DeepMind AI Safety Research Blog // Vika, 1 min
[Link] New DeepMind AI Safety Research Blog // Vika, 1 min
Wireheading as a potential problem with the new impact measure // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
Alignment Newsletter #25 // rohinmshah, 11 min
# Meta-ethics
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life // Scott Alexander, 8 min Favorite
Moral differences in mediocristan // Benquo, 4 min
# Anthropic
Anti-social Punishment // Martin Sustrik, 7 min Favorite
# Decision theory
Asymptotic Decision Theory (Improved Writeup) // Diffractor, 17 min
# Books
Book review: Happiness by Design // ricraz, 5 min
The Master and His Emissary // Robin Hanson, 9 min
# Ea
Obligatory Altruism // manoj-nathwani, 3 min
Why we should ban the concept of Effective Altruism // Jsevillamol, 1 min
# Community
Thoughts on tackling blindspots // Hazard, 1 min
AI Reading Group Thoughts (2/?): Reconstructive Psychosurgery // Alicorn, 3 min
Attacking enlightenment // Elo, 3 min
My Poll, Explained // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Misc
Adversarial Collaboration Contest Results // Scott Alexander, 29 min Favorite
Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory // avturchin, 2 min
How Gossip Works // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Gossip Cabals // Robin Hanson, 4 min
OT111: Ophion Thread // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Podcasts
#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines // The 80,000 Hours team, 164 min
68 – Can’t Give Up Freeman // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 90 min
Introducing the Waking Up Course // Waking up with Sam Harris, 10 min
# Videos of the week
How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain | Steve McCarroll // TED, 17 min