rational
Issue #275
30 July, 2023 // View full list
Deep dive on what exactly LK-99 would unlock for us as species // twitter.com
# Instrumental
You don't get to have cool flaws // neil-warren, 2 min
What are examples of someone doing a lot of work to find the best of something? // cmessinger, 1 min
Secure Hand Holding // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
Yes, It's Subjective, But Why All The Crabs? // johnswentworth, 7 min
Why You Should Never Update Your Beliefs // arjun-panickssery, 4 min
# Ai
Self-driving car bets // paulfchristiano, 5 min
Brain Efficiency Cannell Prize Contest Award Ceremony // alexander-gietelink-oldenziel, 8 min
How LLMs are and are not myopic // janus, 9 min
We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Meta-ethics
Underwater Torture Chambers: The Horror Of Fish Farming // omnizoid, 12 min
# Longevity
Cryonics and Regret // martin-von-berg, 2 min
Semaglutide and Muscle // 5hout, 5 min
# Anthropic
SSA rejects anthropic shadow, too // jessica.liu.taylor, 13 min
# Decision theory
Why no Roman Industrial Revolution? // jasoncrawford, 3 min
# Math and cs
Why you can't treat decidability and complexity as a constant (Post #1) // sharmake-farah, 5 min
An Opinionated Guide to Computability and Complexity (Post #0) // sharmake-farah, 3 min
# Books
Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs // a reader, 28 min
# Culture war
Bad Definitions Of "Democracy" And "Accountability" Shade Into Totalitarianism // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Misc
"Justice, Cherryl." // Zack_M_Davis, 10 min
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born // henrik-karlsson, 17 min
Pulling the Rope Sideways: Empirical Test Results // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor // jorge-velez, 1 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 24 - Superalignment with Jan Leike // DanielFilan, 85 min
192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 113 min
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it // The 80000 Hours team, 78 min