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Issue #28: Full List

Human-in-the-loop isn't going to be enough to keep AI systems safe, and it can create its own new problems. // docs.wixstatic.com

# Instrumental

The tails coming apart as a strategy for success // Bucky, 4 min Favorite

Fasting Mimicking Diet Looks Pretty Good // sarahconstantin, 3 min

Being a Robust Agent // Raemon, 3 min

bumping into financial unknown unknowns // brown, 2 min

An Invitation to Measure Meditation // justinpombrio, 2 min

The different kinds of confidence // masasin, 7 min

[link] "Paper strips" memory technique // lincolnquirk, 1 min

Feedback from emotions // Elo, 2 min

Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results // Scott Alexander, 2 min

# Epistemic

Does This Fallacy Have A Name? // Apollo13, 1 min

# Ai

The Rocket Alignment Problem // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 19 min Favorite

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning // ricraz, 16 min

Computerphile discusses MIRI's "Logical Induction" paper // Parth Athley, 1 min

Alignment Newsletter #26 // rohinmshah, 8 min

Am I understanding the problem of fully updated deference correctly? // Davide_Zagami, 1 min

September 2018 Newsletter // Rob Bensinger, 1 min

The Rocket Alignment Problem // Eliezer Yudkowsky, 19 min

# Anthropic

Reflections on Being 30 // sarahconstantin, 3 min Favorite

Moloch in whom I sit alone // KatjaGrace, 1 min

Leto among the Machines // Virgil Kurkjian, 16 min

Light of the American Whale // Sarah Perry, 14 min

Next Door In Nodrumia // Scott Alexander, 11 min

# Decision theory

EDT solves 5 and 10 with conditional oracles // jessicata, 15 min

A Rationality Condition for CDT Is That It Equal EDT (Part 1) // abramdemski, 10 min

# Math and cs

A breakdown of priors and posteriors - an example from medicine // masasin, 4 min

# Culture war

What the Haters Hate // Jacobian, 9 min

# Misc

Steelmanning The NIMBYs // Scott Alexander, 20 min Favorite

Epistemic Spot Check: The Dorito Effect (Mark Schatzker) // elizabeth, 1 min

You're never wrong injecting complexity, but rarely you're right // MrMind, 2 min

The Valley of Bad Theory // johnswentworth, 2 min

Case Study II // abstractapplic, 10 min

Challenge Coins // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Highlights From The Comments On NIMBYs // Scott Alexander, 12 min

# Podcasts

#139 — Sacred & Profane // Waking up with Sam Harris, 123 min

#44 - Dr Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future over to AI, & solving the alignment problem // The 80,000 Hours team, 232 min

Rationally Speaking #218 - Chris Auld on "Good and bad critiques of economics" // NYC Skeptics, 48 min

# Rational fiction

The Cambist and Lord Iron // Daniel Abraham, 40 min Favorite

# Videos of the week

What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill // TED, 11 min