rational
Issue #282: Full List
17 September, 2023 // View curated list
The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen reduced price dispersion and enabled efficient fish markets. // twitter.com
# Instrumental
Padding the Corner // jkaufman, 1 min
High school advice // Bohaska, 1 min
Do you know of any reliable DIY compendium of home physical therapy exercises? // David_Gross, 1 min
# Epistemic
The Flow-Through Fallacy // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Ai
Can I take ducks home from the park? // dynomight, 3 min
AI #29: Take a Deep Breath // Zvi, 24 min
Highlights: Wentworth, Shah, and Murphy on "Retargeting the Search" // T3t, 9 min
Influence functions - why, what and how // NinaR, 10 min
Uncovering Latent Human Wellbeing in LLM Embeddings // ccstan99, 9 min
Linkpost for Jan Leike on Self-Exfiltration // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min
Focus on the Hardest Part First // johannes-c-mayer, 1 min
Cruxes on US lead for some domestic AI regulation // Zach Stein-Perlman, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
"Did you lock it?" // ymeskhout, 2 min
Duty to rescue / Non-assistance à personne en danger // Thomas Sepulchre, 3 min
Ethics Needs A Marginal Revolution // omnizoid, 10 min
# Decision theory
UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever // Wei_Dai, 1 min
An attempt at a "good enough" solution for human two-party negotiations // KingSupernova, 1 min
Will Nations Fund Fertility? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Logical Share Splitting // DaemonicSigil, 12 min
Erdős Problems in Algorithmic Probability // aidanrocke, 2 min
Inline Plotting in iTerm2 // jkaufman, 1 min
# Books
Book review: The Importance of What We Care About (Harry G. Frankfurt) // David_Gross, 4 min
Book Review Contest 2023 Winners // Scott Alexander, 6 min
Book Review: Elon Musk // Scott Alexander, 39 min
# Community
Contra Yudkowsky on Epistemic Conduct for Author Criticism // Zack_M_Davis, 8 min
Closing Notes on Nonlinear Investigation // Benito, 20 min
PSA: The community is in Berkeley/Oakland, not "the Bay Area" // maia, 1 min
# Culture war
The Return of Communism // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Misc
Deconfusing Regret // Alex Hollow, 2 min
Is there something fundamentally wrong with the Universe? // humm1lity, 2 min
Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day // Zvi, 18 min
A Theory of Laughter—Follow-Up // steve2152, 9 min
# Podcasts
YANSS 269 – Deconstructing How Minds Change with Michael Taft //
# Rational fiction
I compiled a ebook of `Project Lawful` for eBook readers // OrwellGoesShopping, 1 min