rational
Issue #30
21 October, 2018 // View full list
A more egalitarian distribution of material and social resources enables women and men to independently express gender-specific preferences. // science.sciencemag.org
# Instrumental
The Kelly Criterion // Zvi, 3 min Favorite
The Art of the Overbet // Zvi, 7 min
# Epistemic
Rationality Requires Common Priors // Robin Hanson, 7 min
# Ai
Trying for Five Minutes on AI Strategy // Ikaxas, 5 min
Alignment Newsletter #28 // rohinmshah, 10 min
IAS Special Year on Optimisation, Statistics and Theoretical Machine Learning // DragonGod, 1 min
# Longevity
Coordination Problems in Evolution: The Rise of Eukaryotes // Martin Sustrik, 9 min Favorite
# Anthropic
Policy Beats Morality // Davidmanheim, 2 min
# Decision theory
Logical Counterfactuals are low-res // shminux, 1 min
# Math and cs
Update on Structured Concurrency // Martin Sustrik, 5 min
# Books
Effective Altruism Book Review: Radical Abundance (Nanotechnology) // Isnasene, 23 min Favorite
Where is my Flying Car? // PeterMcCluskey, 22 min
Book review: 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism // ricraz, 6 min
# Ea
Population Aging as an Impediment to Addressing Global Catastrophic Risks // Michael Flood, 2 min
Exponential Altruism: A Strategy For A New World // larriant, 11 min
# Community
Outline of Metarationality, or much less than you wanted to know about postrationality // G Gordon Worley III, 2 min
Facebook, The Rodents, and The Common Knowledge Machine // Regex, 1 min
# Culture war
UBI for President // Jacobian, 13 min
Unflattening Hobbes // Venkatesh Rao, 12 min
# Art
case study: iterative drawing // brown, 1 min
# Misc
The Chamber of Guf // Scott Alexander, 5 min Favorite
"Now here's why I'm punching you..." // philh, 5 min
noticing internal experiences // brown, 1 min
Do Animals Have Rights? // Vizi Andrei, 2 min
Attention and Awareness // brown, 1 min
# Podcasts
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term // The 80,000 Hours team, 151 min
#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate // Waking up with Sam Harris, 116 min
Rationally Speaking #219 - Jason Collins on "A skeptical take on behavioral economics" // NYC Skeptics, 55 min
# Rational fiction
Crystal Society // Max Harms
# Videos of the week
How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin // TED, 12 min