rational
Issue #31
28 October, 2018 // View full list
Self-control is an all-purpose good like IQ: It predicts health, wealth, and all things good. // www.pnas.org
# Instrumental
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs // Scott Alexander, 10 min Favorite
Mark Eichenlaub: How to develop scientific intuition // Kaj_Sotala, 10 min
play and spinning plates // brown, 1 min
# Epistemic
Bets As Signals of Article Quality // Robin Hanson, 4 min Favorite
Schools Proliferating Without Practicioners // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
# Ai
Addressing three problems with counterfactual corrigibility: bad bets, defending against backstops, and overconfidence. // RyanCarey, 5 min
Whole Brain Emulation & DL: imitation learning for faster AGI? // gwern, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #29 // rohinmshah, 11 min
What will the long-term future of employment look like? // ricraz, 6 min
Possible Dangers of the Unrestricted Value Learners // avturchin, 6 min
# Meta-ethics
Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff // Scott Alexander, 5 min Favorite
# Anthropic
Berkeley: being other people // KatjaGrace, 2 min
# Decision theory
In praise of heuristics // Bucky, 8 min
One Doubt About Timeless Decision Theories // Chris_Leong, 1 min
When EDT=CDT, ADT Does Well // Diffractor, 10 min
# Math and cs
Kalman Filter for Bayesians // SatvikBeri, 4 min
Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise // Martin Sustrik, 4 min
# Community
Starting Meditation // Hazard, 2 min
look at the water // brown, 1 min
# Misc
In favor of tabooing the word “values” and using only “priorities” instead // chaosmage, 2 min
Why do we like stories? // joshux, 5 min
Bottom Boss Prediction Market // Robin Hanson, 3 min
The Speakeasy Imagineering Network // Venkatesh Rao, 12 min
# Podcasts
#46 - Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia // The 80000 Hours team, 169 min
70 – Kick-offs // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min
# Videos of the week
How to mass produce cell-sized robots // Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2 min