rational
Issue #32: Full List
4 November, 2018 // View curated list
Diversity drives innovation: Companies founded by immigrants grew at a faster rate and were likely to survive longer than those started by entrepreneurs born in the US. // www.weforum.org
# Instrumental
On Doing the Improbable // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 1 min Favorite
Debate Rules In Benjamin Franklin's Junto // Hypothesis, 1 min
writing as the thinker's canvas // brown, 1 min
# Epistemic
Working With Google Trends // Scott Alexander, 6 min Favorite
# Ai
Embedded Agents // abramdemski, 1 min Favorite
Introducing the AI Alignment Forum (FAQ) // habryka, 7 min
Embedded World-Models // abramdemski, 1 min
Preface to the Sequence on Value Learning // rohinmshah, 3 min
What is ambitious value learning? // rohinmshah, 3 min
The easy goal inference problem is still hard // paulfchristiano, 5 min
Alignment Newsletter #30 // rohinmshah, 7 min
Discussion on the machine learning approach to AI safety // Vika, 4 min
Thoughts on "Ontological Crises" // thomascolthurst, 4 min
Goodhart's Law and Genies // thomascolthurst, 11 min
# Anthropic
Implementations of immortality // ricraz, 6 min
Long Views Are Coming // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Long Legacies And Fights In A Competitive Universe // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Long Legacies And Fights In An Uncaring Universe // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
Decision Theory // abramdemski, 1 min
My Intuitions on Counterlogical Reasoning // DragonGod, 5 min
# Math and cs
An Undergraduate Reading Of: Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics // ryan_b, 5 min
Two Approaches to Structured Concurrency // Martin Sustrik, 6 min
Formalizing Ideal Generalization // elriggs, 6 min
# Community
Boston Solstice 2018 // jkaufman, 1 min
East Coast Rationalist Megameetup 2018 // metaperture, 1 min
# Misc
Good Samaritans in experiments // Bucky, 10 min
October gwern.net links // gwern, 1 min
Linkpost: Arena’s New Opening Hand Rule Has Huge Implications For How We Play the Game // Zvi, 1 min
Deconstructing Biases In Media // Apollo13, 1 min
Intellectual Status Isn’t That Different // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles // The 80000 Hours team, 125 min
The TED Interview // Waking up with Sam Harris, 67 min
Rationally Speaking #220 - Peter Eckersley on "Tough choices on privacy and artificial intelligence" // NYC Skeptics, 62 min
# Rational fiction
Sort By Controversial // Scott Alexander, 19 min
# Videos of the week
Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are // TED, 17 min