rational
Issue #33
11 November, 2018 // View full list# Instrumental
Rationality of demonstrating & voting // bfinn, 9 min Favorite
Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture // Ruby, 7 min
Burnout: What it is and how to Treat it. // elizabeth, 1 min
Productivity: Instrumental Rationality // frdk666, 1 min
Help Me Refactor Myself I am Lost // Pausecafe, 2 min
# Epistemic
Prediction-Augmented Evaluation Systems // ozziegooen, 9 min
Ketamine: An Update // Scott Alexander, 2 min
SSRIs: An Update // Scott Alexander, 6 min
Marijuana: An Update // Scott Alexander, 3 min
Preschool: I Was Wrong // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Ai
Subsystem Alignment // abramdemski, 1 min Favorite
Robust Delegation // abramdemski, 1 min
Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers // ozziegooen, 5 min
Embedded Curiosities // Scott Garrabrant, 3 min
When does rationality-as-search have nontrivial implications? // nostalgebraist, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Avoiding Blame By Preventing Life // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Anthropic
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (by Bostrom) // Ben Pace, 4 min Favorite
On first looking into Russell's History // ricraz, 6 min
# Decision theory
Non-Conformist Influence // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Bayes Questions // Bucky, 3 min
Beliefs at different timescales // Nisan, 2 min
What are Universal Inductors, Again? // Diffractor, 9 min
# Community
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning? // Sailor Vulcan, 6 min Favorite
# Culture war
My California Ballot // Scott Alexander, 14 min
# Fun
Specification gaming examples in AI // Samuel Rødal, 1 min
Octopath Traveler: Spoiler-Free Review // Zvi, 17 min
# Misc
Update the best textbooks on every subject list // ryan_b, 1 min
Speculations on improving debating // ricraz, 4 min
Real-time hiring with prediction markets // ryan_b, 1 min
Is Copenhagen or Many Worlds true? An experiment. What? Yes. // Jonathanm, 1 min
Mars // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Podcasts
71 – Researching Qualia with Andrés Gómez Emilsson // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 105 min
#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 108 min
# Videos of the week
Spinal implant that could make paralysis patients walk again // Financial Times, 3 min