rational
Issue #35
25 November, 2018 // View full listThe women-are-wonderful effect – the finding that women are evaluated more positively than men overall – is smaller in more gender-egalitarian societies. // onlinelibrary.wiley.com
# Instrumental
If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding // Davis_Kingsley, 4 min Favorite
# Epistemic
Believing others' priors // rk, 8 min
# Ai
On MIRI's new research directions // Rob Bensinger, 1 min
Prosaic AI alignment // paulfchristiano, 10 min
New safety research agenda: scalable agent alignment via reward modeling // Vika, 1 min
Approval-directed agents: details // paulfchristiano, 9 min
Approval-directed agents: overview // paulfchristiano, 9 min
# Anthropic
Perspective Reasoning and the Sleeping Beauty Problem // dadadarren, 2 min
The Age of Early Divinity // Venkatesh Rao, 13 min
# Math and cs
Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises // Scott Garrabrant, 3 min
# Books
On the Future by Rees // Robin Hanson, 10 min
# Relationships
Letting Others Be Vulnerable // lifelonglearner, 8 min
# Community
[Insert clever intro here] // Senarin, 1 min
Ia! Ia! Extradimensional Cephalopod Nafl'fhtagn! // ExCeph, 1 min
deluks917 on Online Weirdos // Jacobian, 12 min
# Fun
Review: Artifact // Zvi, 15 min
# Misc
Speculative Evopsych, Ep. 1 // Optimization Process, 1 min Favorite
Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know // Zvi, 2 min
Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence // Donald Hobson, 3 min
The Semantic Man // Hypothesis, 1 min
What if people simply forecasted your future choices? // ozziegooen, 6 min
# Podcasts
#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science // The 80000 Hours team, 195 min
#143 — The Keys to the Mind // Waking up with Sam Harris, 112 min
72 – Productivity Tools, Part 2 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 114 min
# Videos of the week
How to let go of being a "good" person — and become a better person | Dolly Chugh // TED, 11 min