rational
Issue #36: Full List
2 December, 2018 // View curated list
Asymmetric costs over our evolutionary history of false positive and false negative errors favor a bias toward making the least costly error. // drive.google.com
# Instrumental
Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage // Wei_Dai, 2 min Favorite
Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning // ChristianKl, 6 min
Stabilize-Reflect-Execute // ozziegooen, 2 min
Tentatively considering emotional stories (IFS and “getting into Self”) // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min
# Epistemic
Is Science Slowing Down? // Scott Alexander, 11 min Favorite
Double-Dipping in Dunning--Kruger // isovector, 4 min
Moving Factward // Tyrrell_McAllister, 1 min
Quantum Mechanics, Nothing to do with Consciousness // Donald Hobson, 2 min
Boltzmann Brains, Simulations and self refuting hypothesis // Donald Hobson, 1 min
# Ai
Corrigibility // paulfchristiano, 7 min
Hyperreal Brouwer // Scott Garrabrant, 7 min
Intuitions about goal-directed behavior // rohinmshah, 7 min
Humans Consulting HCH // paulfchristiano, 1 min
Reflective oracles as a solution to the converse Lawvere problem // SamEisenstat, 11 min
Approval-directed bootstrapping // paulfchristiano, 1 min
Iterated Distillation and Amplification // Ajeya Cotra, 7 min
The Ubiquitous Converse Lawvere Problem // Scott Garrabrant, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Moral Choices Express Preferences // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Stubborn Attachments // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Longevity
Genetically Modified Humans Born (Allegedly) // ryan_b, 1 min Favorite
# Anthropic
The "Post-Singularity Social Contract" and Bostrom's "Vulnerable World Hypothesis" // philosophytorres, 5 min
# Decision theory
Formal Open Problem in Decision Theory // Scott Garrabrant, 4 min
# Math and cs
How rapidly are GPUs improving in price performance? // gallabytes, 1 min
Bounded Oracle Induction // Diffractor, 13 min
Oracle Induction Proofs // Diffractor, 16 min
# Books
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Community
Winter Solstice 2018 Roundup // Raemon, 1 min
# Misc
Open Policy Evaluation // Robin Hanson, 3 min Favorite
Overconfident talking down, humble or hostile talking up // ozziegooen, 4 min
Values Weren't Complex, Once. // Davidmanheim, 1 min
Status model // Bucky, 2 min
November 2018 gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
A culture of exploitation? // Senarin, 1 min
The Digital Maginot Line // Renee DiResta, 15 min
# Videos of the week
Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail | Özlem Cekic // TED, 15 min