rational
Issue #38: Full List
16 December, 2018 // View curated list
Relatively low numbers of women in some fields of science and engineering may result from women's preference for people-oriented careers over things-oriented careers. // www.researchgate.net
# Instrumental
Meditations on Momentum // Richard Meadows, 12 min Favorite
Measly Meditation Measurements // justinpombrio, 1 min
# Epistemic
What is abstraction? // adamzerner, 4 min Favorite
Bounded rationality abounds, not explicitly defined // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
# Ai
Three AI Safety Related Ideas // Wei_Dai, 2 min
Assuming we've solved X, could we do Y... // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Multi-agent predictive minds and AI alignment // Jan_Kulveit, 12 min
What precisely do we mean by AI alignment? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
Figuring out what Alice wants: non-human Alice // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
# Meta-ethics
Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession? // Eliezer Yudkowsky, 11 min Favorite
Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics // sarahconstantin, 8 min
Overconfidence From Moral Signaling // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
An Extensive Categorisation of Infinite Paradoxes // Chris_Leong, 15 min Favorite
# Books
Response To Hossenfelder // Robin Hanson, 5 min
Diametrical Model Of Autism And Schizophrenia // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Ea
Introducing the Longevity Research Institute // sarahconstantin, 1 min Favorite
Why should EA care about rationality (and vice-versa)? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
# Community
Who's welcome to our LessWrong meetups? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Culture war
Trump: A Setback For Trumpism // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Fun
Review: Slay the Spire // Zvi, 8 min
# Misc
Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? // Robin Hanson, 8 min Favorite
Internet Search Tips: how I use Google/Google Scholar/Libgen // gwern, 1 min
How Old is Smallpox? // Raemon, 2 min
The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited // drossbucket, 18 min
Kindergarten in NYC: Much More than You Wanted to Know // Laura B, 13 min
Interpreting genetic testing // jkaufman, 2 min
Argue Politics* With Your Best Friends // sarahconstantin, 8 min
Quantum immortality: Is decline of measure compensated by merging timelines? // avturchin, 2 min
# Podcasts
What podcasts does the community listen to? // hristovassilev, 1 min
#6 Rebroadcast - Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else // The 80000 Hours team, 133 min
# Rational fiction
New Ratfic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility // Alicorn, 1 min
# Videos of the week
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks // Tero Karras FI, 6 min