rational
Issue #39: Full List
23 December, 2018 // View curated list
Prejudice based on political affiliation is stronger these days than prejudice based on race, ethnicity, language, or religion // drive.google.com
# Instrumental
18-month follow-up on my self-concept work // Kaj_Sotala, 10 min
What self-help has helped you? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
# Epistemic
You can be wrong about what you like, and you often are // adamzerner, 4 min
# Ai
2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison // Larks, 80 min Favorite
Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety // Wei_Dai, 2 min
The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment // johnswentworth, 1 min
Reasons compute may not drive AI capabilities growth // Kythe, 10 min
Alignment Newsletter #37 // rohinmshah, 13 min
Gwern about centaurs: there is no chance that any useful man+machine combination will work together for more than 10 years, as humans soon will be only a liability // avturchin, 1 min
Cognitive Bias of AI Researchers? // Mindey, 1 min
# Anthropic
Standing on a pile of corpses // Jsevillamol, 2 min
# Decision theory
The Pavlov Strategy // sarahconstantin, 5 min Favorite
What are some concrete problems about logical counterfactuals? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Anthropic paradoxes transposed into Anthropic Decision Theory // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Anthropic probabilities and cost functions // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Defining Freedom // pku, 3 min
# Math and cs
Equivalence of State Machines and Coroutines // Martin Sustrik, 1 min
on wellunderstoodness // Quinn, 4 min
A simple approach to 5-and-10 // Gurkenglas, 1 min
# Books
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" // Rob Bensinger, 2 min Favorite
# Community
Solstice Album Crowdfunding // Raemon, 1 min
# Culture war
Good arguments against "cultural appropriation" // Tyrrell_McAllister, 3 min
Refactoring: Culture As Branch Of Government // Scott Alexander, 3 min
Fallacies Of Reversed Moderation // Scott Alexander, 3 min
#MeToo In A Star Is Born // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
In Defense of Finance // Jacobian, 1 min Favorite
Spaghetti Towers // eukaryote, 3 min
Systems Engineering and the META Program // ryan_b, 1 min
Boundaries enable positive material-informational feedback loops // jessicata, 6 min
Experiences of Self-deception // Bucky, 1 min
Fifteen Things I Learned From Watching a Game of Secret Hitler // Zvi, 1 min
Sabine "Bee" Hossenfelder (and Robin Hanson) on How to fix Academia with Prediction Markets // shminux, 1 min
Babble, Learning, and the Typical Mind Fallacy // An1lam, 1 min
Why We Slouch // Venkatesh Rao, 17 min
It’s All Data // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Podcasts
#49 - Dr Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys' // The 80000 Hours team, 94 min
The Drive Interview with Peter Attia // Waking up with Sam Harris, 174 min
74 – Adventures in Feedback! // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 116 min
Rationally Speaking #223 - Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors" // NYC Skeptics, 43 min
# Videos of the week
100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann // TED, 17 min