rational
Issue #41: Full List
6 January, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
Strategy is the Deconfusion of Action // ryan_b, 7 min
Learning-Intentions vs Doing-Intentions // Ruby, 4 min
What makes people intellectually active? // abramdemski, 1 min
How can I most effectively improve my writing abilities? // ChristianKl, 1 min
What's the best way for me to improve my English pronounciation? // ChristianKl, 1 min
# Epistemic
Toward An Honest Consensus // Robin Hanson, 2 min Favorite
Revealed preferences vs. misaligned incentives // jml, 1 min Favorite
How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century? // Ben Pace, 2 min
Why do Contemplative Practitioners Make so Many Metaphysical Claims? // romeostevensit, 7 min
What do you do when you find out you have inconsistent probabilities? // Radamantis, 1 min
Revealed preferences aren't just exposed lies // jml, 1 min
Electrons don’t think (or suffer) // shminux, 1 min
# Ai
Will humans build goal-directed agents? // rohinmshah, 7 min
Alignment Newsletter #39 // rohinmshah, 6 min
What are good ML/AI related prediction / calibration questions for 2019? // james_t, 2 min
Conceptual Analysis for AI Alignment // capybaralet, 2 min
Generalising CNNs // James Crook, 5 min
Optimization Regularization through Time Penalty // Linda Linsefors, 4 min
Predictors as Agents // interstice, 3 min
# Anthropic
What Happened To 90s Environmentalism? // Scott Alexander, 25 min Favorite
Perpetual Motion Via Negative Matter? // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Decision theory
Two More Decision Theory Problems for Humans // Wei_Dai, 2 min
# Math and cs
Logical inductors in multistable situations. // Donald Hobson, 1 min
# Books
Tales of the Turing Church // Robin Hanson, 7 min
# Ea
Does anti-malaria charity destroy the local anti-malaria industry? // Viliam, 1 min Favorite
# Community
Applied Rationality Workshop Cologne, Germany // mschons, 2 min
Announcement: A talk about structured concurrency at FOSDEM // Martin Sustrik, 1 min
Bay Meetup 1/6 Update // Scott Alexander, 1 min
Preregistration Of Investigations For The 2019 SSC Survey // Scott Alexander, 3 min
Bay Area SSC Meetup 1/6 // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Fun
Card Rebalancing and Economic Considerations in Digital Card Games // Zvi, 6 min
Advantages of Card Rebalancing // Zvi, 12 min
# Misc
What exercises go best with 3 blue 1 brown's Linear Algebra videos? // Raemon, 1 min
How do we identify bottlenecks to scientific and technological progress? // An1lam, 1 min
I want it my way! // nickhayes, 10 min
What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements? // jacobjacob, 1 min
Towards no-math, graphical instructions for prediction markets // ryan_b, 2 min
December gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
"Traveling Salesman" // telms, 1 min
What observations do you as a customer would expect to matter, if your experience was 1000 times "stronger"? // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min
Is there a standard discussion of vegetarianism/veganism? // Sherrinford, 1 min
# Podcasts
#145 — The Information War // Waking up with Sam Harris, 80 min
75 – Culture Roots of America // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 102 min
# Videos of the week
3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd // TED, 12 min