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Issue #43: Full List
20 January, 2019 // View curated list# Instrumental
Clothing For Men // Solnassant, 17 min Favorite
Finance Followups // Jacobian, 5 min
A Framework for Internal Debugging // mr-hire, 6 min
Bundle your Experiments // PeterMcCluskey, 2 min
What math do i need for data analysis? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
# Epistemic
Doing Despite Disliking: Self‐regulatory Strategies in Everyday Aversive Activities // lifelonglearner, 1 min
The Tether Theory and the Concrete, Subtle and Causal tiers // Elo, 10 min
When Wholes Become Parts // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Highlights From The Comments On Kuhn // Scott Alexander, 24 min
# Ai
What AI Safety Researchers Have Written About the Nature of Human Values // avturchin, 18 min
Directions and desiderata for AI alignment // paulfchristiano, 16 min
Towards formalizing universality // paulfchristiano, 22 min
Alignment Newsletter #41 // rohinmshah, 12 min
Reward uncertainty // rohinmshah, 6 min
Human-AI Interaction // rohinmshah, 4 min
Synthesising divergent preferences: an example in population ethics // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Debate AI and the Decision to Release an AI // Chris_Leong, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
The Very Repugnant Conclusion // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min Favorite
# Anthropic
Anthropics is pretty normal // Stuart_Armstrong, 9 min
Anthropics: Full Non-indexical Conditioning (FNC) is inconsistent // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Anthropic probabilities: answering different questions // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
In SIA, reference classes (almost) don't matter // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
The questions and classes of SSA // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Solving the Doomsday argument // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
# Decision theory
CDT=EDT=UDT // abramdemski, 15 min
CDT Dutch Book // abramdemski, 2 min
When is CDT Dutch-Bookable? // abramdemski, 1 min
# Math and cs
And My Axiom! Insights from 'Computability and Logic' // TurnTrout, 9 min
# Books
Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain // Kaj_Sotala, 32 min Favorite
Time Biases // PeterMcCluskey, 7 min
Critical Thinking in Medicine // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
# Ea
EA Funds: Long-Term Future fund is open to applications until Feb. 7th // habryka, 1 min
# Community
SSC Survey Results 2019 // Scott Alexander, 1 min Favorite
What are the open problems in Human Rationality? // Raemon, 1 min
Moscow LW meetup in "Nauchka" library // Alexander230, 1 min
Kernel Of Doubt: Testing Math Preference Vs. Corn-Eating Style // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Culture war
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy // Scott Alexander, 10 min Favorite
Curing the World of Men // Jacobian, 1 min
# Misc
Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice // Laura B, 5 min Favorite
What are the components of intellectual honesty? // abramdemski, 1 min
Is there a.. more exact.. way of scoring a predictor's calibration? // MakoYass, 1 min
How could shares in a megaproject return value to shareholders? // ryan_b, 1 min
Buy shares in a megaproject // ryan_b, 1 min
Stack Luck // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min
# Podcasts
#8 Classic episode - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes // The 80000 Hours team, 195 min
#146 — Digital Capitalism // Waking up with Sam Harris, 100 min
76 – Patreon and Censorship // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 110 min
# Videos of the week
The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding | Dana Kanze // TED, 14 min