rational
Issue #44
27 January, 2019 // View full listSex differences in relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rise with increases in gender equality. // www.theatlantic.com
# Instrumental
Life can be better than you think // Natália Mendonça, 9 min Favorite
Too Smart for My Own Good // isovector, 3 min
Building up to an Internal Family Systems model // Kaj_Sotala, 34 min
Stale air / high CO2 may decrease your cognitive function // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
# Epistemic
The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth // sarahconstantin, 15 min Favorite
From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior // johnswentworth, 6 min
S-Curves for Trend Forecasting // mr-hire, 4 min
Do the best ideas float to the top? // Quinn, 7 min
# Ai
Disentangling arguments for the importance of AI safety // ricraz, 9 min
"AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II", DeepMind [won 10 of 11 games against human pros] // gwern, 1 min
Thoughts on reward engineering // paulfchristiano, 13 min
Capability amplification // paulfchristiano, 15 min
Following human norms // rohinmshah, 5 min
# Anthropic
How Does Brain Code Differ? // Robin Hanson, 11 min Favorite
Link: That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell // Alexei, 1 min
Distant Future Tradeoffs // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Less Competition, More Meritocracy? // Zvi, 24 min Favorite
Is Agent Simulates Predictor a "fair" problem? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Clarifying Logical Counterfactuals // Chris_Leong, 8 min
# Math and cs
Allowing a formal proof system to self improve while avoiding Lobian obstacles. // Donald Hobson, 2 min
# Community
Starting to see 2 months later // Pausecafe, 2 min
Shanghai LessWrong Meetup // Mindey, 1 min
January 2019 Nashville SSC Meetup // Dude McDude, 1 min
Predictions For 2019 // Scott Alexander, 4 min
2018 Predictions: Calibration Results // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Fun
Game Analysis Index // Zvi, 1 min
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery // Alexander230, 1 min
# Misc
Should questions be called "questions" or "confusions" (or "other")? // Raemon, 1 min
Is intellectual work better construed as exploration or performance? // ioannes_shade, 1 min
In what way has the generation after us "gone too far"? // Elo, 1 min
Could declining interest to the Doomsday Argument explain the Doomsday Argument? // avturchin, 3 min
Fine Grain Futarchy Zoning Via Harberger Taxes // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Podcasts
Rationally Speaking #225 - Neerav Kingsland on "The case for charter schools" // NYC Skeptics, 47 min
# Videos of the week
The secrets of learning a new language | Lýdia Machová // TED, 10 min