rational
Issue #45
3 February, 2019 // View full list
Research on the moralistic fallacy: People see "morally offensive" scientific hypotheses as less plausible. // link.springer.com
# Instrumental
Freely Complying With the Ideal: A Theory of Happiness // Solnassant, 6 min Favorite
Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list // bfinn, 15 min
# Epistemic
A small example of one-step hypotheticals // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
How the Social Affects your rationality // Hazard, 1 min
Reality and rational best practice // Hazard, 1 min
A Crash Course in Your Brain // Hazard, 1 min
The Question Of Perception // The Arkon, 5 min
# Ai
How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart? // Scott Garrabrant, 4 min
Drexler on AI Risk // PeterMcCluskey, 12 min
Wireheading is in the eye of the beholder // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Techniques for optimizing worst-case performance // paulfchristiano, 10 min
Reliability amplification // paulfchristiano, 8 min
# Anthropic
"Giftedness" and Genius, Crucial Differences // ArthurLidia, 30 min
# Decision theory
Which textbook would you recommend to learn decision theory? // supermartingale, 1 min
Who wants to be a Millionaire? // Bucky, 14 min
Towards equilibria-breaking methods // ryan_b, 1 min
Deconfusing Logical Counterfactuals // Chris_Leong, 8 min
# Math and cs
Confessions of an Abstraction Hater // Martin Sustrik, 2 min
# Books
Book Trilogy Review: Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Problem) // Zvi, 50 min
Book Review: Zero To One // Scott Alexander, 22 min
# Ea
Why is this utilitarian calculus wrong? Or is it? // EconomicModel, 1 min
# Community
Prediction Contest 2018: Scores and Retrospective // jbeshir, 1 min
# Culture war
Masculine Virtues // Jacobian, 15 min
What kind of information would serve as the best evidence for resolving the debate of whether a centrist or leftist Democratic nominee is likelier to take the White House in 2020? // Evan_Gaensbauer, 3 min
Practical Considerations Regarding Political Polarization // joshuabecker, 1 min
# Misc
Río Grande: judgment calls // KatjaGrace, 2 min
"The Unbiased Map" // JohnBuridan, 1 min
Elderblog Sutra: 1 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Weirding Diary: 2 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Links 1/19: Linkguistics // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Podcasts
Applied Rationality podcast - feedback? // Senarin, 1 min
77 – Meandering Around Albion’s Seed // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min
#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age // The 80000 Hours team, 151 min
#147 — Stephen Fry // Waking up with Sam Harris, 120 min
# Videos of the week
Quantum computing explained in 10 minutes | Shohini Ghose // TED, 10 min