rational
Issue #46: Full List
10 February, 2019 // View curated list
Consciousness and decision making in insects: Researchers propose that the origins of subjective experience can be traced to the Cambrian. // www.pnas.org
# Instrumental
Make an appointment with your saner self // MalcolmOcean, 5 min
How to notice being mind-hacked // shminux, 2 min
Rationality: What's the point? // Hazard, 1 min
How to stay concentrated for a long period of time? // infinickel, 1 min
Show LW: (video) how to remember everything you learn // ArthurLidia, 1 min
# Epistemic
Philosophy as low-energy approximation // Charlie Steiner, 3 min
What is learning? // DonyChristie, 1 min
# Ai
When to use quantilization // RyanCarey, 5 min
Test Cases for Impact Regularisation Methods // DanielFilan, 15 min
(notes on) Policy Desiderata for Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach // Ben Pace, 9 min
Conclusion to the sequence on value learning // rohinmshah, 6 min
AI Safety Prerequisites Course: Revamp and New Lessons // crabman, 1 min
HCH is not just Mechanical Turk // William_S, 3 min
Thoughts on Ben Garfinkel's "How sure are we about this AI stuff?" // capybaralet, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #44 // rohinmshah, 11 min
Security amplification // paulfchristiano, 15 min
Reinforcement Learning in the Iterated Amplification Framework // William_S, 4 min
My use of the phrase "Super-Human Feedback" // capybaralet, 1 min
Greatest Lower Bound for AGI // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min
(Why) Does the Basilisk Argument fail? // Lookingforyourlogic, 2 min
# Anthropic
Is the World Getting Better? A brief summary of recent debate // ErickBall, 2 min
What are some of bizarre theories based on anthropic reasoning? // Dr. Jamchie, 1 min
X-risks are a tragedies of the commons // capybaralet, 1 min
Do Science and Technology Lead to a Fall in Human Values? // jayshi19, 1 min
# Math and cs
Complexity Penalties in Statistical Learning // michael_h, 7 min
Constructing Goodhart // johnswentworth, 4 min
Automated Nomic Game 2 // jkaufman, 3 min
# Ea
EA grants available (to individuals) // Jameson Quinn, 4 min
What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction // ioannes_shade, 2 min
Does the EA community do "basic science" grants? How do I get one? // Jameson Quinn, 1 min
Quantifying Human Suffering and "Everyday Suffering" // willfranks, 1 min
# Community
The Case for a Bigger Audience // John_Maxwell_IV, 2 min
My atheism story // Pausecafe, 8 min
Can someone design this Google Sheets bug list template for me? // Senarin, 1 min
Irvine Meetup This Saturday // Scott Alexander, 1 min
Survey Results On SSRIs // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Culture war
Respectability Cascades // Scott Alexander, 6 min Favorite
# Misc
What makes a good culture? // toonalfrink, 2 min
The Hamming Question // Raemon, 1 min
If Rationality can be likened to a 'Martial Art', what would be the Forms? // Senarin, 1 min
January 2019 gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
Is this how I choose to show up? // Elo, 6 min
Depression philosophizing // aaq, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 1 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Elderblog Sutra: 2 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Weirding Diary: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Podcasts
#52 - Prof Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society // The 80000 Hours team, 164 min
#148 — Jack Dorsey // Waking up with Sam Harris, 86 min
Rationally Speaking #226 - Rob Wiblin on "An updated view of the best ways to help humanity" // NYC Skeptics, 53 min
# Videos of the week
A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford // TED, 17 min