rational
Issue #47: Full List
17 February, 2019 // View curated list
More frequent usage of Twitter is linked to better acquisition of knowledge about current affairs compared to usage of Facebook. // www.tandfonline.com
# Instrumental
Perfecting The Motion // Natália Mendonça, 12 min Favorite
Functional silence: communication that minimizes change of receiver's beliefs // chaosmage, 2 min
Dojo on stress // Elo, 3 min
Minimize Use of Standard Internet Food Delivery // Zvi, 2 min
# Epistemic
The RAIN Framework for Informational Effectiveness // ozziegooen, 7 min Favorite
Layers of Expertise and the Curse of Curiosity // Gyrodiot, 7 min
Pedagogy as Struggle // lifelonglearner, 2 min
# Ai
Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy // Wei_Dai, 5 min
How does OpenAI's language model affect our AI timeline estimates? // jimrandomh, 1 min
How the MtG Color Wheel Explains AI Safety // Scott Garrabrant, 7 min
The Argument from Philosophical Difficulty // Wei_Dai, 1 min
Learning preferences by looking at the world // rohinmshah, 8 min
Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular? // Wei_Dai, 2 min
Some disjunctive reasons for urgency on AI risk // Wei_Dai, 1 min
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept // ricraz, 10 min
Alignment Newsletter #45 // rohinmshah, 10 min
Would I think for ten thousand years? // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Who owns OpenAI's new language model? // ioannes_shade, 1 min
Nuances with ascription universality // evhub, 2 min
Anchoring vs Taste: a model // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
"Normative assumptions" need not be complex // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Humans interpreting humans // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
How Lumpy AI Services? // Robin Hanson, 7 min
# Meta-ethics
Arguments for moral indefinability // ricraz, 8 min
# Anthropic
Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox // Lanrian, 50 min Favorite
# Decision theory
Probability space has 2 metrics // Donald Hobson, 1 min
# Math and cs
Structured Concurrency Cross-language Forum // Martin Sustrik, 1 min
Graceful Shutdown // Martin Sustrik, 13 min
So you want to be a wizard // An1lam, 1 min
Propositional Logic, Syntactic Implication // Donald Hobson, 1 min
# Ea
Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? // Teo Ajantaival, 1 min
# Relationships
Individual profit-sharing? // ioannes_shade, 1 min
# Community
How important is it that LW has an unlimited supply of karma? // jacobjacob, 2 min
Three Kinds of Research Documents: Clarification, Explanatory, Academic // ozziegooen, 3 min
Rationality Retreat in Cologne Area, Germany, Spring 2019 // ZeitPolizei, 2 min
On Long and Insightful Posts // MinJune Kim, 1 min
Are there documentaries on rationality? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
Triangle SSC Meetup-February // willbobaggins, 1 min
Breaking Smart Season 1 Online Workshop // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min
# Culture war
Checkmate On Blackmail // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Fun
New York Restaurants I Love: Breakfast // Zvi, 9 min
# Misc
Cooperation is for Winners // Jacobian, 5 min Favorite
When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it? // jacobjacob, 1 min
The Prediction Pyramid: Why Fundamental Work is Needed for Prediction Work // ozziegooen, 4 min
One week of CBT journaling: Fighting the allure of depressive realism // aaq, 3 min
Mediocratopia: 2 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Conditional Harberger Tax Games // Robin Hanson, 8 min
Elderblog Sutra: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Podcasts
78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 120 min
# Rational fiction
The Proverbial Murder Mystery // Scott Alexander, 30 min Favorite
Short story: An AGI's Repugnant Physics Experiment // ozziegooen, 1 min
# Videos of the week
The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg // TED, 11 min