rational
Issue #50: Full List
10 March, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
In My Culture // Duncan_Sabien, 1 min
How dangerous is it to ride a bicycle without a helmet? // habryka, 4 min
[NeedAdvice]How to stay Focused on a long-term goal? // Enes Sinanovic, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Epistemic
To understand, study edge cases // shminux, 1 min
On the Regulation of Perception // lionhearted, 5 min
Want to Know What Time Is? // Alexander Weinmann, 3 min
# Ai
Alignment Research Field Guide // abramdemski, 21 min
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false // Wei_Dai, 3 min
Asymptotically Benign AGI // michaelcohen, 1 min
mAIry's room: AI reasoning to solve philosophical problems // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min
How much funding and researchers were in AI, and AI Safety, in 2018? // Raemon, 1 min
Finding the variables // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Partial preferences needed; partial preferences sufficient // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Alignment Newsletter #47 // rohinmshah, 9 min
Smoothmin and personal identity // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Syntax vs semantics: alarm better example than thermostat // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Preferences in subpieces of hierarchical systems // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Do we need a high-level programming language for AI and what it could be? // avturchin, 1 min
# Anthropic
Sleeping Beauty Problem, Anthropic Principle and Perspective Reasoning // dadadarren, 9 min
# Math and cs
Exponential Secretary // Jacobian, 1 min
Programmatic Code Generation: Composability // Martin Sustrik, 1 min
# Books
Book review: My Hidden Chimp // Bucky, 9 min
Book Review: The Eureka Factor // drossbucket, 15 min
# Community
Renaming "Frontpage" // Raemon, 5 min
Rationality Retreat in Cologne Area, Germany, Spring 2019 // ZeitPolizei, 2 min
IDA 1-4/14: Problem Statement // RAISE, 1 min
Lyubarsky intro // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min
Inaugural New Brunswick LW Meetup // Brangus, 1 min
Reponse to Weyl // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Culture war
Consider Reparations // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Domestic Cozy: 1 // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min
Prospiracy Theories // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Art
Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World? // Ian Cheng, 4 min
# Misc
Personalized Medicine For Real // sarahconstantin, 6 min Favorite
Asking for help teaching a critical thinking class. // Brangus, 1 min
Leaky Concepts // Elo, 2 min
February gwern.net newsletter // gwern, 1 min
Ideas for an action coordination website // Yoav Ravid, 6 min
On The London Mulligan // Zvi, 13 min
Meditations on Territory // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min
A defense on QI // Billy23, 1 min
Links 3/19: Linkguini // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Podcasts
#149 — The Problem of Addiction // Waking up with Sam Harris, 92 min
Rationally Speaking #228 - William Gunn and Alex Holcombe on "Is Elsevier helping or hurting scientific progress?" // NYC Skeptics, 58 min
# Videos of the week
How women in Pakistan are creating political change | Shad Begum // TED, 13 min