rational
Issue #51: Full List
17 March, 2019 // View curated list
Based on neural activity, scientists can predict which of two images a person will choose to imagine up to 11 seconds before they consciously make the choice. // www.nature.com
# Instrumental
A cognitive intervention for wrist pain // rmoehn, 5 min
Call for Contributions: Implied Marginal Value of Time from Good/Services // skinnersboxy, 1 min
# Epistemic
Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality? // Scott Alexander, 3 min Favorite
Active Curiosity vs Open Curiosity // Unreal, 4 min
Plans are Recursive & Why This is Important // Ruby, 13 min
Understanding information cascades // jacobjacob, Benito, 3 min
How to Understand and Mitigate Risk // mr-hire, 19 min
Formalising continuous info cascades? [Info-cascade series] // Benito, jacobjacob, 1 min
Distribution of info-cascades across fields? [Info-cascade series] // jacobjacob, Benito, 1 min
How can we respond to info-cascades? [Info-cascade series] // jacobjacob, Benito, 1 min
# Ai
Boeing 737 MAX MCAS as an agent corrigibility failure // shminux, 1 min Favorite
AI Safety Prerequisites Course: Basic abstract representations of computation // RAISE, 1 min
Designing agent incentives to avoid side effects // Vika, TurnTrout, 3 min
Alignment Newsletter #48 // rohinmshah, 11 min
A theory of human values // Stuart_Armstrong, 8 min
[Link] OpenAI LP // Alexei, 1 min
Example population ethics: ordered discounted utility // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Combining individual preference utility functions // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Considerateness in OpenAI LP Debate // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min
Infinite Machines: 1 – An Introduction // James Vanié, 1 min
# Anthropic
Risk of Mass Human Suffering / Extinction due to Climate Emergency // willfranks, 1 min
Meta-Doomsday Argument: Uncertainty About the Validity of the Probabilistic Prediction of the End of the World // avturchin, 1 min
# Decision theory
Verifying vNM-rationality requires an ontology // jeyoor, 1 min
# Books
Muqaata'a by Fahad Himsi (I.) // Martin Sustrik, 4 min
# Ea
You Have Four Words // Raemon, 1 min
How large is the harm from info-cascades? [Info-cascade series] // jacobjacob, Benito, 1 min
# Community
LW Update 2019-03-12 -- Bugfixes, small features // jimrandomh, 1 min
Question: MIRI Corrigbility Agenda // algon33, 1 min
# Culture war
Privacy // Zvi, 7 min
Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy // Benquo, 6 min
Domestic Cozy: 2 // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min
To Oppose Polarization, Tug Sideways // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Predictable Identities: 4 // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Weirding Diary: 5 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Why Grievances Grow // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Predictable Identities: 3 // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Art
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Fun
New York Restaurants I Love: Pizza // Zvi, 10 min
Speculations on Duo Standard // Zvi, 10 min
Puritan Spotting // Scott Alexander, 6 min
# Misc
Humans aren't agents - what then for value learning? // Charlie Steiner, 3 min
Blegg Mode // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Mysteries, identity, and preferences over non-rewards // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
[Old] Mapmaking Series // G Gordon Worley III, 14 min
[Old] Wayfinding series // G Gordon Worley III, 18 min
What Vibing Feels Like // mr-hire, 2 min
Show LW: Fallacyfiles // CaiwitzAzaria, 1 min
Worlding Raga: 3 — Slouching with God // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min
Ketamine: Now By Prescription // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Podcasts
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding // Waking up with Sam Harris, 121 min
Episode 80 – The Reward and Peril of GPT2 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 132 min
# Rational fiction
[Fiction] IO.SYS // DataPacRat, 27 min
# Videos of the week
OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist // TWiT Netcast Network, 8 min