rational
Issue #52: Full List
24 March, 2019 // View curated list
Political knowledge tends to increase the effects of identity as more knowledgeable people have more informational ammunition to counter argue any stories they don’t like. // www.nytimes.com
# Instrumental
Rest Days vs Recovery Days // Unreal, 6 min Favorite
Retrospective on a quantitative productivity logging attempt // femtogrammar, 3 min
Criticism catalyzes analytical thinking in groups // rayraegah, 1 min
# Epistemic
800 scientist call out against statistical significance // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
[Question] Tracking accuracy of personal forecasts // CheerfulWarrior, 1 min
# Ai
More realistic tales of doom // paulfchristiano, 10 min Favorite
The Main Sources of AI Risk? // Wei_Dai, 2 min
Some thoughts after reading Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach // swift_spiral, 2 min
What's wrong with these analogies for understanding Informed Oversight and IDA? // Wei_Dai, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #49 // rohinmshah, 13 min
Is there a difference between uncertainty over your utility function and uncertainty over outcomes? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Is there a difference between uncertainty of your utility function and uncertainty over outcomes? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Partial preferences and models // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
What should we expect from GPT-3? // avturchin, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Intuitions on Negative Utilitarianism // Isnasene, 39 min
# Decision theory
Comparison of decision theories (with a focus on logical-counterfactual decision theories) // riceissa, 13 min Favorite
# Math and cs
Declarative Mathematics // johnswentworth, 3 min
Insights from Munkres' Topology // sil ver, 17 min
Can a Bayesian agent be infinitely confused? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
# Books
Book Review: Inventing The Future // Scott Alexander, 29 min
# Community
Willing to share some words that changed your beliefs/behavior? // Duncan_Sabien, 1 min
Ideas for a fact checking widget // Yoav Ravid, 1 min
Ask LW: Have you read Yudkowsky's AI to Zombie book? // CaiwitzAzaria, 1 min
Motivational Meeting Place // Vincent B, 4 min
Moscow LW meetup in "Nauchka" library // Alexander230, 1 min
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery // Alexander230, 1 min
# Culture war
What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail? // clone of saturn, 1 min
Has "politics is the mind-killer" been a mind-killer? // SonnieBailey, 4 min
The Game Theory of Blackmail // Linda Linsefors, 4 min
Predictable Identities: 5 // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Can We Trust Deliberation Priests? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Misc
Cryopreservation of Valia Zeldin // avturchin, 1 min
How large is the fallout area of the biggest cobalt bomb we can build? // habryka, 1 min
Translating Predictive Coding Into Perceptual Control // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Podcasts
#54 - OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms // The 80000 Hours team, 173 min
#151 — Will We Destroy the Future? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 102 min
Rationally Speaking #229 - John Nerst on "Erisology, the study of disagreement" // NYC Skeptics, 64 min
# Videos of the week
How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy // TED, 11 min