rational
Issue #54: Full List
7 April, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
Why Planning is Hard: A Multifaceted Model // Ruby, 12 min Favorite
How do people become ambitious? // Raemon, 1 min
On the Nature of Agency // Ruby, 10 min
What are effective strategies for mitigating the impact of acute sleep deprivation on cognition? // An1lam, 1 min
Prompts for eliciting blind spots/bucket errors/bugs // ZeitPolizei, 1 min
# Epistemic
Degrees of Freedom // sarahconstantin, 13 min Favorite
Modelling Model Comparisons // elriggs, 2 min
# Ai
Alignment Newsletter #51 // rohinmshah, 18 min
On AI and Compute // johncrox, 9 min
Defeating Goodhart and the "closest unblocked strategy" problem // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min
Learning "known" information when the information is not actually known // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Alignment Newsletter #52 // rohinmshah, 9 min
# Anthropic
I found a wild explanation for two big anomalies in metaphysics then became very doubtful of it // MakoYass, 13 min
Would solving logical counterfactuals solve anthropics? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Could waste heat become an environment problem in the future (centuries)? // RorscHak, 2 min
# Books
Firms Are Under-Trusted // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Community
The Case for The EA Hotel // mr-hire, 12 min
What LessWrong/Rationality/EA chat-servers exist that newcomers can join? // habryka, 1 min
What would 10x or 100x better than CFAR look like? // DonyChristie, 1 min
Rationality Vienna Meetup April 2019 // Viliam, 1 min
SSC Sacramento Meetup // jooyous, 1 min
Cambridge SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
Internet v. Culture (2019) - Los Angeles LW/SSC Meetup #103 (Wednesday, April 3rd) // T3t, 1 min
Rationality Dojo // Senarin, 1 min
Triangle SSC Meetup-April // willbobaggins, 1 min
# Culture war
Social Censorship: The First Offender Model // Scott Alexander, 4 min Favorite
Predictable Identities: 6 – Creeps // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Weirding Diary: 6 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
Explaining Sex Rate Changes // Robin Hanson, 7 min
# Fun
Announcing the Center for Applied Postrationality // DonyChristie, 1 min
User GPT2 is Banned // jimrandomh, 1 min
User GPT2 Has a Warning for Violating Frontpage Commenting Guidelines // jimrandomh, 1 min
# Misc
What are the advantages and disadvantages of knowing your own IQ? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
Aumann Agreement by Combat // roryokane, 1 min
How would a better replacement for tissues look like? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Machine Pastoralism // ryan_b, 1 min
Ideas ahead of their time // Theist, 1 min
post-rational distractions // nBrown, 1 min
# Podcasts
Rationally Speaking #230 - Kelsey Piper on “Big picture journalism: covering the topics that matter in the long run” // NYC Skeptics, 53 min
#55 - Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty // The 80000 Hours team, 151 min
# Videos of the week
Is Our Trust In Medicine Mistaken? | Full Talk | Jacob Stegenga // The Institute of Art and Ideas, 29 min