rational
Issue #55
14 April, 2019 // View full list# Instrumental
Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra // Benquo, 7 min
Towards a Quieter Life // elriggs, 1 min
Pain As Active Ingredient In Dating // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Epistemic
The Hard Work of Translation (Buddhism) // romeostevensit, 6 min Favorite
# Ai
Alignment Newsletter One Year Retrospective // rohinmshah, 26 min
Best reasons for pessimism about impact of impact measures? // TurnTrout, 4 min
Reinforcement learning with imperceptible rewards // Vanessa Kosoy, 57 min
The AI alignment problem as a consequence of the recursive nature of plans // Natália Mendonça, 3 min
On Media Synthesis: An Essay on The Next 15 Years of Creative Automation // Yuli_Ban, 12 min
# Anthropic
Why is multi worlds not a good explanation for abiogenesis // solomon alon, 1 min
The Puzzle of Human Sacrifice // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Books
Short Book Reviews April 2019 // Scott Alexander, 10 min
# Ea
Long Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant decisions // habryka, 1 min
# Culture war
Domestic Cozy: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min
# Misc
The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering // johnswentworth, 3 min
Highlights from "Integral Spirituality" // G Gordon Worley III, 29 min
Rebooting Justice // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Space Fund // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Weirding Diary: 7 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Podcasts
82 – Revenge of the Feedback! // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 135 min
# Rational fiction
[Spoilers] How did Voldemort learn the horcrux spell? // Motasaurus, 1 min
# Videos of the week
How to keep human bias out of AI | Kriti Sharma // TED, 12 min