rational
Issue #56
21 April, 2019 // View full list
Doing something once may engender an inflated sense that one has now seen “it,” leaving people naïve to the missed nuances remaining to enjoy. // www.gwern.net
# Instrumental
Literature Review: Distributed Teams // elizabeth, 7 min Favorite
Slack Club // quanticle, 1 min
Agency and Sphexishness: A Second Glance // Ruby, 2 min
StrongerByScience: a rational strength training website // ryan_b, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 4 // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min
# Epistemic
Where to Draw the Boundaries? // Zack_M_Davis, 16 min
Robin Hanson on Simple, Evidence Backed Models // Raemon, 1 min
Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05” // lifelonglearner, 1 min
Quantitative Philosophy: Why Simulate Ideas Numerically? // shminux, 8 min
Conditional revealed preference // jessicata, 1 min
# Ai
Can coherent extrapolated volition be estimated with Inverse Reinforcement Learning? // Jade Bishop, 3 min
No Safe AI and Creating Optionality // JohnBuridan, 2 min
# Anthropic
The Cacophony Hypothesis: Simulation (If It is Possible At All) Cannot Call New Consciousnesses Into Existence // TheTripleAffirmative, 12 min
# Math and cs
Crypto quant trading: Intro // Alexei, 6 min
# Books
Notes from Literature Review: Distributed Teams // elizabeth, 36 min
# Community
Open Problems in Archipelago // Raemon, 3 min
Halifax Meetup -- Board Games // interstice, 1 min
# Culture war
Downfall // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Predictable Identities: 7 – Roles People Play // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Publish Tax Returns // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Identity Norms // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Fun
Reflections on the Mythic Invitational // Zvi, 24 min
Reflections on Duo Standard // Zvi, 20 min
Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow // Alexander230, 1 min
# Misc
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 38 min Favorite
Scrying for outcomes where the problem of deepfakes has been solved // MakoYass, 4 min
Liar Paradox Revisited // Chris_Leong, 3 min
Complex value & situational awareness // ioannes_shade, 2 min
Criticizing Critics of Structural-Functionalism // Daniel, 4 min
# Podcasts
Episode 1 of "Tsuyoku Naritai!" (the 'becoming stronger' podcast/YT series). // Senarin, 1 min
#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it // The 80000 Hours team, 177 min
#153 — Possible Minds // Waking up with Sam Harris, 229 min
Rationally Speaking #231 - Helen Toner on "Misconceptions about China and artificial intelligence" // NYC Skeptics, 58 min
# Videos of the week
How does income affect childhood brain development? | Kimberly Noble // TED, 11 min