rational
Issue #57: Full List
28 April, 2019 // View curated list
Talking by thinking: Recurrent neural networks decode brain activity into representations of vocal movements and then transformed into speech acoustics. // www.nature.com
# Instrumental
When is rationality useful? // ricraz, 3 min
How to make plans? // DonyChristie, 1 min
Against Street Epistemology // Eponym, 8 min
# Epistemic
What's the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV? // bgold, 1 min
Why does category theory exist? // Benito, 1 min
Many maps, Lightly held // Elo, 4 min
# Ai
AI Alignment Problem: “Human Values” don’t Actually Exist // avturchin, 52 min Favorite
Helen Toner on China, CSET, and AI // Rob Bensinger, 8 min
Strategic implications of AIs' ability to coordinate at low cost, for example by merging // Wei_Dai, 2 min
Any rebuttals of Christiano and AI Impacts on takeoff speeds? // SoerenMind, 1 min
Degree of duplication and coordination in projects that examine computing prices, AI progress, and related topics? // riceissa, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Asymmetric Justice // Zvi, 6 min Favorite
# Anthropic
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled // Scott Alexander, 13 min
Infinite Machines: 3 — Turking Interfaces // James Vanié, 1 min
# Math and cs
The Principle of Predicted Improvement // Brangus, 4 min
On the Nature of Programming Languages // Martin Sustrik, 4 min
# Books
Book review: The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler // ricraz, 11 min
10 Good Things about Antifragile: a positivist book review // JohnBuridan, 8 min
Firms Are Not Aliens // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Ea
Evolution "failure mode": chickens // Yuxi_Liu, 1 min Favorite
Moral Weight Doesn't Accrue Linearly // bgaesop, 1 min
# Community
NYC Spring SSC Meetup 5/4 // wearsshoes, 1 min
Rationality Dojo // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
Passing through St. Louis // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
# Culture war
Complaints By Relation Type // Robin Hanson, 4 min Favorite
Counterfactuals about Social Media // Zvi, 7 min
Predictable Identities: 7 – Weirdness Budget // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Misc
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China? // Ruby, 25 min
"Everything is Correlated": An Anthology of the Psychology Debate // gwern, 1 min
Airportpourri // Jacobian, 1 min
Pascal's Mugging and One-shot Problems // Mathilde, 4 min
How do S-Risk scenarios impact the decision to get cryonics? // bgold, 1 min
Show LW: Debate on Philosophy being dead // CaiwitzAzaria, 1 min
What are reliable ways to make a statement in such a way that I will be able to prove in the future that I had made that statement? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
The Stack Overflow of Factored Cognition // rmoehn, 3 min
Evidence other than evolution for optimization daemons? // Liam Donovan, 1 min
# Podcasts
"Tsuyoku Naritai!" (the 'becoming stronger' podcast): Episode 2 - Yoda Timers // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019) // Waking up with Sam Harris, 54 min
#57 - Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government // The 80000 Hours team, 170 min
83 – REACH // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 118 min
# Videos of the week
An AI smartwatch that detects seizures | Rosalind Picard // TED, 15 min