rational
Issue #58: Full List
5 May, 2019 // View curated listA group of international energy and foreign-policy researchers analyzes four geopolitical scenarios on energy source transitioning and future next steps. // www.nature.com
# Instrumental
Buying Value, not Price // Jacobian, 4 min Favorite
# Epistemic
Dishonest Update Reporting // Zvi, 7 min
Natural Structures and Definitions // Chris_Leong, 1 min
A quick map of consciousness // Elo, 3 min
# Ai
Self-confirming predictions can be arbitrarily bad // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min
What are some good examples of incorrigibility? // RyanCarey, 1 min
Oracles, sequence predictors, and self-confirming predictions // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Totalitarian ethical systems // Benquo, 4 min
# Decision theory
Functional Decision Theory vs Causal Decision Theory: Expanding on Newcomb's Problem // Geropy, 3 min
A Possible Decision Theory for Many Worlds Living // Evan Ward, 9 min
# Math and cs
Nash equilibriums can be arbitrarily bad // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Hull: An alternative to shell that I'll never have time to implement // Martin Sustrik, 4 min
# Ea
Aging research and population ethics // emanuele ascani, 7 min
Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Relationships
The State of Affairs // Jacobian, 16 min
# Community
A Map of the Lesswrong-O-Sphere of Interest // Elo, 1 min
Has government or industry had greater past success in maintaining really powerful technological secrets? // habryka, 1 min
Bay Summer Solstice 2019 // Raemon, 2 min
Rationality Vienna Meetup May 2019 // Viliam, 1 min
Rationality Vienna Meetup June 2019 // Viliam, 1 min
Reference request: human as "backup" // Yuxi_Liu, 1 min
South Bay SSC Meetup May 11th // DavidFriedman, 1 min
# Culture war
The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority // sarahconstantin, 4 min
Bounty Hunter Blackmail // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Liability Insurance For All // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Populists Like Late Bloomers // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Taboo Gradations // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Fun
Little Known Types Of Eclipse // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Misc
Change A View: An interesting online community // habryka, 1 min
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership // sarahconstantin, 3 min
Rationality made me less bad at Mario Kart 8 // Three-Monkey Mind, 3 min
My poorly done attempt of formulating a game with incomplete information. // RorscHak, 5 min
Huemer On Disagreement // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Buspirone Shortage In Healthcaristan SSR // Scott Alexander, 12 min
# Podcasts
Episode 3 of Tsuyoku Naritai! (the 'becoming stronger podcast): Nike Timers // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
#155 — Mental Models // Waking up with Sam Harris, 121 min
Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on “Defending big business against its critics” // NYC Skeptics, 64 min
# Videos of the week
What do sex workers want? | Juno Mac | TEDxEastEnd // TEDx Talks, 18 min