rational
Issue #6
6 May, 2018 // View full list
Average walking speed increases predictably as city size increases, roughly as N^{0.1}, where N is city population. // www.pnas.org
# Instrumental
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from World of Warcraft: Goodhart’s law // Said Achmiz, 7 min Favorite
Internalizing Internal Double Crux // TurnTrout, 4 min
A Few Tips on How to Generally Feel Better (and Avoid Headaches) // moridinamael, 5 min
Ikaxas' Hammertime Final Exam // Ikaxas, 1 min
Shaping Agents // Dominik Tujmer, 3 min
# Epistemic
Duncan Sabien: "In Defense of Punch Bug" // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min Favorite
Words, Locally Defined // abramdemski, 3 min
# Ai
AI Safety via Debate // ESRogs, 1 min Favorite
Soon: a weekly AI Safety prerequisites module on LessWrong // toonalfrink, 1 min
Program Search and Incomplete Understanding // Diffractor, 5 min
Beginning Machine Learning // crybx, 8 min
AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt, Lea & Hutter 2018) // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
# Books
Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society // Scott Alexander, 27 min Favorite
Inefficient Doesn’t Mean Indifferent // Zvi, 4 min
The Sheepskin Effect // Zvi, 6 min
The Case Against Education: Splitting the Education Premium Pie and Considering IQ // Zvi, 11 min
# Ea
Thoughts on the REACH Patreon // Raemon, 25 min
Please Take the 2018 Effective Altruism Survey! // peter_hurford, 1 min
Are long-term investments a good way to help the future? // Dacyn, 3 min
# Culture war
Why Economics Is, And Should Be, Creepy // Robin Hanson, 9 min
A Pullable Thread of the Social Fabric // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Misc
Give praise // toonalfrink, 1 min Favorite
Bayes' Law is About Multiple Hypothesis Testing // abramdemski, 6 min
Confounded No Longer: Insights from 'All of Statistics' // TurnTrout, 12 min
Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust // Martin Sustrik, 11 min
Does Thinking Hard Hurt Your Brain? // Raemon, 1 min
# Podcasts
#125 — What Is Christianity? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 111 min
Rationally Speaking #207 - Alison Gopnik on "The wrong way to think about parenting, plus the downsides of modernity" // NYC Skeptics, 63 min
# Videos of the week
Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia Galef // TED, 11 min