rational
Issue #61
26 May, 2019 // View full listSmall climate nudges undermine support for substantive climate policy. // drive.google.com
# Instrumental
Go Do Something // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
What are good practices for using Google Scholar to research answers to LessWrong Questions? // DonyChristie, 1 min
Schelling Fences versus Marginal Thinking // Davidmanheim, 3 min
# Epistemic
Say Wrong Things // G Gordon Worley III, 4 min Favorite
Separation of Concerns // abramdemski, 7 min
# Ai
Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety? // Wei_Dai, 1 min
And the AI would have got away with it too, if... // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
A Treacherous Turn Timeline - Children, Seed AIs and Predicting AI // Michaël Trazzi, 3 min
Trade-off in AI Capability Concealment // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min
Learning-by-doing AI Safety workshop // Linda Linsefors, 1 min
# Anthropic
A Quick Taxonomy of Arguments for Theoretical Engineering Capabilities // Ruby, 4 min
# Decision theory
More Notes on Simple Rules // Zvi, 7 min
Simple Rules of Law // Zvi, 34 min
Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition! // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Why the empirical results of the Traveller’s Dilemma deviate strongly away from the Nash Equilibrium and seems to be close to the social optimum? // RorscHak, 3 min
# Books
Ethics as Warfare: Metaphysics and Morality of the Era of Transhumanism // Dubioustunic, 1 min
# Community
What is your personal experience with "having a meaningful life"? // Hazard, 1 min Favorite
Moscow LW meetup in "Nauchka" library // Alexander230, 1 min
SSC Paris Meetup // fbreton, 1 min
Cryonics Symposium International // synkarius, 1 min
# Culture war
Getting Out of the Filter Bubble Outside Your Filter Bubble // Evan_Gaensbauer, 7 min
Expand vs Fight in Social Justice, Fertility, Bioconservatism, & AI Risk // Robin Hanson, 6 min
Predictable Identities 10: Big Updates // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Domestic Cozy: 5 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Fun
Laws of John Wick // Zvi, 7 min
# Misc
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay // Scott Alexander, 16 min Favorite
Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness // eukaryote, 4 min
Constraints & Slackness Reasoning Exercises // johnswentworth, 7 min
A War of Ants and Grasshoppers // Benquo, 1 min
Does the Higgs-boson exist? // shminux, 1 min
# Podcasts
Episode 5 of Tsuyoku Naritai (the 'becoming stronger' podcast): The Stance // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
85 – Stuff is Weird, Yo // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 96 min
#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 77 min
# Videos of the week
Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? // Science Magazine, 6 min