rational
Issue #62: Full List
2 June, 2019 // View curated list
Staying neutral in a friend's conflict can reduce closeness and damage valuable friendships. // pdescioli.com
# Instrumental
Micro feedback loops and learning // Swimmer963, 8 min
How to find a lost phone with dead battery, using Google Location History Takeout // Wei_Dai, 1 min
How to determine if my sympathetic or my parasympathetic nervous system is currently dominant? // crabman, 1 min
# Epistemic
"But It Doesn't Matter" // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
When Observation Beats Experiment // johnswentworth, 1 min
# Ai
Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction // evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 14 min
Conditions for Mesa-Optimization // evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 14 min
A shift in arguments for AI risk // ricraz, 1 min
Uncertainty versus fuzziness versus extrapolation desiderata // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
What is the best online community for questions about AI capabilities? // bgold, 1 min
OECD agenda [Link] // Thomas, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
Egoism In Disguise // wfenza, 5 min
# Math and cs
The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing: Missing Link of the Dutch Book Arguments // johnswentworth, 3 min
# Books
Quotes from Moral Mazes // Zvi, 65 min Favorite
Chiang’s Exhalation // Robin Hanson, 6 min
# Ea
Drowning children are rare // Benquo, 5 min
Seeking suggestions for EA cash-prize contest // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
# Community
MIRI Summer Fellows Program // colm, 2 min
Have you lost your purpose? // toonalfrink, 1 min
What is a good moment to start writing? // toonalfrink, 1 min
A Brief History of LessWrong // Ruby, 1 min
How would you advise a peer-supported virtues-oriented self-help group? // David_Gross, 1 min
Was CFAR always intended to be a distinct organization from MIRI? // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min
The LessWrong Team (page under construction) // Ruby, 1 min
South Bay Meetup // DavidFriedman, 1 min
Bay Area SSC Meetup 6/2 // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Culture war
Low Prestige Hurts More // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Understandable Social Systems // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Weirding Diary: 8 // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min
# Misc
What is required to run a psychology study? // Raemon, 1 min
Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science // Benito, 3 min
Archive of all LW essay contests // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
Evidence for Connection Theory // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min
Infinity is an adjective like positive rather than an amount // Slider, 2 min
What should rationalists think about the recent claims that air force pilots observed UFOs? // avturchin, 1 min
The Age of Diffraction // Venkatesh Rao, 20 min
Postscript To APA Photo-Essay // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Podcasts
#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild // Waking up with Sam Harris, 122 min
Rationally Speaking #234 - Dylan Matthews on “Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that?” // NYC Skeptics, 77 min
132 - Practice (rebroadcast) // , 47 min
133 - Uncivil Agreement // , 80 min
134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model // , 56 min
135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast) // , 39 min
136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change // , 32 min
137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast) // , 38 min
138 - Evil // , 53 min
# Videos of the week
How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel // TED, 9 min