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Issue #63: Full List
9 June, 2019 // View curated list
Neural signaling pathways that evolved to bolster cognition in settings of food insecurity may be stimulated by intermittent fasting and exercise. // drive.google.com
# Instrumental
What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting? // jp, 1 min
# Epistemic
Steelmanning Divination // Vaniver, 7 min Favorite
How is Solomonoff induction calculated in practice? // Bucky, 1 min
All knowledge is circularly justified // Chris Leong, 1 min
All knowledge is circularly justified // Chris Leong, 1 min
[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Ai
Selection vs Control // abramdemski, 13 min
The Inner Alignment Problem // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 15 min
The Inner Alignment Problem // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 15 min
Deceptive Alignment // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 20 min
Risks from Learned Optimization: Conclusion and Related Work // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 7 min
AGI will drastically increase economies of scale // Wei_Dai, 1 min
Does Bayes Beat Goodhart? // abramdemski, 8 min
Our plan for 2019-2020: consulting for AI Safety education // RAISE, 4 min
Map of (old) MIRI's Research Agendas // Jsevillamol, 1 min
Conditional meta-preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Agents dissolved in coffee // rmoehn, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
For the past, in some ways only, we are moral degenerates // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
To first order, moral realism and moral anti-realism are the same thing // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
# Anthropic
Progeny Probs: Souls, Ems, Quantum // Robin Hanson, 9 min
# Decision theory
Moral Mazes and Short Termism // Zvi, 4 min Favorite
The Schelling Choice is "Rabbit", not "Stag" // Raemon, 14 min
# Books
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success // Scott Alexander, 30 min Favorite
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Secret Of Our Success” // Scott Alexander, 31 min
# Ea
Fractional Reserve Charity // Alicorn, 6 min
Impact of aging research besides LEV // emanuele ascani, 9 min
# Relationships
Personal musings on Individualism and Empathy // dragohole, 6 min
# Community
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
Washington SSC Meetup // robirahman, 1 min
# Culture war
Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad // Scott Alexander, 17 min Favorite
Asymmetric Weapons Aren't Always on Your Side // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min
Can movement from Conflict to Mistake theorist be facilitated effectively? // SamLibDem, 1 min
Our Prestige Obsession // Robin Hanson, 4 min
Addendum To “Enormous Nutshell”: Competing Selectors // Scott Alexander, 8 min
Predictable Identities 11: Fear, Myths and the Outgroup – Part I // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Misc
Arbital scrape // emmab, 1 min
Circle Games // sarahconstantin, 5 min
Major Update on Cost Disease // Max D Porter, 1 min
Seeing the Matrix, Switching Abstractions, and Missing Moods // Raemon, 4 min
On alien science // ricraz, 5 min
Two labyrinths - where would you rather be? // KyriakosCH, 4 min
# Podcasts
#159 — Conscious // Waking up with Sam Harris, 72 min
86 – Quick Shout Out to the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 85 min
#58 - Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI // The 80000 Hours team, 90 min
# Videos of the week
How AI could become an extension of your mind | Arnav Kapur // TED, 8 min