rational
Issue #64: Full List
16 June, 2019 // View curated list
Three-dimensional analysis of facial aging suggests that hormonal changes during menopause and andropause accelerate the speed of facial aging, especially in women. // onlinelibrary.wiley.com
# Instrumental
Get Rich Real Slowly // Jacobian, 7 min Favorite
Cryonics before natural death. List of companies? // Hafurelus, 1 min
On Having Enough Socks // gwern, 1 min
# Epistemic
What kind of thing is logic in an ontological sense? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Ramifications of limited positive value, unlimited negative value? // Raemon, 4 min
Dissolving the zombie argument // Chris_Leong, 1 min
# Ai
Let's talk about "Convergent Rationality" // David Krueger, 7 min
References that treat human values as units of selection? // Milan Cvitkovic, 1 min
Unknown Unknowns in AI Alignment // sayan, 1 min
Problems with Counterfactual Oracles // Michaël Trazzi, 3 min
Learning Over Time for AI and Humans and Rationality // jmh, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
An attempt to list out my core values and virtues // Ruby, 7 min
# Decision theory
Mediocratopia: 5 // Venkatesh Rao, 4 min Favorite
Some Ways Coordination is Hard // Zvi, 12 min
Real-World Coordination Problems are Usually Information Problems // johnswentworth, 4 min
A Plausible Entropic Decision Procedure for Many Worlds Living, Round 2 // Evan Ward, 1 min
# Math and cs
On why mathematics appear to be non-cosmic // KyriakosCH, 5 min
Logic, Buddhism, and the Dialetheia // TRANSHUMANIA, 19 min
Logic, Buddhism, and the Dialetheia // TRANSHUMANIA, 19 min
# Books
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So D*mn High? // Scott Alexander, 7 min Favorite
The Outsider and the Onlooker (on esoteric meaning in fiction) // KyriakosCH, 3 min
On Freud's examination of the Uncanny in Literature // KyriakosCH, 4 min
Range // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Stephenson’s Em Fantasy // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Highlights From The Comments On Cultural Evolution // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Ea
Long Term Future Fund applications open until June 28th // habryka, 2 min
The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive // JanBrauner, 71 min
# Community
Can we use ideas from ecosystem management to cultivate a healthy rationality memespace? // jacobjacob, 1 min
SSC Sacramento Meetup // jooyous, 1 min
Discourse Norms: Moderators Must Not Bully // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min
SlateStarCodex Madison Meetup: Mental Health and Moloch // marywang, 1 min
Refactor Camp Livestream This Weekend // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min
# Misc
Honors Fuel Achievement // Samo Burja, 9 min Favorite
No, it's not The Incentives—it's you // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
On pointless waiting // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min
Storytelling and the evolution of human intelligence // Richard_Kennaway, 1 min
In Defense of Those Reclusive Authors // KyriakosCH, 3 min
How much does neatly eating matter? What about other food manners? // deluks917, 1 min
Knights and Knaves // filius, 1 min
Decision Markets for Monetary Policy // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
Episode 6 of Tsuyoku Naritai (the 'becoming stronger' podcast) // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
Bonus Abortion non-episode // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 91 min
089: Discussion of Ray Kurzweil’s 2019 Predictions // Review the Future, 83 min
# Videos of the week
Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr // TED, 15 min