rational
Issue #65
23 June, 2019 // View full listStretching before and after exercising does not confer protection from muscle soreness and stretching before exercise does not seem to confer a practically useful reduction in the risk of injury. // www.painscience.com
# Instrumental
Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien // crabman, 1 min
Is there a guide to 'Problems that are too fast to Google'? // Vaniver, 1 min
Does the _timing_ of practice, relative to sleep, make a difference for skill consolidation? // elityre, 1 min
The Foundational Toolbox for Life: Introduction // ExCeph, 8 min
# Epistemic
Reason isn't magic // Benquo, 3 min
Reasonable Explanations // Alicorn, 1 min
Defending points you don't care about // Hazard, 4 min
Is your uncertainty resolvable? // Raemon, 1 min
Words Aren't Type Safe // Hazard, 3 min
# Ai
The Hacker Learns to Trust // Benito, 9 min
Research Agenda v0.9: Synthesising a human's preferences into a utility function // Stuart_Armstrong, 39 min
Modeling AGI Safety Frameworks with Causal Influence Diagrams // xrchz, 1 min
Discussion Thread: The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers // Ruby, 1 min
"The Bitter Lesson", an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI // lahwran, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
If Kim Jong-Un Opened A KFC, Would You Eat There? // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Anthropic
Is "physical nondeterminism" a meaningful concept? // Liron, 1 min
In physical eschatology, is Aestivation a sound strategy? // MakoYass, 1 min
# Books
Let's Read: Borges's Stories // Yuxi_Liu, 9 min
# Ea
How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria? // abramdemski, 8 min
A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it // Siebe, 24 min
# Community
Should rationality be a movement? // Chris_Leong, 4 min
SSC-Madison: Andrew Yang // marywang, 1 min
# Culture war
Are Sexual Purity Taboos A Response To STIs? // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Art
Mazes as Mirrors of Creation // Contributor, 3 min
# Fun
Magic Arena Bot Drafting // Zvi, 22 min
If Only Turing Was Alive To See This // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Misc
Accelerate without humanity: Summary of Nick Land's philosophy // Yuxi_Liu, 15 min Favorite
Is the "business cycle" an actual economic principle? // Liron, 1 min
Does scientific productivity correlate with IQ? // elityre, 1 min
28 social psychology studies from *Experiments With People* (Frey & Gregg, 2017) // Yuxi_Liu, 32 min
Followup On The Baumol Effect: Thanks, O Baumol // Scott Alexander, 7 min
# Podcasts
090: Review of AUTONOMOUS // Review the Future, 67 min
87 – Degrees of Freedom // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 105 min
#59 - Prof Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable // The 80000 Hours team, 103 min
#160 — The Revenge of History // Waking up with Sam Harris, 122 min
# Videos of the week
Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI | A WIRED Film // WIRED, 41 min