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Issue #65: Full List

Stretching 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

Arguing Definitions // Hazard, 4 min

Splitting Concepts // Hazard, 2 min

Decisions are hard, words feel easier // Hazard, 2 min

STRUCTURE: A Hazardous Guide to Words // 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

1hr talk: Intro to AGI safety // steve2152, 28 min

Preference conditional on circumstances and past preference satisfaction // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 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