rational
Issue #66: Full List
30 June, 2019 // View curated list
One partner feeding the other during a first date was highly predictive of a second date, indicating ‘courtship’ feeding. // drive.google.com
# Instrumental
Being the (Pareto) Best in the World // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite
Instead of "I'm anxious," try "I feel threatened" // Holly_Elmore, 2 min
# Epistemic
Writing children's picture books // jessicata, 6 min
Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance // Elizabeth, 4 min
What's up with self-esteem? // abramdemski, 2 min
Causal Reality vs Social Reality // Ruby, 7 min
# Ai
Aligning a toy model of optimization // paulfchristiano, 3 min
Machine Learning Projects on IDA // Owain_Evans, William_S, stuhlmueller, 2 min
Research Agenda in reverse: what *would* a solution look like? // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Conceptual Problems with UDT and Policy Selection // abramdemski, 11 min
False assumptions and leaky abstractions in machine learning and AI safety // capybaralet, 1 min
How to deal with a misleading conference talk about AI risk? // rmoehn, 1 min
Embedded Agency: Not Just an AI Problem // johnswentworth, 2 min
Self-confirming prophecies, and simplified Oracle designs // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min
Only optimize to 95 % // Leo Shine, 1 min
# Longevity
Progress review: genome sequencing - June 2019 // Yuxi_Liu, 6 min
# Anthropic
Apocalypse, corrupted // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
# Math and cs
What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice? // Bucky, 1 min
# Books
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High? // sarahconstantin, 9 min
# Community
GreaterWrong Arbital Viewer // clone of saturn, 1 min
Arbital Scrape V2 // emmab, 1 min
Is it good practice to write questions/comments on old posts you're trying to understand? // Liam Donovan, 1 min
How does one get invited to the alignment forum? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Regenerations // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min
# Culture war
Grabbing Now Versus Later // Robin Hanson, 3 min Favorite
Predictable Identities 12: Fear, Myths, and the Outgroup – Part II // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
Libertarian Varieties // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Misc
More Confounders // Scott Alexander, 7 min Favorite
What's the best explanation of intellectual generativity? // Raemon, 1 min
What does the word "collaborative" mean in the phrase "collaborative truthseeking"? // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min
Whence decision exhaustion? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min
Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative // ryan_b, 1 min
An unconfortable epistemic position regarding "Verb Magic". // Hijol, 4 min
Links 6/19 // Scott Alexander, 11 min
We Agree On So Much // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Podcasts
Podcast - Putanumonit on The Switch // Jacobian, 1 min
#60 - Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better // The 80000 Hours team, 131 min
#161 — Rise & Fall // Waking up with Sam Harris, 88 min
Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified" // NYC Skeptics, 59 min
# Videos of the week
Jordan Peterson on AI-FOOM // Bound_up, 1 min
These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague // TED, 9 min