rational
Issue #67: Full List
7 July, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
Style Guide: Not Sounding Like An Evil Robot // Scott Alexander, 4 min Favorite
What product are you building? // Raemon, 2 min
How can we measure creativity? // Elizabeth, 1 min
The Right Way of Formulating a Problem? // Virgil Kurkjian, 1 min
87,000 Hours or: Thoughts on Home Ownership // romeostevensit, 8 min
I'm looking for alternative funding strategies for cryonics. // Walker Vargas, 1 min
# Epistemic
Everybody Knows // Zvi, 5 min Favorite
Do children lose 'childlike curiosity?' Why? // Raemon, 1 min
Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself // jessicata, 7 min
Blatant lies are the best kind! // Benquo, 6 min
Being Wrong Doesn't Mean You're Stupid and Bad (Probably) // Zack_M_Davis, 2 min
# Ai
Contest: $1,000 for good questions to ask to an Oracle AI // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
An Increasingly Manipulative Newsfeed // Michaël Trazzi, 6 min
Learning biases and rewards simultaneously // rohinmshah, 4 min
Let's Read: an essay on AI Theology // Yuxi_Liu, 8 min
Is AlphaZero any good without the tree search? // steve2152, 1 min
Optimizing and Goodhart Effects Clarifying Thoughts - Parts 1 & 2 // Davidmanheim, 7 min
What's state-of-the-art in AI understanding of theory of mind? // ioannes_shade, 1 min
What would be the signs of AI manhattan projects starting? Should a website be made watching for these signs? // Ozyrus, 1 min
What would be the sings of AI manhattan projects starting? Should a website be made watching for these signs? // Ozyrus, 1 min
# Math and cs
What are good resources for learning functional programming? // mr-hire, 1 min
# Community
Some Clarifications On Rationalist Blogging // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Culture war
Why America Prefers a Weak and Peaceful Europe // Samo Burja, 1 min
# Fun
PlayStation Odysseys // Jacobian, 12 min
# Misc
The Competence Myth // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min Favorite
What's the most "stuck" you've been with an argument, that eventually got resolved? // Raemon, 1 min
What was the official story for many top physicists congregating in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project? // moses, 1 min
Here Be Epistemic Dragons // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Collaborative VS adversarial truth seeking // Elo, 7 min
# Podcasts
Episode 7 of 'Tsuyoku Narita': CoZE // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
091: Review of Philip K Dick’s ELECTRIC DREAMS // Review the Future, 25 min
#162 — Medical Intelligence // Waking up with Sam Harris, 80 min
88 – UBI and Other Forms of (Evil?) Taxes // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 124 min
# Rational fiction
Editing Unsong // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Videos of the week
Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels // TED, 15 min