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Issue #68: Full List
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# Instrumental
Diversify Your Friendship Portfolio // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min Favorite
# Epistemic
"Rationalizing" and "Sitting Bolt Upright in Alarm." // Raemon, 4 min
Black hole narratives // Alexei, 4 min
# Ai
The AI Timelines Scam // jessicata, 8 min
[AN #59] How arguments for AI risk have changed over time // rohinmshah, 9 min
What are we predicting for Neuralink event? // Dr_Manhattan, 1 min
Some Comments on Stuart Armstrong's "Research Agenda v0.9" // Charlie Steiner, 5 min
How can I help research Friendly AI? // avichapman, 1 min
Outline of NIST draft plan for AI standards // ryan_b, 7 min
Musings on Cumulative Cultural Evolution and AI // calebo, 8 min
Largest open collection quotes about AI // teradimich, 3 min
Indifference: multiple changes, multiple agents // Stuart_Armstrong, 10 min
NIST: draft plan for AI standards development // ryan_b, 1 min
Modeling AI milestones to adjust AGI arrival estimates? // Ozyrus, 1 min
AI Alignment "Scaffolding" Project Ideas (Request for Advice) // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min
IRL in General Environments // michaelcohen, 1 min
If I knew how to make an omohundru optimizer, would I be able to do anything good with that knowledge? // MakoYass, 1 min
Job description for an independent AI alignment researcher // rmoehn, 1 min
How does the organization "EthAGI" fit into the broader AI safety landscape? // Liam Donovan, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
If physics is many-worlds, does ethics matter? // ioannes_shade, 2 min Favorite
# Anthropic
Types of Boltzmann Brains // avturchin, 1 min
Why Age of Em Will Happen // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Decision theory
Religion as Goodhart // shminux, 2 min
# Math and cs
Insights from Linear Algebra Done Right // sil ver, 11 min
Is the sum individual informativeness of two independent variables no more than their joint informativeness? // Brangus, 1 min
# Ea
[Link] First application round of the EAF Fund // JesseClifton, 4 min
# Community
Would you join the Society of the Free & Easy? // David_Gross, 3 min
Survey Results: Sexual Roles // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Culture war
Gay Rites Are Civil Rites // Scott Alexander, 12 min Favorite
No nonsense version of the "racial algorithm bias" // Yuxi_Liu, 2 min
Raw Post: Talking With My Brother // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
Predictable Identities: 13 – Totalizing Ideologies // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Misc
Reclaiming Eddie Willers // Swimmer963, 2 min
Magic is Dead, Give me Attention // Hazard, 6 min
How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails) // eukaryote, 1 min
Schism Begets Schism // Davis_Kingsley, 3 min
How can guesstimates work? // jacobjacob, 1 min
Do bond yield curve inversions really indicate there is likely to be a recession? // bgold, 1 min
Are there easy, low cost, ways to freeze some of my personal cell samples for future therapies? And is this a good idea? // elityre, 1 min
The Results of My First LessWrong-inspired I Ching Divination // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min
Bystander effect false? // Benito, 1 min
I Ching Exploratory Run 2/10 // AllAmericanBreakfast, 2 min
Pleasure as an Organizing Principle // Tiago Forte, 12 min
Do People Like Their Mental Health Care? // Scott Alexander, 2 min
Pay More For Results // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Podcasts
#163 — Ricky Gervais // Waking up with Sam Harris, 131 min
092: Review of EXHALATION, Part 1 // Review the Future, 64 min
# Videos of the week
Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin // TED, 13 min