rational
Issue #69
21 July, 2019 // View full list
# Instrumental
Doublecrux is for Building Products // Raemon, 10 min
Nutrition is Satisficing // aaq, 1 min
Scope Insensitivity Judo // G Gordon Worley III, 7 min
What is your Personal Knowledge Management system? // sayan, 1 min
Nutrition heuristic: Cycle healthy options // aaq, 1 min
# Epistemic
How Should We Critique Research? A Decision Perspective // gwern, 1 min
Why it feels like everything is a trade-off // Evan Rysdam, 4 min
Economic Thinking // limerott, 7 min
Prereq: Question Substitution // Hazard, 3 min
Prereq: Cognitive Fusion // Hazard, 2 min
# Ai
Let's Read: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker // Yuxi_Liu, 9 min
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Wants You (to submit essays and articles on the future of government AI policy) // quanticle, 1 min
Robust Artificial Intelligence and Robust Human Organizations // G Gordon Worley III, 2 min
Normalising utility as willingness to pay // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
RAISE AI Safety prerequisites map entirely in one post // RAISE, 28 min
# Anthropic
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? // Ruby, 3 min
# Decision theory
A Key Power of the President is to Coordinate the Execution of Existing Concrete Plans // Benito, 12 min Favorite
Becoming a Robust Person, or Organization // Raemon, 14 min
Appeal to Consequence, Value Tensions, And Robust Organizations // mr-hire, 6 min
Dialogue on Appeals to Consequences // jessicata, 9 min
# Math and cs
Wolf's Dice // johnswentworth, 4 min
Laplace Approximation // johnswentworth, 4 min
Wolf's Dice II: What Asymmetry? // johnswentworth, 4 min
[Link] Intro to causal inference by Michael Nielsen (2012) // yagudin, 1 min
Very Short Introduction to Bayesian Model Comparison // johnswentworth, 1 min
# Books
Book review: The Technology Trap // ricraz, 5 min
# Community
How Can Rationalists Join Other Communities Interested in Truth-Seeking? // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min
1st Athena Rationality Workshop - Retrospective // Linda Linsefors, 3 min
Interview With Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller // Jacobian, 26 min
# Culture war
Caution On Bias Arguments // Scott Alexander, 9 min Favorite
Against Lie Inflation // Scott Alexander, 8 min
# Misc
The Costs of Reliability // sarahconstantin, 4 min Favorite
Intellectual Dark Matter // Samo Burja, 1 min
Do you fear the rock or the hard place? // Ruby, 5 min
When does adding more people reliably make a system better? // jacobjacob, 1 min
Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation // Alexei, 1 min
# Podcasts
#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China // The 80000 Hours team, 114 min
# Videos of the week
Rewrite Videos By Editing Text // Two Minute Papers, 4 min