rational
Issue #71: Full List
4 August, 2019 // View curated list# Instrumental
How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions) // Hazard, 5 min Favorite
Does improved introspection cause rationalisation to become less noticeable? // jacobjacob, 1 min
What supplements do you use? // ioannes_shade, 1 min
# Epistemic
Keeping Beliefs Cruxy // Raemon, 4 min
Conversation on forecasting with Vaniver and Ozzie Gooen // jacobjacob, Vaniver, ozziegooen, 78 min
Proposed algorithm to fight anchoring bias // John_Maxwell_IV, 1 min
Arguments for the existence of qualia // Chris_Leong, 5 min
# Ai
Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on? // elityre, 3 min
What does Optimization Mean, Again? (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects - Clarifying Thoughts, Part 2) // Davidmanheim, 5 min
Practical consequences of impossibility of value learning // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Applying Overoptimization to Selection vs. Control (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects - Clarifying Thoughts, Part 3) // Davidmanheim, 3 min
Toy model piece #1: partial preferences revisited // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Very different, very adequate outcomes // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
End War Or Mosquitoes? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Anthropic
Sleeping Beauty: Is Disagreement While Sharing All Information Possible in Anthropic Problems? // dadadarren, 12 min
# Decision theory
Power Buys You Distance From The Crime // Elizabeth, 8 min Favorite
Why Subagents? // johnswentworth, 8 min
Permissions in Governance // sarahconstantin, 10 min
# Math and cs
Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 1/2] // Matthew Barnett, 7 min
Rethinking Batch Normalization // Matthew Barnett, 9 min
Understanding Batch Normalization // Matthew Barnett, 7 min
Compilers/PLs book recommendation? // johnswentworth, 1 min
Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 2/2] // Matthew Barnett, 14 min
# Ea
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy // Scott Alexander, 23 min Favorite
Mistake Versus Conflict Theory of Against Billionaire Philanthropy // Zvi, 4 min
'Longtermism' definitional discussion on EA Forum // ESRogs, 1 min
How to evaluate neglectedness and tractability of aging research // emanuele ascani, 10 min
# Community
The Importance of Those Who Aren't Here // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min
Drive-By Low-Effort Criticism // lionhearted, 3 min
Gathering thoughts on Distillation // Raemon, 1 min
What woo to read? // calebo, 1 min
Adversarial Collaboration Update // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Culture war
On Framing Political Opinions to Quickly Assess the Crux of Disagreement // Tuk, 2 min
Squareallworthy On UBI Plans // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Misc
Forum participation as a research strategy // Wei_Dai, 3 min
When Having Friends is More Alluring than Being Right (by Ferrett Steinmetz) // CronoDAS, 1 min
Open problems in human rationality: guesses // romeostevensit, 1 min
Information empathy // Evan Rysdam, 1 min
Do you use twitter for intellectual engagement? Do you like it? // Hazard, 1 min
Will autonomous cars be more economical/efficient as shared urban transit than busses or trains, and by how much? What's some good research on this? // MakoYass, 2 min
Another case of "common sense" not being common? // jmh, 1 min
Mediocratopia: 7 // Venkatesh Rao, 4 min
Advice Wiki // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
90 – Secret to Our Success // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 116 min
# Videos of the week
How to ask for help -- and get a "yes" | Heidi Grant // TED, 11 min