rational
Issue #72
11 August, 2019 // View full list
From trained guards to incomplete and biased data: Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment. // psyarxiv.com
# Instrumental
How to navigate through contradictory (health/fitness) advice? // Sherrinford, 1 min Favorite
My recommendations for gratitude exercises // MaxCarpendale, 5 min
Do you do weekly or daily reviews? What are they like? // benwr, 1 min
Is there a user's manual to using the internet more efficiently? // Zachary Robertson, 1 min
Alleviating Bipolar with meditation // Elo, 4 min
# Epistemic
Calibrating With Cards // lifelonglearner, 3 min
Weak foundation of determinism analysis // yamar69, 3 min
# Ai
New paper: Corrigibility with Utility Preservation // Koen.Holtman, 1 min
AI Forecasting Dictionary (Forecasting infrastructure, part 1) // jacobjacob, 6 min
Verification and Transparency // DanielFilan, 2 min
Project Proposal: Considerations for trading off capabilities and safety impacts of AI research // capybaralet, 2 min
Which of these five AI alignment research projects ideas are no good? // rmoehn, 1 min
# Longevity
Why do humans not have built-in neural i/o channels? // ricraz, 1 min
# Anthropic
Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening? // MakoYass, 2 min Favorite
Why is the nitrogen cycle so under-emphasized compared to climate change // ChristianKl, 1 min
What are the best resources for examining the evidence for anthropogenic climate change? // Matthew Barnett, 1 min
# Math and cs
Why Gradients Vanish and Explode // Matthew Barnett, 3 min
Inversion of theorems into definitions when generalizing // riceissa, 6 min
The Planning Problem // Zachary Robertson, 13 min
Categorial preferences and utility functions // DavidHolmes, 5 min
# Ea
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Philanthropy // Scott Alexander, 31 min
# Community
Is there a source/market for LW-related t-shirts? // jooyous, 1 min
LessWrong Community Weekend 2019 – Last 10 Spots // DreamFlasher, 2 min
DC SSC Meetup // robirahman, 1 min
# Culture war
Diagnosis: Russell Aphasia // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min Favorite
Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller - Audience Q&A // Jacobian, 11 min
Against Irony // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Domestic Cozy: 7 // Venkatesh Rao, 4 min
# Misc
Trauma, Meditation, and a Cool Scar // elriggs, 5 min
Subagents, neural Turing machines, thought selection, and blindspots // Kaj_Sotala, 14 min
Cephaloponderings // Jacobian, 8 min
What is the state of the ego depletion field? // elityre, 1 min
How would a person go about starting a geoengineering startup? // DonyChristie, 1 min
# Podcasts
094: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 1 // Review the Future, 34 min
Rationally Speaking #237 - Andy Przybylski on "Is screen time bad for you?" // NYC Skeptics, 53 min
#62 - Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain // The 80000 Hours team, 131 min
#164 — Cause & Effect // Waking up with Sam Harris, 113 min
# Videos of the week
The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | Rick Doblin // TED, 16 min