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Issue #75: Full List
1 September, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
Dual Wielding // Zvi, 2 min Favorite
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness // John_Maxwell, 8 min
How do you learn foreign language vocabulary, beyond Anki? // Elizabeth, 1 min
# Epistemic
How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently? // Elizabeth, 1 min
The Missing Math of Map-Making // johnswentworth, 2 min
Don't Pull a Broken Chain // johnswentworth, 5 min
This sometimes helps to expose assumptions // MoritzG, 1 min
# Ai
Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas // Wei_Dai, 4 min
2-D Robustness // vlad_m, 2 min
AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #1 // Benito, 1 min
Embedded Agency via Abstraction // johnswentworth, 13 min
AI Forecasting Resolution Council (Forecasting infrastructure, part 2) // jacobjacob, 3 min
If the "one cortical algorithm" hypothesis is true, how should we update about timelines and takeoff speed? // Adam Scholl, 1 min
Cartographic Processes // johnswentworth, 4 min
Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Problems with AI debate // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
Why study perturbative adversarial attacks ? // Yuxi_Liu, 2 min
I'm interested in a sub-field of AI but don't know what to call it. // fowlertm, 1 min
Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
What Programming Language Characteristics Would Allow Provably Safe AI? // Davidmanheim, 1 min
# Anthropic
Why Not Hi-Tech Forms? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
Look at the Shape of Your Utility Distribution // zulupineapple, 3 min
Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Is there a type of utilitarianism that combines the sum and median utility? // Bob Jacobs, 1 min
Predictable Identities: 16 – Newcomblike, Part II // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Math and cs
Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests // Zack_M_Davis, 9 min
Logical Counterfactuals and Proposition graphs, Part 2 // Donald Hobson, 4 min
# Books
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence // Scott Alexander, 9 min Favorite
[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC) // ioannes_shade, 2 min Favorite
# Ea
Why are the people who should be doing safety research, but aren’t, doing something else? // Adam Scholl, 1 min
# Community
September Bragging Thread // Raemon, 1 min
A new rationality YouTube channel emerges // Dominik Tujmer, 1 min
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
Am I going for a job interview with a woo pusher? // CronoDAS, 1 min
Meetups Everywhere 2019 // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Culture war
A Game of Giants [Wait But Why] // kilotaras, 1 min Favorite
# Misc
A Personal Rationality Wishlist // DanielFilan, 4 min
Does anyone know of a good overview of what humans know about depression? // elityre, 1 min
What's the optimal procedure for picking macrostates? // Adam Scholl, 1 min
Performance IQ and higher mathematics // c5pi, 1 min
# Podcasts
Peter Thiel/Eric Weinstein Transcript on Growth, Violence, and Stories // Benito, 18 min Favorite
92 – Replacing Guilt // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 114 min
#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy // Waking up with Sam Harris, 41 min
# Videos of the week
Finally, AI-Based Painting is Here! // Two Minute Papers, 4 min