rational
Issue #77: Full List
15 September, 2019 // View curated list
Studies suggest that liberals have sacred values about protecting low-status groups and thus are particularly prone to bias against any information that portrays those groups unfavorably. // www.researchgate.net
# Instrumental
Do you have algorithms for passing time productively with only your own mind? // Rudi C, 1 min
# Epistemic
Shallow Review of Consistency in Statement Evaluation // Elizabeth, 10 min Favorite
Reversal Tests in Argument and Debate // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min
The Power to Solve Climate Change // Liron, 16 min
The Power to Make Scientific Breakthroughs // Liron, 7 min
The Power to Understand "God" // Liron, 6 min
# Ai
Conversation with Paul Christiano // abergal, 36 min
Do Sufficiently Advanced Agents Use Logic? // abramdemski, 10 min
Relaxed adversarial training for inner alignment // evhub, 32 min
Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodes // Wei_Dai, 3 min
What You See Isn't Always What You Want // TurnTrout, 3 min
Is my result wrong? Maths vs intuition vs evolution in learning human preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Hackable Rewards as a Safety Valve? // Davidmanheim, 1 min
Theory of Ideal Agents, or of Existing Agents? // johnswentworth, 3 min
"AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence", Clune 2019 // gwern, 1 min
Simple and composite partial preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min
Toy model piece #5: combining partial preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Toy model piece #4: partial preferences, re-re-visited // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
Utility uncertainty vs. expected information gain // michaelcohen, 1 min
Paul Christiano on the safety of future AI systems // AI Impacts, 1 min
# Anthropic
Reframing the evolutionary value of sex // paulfchristiano, 1 min
Looking for answers about quantum immortality. // Fivehundred, 3 min
# Decision theory
A Critique of Functional Decision Theory // wdmacaskill, 25 min
Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs // Zvi, 6 min
[Link] Truth-telling is aggression in zero-sum frames (Jessica Taylor) // ioannes_shade, 1 min
Is competition good? // toonalfrink, 5 min
Beware Multi-Monopolies // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Ea
Survival and Flourishing Fund grant applications open until October 4th ($1MM-$2MM planned for dispersal) // habryka, 1 min
Answering some questions about EA // jkaufman, 5 min
# Community
Rationality Exercises Prize of September 2019 ($1,000) // Ben Pace, 10 min
Who's an unusual thinker that you recommend following? // DonyChristie, 1 min
Request for stories of when quantitative reasoning was practically useful for you. // elityre, 1 min
If you had to pick one thing you've read that changed the course of your life, what would it be? // maximkazhenkov, 1 min
London Rationalish meetup (part of SSC meetups everywhere) // philh, 1 min
Slatestarcodex Meetup in Hamburg, Germany // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min
Scott Alexander visits DC // robirahman, 1 min
Update: Predicted AI alignment event/meeting calendar // rmoehn, 1 min
SSC/EA meetup // Gyrodiot, 1 min
Dublin SSC/LW/EA "Meetups Everywhere" Meetup // Dan Molloy, 1 min
SSC Meetups 2019: Times And Places // Scott Alexander, 19 min
# Culture war
Yay Democracy Dollars // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Misc
Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time // Scott Alexander, 8 min Favorite
What are the merits of signing up for cryonics with Alcor vs. with the Cryonics Institute? // elityre, 1 min
Alternative name for a Bug List // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
Devil's Dialectic // TekhneMakre, 3 min
SSC Journal Club: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain // Scott Alexander, 10 min
Stamina Succeeds // Robin Hanson, 1 min
[Partial Retraction] Age Gaps and Birth Order Effects // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Podcasts
Stories About Progress // Ben Pace, 23 min
What are some podcasts that just read aloud worthwhile content? // Rudi C, 1 min
Podcast #539: Life Hacking, A Reexamination // The Art of Manliness
#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion // Waking up with Sam Harris, 87 min
93 – Conflict vs Mistake // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 111 min
# Videos of the week
The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | Margaret Heffernan // TED, 15 min