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Issue #78: Full List

Study suggests that moderate alcohol use, rather than being a societal detriment, appears to be beneficial to gender equality, democracy and prosperity. // www.ijbssnet.com

# Instrumental

The Zettelkasten Method // abramdemski, 49 min

Focus // jkaufman, 4 min

A framework for speed reading // limerott, 14 min

Exercises for Overcoming Akrasia and Procrastination // mr-hire, 1 min

Everyday belief in diminishing returns is resistant to diminishing returns // aaq, 1 min

# Epistemic

Realism and Rationality // bmgarfinkel, 24 min Favorite

Gears vs Behavior // johnswentworth, 8 min

The Power to Be Emotionally Mature // Liron, 5 min

Divergence on Evidence Due to Differing Priors - A Political Case Study // Davidmanheim, 3 min

Category Qualifications (w/ exercises) // elriggs, 6 min

False Dilemmas w/ exercises // elriggs, 6 min

Finding Cruxes // elriggs, 6 min

Arguing Well Sequence // elriggs, 1 min

Proving Too Much (w/ exercises) // elriggs, 4 min

Is there an existing label for the category of fallacies exemplified by "paradox of tolerance"? // slikts, 1 min

# Ai

The unexpected difficulty of comparing AlphaStar to humans // Grothor, 29 min Favorite

Reframing Impact // TurnTrout, 3 min

The strategy-stealing assumption // paulfchristiano, 14 min

Three Stories for How AGI Comes Before FAI // John_Maxwell, 7 min

What are the differences between all the iterative/recursive approaches to AI alignment? // riceissa, 2 min

# Anthropic

Bioinfohazards // Spiracular, 21 min

Non-anthropically, what makes us think human-level intelligence is possible? // Grue_Slinky, 2 min

The Quantity/Quality of Researchers Has Drastically Increased Over the Centuries // Grue_Slinky, 8 min

# Decision theory

Mediocratopia: 8 // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min Favorite

Who Vouches For You? // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Quality Regs Say ‘High Is Good’ // Robin Hanson, 8 min

# Books

Novum Organum: Introduction // Ruby, 7 min

Novum Organum: Preface // Francis Bacon, 8 min

Graziano on a World of Uploaded Minds // Robin Hanson, 5 min

# Ea

Effective Altruism and Everyday Decisions // jkaufman, 1 min

# Community

Meetups as Institutions for Intellectual Progress // mingyuan, 8 min

Meetups: Climbing uphill, flowing downhill, and the Uncanny Summit // Raemon, 4 min

Are there technical/object-level fields that make sense to recruit to LessWrong? // Raemon, 1 min

Interview with Aella, Part I // Jacobian, 20 min

SSC Meetups Everywhere: Darmstadt, Germany // mingyuan, 1 min

SSC Meetups Everywhere: Sacramento, CA // jooyous, 1 min

# Culture war

Too Much Dark Money In Almonds // Scott Alexander, 7 min

# Fun

Modes of Petrov Day // Raemon, 1 min

# Misc

The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer // Samo Burja, 4 min Favorite

Don't depend on others to ask for explanations // Wei_Dai, 1 min

Jane Street Inteview Guide (Notes on Probability, Markets, etc.) // lifelonglearner, 1 min

Synthesis of subagents: exercise // Julija Kobrinovich, 16 min

Relabelings vs. External References // Chris_Leong, 3 min

Kinds of fantasy // TekhneMakre, 3 min

[Linkpost] Otu and Lai: a story // Evan Rysdam, 3 min

Conscious Proprioception - Your Sense of Position, Movement & Balance. // leggi, 6 min

PRINCIPLES OF PERCEPTION // Jason Ken, 5 min

Against Against Pseudoaddiction // Scott Alexander, 21 min

# Podcasts

#169 — Omens of a Race War // Waking up with Sam Harris, 92 min

Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail" // NYC Skeptics, 59 min

Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other ways we can help you. // The 80000 Hours team, 3 min

# Videos of the week

New Face Swapping AI Creates Amazing DeepFakes // Two Minute Papers, 4 min