rational
Issue #81: Full List
13 October, 2019 // View curated list
The "two lies per day in average" remark might be misleading. According to a study, most people told no lies or one lie, while a few prolific liars told the bulk of the lies. // www.psychologytoday.com
# Epistemic
A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular // Rob Bensinger, 4 min
How feasible is long-range forecasting? // Ben Pace, 2 min
# Ai
Misconceptions about continuous takeoff // Matthew Barnett, 5 min Favorite
Occam's Razor May Be Sufficient to Infer the Preferences of Irrational Agents: A reply to Armstrong & Mindermann // Daniel Kokotajlo, 8 min
AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #2 // Ben Pace, 3 min
The Gears of Impact // TurnTrout, 1 min
Characterizing Real-World Agents as a Research Meta-Strategy // johnswentworth, 6 min
Minimization of prediction error as a foundation for human values in AI alignment // G Gordon Worley III, 5 min
What's the dream for giving natural language commands to AI? // Charlie Steiner, 9 min
# Decision theory
Bets and updating // Eigil Rischel, 2 min
Replace judges with Keynesian beauty contests? // John_Maxwell, 4 min
On Collusion - Vitalik Buterin // mr-hire, 1 min
Expected Value- Millionaires Math // mr-hire, 1 min
A Short Introduction to Theory of Change // Ian David Moss, 4 min
# Math and cs
Introduction to Introduction to Category Theory // countedblessings, 3 min
Categories: models of models // countedblessings, 16 min
The sentence structure of mathematics // countedblessings, 2 min
When is pair-programming superior to regular programming? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Examples of Categories // countedblessings, 6 min
Sets and Functions // countedblessings, 13 min
# Books
Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain // Kaj_Sotala, 25 min Favorite
Thoughts on "Human-Compatible" // TurnTrout, 6 min
The Baconian Method (Novum Organum Book 1: 93-107) // Francis Bacon, 13 min
[Link] Book Review: ‘The AI Does Not Hate You’ by Tom Chivers (Scott Aaronson) // eigen, 1 min
# Community
Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey // adamzerner, 47 min
Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 2 - Deciding to call it quits // adamzerner, 10 min
Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 3 - What I've learned // adamzerner, 18 min
Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 4 - Smaller things that I've learned // adamzerner, 7 min
I would like to try double crux. // valentinslepukhin, 1 min
[Event] Meeting in Myrhorod, November 16 // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min
# Culture war
Rent Needs to Decrease // jkaufman, 1 min
Realigning Housing Coalitions // jkaufman, 1 min
Let Foreigners Speak // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Misc
Artifact: What Went Wrong? // Zvi, 25 min
Planned Power Outages // jkaufman, 1 min
Hybrid Lottery Admission // jkaufman, 1 min
What is the real "danger zone" for food? // jkaufman, 1 min
"Mild Hallucination" Test // elriggs, 1 min
What do the baby eaters tell us about ethics? // spookyuser, 1 min
# Podcasts
Mako's Notes from Skeptoid's 13 Hour 13th Birthday Stream // MakoYass, 3 min
95 – It’s Gender Time! Part 1 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 142 min
#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult // Waking up with Sam Harris, 96 min
# Videos of the week
This could be why you're depressed or anxious | Johann Hari // TED, 20 min