rational
Issue #84: Full List
3 November, 2019 // View curated list
# Instrumental
How to Improve Your Sleep // lynettebye, 21 min Favorite
When do you start looking for a Boston apartment? // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
The Curse Of The Counterfactual // pjeby, 22 min
How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study? // elityre, 1 min
Prospecting for Conceptual Holes // lsusr, 2 min
Is requires ought // jessicata, 8 min
Learning from other people's experiences/mistakes // alkay, 1 min
# Ai
Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety // evhub, 14 min
AlphaStar: Impressive for RL progress, not for AGI progress // orthonormal, 2 min
Is it harder to become a MIRI mathematician in 2019 compared to in 2013? // riceissa, 4 min
Rohin Shah on reasons for AI optimism // abergal, 1 min
The Simulation Epiphany Problem // Koen.Holtman, 4 min
# Decision theory
Financial Incentives Are Weaker Than Social Incentives But Very Important Anyway // Scott Alexander, 6 min Favorite
Why are people so bad at dating? // Xodarap, 3 min
Theater Tickets, Sleeping Pills, and the Idiosyncrasies of Delegated Risk Management // Davidmanheim, 3 min
Doing things in a populated world // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Is there a definitive intro to punishing non-punishers? // pjeby, 1 min
Economics and Evolutionary Psychology // Chris_Leong, 2 min
Breaking Group Rock Paper Scissors // jkaufman, 1 min
Firms & Cities Have Open Borders // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Why Not Also Punish False Praise? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Shared Cache is Going Away // jkaufman, 1 min
The Missing Piece // Martin Sustrik, 3 min
Rugby & Regression Towards the Mean // Bucky, 4 min
What is the connection between these two definitions of ascription universality? // Liam Donovan, 1 min
A new kind of Hermeneutics // yamar69, 7 min
# Books
Tables of Presence, Nearby Absence, & Degrees of Intensity (Novum Organum Book 2: 10-) // Francis Bacon, 30 min
# Community
Aella on Rationality and the Void // Jacobian, 18 min
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
LW/SSC Dublin: The Great Filter, Cities and Ambition, Lifehacks - Saturday November 2nd // Dan Molloy, 1 min
# Culture war
New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed // Scott Alexander, 22 min
# Misc
Prediction markets for internet points? // paulfchristiano, 5 min
The Technique Taboo // lsusr, 1 min
On Internal Family Systems and multi-agent minds: a reply to PJ Eby // Kaj_Sotala, 30 min
Halloween // KatjaGrace, 1 min
What are human values? - Thoughts and challenges // Chris_Leong, 2 min
Internet Distance // jkaufman, 1 min
Explaining Visual Thinking // Teach, 1 min
Major Sources of Pain? Myalgia of an Imbalanced Body & Physical Restrictions that Cause Tension. // leggi, 13 min
# Podcasts
#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents // Waking up with Sam Harris, 74 min
Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion" // NYC Skeptics, 43 min
# Videos of the week
There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott // The Royal Institution, 59 min