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Issue #87: Full List
24 November, 2019 // View curated list# Instrumental
What makes a good life? This is my map. // ryqiem, 4 min
Solar One Year In // jkaufman, 1 min
# Epistemic
More Intuition-Building On Non-Empirical Science: Three Stories // Scott Alexander, 2 min Favorite
How I do research // TurnTrout, 3 min
Relevance Norms; Or, Gricean Implicature Queers the Decoupling/Contextualizing Binary // Zack_M_Davis, 3 min
Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments // johnswentworth, 8 min
The Power to Draw Better // Liron, 3 min
Doxa, Episteme, and Gnosis Revisited // G Gordon Worley III, 10 min
In Defense of Kegan // G Gordon Worley III, 9 min
Internalizing Existentialism // G Gordon Worley III, 2 min
Fluid Decision Making // G Gordon Worley III, 6 min
A Foundation for The Multipart Psyche // G Gordon Worley III, 5 min
Double Cruz and Verification of Claims // jmh, 1 min
Test Data for Calibration Analysis // behrang, 1 min
What Info Is Verifiable? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Ai
[1911.08265] Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model | Arxiv // DragonGod, 1 min
Cybernetic dreams: Beer's pond brain // Yuxi_Liu, 6 min
Ultra-simplified research agenda // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min
Analysing: Dangerous messages from future UFAI via Oracles // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Defining AI wireheading // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Aren't Always About Self-Awareness // John_Maxwell, 4 min
The Goodhart Game // John_Maxwell, 6 min
The Value Definition Problem // SDM, 13 min
AGI safety and losing electricity/industry resilience cost-effectiveness // rosstieman, 47 min
Thinking of tool AIs // Michele Campolo, 5 min
# Meta-ethics
Impossible moral problems and moral authority // Charlie Steiner, 4 min
# Anthropic
Wrinkles // johnswentworth, 4 min
# Decision theory
Acting without a clear direction // Chris_Leong, 2 min
# Math and cs
A Brief Intro to Domain Theory // Diffractor, 19 min
# Books
Book Review: All Therapy Books // Scott Alexander, 12 min
# Community
The LessWrong 2018 Review // Raemon, 7 min
Junto: Questions for Meetups and Rando Convos // JohnBuridan, 1 min
Austin meetup notes Nov. 16, 2019: SSC discussion // jchan, 8 min
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
# Culture war
Market Rate Food Is Luxury Food // jkaufman, 2 min
Affordable Housing Workarounds // jkaufman, 3 min
Steelmanning social justice // toonalfrink, 4 min
# Misc
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising // G Gordon Worley III, 2 min
Historical forecasting: Are there ways I can get lots of data, but only up to a certain date? // elityre, 1 min
How common is it for one entity to have a 3+ year technological lead on its nearest competitor? // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
Drawing on Walls // jkaufman, 1 min
Hybrid Lottery Update // jkaufman, 1 min
Do we know if spaced repetition can be used with randomized content? // Kinrany, 1 min
A fun calibration game: "0-hit Google phrases" // capybaralet, 1 min
Predictable Identities: 21 – Enlightenment // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Podcasts
#176 — Knowledge & Redemption // Waking up with Sam Harris, 63 min
#65 - Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy // The 80000 Hours team, 100 min
98 – A GSV Very Different From Ours // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 133 min
# Videos of the week
What productive conflict can offer a workplace | Jess Kutch // TED, 6 min