rational
Issue #90
15 December, 2019 // View full list
# Instrumental
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? // Jacobian, 13 min Favorite
Personal Experiment: One Year without Junk Media // lsusr, 1 min
[ACC] Does Calorie Restriction Slow Aging? // Scott Alexander, 31 min
# Epistemic
Bayesian examination // Lê Nguyên Hoang, 5 min
Under what circumstances is "don't look at existing research" good advice? // Kaj_Sotala, 2 min
Confabulation // lsusr, 2 min
Long Bets by Confidence Level // jkaufman, 1 min
[Link] "Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction" by David Chapman // Kenny, 1 min
# Ai
Preface to EAF's Research Agenda on Cooperation, Conflict, and TAI // JesseClifton, 2 min
Examples of Causal Abstraction // johnswentworth, 5 min
What are the best arguments and/or plans for doing work in "AI policy"? // elityre, 1 min
# Anthropic
Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements? // jasoncrawford, 4 min
Automation As Colonization Wave // Robin Hanson, 3 min
Why Not RFID Tag Humans? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Automation: So Far, Business As Usual // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Decision theory
Moloch feeds on opportunity // toonalfrink, 3 min Favorite
Counterfactuals: Smoking Lesion vs. Newcomb's // Chris_Leong, 3 min
# Math and cs
Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms // Carlos_Cinelli, 1 min
Causal Abstraction Toy Model: Medical Sensor // johnswentworth, 6 min
Progress and preservation in IDA // cole_haus, 5 min
ToL: Introduction // Hazard, 2 min
# Books
The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell // Gentzel, 3 min
Books on the zeitgeist of science during Lord Kelvin's time. // Hazard, 1 min
Book Recommendations for social skill development? // Teach, 1 min
# Ea
[ACC] Is Eating Meat A Net Harm? // Scott Alexander, 37 min
# Community
[Review] Meta-Honesty (Ben Pace, Dec 2019) // Ben Pace, 20 min
What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to being/looking weird? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
What's an important (new) idea you haven't had time to argue for yet? // MathieuRoy, 1 min
LWCM - LessWrong Congress Meetup // Felix Karg, 1 min
# Culture war
What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling? // Wei_Dai, 2 min
[Link] High-performance government (Dominic Cummings) // ioannes_shade, 1 min
Predictable Identities: 22 – The Entropic Brain // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Misc
[Review] On the Chatham House Rule (Ben Pace, Dec 2019) // Ben Pace, 3 min
The Lesson To Unlearn // Ben Pace, 1 min
Applications of Economic Models to Physiology? // johnswentworth, 1 min
Predictive coding = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC // steve2152, 8 min
A Re-Interpretation of the Normative Foundations of Majority Rule // June Ku, 1 min
# Podcasts
[Link] (EA Podcast) Social Status: The Key to the Matrix Part III // Daniel_Gambacorta, 1 min
Live Episode on Sunday Dec 15, 1pm MT (GMT -6) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 1 min
#178 — The Reality Illusion // Waking up with Sam Harris, 67 min
# Videos of the week
Giorgia Lupi: Finding Humanity in Data // 99U, 23 min