rational
Issue #91
22 December, 2019 // View full listBoth liberals and conservatives endorse the belief that life is a zero-sum game when it suits their worldview. // advances.sciencemag.org
# Instrumental
How time tracking can help you prioritize // lynettebye, 6 min
Internal empowerment, over internal alignment // TekhneMakre, 3 min
# Epistemic
Backpropagating Facts into Aesthetics // Raemon, 11 min Favorite
[Part 1] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – Models of impact and challenges // jacobjacob, ozziegooen, Elizabeth, NunoSempere, bgold, 20 min
How’s that Epistemic Spot Check Project Coming? // Elizabeth, 5 min
Is Causality in the Map or the Territory? // johnswentworth, 3 min
Polio and the controversy over randomized clinical trials // jasoncrawford, 3 min
# Ai
2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison // Larks, 78 min
Inductive biases stick around // evhub, 3 min
Clarifying Power-Seeking and Instrumental Convergence // TurnTrout, 3 min
A dilemma for prosaic AI alignment // Daniel Kokotajlo, 3 min
Sections 1 & 2: Introduction, Strategy and Governance // JesseClifton, 16 min
# Meta-ethics
[ACC] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong? // Scott Alexander, 21 min
# Longevity
[ACC] Should Gene Editing Technologies Be Used In Humans? // Scott Alexander, 20 min
# Anthropic
[ACC] Should We Colonize Space To Mitigate X-Risk? // Scott Alexander, 15 min
# Decision theory
T-Shaped Organizations // Vaniver, 2 min
The Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma // Chris_Leong, 3 min
Taxi Industry Regulation, Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Paradox of Market Failure // Orborde, 1 min
Counterfactual Mugging: Why should you pay? // Chris_Leong, 3 min
# Math and cs
Understanding Machine Learning (I) // sil ver, 14 min
Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction // George, 9 min
Counterfactual Induction // Diffractor, 8 min
On the role of abstraction in mathematics and the natural sciences // Faustus2, 2 min
Counterfactual Induction (Algorithm Sketch, Fixpoint proof) // Diffractor, 10 min
# Books
The Neuroscience of Anxiety // digital_carver, 1 min
# Ea
One Million Dollars // jkaufman, 1 min
Voluntourism // jkaufman, 1 min
# Community
We run the Center for Applied Rationality, AMA // AnnaSalamon, 1 min
CFAR: Progress Report & Future Plans // Adam Scholl, 8 min
Boston Solstice 2019 Retrospective // jkaufman, 4 min
Big Community Solstice // jkaufman, 2 min
# Culture war
Domestic Cozy: 10 // Venkatesh Rao, 4 min Favorite
Against Premature Abstraction of Political Issues // Wei_Dai, 3 min
Free Speech and Triskaidekaphobic Calculators: A Reply to Hubinger on the Relevance of Public Online Discussion to Existential Risk // Zack_M_Davis, 2 min
Might Disagreement Fade Like Violence? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Misc
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production // Benquo, 23 min
Should We Still Fly? // jkaufman, 1 min
A parable in the style of Invisible Cities // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min
Old and New Saw Blades // jkaufman, 1 min
To Be Decided #4 // Ian David Moss, 4 min
# Podcasts
100 – The Live Episode (pt1) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 91 min
#67 - David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness // The 80000 Hours team, 281 min
#179 — The Unquiet Mind // Waking up with Sam Harris, 33 min
# Videos of the week
How we can turn the tide on climate | Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson // TED, 65 min