rational
Issue #94: Full List
12 January, 2020 // View curated list
# Instrumental
On Being Robust // TurnTrout, 2 min
# Epistemic
What we Know vs. How we Know it? // Elizabeth, 2 min Favorite
The Universe Doesn't Have to Play Nice // Chris_Leong, 2 min
What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s? // Scott Alexander, 16 min
# Ai
Outer alignment and imitative amplification // evhub, 11 min
(Double-)Inverse Embedded Agency Problem // shminux, 2 min
Exploring safe exploration // evhub, 4 min
What were the biggest discoveries / innovations in AI and ML? // elityre, 1 min
A Very Unlikely Chess Game // Scott Alexander, 4 min
# Meta-ethics
Morality vs related concepts // MichaelA, 10 min
Moral uncertainty vs related concepts // MichaelA, 19 min
Is there a moral obligation to respect disagreed analysis? // km42, 1 min
# Anthropic
Homeostasis and “Root Causes” in Aging // johnswentworth, 3 min
# Decision theory
What is Life in an Immoral Maze? // Zvi, 5 min Favorite
Stripping Away the Protections // Zvi, 11 min
What is Success in an Immoral Maze? // Zvi, 2 min
Dissolving Confusion around Functional Decision Theory // scasper, 11 min
A method for fair bargaining over odds in 2 player bets! // Agrippa Kellum, 2 min
Rah Chain of Command // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
Definitions of Causal Abstraction: Reviewing Beckers & Halpern // johnswentworth, 5 min
How to Throw Away Information in Causal DAGs // johnswentworth, 3 min
UML V: Convex Learning Problems // sil ver, 14 min
Example: Markov Chain // johnswentworth, 5 min
# Books
Book review: Rethinking Consciousness // steve2152, 8 min
[Book Review] The Trouble with Physics // lsusr, 2 min
How Bees Argue // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Community
AIRCS Workshop: How I failed to be recruited at MIRI. // ArthurRainbow, 28 min
Clumping Solstice Singalongs in Groups of 2-4 // Raemon, 4 min
Halifax SSC Meetup -- Saturday 11/1/20 // interstice, 1 min
South Bay Meetup, Saturday 1/25 // DavidFriedman, 1 min
# Culture war
Criticism as Entertainment // Elizabeth, 3 min Favorite
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate (2020) // Scott Alexander, 3 min
# Misc
Of arguments and wagers // paulfchristiano, 7 min
Subscripting Typographic Convention For Citations/Dates/Sources/Evidentials: A Proposal // gwern, 5 min
Are "superforecasters" a real phenomenon? // reallyeli, 1 min
Preference synthesis illustrated: Star Wars // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min
Old Airports // jkaufman, 1 min
[Personal Experiment] Training YouTube's Algorithm // lsusr, 3 min
Predictably Predictable Futures Talk: Using Expected Loss & Prediction Innovation for Long Term Benefits // ozziegooen, 1 min
[Link]Post-mortem on the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity forecasts // bgold, 1 min
Radical Signals // Robin Hanson, 3 min
MJD 58,855 // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min
MJD 58,854 // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min
Disagreement on Disagreement // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war // The 80000 Hours team, 85 min
# Videos of the week
The paradox of efficiency | Edward Tenner // TED, 13 min