rational
Issue #98
9 February, 2020 // View full list# Instrumental
Some quick notes on hand hygiene // willbradshaw, 3 min
# Epistemic
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology // eukaryote, 2 min
[Link] Beyond the hill: thoughts on ontologies for thinking, essay-completeness and forecasting // jacobjacob, 1 min
# Ai
Writeup: Progress on AI Safety via Debate // Beth Barnes, paulfchristiano, 39 min
Plausibly, almost every powerful algorithm would be manipulative // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min
On the falsifiability of hypercomputation // jessicata, 5 min
Synthesizing amplification and debate // evhub, 4 min
Twenty-three AI alignment research project definitions // rmoehn, 5 min
# Anthropic
Long Now, and Culture vs Artifacts // Raemon, 7 min
Absent coordination, future technology will cause human extinction // landfish, 6 min
Suicide Hotspots Of The World // Scott Alexander, 11 min
# Decision theory
"But that's your job": why organisations can work // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min Favorite
Mazes Sequence Roundup: Final Thoughts and Paths Forward // Zvi, 17 min
Protecting Large Projects Against Mazedom // Zvi, 4 min
Philosophical self-ratification // jessicata, 6 min
Decision Theory Remains Neglected // Robin Hanson, 10 min
# Math and cs
Category Theory Without The Baggage // johnswentworth, 15 min Favorite
UML IX: Kernels and Boosting // sil ver, 13 min
# Ea
Map Of Effective Altruism // Scott Alexander, 1 min
# Community
A Cautionary Note on Unlocking the Emotional Brain // Evan Huus, 1 min
Bayes-Up: An App for Sharing Bayesian-MCQ // Louis Faucon, 1 min
More writeups! // jkaufman, 1 min
# Culture war
Predictable Identities 25: External Control // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min
# Misc
"Memento Mori", Said The Confessor // namespace, 1 min Favorite
Money isn't real. When you donate money to a charity, how does it actually help? // Dagon, 1 min
The BODY alignment game. Take a break, have a quick play. // leggi, 1 min
# Podcasts
#69 - Jeff Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both // The 80000 Hours team, 97 min
#185 — February 7, 2020 // Waking up with Sam Harris, 30 min
#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality // Waking up with Sam Harris, 29 min
Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV // The 80000 Hours team, 79 min
# Rational fiction
The Adventure: a new Utopia story // Stuart_Armstrong, 63 min
# Videos of the week
Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda // TED, 9 min