Organizations and Markets
In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves *You*
Book Review: Red Plenty
Optimizing Things in the USSR
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/1555976042
One Man’s Modus Ponens
In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
Uber Boss Says Surging Prices Rescue People From the Snow
https://web.archive.org/web/20220703030620/https://eng.uber.com/tag/forecasting/
Perpetual Rides In San Francisco: A New Uber Feature Called Smart Routes Encourages San Francisco Riders to Request UberPool Rides along Particular Routes for Maximum Efficiency
Towards A New Socialism
Stick to the Plan: Reclaiming Central Planning from the Clutches of Corporations
https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/search/?q=flair%3AMeta-RL&sort=new&restrict_sr=on
No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices
Price’s equation made clear
Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries?
Allocative Efficiency vs. ‘X-Efficiency’
competence#economics
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The Problem With Chesterton's Fence
Five Misunderstandings about Cultural Evolution § Pg17
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fjoM4xwtGv7GTtZGi/chesterton-s-fence-vs-the-onion-in-the-varnish?commentId=Z8mkoATmXo7Kn8nJr
Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners
https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/dp/0691128715
https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbooks-Psychology/dp/0521600812
Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree
Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 5: Monte Carlo Methods
Tradition is Smarter Than You Are
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success, Joseph Henrich
Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding
‘Bayes/regression-to-mean’ directory
A History of Screening for Natural Products to Fight Cancer: In the Middle of the 20th Century, the National Cancer Institute Began Testing Plant Extracts for Chemotherapeutic Potential—Helping to Discover Some Drugs Still in Use Today
Drug Discovery and Development at the National Cancer Institute: Potential for New Pharmaceutical Crops
Our Fathers of Old
The Psychological Foundations of Culture § Pg24
Natural Wonder: At heart, Edward Wilson’s an ant man. But it’s his theories on human behavior that stir up trouble
The Performance Pay Nobel
Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation
Everything Is Correlated
Age of Invention: Plague of the Sea
2015-06-24-jai-thecopenhageninterpretationofethics.html
Robust Incentives for Teams
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels
PILCO: A Model-Based and Data-Efficient Approach to Policy Search
Natural Kinds
https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/search/?q=flair%3AMeta-RL&sort=top&restrict_sr=on&t=all
Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow
Meta-Learning Update Rules for Unsupervised Representation Learning
Prefrontal Cortex As a Meta-Reinforcement Learning System [Blog]
MAML: Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks
Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies
Optimal Learning: Computational Procedures for Bayes-Adaptive Markov Decision Processes
Human-level performance in first-person multiplayer games with population-based deep reinforcement learning
Malthusian Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction § Designing Reward Signals
Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research
AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
Population Based Training of Neural Networks
Interactions between Learning and Evolution
Guided evolutionary strategies: Augmenting random search with surrogate gradients
Decoupled Neural Interfaces using Synthetic Gradients
Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject
Bayes < Darwin-Wallace
The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
Evolutionary Finance
On the Evolution of Investment Strategies and the Kelly Rule—A Darwinian Approach
Universal Darwinism as a process of Bayesian inference
Evolutionary implementation of Bayesian computations
Darwin, Galton and the Statistical Enlightenment § pg4
A Rational Choice Framework for Collective Behavior
timing#try-try-again-but-less-less
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Correspondence between neuroevolution and gradient descent
Conditions for Mathematical Equivalence of Stochastic Gradient Descent and Natural Selection
Everything That Works Works Because It's Bayesian: Why Deep Nets Generalize?
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information/
Compress to Impress: Jeff Bezos and Amazon Culture
The French Revolution, by Thomas Carlyle
The Soviet Economy in Danger
Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants
A Case of Congenital General Pure Analgesia
The Challenge of Pain (Updated Second Edition)
Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=3679532&page=1
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/2/minnesota-girl-who-cant-feel-pain-battles-insuranc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462736
Ashlyn Blocker, the Girl Who Feels No Pain
The Family That Feels Almost No Pain: An Italian clan’s curious insensitivity to pain has piqued the interest of geneticists seeking a new understanding of how to treat physical suffering
A Novel Human Pain Insensitivity Disorder Caused by a Point Mutation in ZFHX2
A World Without Pain: Does hurting make us human?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/28/scientists-find-genetic-mutation-that-makes-woman-feel-no-pain
Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0007091219301382-mmc2.pdf
Brandon Sanderson Is Your God: He’s the biggest fantasy writer in the world. He’s also very Mormon. These things are profoundly related
Why you can’t make a computer that feels pain
Toward a Theory of Pain: Relief of Chronic Pain by Prefrontal Leucotomy, Opiates, Placebos, and Hypnosis
Pain affect without pain sensation in a patient with a postcentral lesion
I-zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness
PRISM: The Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory
Adapted to Flee Famine: Adding an Evolutionary Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa
Feature-Based Aggregation and Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey and Some New Implementations
A Unified Framework for Stochastic Optimization
Reinforcement Learning And Optimal Control
Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140409193231/http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/schubert/191-291/lecture-notes/23
tank#alternative-examples
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pain/#othertheories
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics § Pg94
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance § pg14
Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort
Glucose Is Not Willpower Fuel: Is the Muscle Model of Self-Control Less Then a Metaphor?
Does Thinking Really Hard Burn More Calories?: Unlike Physical Exercise, Mental Workouts Probably Do Not Demand Significantly More Energy Than Usual. Believing We Have Drained Our Brains, However, May Be Enough to Induce Weariness
In the Running
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
Fatigue is a brain-derived emotion that regulates the exercise behavior to ensure the protection of whole body homeostasis
Mental Fatigue Impairs Endurance Performance: A Physiological Explanation
Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in people with type 2 diabetes
How to Beat Procrastination
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression From an Evolutionary Perspective
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pDzdb4smpzT3Lwbym/my-model-of-ea-burnout
https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/02/doing-what-you-value-as-a-way-of-life-an-introduction-to-valuism/
Shop Class As Soulcraft: The Case for the Manual Trades
Why Do Doctors Still Use Pagers?
‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story
On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law by Hegel 1803
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
Technology Holy Wars are Coordination Problems
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs
Complexity no Bar to AI
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab
The Gift of the Amygdali
Can Technology Plan Economies and Destroy Democracy?
Big Tech Sees Like a State
Studies On Slack
Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization
The Power of High Speed Stupidity
AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence
On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models
AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
AutoML-Zero: Open source code for the paper: "AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch"
AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns
Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
Reverse engineering learned optimizers reveals known and novel mechanisms
Tasks, stability, architecture, and compute: Training more effective learned optimizers, and using them to train themselves
Training Learned Optimizers with Randomly Initialized Learned Optimizers
Meta Learning Backpropagation And Improving It
BLUR: Meta-Learning Bidirectional Update Rules
LHOPT: A Generalizable Approach to Learning Optimizers
A critique of pure learning and what artificial neural networks can learn from animal brains
https://intelligence.org/files/WBE-Superorgs.pdf
WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of imitation learning on brains
Meta-Learning: Learning to Learn Fast
Meta Reinforcement Learning
The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura
Emergence of belief-like representations through reinforcement learning
Meta-learners’ learning dynamics are unlike learners’
Ray Interference: a Source of Plateaus in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Learning not to learn: Nature versus nurture in silico
Meta-trained agents implement Bayes-optimal agents
What Are Bayesian Neural Network Posteriors Really Like?
What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models
In-context Reinforcement Learning with Algorithm Distillation
Supervised Pretraining Can Learn In-Context Reinforcement Learning
Meta-learning, social cognition and consciousness in brains and machines
Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand
Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand [blog]
Solving Rubik’s Cube With a Robot Hand: Perturbations
Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction [blog]
Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction
HyperNetworks
MetaGenRL: Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning
Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
RL2: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Learning to reinforcement learn
Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms
Smooth markets: A basic mechanism for organizing gradient-based learners
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/directsearch/node15.html
Properties of the Bucket Brigade Algorithm
Decentralized Reinforcement Learning: Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions
Decentralized Reinforcement Learning: Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions [blog]
The AI Economist: Optimal Economic Policy Design via Two-level Deep Reinforcement Learning
Finding General Equilibria in Many-Agent Economic Simulations Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Multiplicative Interactions and Where to Find Them
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~rbelew/courses/cogs184_w10/readings/HintonNowlan97.pdf
Embodied intelligence via learning and evolution
The Philosophers' Magazine
The Itch
Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away
If Brains Are Computers, What Kind of Computers Are They? (Dennett Transcript)
Life’s Information Hierarchy: The explanation for the complex, multi-scale structure of biological and social systems lies in their manipulation of space and time to reduce uncertainty about the future
Survival of the Systems
Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity
Evolutionary Game Theory
Nociceptive Sensitization Reduces Predation Risk
The structure of genotype-phenotype maps makes fitness landscapes navigable
The Role of Permutation Invariance in Linear Mode Connectivity of Neural Networks
Wanting vs Liking
Why has evolution not selected for perfect self-control?
The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom
Key Questions about Artificial Sentience: an Opinionated Guide
Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?
Antitrust As Allocator of Coordination Rights
The Gervais Principle
In The Eternal Inferno, Fiends Torment Ronald Coase With The Fate Of His Ideas
Socialist Fantasies
Charging Employees for Conference Rooms Helps Disco Boost Profit
{M|Im|Am}oral Mazes—Any Large-Scale Counterexamples?
Has dynamic programming improved decision making?
When Hindsight Isn’t 20/20: Incentive Design With Imperfect Credit Allocation
What Do Executives Do, Anyway?
CEOs Don’t Steer
https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/
Dan Luu on "You Can Only Communicate One Top Priority"
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
AGI Will Drastically Increase Economies of Scale
On the feasibility of technosocialism
Scaling Organizations Means Choosing What's a Rounding Error
Founder Mode
The Goddess of Everything Else
Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology
A Research Note on Deriving the Square-Cube Law of Formal Organizations from the Theory of Time-Minimization
‘end-to-end’ directory
My History With Forth & Stack Machines
Co-dfns: A data parallel compiler hosted on the GPU § 2.1.4 Idiomatic APL
The Lisp Curse
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/a4d3s6/evolution_as_backstop_for_reinforcement_learning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459056
Structured Programming with go to Statements
The Errors of TeX
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Boxes
Breaking paragraphs into lines
Questions and Answers with Professor Donald E. Knuth
Interview with Donald Knuth
Questions and Answers with Professor Donald E. Knuth § How to customize TeX
Programming as Theory Building
Dynamic Languages Strike Back
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/
https://gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
https://numinous.productions/
holy-war#bitrot
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Software Engineering at Google
https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/
Big Ball of Mud
Pain: The Gift No One Wants § A Poor Substitute
https://www.artstation.com/rutkowski
This Artist Is Dominating AI-Generated Art. And He’s Not Happy about It. Greg Rutkowski Is a More Popular Prompt Than Picasso
‘Posthaste’: History and Meaning
Maxims and Reflections, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy
Slowing 216.36.5.47&c=1&t=45456.4152673611
The Melancholy of Subculture Society
‘The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral’, Mike Caulfield
https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Phage-Assisted Continuous Evolution
Applying the Universal Scalability Law to Organisations
Teams vs. Crowds: A Field Test of the Relative Contribution of Incentives, Member Ability, and Emergent Collaboration to Crowd-Based Problem Solving Performance
Imitation-driven Cultural Collapse
Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory
‘small groups’ directory
Effective population size for culturally evolving traits
‘leaky pipelines’ directory
bakewell#social-contagion
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The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws: vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction
ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-Signal: Attacking Noise in Chat