rationalnewsletter

Issue #11

You would have to use an organic cotton grocery bag 20,000 times for it to be better for the environment than a single-use plastic bag // mst.dk

# Epistemic

The Incoherence of Honesty // gworley, 4 min Favorite

Sloppy Interior Vs. Careful Border Travel // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Ai

RFC: Meta-ethical uncertainty in AGI alignment // gworley, 3 min

Fundamentals of Formalisation Level 3: Set Theoretic Relations and Enumerability // crabman, 1 min

Quantum AI Box // Gurkenglas, 1 min

Quantum AI Goal // Gurkenglas, 1 min

# Books

Age of Em Paperback // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Ea

Effective Altruism as Global Catastrophe Mitigation // Evan_Gaensbauer, 26 min

# Culture war

Men Are Animals // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Misc

Could we send a message to the distant future? // paulfchristiano, 3 min Favorite

Physics has laws, the Universe might not. // shminux, 3 min

Poker example: (not) deducing someone's preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

Describing LessWrong in one paragraph // ChristianKl, 1 min

Unraveling the Failure's Try // LeoHolman, 2 min

# Podcasts

Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career // The 80,000 Hours team, 91 min

#128 — Transformations of Mind // Waking up with Sam Harris, 158 min

61 – Biohacking 101 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 108 min

# Videos of the week

A New Philosophy on Artificial Intelligence | Kristian Hammond | TEDxNorthwesternU // TEDx Talks, 20 min