rationalnewsletter

Issue #112

A moderate amount of media multitasking is linked to optimal task performance. // drive.google.com

# Coronavirus

Covid-19: Comorbidity // Zvi, 10 min

162 benefits of coronavirus // bfinn, 7 min

Why COVID-19 prevention at the margin is bad for most LWers // Kenoubi, 2 min

Covid 5/21: Limbo Under // Zvi, 2 min

Will the world hit 10 million recorded cases of COVID-19? If so when? // jmh, 1 min

# Epistemic

Modeling the ‘Unknown’ Label // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Ai

Multi-agent safety // ricraz, 5 min

AI's shouldn't believe falsehoods about preferences; priors over preferences are not sufficient // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

How to choose a PhD with AI Safety in mind // Ariel Kwiatkowski, 1 min

Is AI safety research less parallelizable than AI research? // Mati_Roy, 1 min

Could We Give an AI a Solution? // Liam Goddard, 2 min

# Anthropic

Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series) // Kaj_Sotala, 23 min Favorite

The Greatest Host // trentbrick, 17 min

What are articles on "lifelogging as life extension"? // Mati_Roy, 1 min

What was your reasoning for deciding whether to raise children? // Mati_Roy, 1 min

# Decision theory

Studies On Slack // Scott Alexander, 29 min Favorite

The EMH Aten't Dead // Richard Meadows, 23 min Favorite

Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesis // Zack_M_Davis, 4 min

What would flourishing look like in Conway's Game of Life? // sudhanshu_kasewa, 1 min

Settle Investment Trades Only Daily an improvement? True or False // jmh, 1 min

# Math and cs

Distinguishing logistic curves // Stuart_Armstrong, 9 min

Estimating logistic curves // Stuart_Armstrong, 8 min

Small Data // lsusr, 5 min

Distinguishing logistic curves: visual // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min

# Books

Book report: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (von Neumann & Morgenstern) // Nisan, 6 min

What work of fiction explore increased transparency in the world? // Mati_Roy, 1 min

Lazar’s Dreamland // Robin Hanson, 1 min

# Community

Re: Some Heroes // lsusr, 3 min

Kids and Time // jefftk, 2 min

Conjecture Workshop // johnswentworth, 2 min

What are Michael Vasser's beliefs? // Chris_Leong, 1 min

# Misc

[Repost] Movable Housing for Scalable Cities // Eliezer Yudkowsky, 25 min

The Mind: Board Game Review // Alexei, 2 min

"It's Okay", Instructions, Focusing, Experiencing and Frames // Ouroborus, 8 min

Learning Rhythms // jefftk, 1 min

Dishwasher Filter // jefftk, 1 min

# Podcasts

c03: A Low Amount of Pain for All Eternity // Constellation, 54 min

Currents 001: Simon DeDeo on University Censorship // . , 45 min

The Mind Killer Episode 4 – Are We Committing Collective Suicide? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 64 min

Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them // The 80000 Hours team, 26 min

EP53 Hanzi Freinacht on the Nordic Ideology // . , 92 min

# Videos of the week

A Sound Political Economy: Sandrine | Club of Rome, Ruth | WEF, Sam | CSER, Michael | Nanotronics // Foresight Institute, 64 min