rationalnewsletter

Issue #117

Study claims jobs with larger automation increases did not on average see noticeable changes in pay or employment, challenging the popular notion that we are entering an automation revolution that will result in massive job losses. // mason.gmu.edu

# Coronavirus

Covid-19 6/18: The Virus Goes South // Zvi, 8 min

Second Wave? // jefftk, 1 min

Coronavirus and Rents // jefftk, 2 min

# Instrumental

Using a memory palace to memorize a textbook. // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min Favorite

The point of a memory palace // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min

What should I teach to my future daughter? // Anabel RC, 1 min

# Epistemic

What's Your Cognitive Algorithm? // Raemon, 15 min

What is meant by Simulcra Levels? // Chris_Leong, 1 min

# Ai

My take on CHAI’s research agenda in under 1500 words // alexflint, 5 min

Results of $1,000 Oracle contest! // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min

The ground of optimization // alexflint, 32 min

Relating HCH and Logical Induction // abramdemski, 5 min

Image GPT // Daniel Kokotajlo, 1 min

# Decision theory

The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders // FactorialCode, 1 min

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself // Tetraspace Grouping, 6 min

What are some Civilizational Sanity Interventions? // elityre, 4 min

Slightly Skew Systems Of Government // Scott Alexander, 5 min

# Math and cs

High-School Algebra for Data Structures // johnswentworth, 1 min

Apple Pie from Scratch // lsusr, 1 min

# Books

Where to Start Research? // Elizabeth, 4 min Favorite

# Ea

‘Maximum’ level of suffering? // Anirandis, 1 min

Are All Existential Risks Equivalent to a Lack of General Collective Intelligence? And is GCI therefore the Most Important Human Innovation in the History and Immediate Future of Mankind? // williamsae, 6 min

# Relationships

Practical Conflict Resolution: A Taxonomy of Disagreement // eapache, 11 min

# Community

[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update // lsusr, 1 min

Creating better infrastructure for controversial discourse // Rudi C, 2 min

Sunday Jun 21st – Online Talks by Curated Authors // Ben Pace, jacobjacob, 1 min

# Culture war

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis // Taymon Beal, 1 min

Is utilitarianism the result of a Conflict Theory singularity? // spkoc, 7 min

Open Thread 156.25 + Signal Boost For Steve Hsu // a reader, 1 min

The Commanding Heights of Culture // Robin Hanson, 6 min

# Misc

How alienated should you be? // Vaniver, 5 min

Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min

Innovation and Dependence // smaslennikov, 3 min

The Vision Of Vilazodone And Vortioxetine // Scott Alexander, 14 min

# Podcasts

c07: The Intergalactic Space Phone // Constellation, 81 min

Currents 006: Jim Coan on Our Social Recession // . , 47 min

Currents 005: John Robb on Protest Tactics & Reforms // . , 32 min

EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse // . , 102 min

113 – Refining Niceness with Wes Fenza // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 115 min

# Rational fiction

God and Moses have a chat // Yitz, 7 min

# Videos of the week

NVIDIA’s AI Recreated PacMan! ? // Two Minute Papers, 6 min