rationalnewsletter

Issue #13

Framework that can help you make career decisions that actually reflect who you are, what you want, and what our rapidly changing career landscape looks like today // waitbutwhy.com

# Instrumental

Problem Solving with Mazes and Crayon // johnswentworth, 9 min Favorite

# Epistemic

Two prescriptions for fixing a procedural/declarative knowledge mismatch. // Andrew Quinn, 4 min

Extending the Private Language Argument // Ashwin Kumar, 3 min

# Anthropic

Anthropics and Fermi // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min Favorite

Anthropics: Where does Less Wrong lie? // Chris_Leong, 1 min

Duplication versus probability // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

Sleeping Beauty Not Resolved // Chris_Leong, 9 min

Paradoxes in all anthropic probabilities // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

# Ea

Informational hazards and the cost-effectiveness of open discussion of catastrophic risks // avturchin, 1 min

Wirehead your Chickens // shminux, 2 min

Ben Hoffman's donor recommendations // Rob Bensinger, 1 min

# Culture war

Contra Caplan On Arbitrary Deploring // Scott Alexander, 5 min

Geoffrey Miller on Research and Politics in Psychology // Jacobian, 1 min

Privacy: Defining Yourself // Lulie, 3 min

# Misc

Near-Deathness // Matthew Sweet, 11 min

Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective // Scott Alexander, 3 min

Be A Dad // Robin Hanson, 1 min

Future Influence Is Hard // Robin Hanson, 3 min

The GATTACA Trilogy // Scott Alexander, 14 min

# Podcasts

#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission // The 80,000 Hours team, 82 min

62 – Stoic Chatter and RatChat! // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 103 min

#130 — Universal Basic Income // Waking up with Sam Harris, 68 min

# Videos of the week

Why We are Alone in the Galaxy | Marc Defant | TEDxUSF // TEDx Talks, 17 min