rationalnewsletter

Issue #131

Meta-analysis: With increasing age, individual differences in religiousness are increasingly determined by genes, a pattern known from the realm of intelligence. // www.google.com

# Coronavirus

Covid 9/24: Until Morale Improves // Zvi, 14 min

Prepare for COVID-19 Human Challenge Trials — A Petition in Canada (and soon, the UK) // abierohrig, 2 min

# Instrumental

Scheduling Algorithm for a PhD Student // rockthecasbah, 1 min

# Epistemic

The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min

Zen and Rationality: Just This Is It // gworley, 2 min

Up close and personal with the world // dominicq, 1 min

Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min

What is complexity science? (Not computational complexity theory) How useful is it? What areas is it related to? // crabman, 3 min

# Ai

Clarifying “What failure looks like” (part 1) // Sam Clarke, 20 min

Human Biases that Obscure AI Progress // phylliida-dev, 4 min

Needed: AI infohazard policy // vanessa-kosoy, 2 min

Where is human level on text prediction? (GPTs task) // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min

AI Advantages [Gems from the Wiki] // habryka4, 2 min

# Anthropic

Forecasting Thread: Existential Risk // Amandango, 2 min

# Decision theory

Comparative Advantage is Not About Trade // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite

Most People Aren't Fishermen // proshowersinger, 5 min

About a local variation of Rock-Paper-Scissors and how it self-negated its own problematic dynamic // KyriakosCH, 2 min

I have discovered a new kind of unemployment. // Nathan Brooks, 2 min

Abstract Views Are Coming // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Relationships

Shittests are actually good // snog toddgrass, 3 min

# Community

Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020 // Benito, 3 min

The rationalist community's location problem // mingyuan, 5 min

Surviving Petrov Day // MathieuRoy, 2 min

Petrov Day is not about unilateral action // sen, 1 min

Petrov Event Roundup 2020 // Raemon, 1 min

# Culture war

I'm Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don't Like It // jkaufman, 1 min

# Misc

Notebook for generating forecasting bets // Amandango, 1 min

Losing the forest for the trees with grid drawings // adamzerner, 2 min

Distributed public goods provision // paulfchristiano, 5 min

How often do series C startups fail to exit? // jessica-shu, 1 min

Are aircraft carriers super vulnerable in a modern war? // Liron, 1 min

# Podcasts

EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe // The Jim Rutt Show, 109 min

Currents 012: Andrew Taggart on Narcissism, Culture & Dying // The Jim Rutt Show, 59 min

Ben Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat) // The 80000 Hours team, 84 min

120 – Why Can’t We Brain Good? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 120 min

c15: Rulesy and Unclear // Constellation, 57 min

# Rational fiction

Has anyone written stories happening in Hanson's em world? // MathieuRoy, 1 min

# Videos of the week

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Puts An AI Into Your Brain! ? // Two Minute Papers, 8 min