rationalnewsletter

Issue #14

Gates Teacher-Effectiveness Program Shows No Gains for Students // www.reddit.com

# Instrumental

Empire Theory, Part II: Power Dynamics // Samo Burja, 27 min Favorite

Applied Rationality MUD // rlp10, 3 min

Making Decisions - Influence // Matej Vrzala (M4), 2 min

spaced repetition & Darwin's golden rule // Paperclip Minimizer, 1 min

Machine Learning Analogy for Meditation // abramdemski, 1 min

# Ai

Policy Approval // abramdemski, 9 min

Shaping economic incentives for collaborative AGI // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min

Optimization Amplifies // Scott Garrabrant, 4 min

# Anthropic

“Cheating Death in Damascus” Solution to the Fermi Paradox // avturchin, 3 min

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides // Jan_Kulveit, 1 min

# Books

Book Review: Capital In The Twenty-First Century // Scott Alexander, 22 min

List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Capital In The Twenty-First Century // Scott Alexander, 23 min

Highlights From The Comments On Piketty // Scott Alexander, 13 min

# Ea

Effective Altruism Summer Reading List // krishkhubchand, 1 min

Last Chance to Fund the Berkeley REACH // decodyng, 4 min

FHI Research Scholars Programme // habryka, 1 min

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report // ChristianKl, 1 min

# Misc

The Power of Letting Go Part I: Examples // johnswentworth, 7 min Favorite

How to formalize predictors // cousin_it, 1 min

# Podcasts

086: Discussion of Malicious Uses of AI // Review the Future, 86 min

Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics" // NYC Skeptics, 42 min

# Videos of the week

How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers // TED, 18 min