rationalnewsletter

Issue #151: Full List

Study shows that videogame play is positively correlated with well-being. Although the effect is too small to be relevant for clinical treatments, it raises a challenge towards the conversation surrounding videogame addiction. // royalsocietypublishing.org

# Coronavirus

Covid 2/11: As Expected // Zvi, 26 min

Quadratic, not logarithmic // Just Learning, 1 min

We got what's needed for COVID-19 vaccination completely wrong // ChristianKl, 4 min

#unclogtheFDA: a twitter storm to approve vaccines // rockthecasbah, 3 min

Participating in a Covid-19 Vaccination Trial // ejacob, 8 min

What does the FDA actually do between getting the trial results and having their meeting? // ChristianKl, 1 min

How would free prediction markets have altered the pandemic? // mike_hawke, 1 min

# Instrumental

How do you optimize productivity with respect to your menstrual cycle? // just_browsing, 1 min

The art of caring what people think // KatjaGrace, 4 min

some random parenting ideas // mike_hawke, 7 min

What metrics should I track when experimenting with sleep? // CheerfulWarrior, 1 min

# Epistemic

Against butterfly effect // ForensicOceanography, 1 min

# Ai

Timeline of AI safety // riceissa, 2 min

Tournesol, YouTube and AI Risk // adamShimi, 5 min

Epistemology of HCH // adamShimi, 12 min

Mapping the Conceptual Territory in AI Existential Safety and Alignment // jbkjr, 32 min

Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) newsletter // alenglander, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

Killing the ants // joekc, 9 min

Short, Extreme, Forgotten Torture vs Death // jacob-friedman, 1 min

# Longevity

Micromorts vs. Life Expectancy // young-buck, 1 min

# Decision theory

Your Cheerful Price // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 20 min Favorite

Promoting Prediction Markets With Meaningless Internet-Point Badges // 1a3orn, 2 min

Democracy, Bureaucracy, Central Banking // sustrik, 2 min

Massive consequences // KatjaGrace, 1 min

# Math and cs

Fixing The Good Regulator Theorem // johnswentworth, 11 min

Time to Count or Count to Time? // zachary-robertson, 5 min

# Books

Book review: The Geography of Thought // PeterMcCluskey, 6 min

Potential factors in Bell Labs' intellectual progress, Pt. 1 // Ruby, 9 min

Notes on Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" (1960) // MichaelA, 9 min

Book review: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook) // Bob Baker, 2 min

# Ea

Apply to Effective Altruism Funds now // Jonas Vollmer, 2 min

# Community

Why I Am Not in Charge // Zvi, 31 min

A great hard day // KatjaGrace, 2 min

Still Not in Charge // Zvi, 10 min

How Should We Respond to Cade Metz? // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min

Speedrunning my Morning Makes the Coffee Taste Weird // kithpendragon, 2 min

# Misc

Unwitting cult leaders // Kaj_Sotala, 4 min

The distinction distance // KatjaGrace, 1 min

Metric selection bias: why Moore's law is less important than you think // aaronb50, 7 min

The Economics of Media // lsusr, 3 min

Were the Great Tragedies of History “Mere Ripples”? // philosophytorres, 1 min

In balance and flux // KatjaGrace, 2 min

We Need Browsers as Platforms // jkaufman, 1 min

Things a Katja-society might try (Part 2) // KatjaGrace, 2 min

Recruiting for esports experiment // asdfrty6, 5 min

Making Expertise Legible: Being right should make you respected, not the other way around // ejacob, 3 min

Super-forecasters as a service // frcassarino, 1 min

Evolution from distinction difference // KatjaGrace, 1 min

Singularity&phase transition-2. A priori probability and ways to check. // Just Learning, 3 min

# Rational fiction

The Singularity War - Part 1 // lsusr, 3 min

The Singularity War - Part 2 // lsusr, 3 min

# Videos of the week

These Neural Networks Have Superpowers! ? // Two Minute Papers, 7 min