rationalnewsletter

Issue #178

Zoom fatigue: Being watched by the camera drains energy from attendees, particularly from women and newer employees. // psycnet.apa.org

# Coronavirus

Covid 8/19: Cracking the Booster // Zvi, 26 min

Mildly against COVID risk budgets // Optimization Process, 6 min

All Metaforecast COVID predictions // Radamantis, 1 min

Is antibody testing to assess effects of vaccines on you a good idea? // Lightwave, 1 min

Vaccination with natural immunity // sudoLife, 1 min

# Instrumental

A Better Time until Sunburn Calculator // joshjacobson, 2 min

Treatments for depression that depressed LW readers may not have tried? // celeste, 1 min

# Epistemic

Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Minds (Let my People Go) // rogersbacon, 14 min

Thinking of our epistemically troubled friend // MakoYass, 1 min

Zen and Rationality: Equanimity // gworley, 2 min

Framing Practicum: Timescale Separation // johnswentworth, 4 min

Strategy vs. PR-narrative // TekhneMakre, 2 min

# Ai

How DeepMind's Generally Capable Agents Were Trained // 1a3orn, 23 min

Modelling Transformative AI Risks (MTAIR) Project: Introduction // Davidmanheim, 11 min

Provide feedback on Open Philanthropy’s AI alignment RFP // abergal, 1 min

Analogies and General Priors on Intelligence // riceissa, 17 min

AI Safety Papers: An App for the TAI Safety Database // ozziegooen, 2 min

# Meta-ethics

Thoughts on Moral Philosophy // Chris_Leong, 4 min

Chasing Infinities // michael-bateman, 11 min

# Anthropic

The Validity of Self-Locating Probabilities // dadadarren, 2 min

# Decision theory

There isn't just one unemployment rate // arjun-yadav, 2 min

Why Not Extend Formal Social Systems? // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Math and cs

When Programmers Don't Understand Code, Don't Blame The User // adamzerner, 3 min

Factors of mental and physical abilities - a statistical analysis // dynomight, 10 min

A Better Web is Coming // matto, 7 min

The halting problem is overstated // yair-halberstadt, 3 min

Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia // Erich_Grunewald, 12 min

# Books

Shame: Authentic & Applied/Manufactured Shame // phoenix-eliot, 6 min

# Community

Gravity Turn // alkjash, 6 min Favorite

Power vs Precision // abramdemski, 5 min

Living with a homeopath - how? // sudoLife, 1 min

# Culture war

What is ‘Elite Overproduction’? // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Misc

A Modest Proposal: Logging for Environmentalists // localdeity, 1 min

Misguided? Callous? Just Plain Stupid? // Enoch Root, 3 min

Simultaneous Redundant Research // eg, 1 min

Walking your way to Philosophy // arjun-yadav, 3 min

Highlights From The Comments On Aducanumab // Scott Alexander, 23 min

# Podcasts

#109 - Holden Karnofsky on the most important century // , 139 min

Currents 042: John Robb on Afghanistan Withdrawal // The Jim Rutt Show, 42 min

"Price gouging" in emergencies // Rationally Speaking, 52 min

EP139 Robert Tercek on Education Today // The Jim Rutt Show, 87 min

# Videos of the week

DeepMind’s AI Plays Catch…And So Much More! ? // Two Minute Papers, 8 min