rationalnewsletter

Issue #191

NÜWA: (Visual Synthesis Pre-training for Neural visUal World creAtion) presents a unified multimodal pre-trained model that achieves state-of-the-art results on text-to-image generation, text-to-video generation, video prediction, etc. // twitter.com

# Coronavirus

Covid 11/18: Paxlovid Remains Illegal // Zvi, 17 min

Which booster shot to get and when? // NormanPerlmutter, 2 min

Did EcoHealth create SARS-CoV-2? // jamal, 1 min

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 59 min

# Instrumental

You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be // charlie.rs, 14 min

Why I am no longer driven // dominicq, 4 min

Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review // VipulNaik, 35 min

# Epistemic

Worst Commonsense Concepts? // abramdemski, 3 min

The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity // david-hugh-jones, 3 min

# Ai

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency // johnswentworth, 15 min

Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer // Zvi, 18 min

Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 120 min

What would we do if alignment were futile? // grant-demaree, 4 min

Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 49 min

# Meta-ethics

Why Save The Drowning Child: Ethics Vs Theory // Raymond D, 5 min

# Longevity

[linkpost] Project Blueprint: ‘Measuring and then maximally reversing the quantified biological age of my organs’ // matteodimaio, 1 min

# Decision theory

Quadratic Voting and Collusion // leogao, 1 min

Forecasting: Zeroth and First Order // jsteinhardt, 5 min

Equity premium puzzles // ege-erdil, 14 min

Dan Luu on Persistent Bad Decision Making (but maybe it's noble?) // pktechgirl, 1 min

A pharmaceutical stock pricing mystery // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min

# Books

[Book Review] "Sorceror's Apprentice" by Tahir Shah // lsusr, 8 min

# Ea

An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists (second version) // bice, 3 min

# Community

Sasha Chapin on bad social norms in rationality/EA // Kaj_Sotala, 6 min

Education on My Homeworld // lsusr, 6 min

Experience on Methotrexate // jkaufman, 2 min

Reaction and Reply to Sasha Chapin on Bad In-group Norms // NicholasKross, 4 min

# Culture war

The Coming World Ruling Class // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Misc

Competence/Confidence // Duncan_Sabien, 1 min

Televised sports exist to gamble with testosterone levels using prediction skill // Lucent, 1 min

Streaming Science on Twitch // alex-ray, 3 min

Open question: Math proofs that would enable you become a world dictator // samuel-shadrach, 4 min

Awesome-github Post-Scarcity List // lorenzo-rex, 1 min

# Podcasts

#116 - Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all // , 225 min

c35: Outline Part 3, Interstitials // Constellation, 77 min

150 – The Procrastination Equation // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min

EP147 John Vervaeke Part 5: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis // The Jim Rutt Show, 116 min

YANSS 219 – How social science is helping social media fight the spread of misinformation //

# Rational fiction

What the future will look like // avantika.mehra, 3 min

# Videos of the week

Research talk: NUWA: Neural visual world creation with multimodal pretraining // Microsoft Research, 23 min