rationalnewsletter

Issue #199: Full List

The Federal Reserve and MIT researchers are collaborating on a central bank digital currency initiative called Project Hamilton. // news.mit.edu

# Coronavirus

Covid 1/13/22: Endgame // Zvi, 12 min

School Daze // Zvi, 21 min

The IHME Report // Zvi, 8 min

Survey supports ‘long covid is bad’ hypothesis (very tentative) // KatjaGrace, 3 min

[Linkpost] [Fun] CDC To Send Pamphlet On Probabilistic Thinking // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min

Omicron Post #14 // Zvi, 11 min

Omicron - How does it change Covid risk and what should we do about it? // jackc, 11 min

Storing own covid saliva for use as a "booster"? // kuudes, 1 min

I have COVID, for how long should I isolate? // iceplant, 1 min

Old Man Rant // Robin Hanson, 5 min

# Instrumental

How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Review of the Literature, such as It Is // Erich_Grunewald, 21 min Favorite

Personal blogging as self-imposed oppression // xarkn, 3 min

Political Office for Beginners? // Asgård, 1 min

Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit // pktechgirl, 4 min

Tips for productively using short (<30min) blocks of time // just_browsing, 1 min

# Epistemic

Look For Principles Which Will Carry Over To The Next Paradigm // johnswentworth, 6 min

Question Gravity // KingSupernova, 2 min

No Abstraction Without a Goal // dkirmani, 1 min

A counterargument that isn't // dominicq, 3 min

Understanding as hierarchical model building // invertedpassion, 6 min

# Ai

Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different // jsteinhardt, 6 min

Plan B in AI Safety approach // avturchin, 2 min

The Unreasonable Feasibility Of Playing Chess Under The Influence // jan-2, 16 min

An Open Philanthropy grant proposal: Causal representation learning of human preferences // PabloAMC, 9 min

# Meta-ethics

On Virtue // Midnight_Analyst, 6 min

Morality and constrained maximization, part 2 // joekc, 35 min

How to tradeoff utility and agency? // alex-ray, 1 min

# Longevity

Has anyone had weird experiences with Alcor? // Jaevko, 2 min

# Anthropic

On the Impossibility of Interaction with Simulated Agents // Walkabout, 3 min

The First Person And The Physical Person // dadadarren, 5 min

# Decision theory

The Greedy Doctor Problem... turns out to be relevant to the ELK problem? // jan-2, 15 min

Critiquing Scasper's Definition of Subjunctive Dependence // Heighn, 3 min

# Math and cs

Use Normal Predictions // jan-christian-refsgaard, 6 min

# Ea

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 3 min

Doing "good" // pchvykov, 2 min

# Community

There's A Time For Everyone // Scott Alexander, 9 min

# Culture war

Uncontroversially good legislation // braces, 1 min

Is state a (semi-) rational agent? // Birke, 1 min

# Misc

Calibration proverbs // Elmer of Malmesbury, 1 min

Paper claims: "Rationality" flavored words rose since 1850, began declining ~1980 // Raemon, 1 min

Total compute available to evolution // redbird, 1 min

Progress, humanism, agency: An intellectual core for the progress movement // jasoncrawford, 4 min

Much Talk Is Sales Patter // Robin Hanson, 5 min

# Podcasts

153 – Values and Wireheading with Wes Fenza // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 126 min

#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission // , 83 min

# Rational fiction

Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 1 // lsusr, 5 min

# Videos of the week

Exploring the tension between privacy and compliance in CBDC // OMFIF, 20 min