rationalnewsletter

Issue #2

# Favorites

A Sketch of Good Communication // Ben Pace

Internal Diet Crux // Jacobian

Specification gaming examples in AI // Vika

Competition for Power // Samo Burja

Unyielding Yoda Timers: Taking the Hammertime Final Exam // TurnTrout

# Instrumental

Is Rhetoric Worth Learning? // sarahconstantin

Internal Diet Crux // Jacobian

Competition for Power // Samo Burja

Eight Ways to Sabotage (Nazi) Discussions // deluks917

Unyielding Yoda Timers: Taking the Hammertime Final Exam // TurnTrout

# Epistemic

A Sketch of Good Communication // Ben Pace

A Test of Faith // Serpent-Stare

# Ai

Reframing misaligned AGI's: well-intentioned non-neurotypical assistants // zhukeepa

Can corrigibility be learned safely? // Wei_Dai

Specification gaming examples in AI // Vika

Metaphilosophical competence can't be disentangled from alignment // zhukeepa

My take on agent foundations: formalizing metaphilosophical competence // zhukeepa

# Misc

Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization // Eliezer_Yudkowsky

Global insect declines: Why aren't we all dead yet? // eukaryote

Bounds of Attention // squidious

Realistic thought experiments // KatjaGrace

Are The Amish Unhappy? Super Happy? Just Meh? // Scott Alexander