rationalnewsletter

Issue #205

When AI is better than humans, it makes humans better: By playing against AI, professional Go players have gotten unprecedentedly better. // twitter.com

# Coronavirus

Covid 3/3/2022: Move Along // Zvi, 12 min

# Instrumental

Recognizing and Dealing with Negative Automatic Thoughts // shminux, 3 min

Retrospective: Quantified Self Assessment // high-council, 1 min

The Round Table Manifesto // JonathanMoregard, 1 min

# Epistemic

The Wicked Problem Experience // HoldenKarnofsky, 11 min

Conspiracy-proof archeology // Elmer of Malmesbury, 7 min

Mundane, sharp, crazy // Nyeogmi, 5 min

Summit-Seeking as Distinct From Mountaineering // Sable, 6 min

Defensiveness as hysterical invisibility // TekhneMakre, 2 min

# Ai

How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety // neel-nanda-1, 15 min

AI Performance on Human Tasks // asher-ellis, 25 min

Introducing myself: Henry Lieberman, MIT CSAIL, whycantwe.org // Henry A Lieberman, 1 min

Would (myopic) general public good producers significantly accelerate the development of AGI? // MakoYass, 1 min

Late 2021 MIRI Conversations: AMA / Discussion // RobbBB, 1 min

# Longevity

Can we trust methylation clocks? // Josh Mitteldorf, 5 min

# Decision theory

When should you relocate to mitigate the risk of dying in a nuclear war? // adamzerner, 17 min

RFC WWIII // adamzerner, 11 min

Deterministic Strategies Can Be Suboptimal // istandleet, 1 min

Ordinary and unordinary decision theory // JonasMoss, 9 min

Make Law Like Couches, Not Cars // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Math and cs

Seek Mistakes in the Space Between Math and Reality // aphyer, 4 min

The Geometric Series of 1/(d+1) is a Fraction in Base-d // lsusr, 1 min

Relativized Definitions as a Method to Sidestep the Löbian Obstacle // homotowat, 8 min

# Ea

Have You Tried Hiring People? // rank-biserial, 9 min

Being an individual alignment grantmaker // A_donor, 2 min

What are some low-cognitive -workload tasks that can help improve the world? // yitz, 1 min

# Community

Are our community grouphouses typically rented, or owned? // MakoYass, 1 min

# Culture war

Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/01 // lsusr, 12 min

Ukraine Post #1: Prediction Markets // Zvi, 19 min

Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/04 // lsusr, 8 min

Higher Risk of Nuclear War // jkaufman, 1 min

Ukraine Warcasting // Scott Alexander, 27 min

# Misc

[David Chapman] Resisting or embracing meta-rationality // gworley, 1 min

You'd Want The Right Answer // Bluestorm_321, 1 min

Sacrifice for the Big Crunch // cerdon, 2 min

Microaddictions // Scott Alexander, 2 min

Rationality As Rules // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Podcasts

Currents 055: Paul Goble on Putin’s Strategic Mistakes // The Jim Rutt Show, 64 min

Introducing 80k After Hours // , 13 min

Currents 053: Matthew Pirkowski on Grammars of Emergence // The Jim Rutt Show, 65 min

Currents 054: Samo Burja on the Russia-Ukraine War // The Jim Rutt Show, 48 min

# Rational fiction

Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 9 // lsusr, 2 min

A Warm Up Problem for Yudkowsky's New Fiction // istandleet, 1 min

The Agent // Ideopunk, 1 min

# Videos of the week

Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | Lex Fridman Podcast #272 // Lex Fridman, 227 min