rationalnewsletter

Issue #21

Forced Migration Associated with Preference for Education: Descendants of Kresy migrants today have roughly 10 percent higher incomes, are more likely to have white collar occupations, and are less likely to be unemployed than other Poles. // www.nber.org

# Instrumental

Tactical vs. Strategic Cooperation // sarahconstantin, 5 min Favorite

How Roman Emperors Handled The Succession Problem // Samo Burja, 8 min

Tidying One’s Room // Zvi, 5 min

Is there a practitioner's guide for rationality? // cedric, 1 min

# Ai

Alignment Newsletter #19 // rohinmshah, 15 min

A developmentally-situated approach to teaching normative behavior to AI // gworley, 9 min

Building Safer AGI by introducing Artificial Stupidity // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min

# Decision theory

Logical Counterfactuals & the Cooperation Game // Chris_Leong, 1 min

Request for input on multiverse-wide superrationality (MSR) // Johannes_Treutlein, 1 min

Entropic Regret I: Deterministic MDPs // Vadim Kosoy, 18 min

# Books

Trust Me I'm Lying: A Summary and Review // quanticle, 8 min Favorite

# Ea

Preliminary thoughts on moral weight // lukeprog, 9 min

Cause Awareness as a Factor against Cause Neutrality // Darmani, 3 min

The ever expanding moral circle // Jsevillamol, 1 min

# Community

Y Couchinator // Alicorn, 4 min

Rationality Retreat in Europe: Gauging Interest // ZeitPolizei, 1 min

# Misc

Subsidizing Prediction Markets // Zvi, 13 min Favorite

How to Build a Lumenator // Raemon, 2 min

New paper: Long-Term Trajectories of Human Civilization // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min

The "semiosis reply" to the Chinese Room Argument // Valerio, 8 min

The Parentheses Riddle // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Podcasts

66 – Feedback & Productivity (pt1) // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 113 min

# Videos of the week

Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb // TED, 13 min