rationalnewsletter

Issue #213

Alarmism about the dangers of misinformation is associated with the third-person effect: the idea that other people are much more gullible than oneself. // psyarxiv.com

# Instrumental

My Approach to Non-Literal Communication // KingSupernova, 16 min

# Epistemic

How to be skeptical about meditation/Buddhism // Viliam, 2 min Favorite

# Ai

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do // Swimmer963, 11 min

Information security considerations for AI and the long term future // jeff-ladish, 12 min

Various Alignment Strategies (and how likely they are to work) // logan-zoellner, 12 min

What would a 10T Chinchilla cost? // Bjartur Tómas, 1 min

ELK shaving // Miss Aligned AI, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

Notes on Empathy // David_Gross, 74 min

What Do We Owe The World? // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Anthropic

How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens? // logan-zoellner, 1 min

# Ea

My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area // Ben_Snodin, 50 min

Most problems don't differ dramatically in tractability (under certain assumptions) // thomas-kwa, 3 min

# Community

Six Months of ROSE // Raven, 1 min

# Fun

Every Bay Area House Party // Scott Alexander, 16 min

# Misc

What Would It Cost to Build a World-Class Dredging Vessel in America? // Zvi, 1 min

What would be the impact of cheap energy and storage? // yair-halberstadt, 1 min

[Linkpost] A conceptual framework for consciousness // Gunnar_Zarncke, 2 min

Why humans don’t learn to not recognize danger? // joachim-bartosik, 1 min

Steer the Sun? // Shay, 1 min

# Podcasts

EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human // The Jim Rutt Show, 91 min

161 – Restoring the Kingdom of Hawai’i // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 87 min

Currents 062: Stephanie Lepp Interviews Jim Rutt on Musk and Moderation // The Jim Rutt Show, 59 min

YANSS 231 – Why we often can’t choose what we believe thanks to the fact that certainty is a feeling and not a conclusion //

YANSS 232 – Adam Grant’s advice for becoming better at thinking about your own thinking so you can harness the power of knowing what you don’t know //

# Rational fiction

One master. One apprentice. // lsusr, 1 min

# Videos of the week

Office Espionage: The top 5 culprits for secret surveillance in the workplace // Sumsub, 18 min