rationalnewsletter

Issue #214

The F.D.A. approved a drug for alopecia areata that is already in use for rheumatoid arthritis. After successful trials involving the medicine, doctors called the results “impressive", but with potentially serious effects. // www.medicalnewstoday.com

# Coronavirus

Long COVID risk: How to maintain an up to date risk assessment so we can go back to normal life? // Sameerishere, 1 min

# Instrumental

Long-term Short-term Happiness // Matt Goldwater, 2 min

Thought experiment: Imagine you were assigned to help a random person in your community become as peaceful and joyful as the most peaceful and joyful person you'd ever met. What would you try? // nonzerosum, 1 min

# Epistemic

Elementary Infra-Bayesianism // jan-2, 8 min

Deferring // owencb, 12 min

# Ai

Deepmind's Gato: Generalist Agent // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min

DeepMind is hiring for the Scalable Alignment and Alignment Teams // rohinmshah, 10 min

"Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk // Andrew_Critch, 4 min

Transcripts of interviews with AI researchers // Vael Gates, 2 min

[Link post] Promising Paths to Alignment - Connor Leahy | Talk // frances_lorenz, 1 min

# Longevity

Costs and benefits of amniocentesis for normal pregnancies // braces, 3 min

Experience on Meloxicam // jkaufman, 1 min

# Anthropic

Demonstrating MWI by interfering human simulations // yair-halberstadt, 2 min

How close to nuclear war did we get over Cuba? // NathanBarnard, 11 min

# Decision theory

Inequality is inseparable from markets // NathanBarnard, 3 min

The Economics of a New Energy Source // hatta_afiq, 1 min

Lottery Lawsuits, For Small Harm Law // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Math and cs

A reason behind bad systems, and moral implications of seeing this reason // edward-pascal, 2 min

Algorithmic formalization of FDT? // shminux, 1 min

# Books

Book Review: The Gervais Principle // Scott Alexander, 31 min Favorite

Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain // Scott Alexander, 30 min

# Culture war

Why Did Religion Change? // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Misc

An Alternative Interpretation of Physics // dadadarren, 6 min

[Rough notes, BAIS] Human values and cyclical preferences // pranomostro, 4 min

Ion Implantation: Theory, Equipment, Process, Alternatives // ethanmorse, 18 min

# Podcasts

#129 - James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination // , 199 min

# Rational fiction

[Scribble] Bad Reasons Behind Different Systems and a Story with No Good Moral // Rana Dexsin, 5 min

# Videos of the week

Did Google's LaMDA chatbot just become sentient? // Yannic Kilcher, 22 min