rationalnewsletter

Issue #216

"Participants were 75% more likely to become divorced if a friend is divorced and 33% more likely to divorce if a friend of a friend is divorced. The contagion of divorce can spread through a social network, affecting friends up to two degrees removed." // twitter.com

# Instrumental

Entitlement as a major amplifier of unhappiness // VipulNaik, 10 min

Show LW: YodaTimer.com // adamzerner, 1 min

Where to Live for Happiness // ethanmorse, 31 min

What board games would you recommend? // yair-halberstadt, 1 min

Health & Lifestyle Interventions With Heavy-Tailed Outcomes? // MondSemmel, 1 min

# Ai

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 37 min Favorite

AGI Safety FAQ / all-dumb-questions-allowed thread // alenglander, 4 min

Godzilla Strategies // johnswentworth, 3 min

Who models the models that model models? An exploration of GPT-3's in-context model fitting ability // Lovre, 10 min

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined // HoldenKarnofsky, 20 min

# Meta-ethics

Why it's bad to kill Grandma // dynomight, 9 min

# Longevity

The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain // steve2152, 15 min

# Anthropic

Untypical SIA // avturchin, 2 min

Beware Cosmic Errors // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Decision theory

Making stable, free nations as a hobby // blackstampede, 7 min

Why has no person / group ever taken over the world? // alenglander, 1 min

Optimization and Adequacy in Five Bullets // james.lucassen, 5 min

New cooperation mechanism - quadratic funding without a matching pool // Filip Sondej, 6 min

# Math and cs

Turning Some Inconsistent Preferences into Consistent Ones // niplav, 9 min

Expected Value vs. Expected Growth // tom-pollak, 1 min

# Books

Book Review: How the World Became Rich // Davis Kedrosky, 13 min

Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything // Scott Alexander, 38 min

# Ea

Transcript of a Twitter Discussion on EA from June 2022 // Zvi, 1 min

# Community

Comment reply: my low-quality thoughts on why CFAR didn't get farther with a "real/efficacious art of rationality" // AnnaSalamon, 20 min

Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory // jkaufman, 3 min

Why don't you introduce really impressive people you personally know to AI alignment (more often)? // Verden, 1 min

Russian x-risks newsletter May 2022 + short history of "methodologists" // avturchin, 1 min

A gaming group for rationality-aware people // dhatas, 1 min

# Culture war

Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice // Duncan_Sabien, 25 min

Steelmanning Marxism/Communism // Suh_Prance_Alot, 1 min

Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties" // Scott Alexander, 2 min

Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster? // Scott Alexander, 10 min

# Misc

Stephen Wolfram's ideas are under-appreciated // Kenny, 1 min

Silly Online Rules // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min

Forestalling Atmospheric Ignition // conor-sullivan, 1 min

How Does Cognitive Performance Translate to Real World Capability? // DragonGod, 1 min

Why Allow Line Cutting? // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Podcasts

EP 158 Remzi Bajrami on Flow Currency // The Jim Rutt Show, 90 min

Currents 063: Jessica Flack on nth-Order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War // The Jim Rutt Show, 65 min

# Rational fiction

The Mountain Troll // lsusr, 2 min

# Videos of the week

The Epic History of Artificial Intelligence // John Coogan, 16 min