rationalnewsletter

Issue #218

We're doing COVID-19 wrong: Study shows that the key to controlling the arrival of the next pandemic wave is to limit the virus diffusion in the period between waves. // twitter.com

# Instrumental

Air Conditioner Test Results & Discussion // johnswentworth, 7 min

[Link] Childcare : what the science says // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min

How do I use caffeine optimally? // randomstring, 1 min

Hydrophobic Glasses Coating Review // jkaufman, 1 min

Evaluating a Corsi-Rosenthal Filter Cube // jkaufman, 1 min

# Epistemic

Steam // abramdemski, 5 min

Cracks in the Wall, Part I: The Conscious // silo, 15 min

What I mean by the phrase "taking ideas seriously" // Luise, 1 min

Getting stuck in local minima // louis-beaumont, 1 min

How to Visualize Bayesianism // David Udell, 4 min

# Ai

Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer // paulfchristiano, 24 min

Security Mindset: Lessons from 20+ years of Software Security Failures Relevant to AGI Alignment // elspood, 8 min

AI-Written Critiques Help Humans Notice Flaws // paulfchristiano, 3 min

Conversation with Eliezer: What do you want the system to do? // akash-wasil, 3 min

The inordinately slow spread of good AGI conversations in ML // RobbBB, 9 min

# Meta-ethics

Re An Accused, Tell The Truth // Robin Hanson, 3 min

You Owe Your Parents Grandkids // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Longevity

Is there a master timekeeper, upstream of the methylation clock? // Josh Mitteldorf, 11 min

# Decision theory

ETH is probably undervalued right now // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min

How "should" counterfactual prediction markets work? // edward-pierzchalski, 1 min

Quick Summaries of Two Papers on Kant and Game Theory // Erich_Grunewald, 5 min

The Malthusian Trap: An Extremely Short Introduction // Davis Kedrosky, 7 min

# Math and cs

Identification of Natural Modularity // LosPolloFowler, 8 min

Worked Examples of Shapley Values // lalaithion, 9 min

# Books

Book review: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz // KatjaGrace, 1 min

Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy // Scott Alexander, 28 min

Book Review: San Fransicko // Scott Alexander, 94 min

# Ea

Nonprofit Boards are Weird // HoldenKarnofsky, 24 min

# Relationships

Relationship Advice Repository // Ruby, 46 min

# Community

Some reflections on the LW community after several months of active engagement // M. Y. Zuo, 5 min

Announcing the DWATV Discord // Zvi, 1 min

Have The Effective Altruists And Rationalists Brainwashed Me? // Matt Goldwater, 12 min

# Culture war

Parliaments without the Parties // yair-halberstadt, 2 min

Politics is the Mind Killer. But is it getting worse? // TrevorWiesinger, 1 min

How do states respond to changes in nuclear risk // NathanBarnard, 6 min

# Art

Solstice Movie Review: Summer Wars // JohnBuridan, 1 min

# Misc

Make learning a reality // dalton-mabery, 1 min

Building an Epistemic Status Tracker // rcu, 1 min

[Linkpost] The importance of stupidity in scientific research // Pattern

Hebbian Learning Is More Common Than You Think // aleksi-liimatainen, 1 min

What is a Life? // Venkatesh Rao, 22 min

# Podcasts

Announcing the LessWrong Curated Podcast // Benito, 1 min

# Rational fiction

Dagger of Detect Evil // lsusr, 3 min

# Videos of the week

DeepMind: The Quest to Solve Intelligence // Neura Pod – Neuralink, 53 min