rationalnewsletter

Issue #226

When it comes to the carbon footprint of our diet, what you eat matters much more than where it comes from and how it is packaged. // twitter.com

# Instrumental

How do you get a job as a software developer? // lsusr, 1 min

Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference // Scott Alexander, 6 min

# Epistemic

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf // ea247, 2 min

Novelty Generation - The Art of Good Ideas // DarkSym, 10 min

Vague concepts, family resemblance and cluster properties // Q Home, 8 min

No One-Size-Fit-All Epistemic Strategy // adamShimi, 2 min

"What Mistakes Are You Making Right Now?" // David Udell, 1 min

# Ai

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking // neel-nanda-1, 48 min

What's General-Purpose Search, And Why Might We Expect To See It In Trained ML Systems? // johnswentworth, 11 min

How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective // mark-xu, 17 min

What's the Least Impressive Thing GPT-4 Won't be Able to Do // Algon, 1 min

Human Mimicry Mainly Works When We’re Already Close // johnswentworth, 6 min

# Meta-ethics

What does moral progress consist of? // jasoncrawford, 2 min

Against population ethics // jasoncrawford, 3 min

# Anthropic

Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams? // Nathan1123, 4 min

A First Attempt to Dissolve "Is Consciousness Reducible?" // DragonGod, 5 min

# Decision theory

Discovering Agents // zkenton, 7 min

And the Revenues Are So Small // Zvi, 13 min

Capital and inequality // NathanBarnard, 6 min

# Math and cs

What are the Limits on Computability? // DragonGod, 2 min

# Books

Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death // LRudL, 18 min

The Open Society and Its Enemies: Summary and Thoughts // matto, 21 min

Your Book Review: 1587, A Year Of No Significance // Scott Alexander, 35 min

MacAskill on Value Lock-In // Robin Hanson, 6 min

# Community

Paper is published! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder // Fabienne, 1 min

Oops It's Time To Overthrow the Organizer Day! // Screwtape, 4 min

[About Me] Cinera's Home Page // DragonGod, 9 min

Introducing the Existential Risks Introductory Course (ERIC) // TheMcDouglas, 7 min

Are you allocated optimally in your own estimation? // Emrik North, 1 min

# Culture war

The Loire Is Not Dry // jkaufman, 1 min

# Fun

What Games These Days? // jkaufman, 3 min

Spoiler-Free Review: Across the Obelisk // Zvi, 7 min

# Misc

In Defense Of Making Money // George3d6, 9 min

What's up with the bad Meta projects? // yitz, 1 min

I’m mildly skeptical that blindness prevents schizophrenia // steve2152, 4 min

If a nuke is coming towards SF Bay can people bunker in BART tunnels? // DonyChristie

Playing Without Affordances // Alex Hollow, 1 min

# Podcasts

#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future // , 174 min

EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism // The Jim Rutt Show, 116 min

# Videos of the week

Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #311 // Lex Fridman, 213 min