rationalnewsletter

Issue #229

From thoughts to text: Study tests a decoder that takes in fMRI recordings and generates continuous language descriptions of perceived speech, imagined speech, and visual input. // twitter.com

# Instrumental

Linkpost: Github Copilot productivity experiment // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min

Solar Blackout Resistance // jkaufman, 3 min

Put Dirty Dishes in the Dishwasher // jkaufman, 1 min

How to Do Research. v1 // pablo-repetto-1, 47 min

Turn your flashcards into Art // Heye Groß, 1 min

# Ai

Most People Start With The Same Few Bad Ideas // johnswentworth, 3 min

The shard theory of human values // quintin-pope, 31 min

Monitoring for deceptive alignment // evhub, 10 min

Thoughts on AGI consciousness / sentience // steve2152, 7 min

Generators Of Disagreement With AI Alignment // George3d6, 11 min

# Meta-ethics

The ethics of reclining airplane seats // braces, 1 min

Should you refrain from having children because of the risk posed by artificial intelligence? // Mientras, 1 min

Notes on Resolve // David_Gross, 39 min

# Anthropic

ethics and anthropics of homomorphically encrypted computations // carado-1, 3 min Favorite

# Decision theory

90% of anything should be bad (& the precision-recall tradeoff) // cartografie, 6 min

Understanding and avoiding value drift // TurnTrout, 7 min

Breaking Newcomb's Problem with Non-Halting states // Hivewired, 6 min

Sacred Distance Hides Motives // Robin Hanson, 4 min

Hail Industrial Organization // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Math and cs

Prototyping in C // jkaufman, 2 min

Keeping Time in Epoch Seconds // gworley, 2 min

# Ea

EA, Veganism and Negative Animal Utilitarianism // yair-halberstadt, 1 min

# Community

My emotional reaction to the current funding situation // sam-4, 6 min

Overton Gymnastics: An Exercise in Discomfort // DarkSym, 4 min

Find out how utilitarian you are - a mega thread of philosophy polls // spencerg, 1 min

Impact Shares For Speculative Projects // pktechgirl, 8 min

Russian Food for Petrov Day // weft, 1 min

# Fun

Rejected Early Drafts of Newcomb's Problem // zahmahkibo, 3 min

Galaxy Trucker Needs a New Second Half // jkaufman, 1 min

[Fun][Link] Alignment SMBC Comic // Gunnar_Zarncke, 1 min

# Misc

Let's Terraform West Texas // blackstampede, 5 min

First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us // henrik-karlsson, 9 min

Postmortem: Trying out for Manifold Markets // Milli, 3 min

Should you refrain from having children because of the existential risk posed by artificial intelligence? // Mientras, 1 min

Web4/Heaven - The Simulation // Dunning K., 1 min

# Podcasts

#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists // , 141 min

170 – By George, The Rent Is Too Damn High! // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 118 min

YANSS 241 – The poisonous psychology behind our perpetual drive to pursue respect, adoration, fame, and status //

# Rational fiction

A Game About AI Alignment (& Meta-Ethics): What Are the Must Haves? // JonathanErhardt, 1 min

# Videos of the week

[ML News] OpenAI's Whisper | Meta Reads Brain Waves | AI Wins Art Fair, Annoys Humans // Yannic Kilcher, 42 min