rationalnewsletter

Issue #23

Nature Human Behaviour paper replicates 21 Science and Nature experiments, 13 of which succeed. Interestingly, social scientists predicted well which experiments would replicate successfully. // www.nature.com

# Instrumental

Player of Games // Jacobian, 14 min Favorite

You Play to Win the Game // Zvi, 2 min

Aumann’s Agreement Revisited // agilecaveman, 9 min

# Epistemic

Unknown Knowns // Zvi, 2 min

Zetetic explanation // Benquo, 6 min

Theories of Pain // mingyuan, 11 min

Seperate Top-Down, Bottom-Up Brain Credit // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Ai

Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers // DanielFilan, 3 min

Using expected utility for Good(hart) // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min

HLAI 2018 Field Report // G Gordon Worley III, 6 min

Do what we mean vs. do what we say // rohinmshah, 1 min

Alignment Newsletter #21 // rohinmshah, 8 min

# Anthropic

How Do You Value a Human Being? // Venkatesh Rao, 9 min Favorite

[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI // avturchin, 1 min

Spaceship Earth Explores Culture Space // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Decision theory

VOI is Only Nonnegative When Information is Uncorrelated With Future Action // Diffractor, 2 min

Cooperative Oracles // Diffractor, 15 min

Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment // Chris_Leong, 2 min

# Math and cs

Computational complexity of RL with traps // Vadim Kosoy, 1 min

# Fun

Psychology Replication Quiz // Ben Pace, 1 min

My Market Board Game // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Misc

History of the Development of Logical Induction // Scott Garrabrant, 5 min

On memetic weapons // ioannes_shade, 6 min

Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient // Scott Alexander, 2 min

Links 8/18: URLin Wall // Scott Alexander, 8 min

Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) // Scott Alexander, 2 min

# Podcasts

#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher // The 80,000 Hours team, 138 min

#136 — Digital Humanism // Waking up with Sam Harris, 63 min

The Sword of Good // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 64 min

# Videos of the week

The little risks you can take to increase your luck | Tina Seelig // TED, 11 min