rationalnewsletter

Issue #230

The forefront of prosthetics: Hand-wrist-controlled prosthetics combine machine learning and musculoskeletal modeling resulting in reliable fine motor control. // twitter.com

# Instrumental

Time is not the bottleneck (on making progress thinking about difficult things) // kman, 1 min

# Epistemic

Many therapy schools work with inner multiplicity (not just IFS) // wallowinmaya, 21 min

Dan Luu on Futurist Predictions // T3t, 6 min

In forecasting, how do accuracy, calibration and reliability relate to each other? // Maiwaaro23, 1 min

ε/δ Thinking // Venkatesh Rao, 8 min

# Ai

Takeaways from our robust injury classifier project [Redwood Research] // DMZ, 7 min

[Linkpost] A survey on over 300 works about interpretability in deep networks // scasper, 2 min

Understanding Conjecture: Notes from Connor Leahy interview // akash-wasil, 17 min

AGI safety researchers should focus (only/mostly) on deceptive alignment // marius-hobbhahn, 15 min

AI Risk Intro 1: Advanced AI Might Be Very Bad // TheMcDouglas, 37 min

# Longevity

Transhumanism, genetic engineering, and the biological basis of intelligence. // fowlertm, 1 min

Out with the old blood, in with the young blood // Josh Mitteldorf, 8 min

# Anthropic

What's the longest a sentient observer could survive in the Dark Era? // Raemon, 1 min

A Pin and a Balloon: Anthropic Fragility Increases Chances of Runaway Global Warming // avturchin, 64 min

Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things) // Astynax, 1 min

# Decision theory

Logical counterfactuals are brittle; use conditionals // Sylvester Kollin, 24 min

I'm taking a course on game theory and am faced with this question. What's the rational decision? // dalton-mabery, 1 min

# Math and cs

Most sensible abstraction & feature set for a systems language // jasen-q, 12 min

Is there an Ultimate text editor? // johannes-c-mayer, 1 min

# Ea

Effective altruism in the garden of ends // tyler-alterman, 31 min

Introducing School of Thinking // Luca Parodi, 11 min

# Fun

D&D.Sci September 2022: The Allocation Helm // abstractapplic, 1 min

Simple 5x5 Go // jkaufman, 1 min

# Misc

Why Do People Think Humans Are Stupid? // DragonGod, 3 min

Freeloading? // jkaufman, 2 min

What would happen if we abolished the FDA tomorrow? // yair-halberstadt, 5 min

Seeing the Schema // vitaliya, 1 min

Towards a philosophy of safety // jasoncrawford, 9 min

# Rational fiction

I’ve written a Fantasy Novel to Promote Effective Altruism // timothy-underwood-1, 16 min

I wrote a fantasy novel to promote EA: More Chapters // timothy-underwood-1, 56 min