rationalnewsletter

Issue #236

Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness are genetically the most important personality traits for well-being. // twitter.com

# Instrumental

Trigger-based rapid checklists // VipulNaik, 10 min

Electric Kettle vs Stove // jkaufman, 1 min

Refine: what helped me write more? // Self-Embedded Agent, 2 min

How to become more articulate? // just_browsing, 1 min

Accountability Buddies: Why you might want one. // samuel-nellessen

# Epistemic

How to get past Haidt's elephant and listen // Astynax, 2 min

# Ai

What does it take to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs? // steve2152, 39 min

Am I secretly excited for AI getting weird? // porby, 4 min

The optimal timing of spending on AGI safety work; why we should probably be spending more now // Tristan Cook

Resources that (I think) new alignment researchers should know about // akash-wasil, 4 min

A Barebones Guide to Mechanistic Interpretability Prerequisites // neel-nanda-1, 3 min

# Meta-ethics

Lessons from 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' and its reflection on today. // mayank-modi

# Longevity

Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling // Scott Alexander, 14 min

# Anthropic

Quantum Suicide and Aumann's Agreement Theorem // KingSupernova, 1 min

# Decision theory

Don’t expect your life partner to be better than your exes in more than one way: a mathematical model // mdd, 8 min

Nash equilibria of symmetric zero-sum games // ege-erdil, 14 min

# Math and cs

Why are probabilities represented as real numbers instead of rational numbers? // jazmt, 1 min

# Books

New book on s-risks // Tobias_Baumann

# Ea

Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus // Prometheus

Reslab Request for Information: EA hardware projects // joel-becker

# Community

Furry Rationalists & Effective Anthropomorphism both exist // agentydragon, 1 min

Have you noticed any ways that rationalists differ? [Brainstorming session] // tailcalled, 1 min

A list of Petrov buttons // philh, 6 min

# Culture war

Ukraine and the Crimea Question // ChristianKl, 13 min

Signals of war in August 2021 // yieldthought, 2 min

Translated transcripts of Putin's major speeches from Oct 27, 2022 // TrevorWiesinger, 15 min

# Misc

The Social Recession: By the Numbers // antonomon, 9 min

How Risky Is Trick-or-Treating? // jkaufman, 2 min

Syncretism // jorge-velez, 1 min

Writing Russian and Ukrainian words in Latin script // Viliam, 5 min

Cryptic symbols // adam-scherlis, 1 min

# Rational fiction

Quantum Immortality, foiled // ben-lang, 2 min

I am a Memoryless System // NicholasKross, 11 min

A Good Future (rough draft) // michael-soareverix, 4 min

# Videos of the week

How AI Could Empower Any Business | Andrew Ng | TED // TED, 11 min