rationalnewsletter

Issue #252

Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned // www.lesswrong.com

# Instrumental

Please don't throw your mind away // TsviBT, 22 min

Buy Duplicates // sberens, 1 min

How I Learn From Textbooks // AllAmericanBreakfast, 9 min

Sleep Quality: Strategies that work for me // Lukas T, 8 min

# Epistemic

Elements of Rationalist Discourse // RobbBB, 5 min

Hashing out long-standing disagreements seems low-value to me // So8res, 5 min

Important fact about how people evaluate sets of arguments // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min

Contra Kavanagh On Fideism // Scott Alexander, 12 min

# Ai

AGI in sight: our look at the game board // AndreaM, 7 min

Bing chat is the AI fire alarm // Ratios, 3 min

I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing's AI // yitz, 1 min

Don't accelerate problems you're trying to solve // AndreaM, 6 min

GPT-4 Predictions // stephen-mcaleese, 14 min

# Meta-ethics

Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? // joekc, 44 min

# Anthropic

Thoughts on an Expanded Simulation Hypothesis: AI Caretakers, Consciousness Removal, WBE-AI Hybrids, & Some Physics // 314159, 6 min

How Weird Inside Black Holes? // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Decision theory

Junk Fees, Bunding and Unbundling // Zvi, 7 min

Nozick's Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory // edward-p-koenings, 16 min

Elite Vs Expert “Innovation” // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Books

Enjoy LessWrong in ebook format // Stuckwork, 1 min

Book review: How Social Science Got Better // PeterMcCluskey, 3 min

# Community

Avoid large group discussions in your social events // r, 4 min

# Culture war

Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust // Zack_M_Davis, 3 min

# Misc

How much is death a limit on knowledge accumulation? // gworley, 1 min

Whole Bird Emulation requires Quantum Mechanics // jeffrey-heninger, 4 min

A Short History of My Last Six Years // Tim Urban, 10 min

Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 16 min

# Podcasts

The Filan Cabinet Podcast with Oliver Habryka - Transcript // MondSemmel, 89 min

Bayes Blast 1 – In Defense of Chatbot Romance // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 10 min

EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap // The Jim Rutt Show, 95 min

EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap // The Jim Rutt Show, 98 min

Bonus preview – YIMBY follow-ups and Vulgar EA // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 16 min