rationalnewsletter

Issue #258

"There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years" claim is challenged by a paper with a genetic timeline of human brain and cognitive traits // twitter.com

# Epistemic

The salt in pasta water fallacy // Thomas Sepulchre, 4 min

# Ai

Hooray for stepping out of the limelight // So8res, 1 min

Policy discussions follow strong contextualizing norms // ricraz, 3 min

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky // jacques-thibodeau, 3 min

GPT-4 Plugs In // Zvi, 6 min

FLI open letter: Pause giant AI experiments // Zach Stein-Perlman, 2 min

# Meta-ethics

Don't take bad options away from people // Dumbledore's Army, 5 min

For Long-Term Influence, Pick A Side // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Anthropic

Some thought experiments on digital consciousness // rorygreig100, 7 min

# Math and cs

Why do the Sequences say that "Löb's Theorem shows that a mathematical system cannot assert its own soundness without becoming inconsistent."? // thoth-hermes, 1 min

# Books

Are there specific books that it might slightly help alignment to have on the internet? // AnnaSalamon, 1 min

# Community

Run Posts By Orgs // jkaufman, 3 min

# Culture war

Exposure to Lizardman is Lethal // Duncan_Sabien, 4 min

# Fun

Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology. // matthew-barnett, 1 min

A Confession about the LessWrong Team // Ruby, 2 min

Repairing the Effort Asymmetry // Duncan_Sabien, 2 min

# Misc

The Rationalist Guide to Hinduism // harsha-g, 10 min

The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again // Scott Alexander, 7 min

# Podcasts

What can we learn from Lex Fridman’s interview with Sam Altman? // Karl von Wendt, 11 min

Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding // The Jim Rutt Show, 53 min

EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century // The Jim Rutt Show, 96 min

Bayes Blast 7 – Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicide // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 6 min

Bayes Blast 6 – The Parable of the King and the Random Process // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 12 min

# Rational fiction

Turing Test // Scott Alexander, 23 min

# Videos of the week

Eliezer's Videos // johannes-c-mayer, 1 min