rational
Issue #258
2 April, 2023 // View full list# 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