rationalnewsletter

Issue #259: Full List

Strength of weak ties: our weaker connections (acquaintances, not friends) help us the most as they link us to more diverse opportunities. // www.science.org

# Epistemic

Communicating effectively under Knightian norms // ricraz, 6 min

10 reasons why lists of 10 reasons might be a winning strategy // TrevorWiesinger, 1 min

# Ai

GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 4 min

Catching the Eye of Sauron // Zahima, 5 min

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down // Eliezer_Yudkowsky, 15 min

Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds // 1a3orn, 6 min

If interpretability research goes well, it may get dangerous // So8res, 1 min

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Letter in Time Magazine // Zvi, 17 min

Consider The Hand Axe // ymeskhout, 7 min

Misgeneralization as a misnomer // So8res, 4 min

Anthropic is further accelerating the Arms Race? // deluks917, 1 min

Excessive AI growth-rate yields little socio-economic benefit. // strawberry calm, 4 min

AI-kills-everyone scenarios require robotic infrastructure, but not necessarily nanotech // avturchin, 5 min

The surprising parameter efficiency of vision models // beren, 5 min

# Decision theory

Equal, Yet Unequal // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Math and cs

Why Are Maximum Entropy Distributions So Ubiquitous? // johnswentworth, 11 min

# Books

Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias // Scott Alexander, 18 min

# Community

What could EA's new name be? // TrevorWiesinger, 2 min

Is there a LessWrong-adjacent place to hire freelancers/seek freelance work? // nonzerosum, 1 min

# Culture war

Given the Restrict Act, Don’t Ban TikTok // Zvi, 4 min

# Fun

The Friendly Drunk Fool Alignment Strategy // JenniferRM, 13 min

Some lesser-known megaproject ideas // Linch

# Misc

Polio Lab Leak Caught with Wastewater Sampling // Cullen_OKeefe

The Computational Anatomy of Human Values // beren, 42 min

Most Technologies Aren't Races // Scott Alexander, 7 min

# Podcasts

Eliezer on The Lunar Society podcast // Maxc, 1 min

Bayes Blast 9 – The salt in pasta water fallacy // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 5 min

Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games // The Jim Rutt Show, 70 min

EP 183 Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk // The Jim Rutt Show, 103 min

184 – The Cultic Milieu // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 77 min

#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't // , 137 min

YANSS 256 – Why Americans must change their minds about their ability to change other Americans’ minds //

Bayes Blast 8 – An AI risk argument that resonates with NYTimes readers // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 5 min