rationalnewsletter

Issue #26

Psychiatric disorders are significantly heritable, but people with them tend to have fewer children than average. Recent evolutionary approaches to psychiatry are trying to describe ways in which heritable risk for mental disorders may arise and persist. // journals.sagepub.com

# Instrumental

Treating The Prodrome // Scott Alexander, 11 min Favorite

Defining by opposites // Bucky, 1 min

# Epistemic

Realism about rationality // ricraz, 5 min Favorite

Web of connotations: Bleggs, Rubes, thermostats and beliefs // Stuart_Armstrong, 9 min

Bridging syntax and semantics, empirically // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min

# Ai

Towards a New Impact Measure // TurnTrout, 41 min

Open AI co-founder on AGI // ShardPhoenix, 1 min

Fundamental Philosophical Problems Inherent in AI discourse // AlexSadler, 21 min

HLAI 2018 Talks // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min

Alignment Newsletter #24 // rohinmshah, 15 min

# Longevity

Your genome isn't private. Maybe it never was. // epiphi, 1 min

# Anthropic

Tradition is Smarter Than You Are // Kaj_Sotala, 1 min Favorite

# Decision theory

In Logical Time, All Games are Iterated Games // abramdemski, 6 min

# Books

Book review: Why we sleep // ricraz, 5 min

Psycho-cybernetics: experimental notes // romeostevensit, 14 min

Book Review: The Black Swan // Scott Alexander, 21 min

# Ea

Berkeley REACH Supporters Update: September 2018 // stardust, 4 min

# Community

Modes of Petrov Day // Raemon, 1 min

Team Cohesion and Exclusionary Egalitarianism // lionhearted, 8 min

Advice Wanted; Reconcile with religious parent // ChaosHufflepuff, 2 min

Tips on talking about Polyamory // ChaosHufflepuff, 1 min

# Culture war

Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0 // Eneasz Brodski, 1 min

# Misc

Against the barbell strategy // Benquo, 3 min

(Some?) Possible Multi-Agent Goodhart Interactions // Davidmanheim, 6 min

Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself // avturchin, 1 min

Allow Covert Eye-Rolls // Robin Hanson, 3 min

Great Filter, 20 Years On // Robin Hanson, 1 min

# Podcasts

088: Discussion of Hypocralypse and the Future of Punishment // Review the Future, 55 min

#138 — The Edge of Humanity // Waking up with Sam Harris, 126 min

Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news" // NYC Skeptics, 38 min

# Videos of the week

Preparing for a future with Artificial Intelligence | Robin Winsor | TEDxYYC // TEDx Talks, 17 min