rationalnewsletter

Issue #27: Full List

First lab demo of driving malaria mosquitoes to extinction with CRISPR gene drive and no evolved resistance. // www.nature.com

# Instrumental

Criticism Scheduling and Privacy // Lulie, 17 min Favorite

Direct Primary Care // sarahconstantin, 1 min

Code Switch // Elo, 1 min

give the evidence not the theory // niclas, 1 min

other people are occasionally rather weird // niclas, 2 min

# Epistemic

Bridging syntax and semantics with Quine's Gavagai // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

# Ai

Deep learning - deeper flaws? // ricraz, 5 min

New DeepMind AI Safety Research Blog // Vika, 1 min

[Link] New DeepMind AI Safety Research Blog // Vika, 1 min

Wireheading as a potential problem with the new impact measure // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min

Alignment Newsletter #25 // rohinmshah, 11 min

Reflective AIXI and Anthropics // Diffractor, 10 min

A probabilistic off-switch that the agent is indifferent to // ofer, 3 min

Three Levels of Motivation // DragonGod, 1 min

Preventing s-risks via indexical uncertainty, acausal trade and domination in the multiverse // avturchin, 5 min

Analysing AI Actors // DragonGod, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life // Scott Alexander, 8 min Favorite

Moral differences in mediocristan // Benquo, 4 min

# Anthropic

Anti-social Punishment // Martin Sustrik, 7 min Favorite

# Decision theory

Asymptotic Decision Theory (Improved Writeup) // Diffractor, 17 min

# Books

Book review: Happiness by Design // ricraz, 5 min

The Master and His Emissary // Robin Hanson, 9 min

# Ea

Obligatory Altruism // manoj-nathwani, 3 min

Why we should ban the concept of Effective Altruism // Jsevillamol, 1 min

# Community

Thoughts on tackling blindspots // Hazard, 1 min

AI Reading Group Thoughts (2/?): Reconstructive Psychosurgery // Alicorn, 3 min

Attacking enlightenment // Elo, 3 min

My Poll, Explained // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Misc

Adversarial Collaboration Contest Results // Scott Alexander, 29 min Favorite

August gwern.net links // gwern, 1 min

Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory // avturchin, 2 min

How Gossip Works // Robin Hanson, 5 min

Gossip Cabals // Robin Hanson, 4 min

The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life // Scott Alexander, 8 min

OT111: Ophion Thread // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Podcasts

#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines // The 80,000 Hours team, 164 min

68 – Can’t Give Up Freeman // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 90 min

Introducing the Waking Up Course // Waking up with Sam Harris, 10 min

# Videos of the week

How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain | Steve McCarroll // TED, 17 min