rationalnewsletter

Issue #270

# Coronavirus

Why didn't virologists run the studies necessary to determine which viruses are airborne? // ChristianKl, 1 min

Are vaccine safe enough, that we can give their producers liability? // ChristianKl, 1 min

# Instrumental

Guide to rationalist interior decorating // mingyuan, 14 min

Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try // johnswentworth, 12 min

# Epistemic

Public Transit is not Infinitely Safe // jkaufman, 1 min

"Natural is better" is a valuable heuristic // neil-warren, 4 min

# Ai

The Hubinger lectures on AGI safety: an introductory lecture series // evhub, 1 min

AI #17: The Litany // Zvi, 67 min

"textbooks are all you need" // bhauth, 1 min

Why I am not an AI extinction cautionista // shminux, 2 min

A Friendly Face (Another Failure Story) // Karl von Wendt, 19 min

# Decision theory

Why Not Subagents? // johnswentworth, 16 min

# Math and cs

When is correlation transitive? // ege-erdil, 5 min

Solomonoff induction still works if the universe is uncomputable, and its usefulness doesn't require knowing Occam's razor // christopher-king, 4 min

My impression of singular learning theory // ege-erdil, 2 min

# Books

Your Book Review: Public Citizens // a reader, 22 min

# Community

My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy // habryka4, 9 min

# Misc

My side of an argument with Jacob Cannell about chip interconnect losses // steve2152, 17 min

How tall is the Shard, really? // philh, 11 min

Are the majority of your ancestors farmers or non-farmers? // Linch, 1 min

Frame Bridging v0.8 - an inquiry and a technique // Unreal, 7 min

Defy Your Neck-Hairs // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Podcasts

Currents 098: Damien Walter on Science Fiction and the Rhetoric of Story // The Jim Rutt Show, 78 min

#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after // The 80000 Hours team, 192 min

EP 189 Forrest Landry on Civilization Design // The Jim Rutt Show, 89 min

Currents 097: Frank Lantz on Network Wars and Games // The Jim Rutt Show, 89 min