rationalnewsletter

Issue #271: Full List

# Instrumental

My "2.9 trauma limit" // Raemon, 7 min

On household dust // NinaR, 5 min

Micro Habits that Improve One’s Day // silentbob, 5 min

Self-Blinded Caffeine RCT // niplav, 10 min

What is your financial portfolio? // Algon, 1 min

# Epistemic

Model, Care, Execution // bayesshammai, 15 min

Confused Attractiveness // Vlad Loweren, 7 min

# Ai

Munk AI debate: confusions and possible cruxes // steve2152, 10 min

Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell? // Karl von Wendt, 7 min

When do "brains beat brawn" in Chess? An experiment // lombertini, 9 min

# Longevity

Another medical miracle // Dentin, 3 min

# Anthropic

Why am I Me? // dadadarren, 4 min

Four Cases for Panspermia // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Misc

Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? // eukaryote, 16 min Favorite

The Weight of the Future (Why The Apocalypse Can Be A Relief) // Sable, 3 min

Map of maps of interesting fields // MaxG, 1 min

What money-pumps exist, if any, for deontologists? // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min

Freedom under Naturalistic Dualism // arturo-macias, 16 min

Sure, Whatever, Let's Try Another Contra Caplan On Mental Illness // Scott Alexander, 20 min

# Podcasts

Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World // Keiran Harris, 35 min

YANSS 262 – The drives and motivations of those who sell modern snake oils and engage in age-old quackery //

Bayes Blast 15 – Technological Overemployment // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 8 min

Currents 099: Samuel Scarpino on Preparing for the Next Pandemic // The Jim Rutt Show, 103 min

Bayes Blast 14 – Reddit Sucks // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 10 min

190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 91 min

# Rational fiction

Man in the Arena // ricraz, 10 min