rationalnewsletter

Issue #3: Full List

# Favorites

A voting theory primer for rationalists // Jameson Quinn, 20 min

Recommendations vs. Guidelines // Scott Alexander, 5 min

Critique my Model: The EV of AGI to Selfish Individuals // ozziegooen, 5 min

How Going Meta Can Level Up Your Career // mr-hire, 8 min

Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates? // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Instrumental

I'm going to help you quit Facebook with some science // Elo, 5 min

How Going Meta Can Level Up Your Career // mr-hire, 8 min

What I got out of 'Algorithms to Live By' // rk, 23 min

# Epistemic

Trust the (local) expert // rk, 8 min

# Ai

Announcing the Alignment Newsletter // rohinmshah, 1 min

Implicit extortion // paulfchristiano, 7 min

Two clarifications about "Strategic Background" // Rob Bensinger, 1 min

Critique my Model: The EV of AGI to Selfish Individuals // ozziegooen, 5 min

OpenAI charter // wunan, 1 min

The limits of corrigibility // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min

Utility versus Reward function: partial equivalence // Stuart_Armstrong, 8 min

Idea: OpenAI Gym environments where the AI is a part of the environment // crabman, 1 min

Trustworthy Computing // Douglas_Reay, 7 min

Metamorphosis // Douglas_Reay, 5 min

# Misc

A voting theory primer for rationalists // Jameson Quinn, 20 min

Recommendations vs. Guidelines // Scott Alexander, 5 min

The Chromatic Number of the Plane is at Least 5 - Aubrey de Grey // Scott Garrabrant, 1 min

5 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch // Jameson Quinn, 13 min

5 voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch // Jameson Quinn, 12 min

Using rationality to debug Machine Learning // Dr_Manhattan, 1 min

How do we change our minds? A meetup blueprint // ChristianKl, 5 min

A Different Prisoner's Dilemma // Serpent-Stare, 6 min

Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates? // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Podcasts

081: Discussion of Facebook and Privacy // Review the Future, 65 min

#123 — Identity & Honesty // Waking up with Sam Harris, 131 min