rationalnewsletter

Issue #31: Full List

Self-control is an all-purpose good like IQ: It predicts health, wealth, and all things good. // www.pnas.org

# Instrumental

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs // Scott Alexander, 10 min Favorite

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs // Scott Alexander, 9 min Favorite

Mark Eichenlaub: How to develop scientific intuition // Kaj_Sotala, 10 min

play and spinning plates // brown, 1 min

# Epistemic

Bets As Signals of Article Quality // Robin Hanson, 4 min Favorite

Schools Proliferating Without Practicioners // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min

# Ai

Addressing three problems with counterfactual corrigibility: bad bets, defending against backstops, and overconfidence. // RyanCarey, 5 min

Whole Brain Emulation & DL: imitation learning for faster AGI? // gwern, 1 min

Alignment Newsletter #29 // rohinmshah, 11 min

What will the long-term future of employment look like? // ricraz, 6 min

Possible Dangers of the Unrestricted Value Learners // avturchin, 6 min

Thoughts on short timelines // Tobias_Baumann, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff // Scott Alexander, 5 min Favorite

# Anthropic

Berkeley: being other people // KatjaGrace, 2 min

# Decision theory

In praise of heuristics // Bucky, 8 min

One Doubt About Timeless Decision Theories // Chris_Leong, 1 min

When EDT=CDT, ADT Does Well // Diffractor, 10 min

# Math and cs

Kalman Filter for Bayesians // SatvikBeri, 4 min

Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise // Martin Sustrik, 4 min

# Community

Starting Meditation // Hazard, 2 min

look at the water // brown, 1 min

# Misc

In favor of tabooing the word “values” and using only “priorities” instead // chaosmage, 2 min

the world is detailed // brown, 1 min

Why do we like stories? // joshux, 5 min

Bottom Boss Prediction Market // Robin Hanson, 3 min

The Speakeasy Imagineering Network // Venkatesh Rao, 12 min

# Podcasts

#46 - Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia // The 80000 Hours team, 169 min

70 – Kick-offs // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 125 min

# Videos of the week

How to mass produce cell-sized robots // Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2 min