rationalnewsletter

Issue #35

The women-are-wonderful effect – the finding that women are evaluated more positively than men overall – is smaller in more gender-egalitarian societies. // onlinelibrary.wiley.com

# Instrumental

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding // Davis_Kingsley, 4 min Favorite

# Epistemic

Believing others' priors // rk, 8 min

# Ai

On MIRI's new research directions // Rob Bensinger, 1 min

Prosaic AI alignment // paulfchristiano, 10 min

New safety research agenda: scalable agent alignment via reward modeling // Vika, 1 min

Approval-directed agents: details // paulfchristiano, 9 min

Approval-directed agents: overview // paulfchristiano, 9 min

# Anthropic

Perspective Reasoning and the Sleeping Beauty Problem // dadadarren, 2 min

The Age of Early Divinity // Venkatesh Rao, 13 min

# Math and cs

Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises // Scott Garrabrant, 3 min

# Books

On the Future by Rees // Robin Hanson, 10 min

# Relationships

Letting Others Be Vulnerable // lifelonglearner, 8 min

# Community

[Insert clever intro here] // Senarin, 1 min

Ia! Ia! Extradimensional Cephalopod Nafl'fhtagn! // ExCeph, 1 min

deluks917 on Online Weirdos // Jacobian, 12 min

# Fun

Review: Artifact // Zvi, 15 min

# Misc

Speculative Evopsych, Ep. 1 // Optimization Process, 1 min Favorite

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know // Zvi, 2 min

Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence // Donald Hobson, 3 min

The Semantic Man // Hypothesis, 1 min

What if people simply forecasted your future choices? // ozziegooen, 6 min

# Podcasts

#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science // The 80000 Hours team, 195 min

#143 — The Keys to the Mind // Waking up with Sam Harris, 112 min

72 – Productivity Tools, Part 2 // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 114 min

# Videos of the week

How to let go of being a "good" person — and become a better person | Dolly Chugh // TED, 11 min