rationalnewsletter

Issue #37: Full List

Most introductory psychology students are exposed to some inaccurate information about intelligence and may have the mistaken impression that nonmainstream theories are as empirically supported mainstream theories. // psycnet.apa.org

# Instrumental

Playing Politics // sarahconstantin, 15 min Favorite

# Ai

Coherence arguments do not imply goal-directed behavior // rohinmshah, 9 min

Why we need a *theory* of human values // Stuart_Armstrong, 5 min

Factored Cognition // stuhlmueller, 20 min

Alignment Newsletter #35 // rohinmshah, 8 min

Benign model-free RL // paulfchristiano, 9 min

# Meta-ethics

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism // Eliezer Yudkowsky, 5 min Favorite

# Decision theory

COEDT Equilibria in Games // Diffractor, 4 min

# Books

Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology // Scott Alexander, 21 min Favorite

Book Review - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness // Ikaxas, 19 min

Book review: Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security // PeterMcCluskey, 10 min

Del Giudice On The Self-Starvation Cycle // Scott Alexander, 5 min

# Ea

Hell Must Be Destroyed // algekalipso, 5 min

The housekeeper // toonalfrink, 1 min

# Relationships

Worth keeping // KatjaGrace, 2 min

# Community

Peanut Butter // Jacobian, 14 min Favorite

On Rationalist Solstice and Epistemic Caution // Raemon, 4 min

Trivial Inconvenience Day (December 9th at 12 Noon PST) // Hypothesis, 3 min

# Misc

A New Mandate // TurnTrout, 1 min

Is cognitive load a factor in community decline? // ryan_b, 1 min

A Checks and Balances Approach to Improving Institutional Decision-Making // adnan6809, 1 min

Transhumanists Don't Need Special Dispositions // Eliezer Yudkowsky, 5 min

Is the human brain a valid choice for the Universal Turing Machine in Solomonoff Induction? // habryka, 1 min

Why should I care about rationality? // TurnTrout, 1 min

Prediction Markets Are About Being Right // Zvi, 9 min

What is "Social Reality?" // Raemon, 1 min

# Podcasts

#15 - Prof Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads & when it’s wise to defer to the wise (R) // The 80000 Hours team, 84 min

#144 — Conquering Hate // Waking up with Sam Harris, 161 min

73 – Truth and Winning // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 102 min

Rationally Speaking #222 - Spencer Greenberg and Seth Cottrell on "Ask a Mathematician, Ask a Physicist" // NYC Skeptics, 57 min

# Videos of the week

How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis | Alexander Belcredi // TED, 11 min