rationalnewsletter

Issue #43

Most people don't change their minds following exposure to arguments on the other side, although a significant minority do, even in the course of a very brief study and after a single exposure to the arguments. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

Clothing For Men // Solnassant, 17 min Favorite

Finance Followups // Jacobian, 5 min

A Framework for Internal Debugging // mr-hire, 6 min

Bundle your Experiments // PeterMcCluskey, 2 min

# Epistemic

Doing Despite Disliking: Self‐regulatory Strategies in Everyday Aversive Activities // lifelonglearner, 1 min

The Tether Theory and the Concrete, Subtle and Causal tiers // Elo, 10 min

When Wholes Become Parts // Robin Hanson, 1 min

Highlights From The Comments On Kuhn // Scott Alexander, 24 min

# Ai

What AI Safety Researchers Have Written About the Nature of Human Values // avturchin, 18 min

Directions and desiderata for AI alignment // paulfchristiano, 16 min

Towards formalizing universality // paulfchristiano, 22 min

Reward uncertainty // rohinmshah, 6 min

Human-AI Interaction // rohinmshah, 4 min

# Meta-ethics

The Very Repugnant Conclusion // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min Favorite

# Anthropic

Anthropics is pretty normal // Stuart_Armstrong, 9 min

Anthropics: Full Non-indexical Conditioning (FNC) is inconsistent // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

Anthropic probabilities: answering different questions // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

In SIA, reference classes (almost) don't matter // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min

The questions and classes of SSA // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min

# Decision theory

CDT=EDT=UDT // abramdemski, 15 min

CDT Dutch Book // abramdemski, 2 min

When is CDT Dutch-Bookable? // abramdemski, 1 min

# Math and cs

And My Axiom! Insights from 'Computability and Logic' // TurnTrout, 9 min

# Books

Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain // Kaj_Sotala, 32 min Favorite

Time Biases // PeterMcCluskey, 7 min

Critical Thinking in Medicine // Yoav Ravid, 1 min

# Ea

EA Funds: Long-Term Future fund is open to applications until Feb. 7th // habryka, 1 min

# Community

SSC Survey Results 2019 // Scott Alexander, 1 min Favorite

What are the open problems in Human Rationality? // Raemon, 1 min

Moscow LW meetup in "Nauchka" library // Alexander230, 1 min

Kernel Of Doubt: Testing Math Preference Vs. Corn-Eating Style // Scott Alexander, 4 min

# Culture war

Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy // Scott Alexander, 10 min Favorite

Curing the World of Men // Jacobian, 1 min

# Misc

Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice // Laura B, 5 min Favorite

What are the components of intellectual honesty? // abramdemski, 1 min

How could shares in a megaproject return value to shareholders? // ryan_b, 1 min

Buy shares in a megaproject // ryan_b, 1 min

Stack Luck // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min

# Podcasts

#8 Classic episode - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes // The 80000 Hours team, 195 min

#146 — Digital Capitalism // Waking up with Sam Harris, 100 min

76 – Patreon and Censorship // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 110 min

# Videos of the week

The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding | Dana Kanze // TED, 14 min