rationalnewsletter

Issue #47

More frequent usage of Twitter is linked to better acquisition of knowledge about current affairs compared to usage of Facebook. // www.tandfonline.com

# Instrumental

Perfecting The Motion // Natália Mendonça, 12 min Favorite

Functional silence: communication that minimizes change of receiver's beliefs // chaosmage, 2 min

Dojo on stress // Elo, 3 min

Minimize Use of Standard Internet Food Delivery // Zvi, 2 min

# Epistemic

The RAIN Framework for Informational Effectiveness // ozziegooen, 7 min Favorite

Layers of Expertise and the Curse of Curiosity // Gyrodiot, 7 min

Pedagogy as Struggle // lifelonglearner, 2 min

# Ai

Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy // Wei_Dai, 5 min

How does OpenAI's language model affect our AI timeline estimates? // jimrandomh, 1 min

How the MtG Color Wheel Explains AI Safety // Scott Garrabrant, 7 min

The Argument from Philosophical Difficulty // Wei_Dai, 1 min

Learning preferences by looking at the world // rohinmshah, 8 min

# Meta-ethics

Arguments for moral indefinability // ricraz, 8 min

# Anthropic

Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox // Lanrian, 50 min Favorite

# Decision theory

Probability space has 2 metrics // Donald Hobson, 1 min

# Math and cs

Structured Concurrency Cross-language Forum // Martin Sustrik, 1 min

Graceful Shutdown // Martin Sustrik, 13 min

So you want to be a wizard // An1lam, 1 min

Propositional Logic, Syntactic Implication // Donald Hobson, 1 min

# Ea

Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? // Teo Ajantaival, 1 min

# Relationships

Individual profit-sharing? // ioannes_shade, 1 min

# Community

Three Kinds of Research Documents: Clarification, Explanatory, Academic // ozziegooen, 3 min

Rationality Retreat in Cologne Area, Germany, Spring 2019 // ZeitPolizei, 2 min

Triangle SSC Meetup-February // willbobaggins, 1 min

# Culture war

Checkmate On Blackmail // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Fun

New York Restaurants I Love: Breakfast // Zvi, 9 min

# Misc

Cooperation is for Winners // Jacobian, 5 min Favorite

When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it? // jacobjacob, 1 min

The Prediction Pyramid: Why Fundamental Work is Needed for Prediction Work // ozziegooen, 4 min

One week of CBT journaling: Fighting the allure of depressive realism // aaq, 3 min

Conditional Harberger Tax Games // Robin Hanson, 8 min

# Podcasts

78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 120 min

# Rational fiction

The Proverbial Murder Mystery // Scott Alexander, 30 min Favorite

# Videos of the week

The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg // TED, 11 min