rationalnewsletter

Issue #48: Full List

The female golden snub-nose monkeys usually nurse the offspring of related females, especially those who've done the same for them. // advances.sciencemag.org

# Instrumental

When does introspection avoid the pitfalls of rumination? // rk, 1 min

# Epistemic

"Other people are wrong" vs "I am right" // Buck, 11 min Favorite

Epistemic Tenure // Scott Garrabrant, 3 min

Predictive Reasoning Systems // ozziegooen, 5 min

Predictable Identities: 1 // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

My Plagiarism // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Ai

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence // Scott Alexander, 13 min Favorite

Thoughts on Human Models // xrchz, Scott Garrabrant, 11 min

Pavlov Generalizes // abramdemski, 9 min

Two Small Experiments on GPT-2 // jimrandomh, 1 min

Alignment Newsletter #46 // rohinmshah, 11 min

[Link] OpenAI on why we need social scientists // ioannes_shade, 1 min

Can an AI Have Feelings? or that satisfying crunch when you throw Alexa against a wall // JohnBuridan, 4 min

Tiles: Report on Programmatic Code Generation // Martin Sustrik, 7 min

Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? // Scott Alexander, 9 min

# Anthropic

Aliens Need Not Wait To Be Active // Robin Hanson, 2 min Favorite

# Relationships

What i learned giving a lecture on NVC // Yoav Ravid, 2 min

# Community

MIRI Summer Fellows Program // colm, 2 min

Kocherga's leaflet // berekuk, 1 min

A Strange Situation // Flange Finnegan, 1 min

# Culture war

RIP Culture War Thread // Scott Alexander, 23 min Favorite

Blackmail // Zvi, 19 min

Why Weakly Enforced Rules? // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Enforce Common Norms On Elites // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Misc

If a "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equlibria" was built, do you have a concrete inadequate equilibrium to fix? // Raemon, 1 min

How could "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equilibria" be used for evil or turn out to be net-negative? // Raemon, 1 min

Decelerating: laser vs gun vs rocket // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min

What's your favorite LessWrong post? // pepe_prime, 1 min

Impact Prizes as an alternative to Certificates of Impact // ozziegooen, 1 min

First steps of a rationality skill bootstrap // hamnox, 7 min

Aphorisms for meditation // ioannes_shade, 1 min

Is there an assurance-contract website in work? // Yoav Ravid, 1 min

Worlding Raga: 1 // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min

Elderblog Sutra: 4 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min

Weirding Diary: 4 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min

# Podcasts

Rationally Speaking #227 - Sarah Haider on "Dissent and free speech" // NYC Skeptics, 58 min

Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity // The 80000 Hours team, 56 min

# Videos of the week

How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? | Matt Beane // TED, 9 min