rationalnewsletter

Issue #49

Higher intelligence does not necessarily provide protection against susceptibility to foolish beliefs. // ejop.psychopen.eu

# Instrumental

Policy-Based vs Willpower-Based Intentions // Unreal, 5 min

Motivation: You Have to Win in the Moment // Ruby, 11 min

Knowing I’m Being Tricked is Barely Enough // elizabeth, 2 min

Informal Post on Motivation // Ruby, 9 min

# Epistemic

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out // Scott Alexander, 4 min Favorite

Unconscious Economies // jacobjacob, 5 min

Subagents, introspective awareness, and blending // Kaj_Sotala, 11 min

Markets Are Eating The World // Taylor Pearson, 35 min

Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 23 min

# Ai

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences // sarahconstantin, 7 min Favorite

RAISE is launching their MVP // toonalfrink, 1 min

'This Waifu Does Not Exist': 100,000 StyleGAN & GPT-2 samples // gwern, 1 min

Can HCH epistemically dominate Ramanujan? // zhukeepa, 2 min

How to get value learning and reference wrong // Charlie Steiner, 7 min

# Anthropic

So You Want to Colonize The Universe // Diffractor, 7 min

So You Want to Colonize The Universe Part 5: The Actual Design // Diffractor, 5 min

So You Want To Colonize The Universe Part 3: Dust // Diffractor, 8 min

So You Want to Colonize the Universe Part 2: Deep Time Engineering // Diffractor, 4 min

So You Want to Colonize The Universe Part 4: Velocity Changes and Energy // Diffractor, 11 min

# Books

Book review: My Hidden Chimp // Bucky, 9 min

# Ea

[Link] The Problem with the Effective Altruism Campaign- Quillette // Evan Ward, 1 min

# Community

Karma-Change Notifications // jimrandomh, 1 min

New versions of posts in "Map and Territory" and "How To Actually Change Your Mind" are up (also, new revision system) // habryka, 1 min

Is LessWrong a "classic style intellectual world"? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min

What would a zetetic explanation be for the rationality community? // hamnox, 1 min

Starting a rationality dojo; any tips? // Senarin, 1 min

# Misc

The Tale of Alice Almost: Strategies for Dealing With Pretty Good People // sarahconstantin, 8 min

How good is a human's gut judgement at guessing someone's IQ? // habryka, 1 min

Native mental representations that give huge speedups on problems? // two-ox-heads, 2 min

Where to find Base Rates? // adam demirel, 1 min

Have a camel! // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min

# Podcasts

#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism // The 80000 Hours team, 154 min

79 – CyberChristianity // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 100 min

# Rational fiction

Meaningful // Scott Alexander, 3 min

# Videos of the week

The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez // TED, 18 min