rationalnewsletter

Issue #5: Full List

Firstborn children are significantly more likely to be employed and to work as top managers, while later-born children are more likely to be self-employed. // www.nber.org

# Instrumental

Noticing the Taste of Lotus // Valentine, 4 min Favorite

The 3% Incline (theferrett.com) // Raemon, 1 min

The Leading and Trailing Edges of Development // gworley, 2 min

Follow Standard Incentives // query, 3 min

# Epistemic

Form Your Own Opinions // Ben Pace, 5 min Favorite

Hold On To The Curiosity // Ben Pace, 4 min

Don't Believe Wrong Things // Jacobian, 16 min

The One-Channel Paradigm // Noah Walton, 1 min

# Ai

Double Cruxing the AI Foom debate // agilecaveman, 13 min

Reward function learning: the value function // Stuart_Armstrong, 13 min

The many ways AIs behave badly // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

Reward function learning: the learning process // Stuart_Armstrong, 11 min

# Books

The First Rung: Insights from 'Linear Algebra Done Right' // TurnTrout, 12 min

Ten Commandments for Aspiring Superforecasters // Evan_Gaensbauer, 9 min

Aaronson on Caplan // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Ea

Effective Altruism's Ultimate Goal: Eradicate Human Suffering. // willfranks, 8 min

# Culture war

Wrongology 101 // sarahconstantin, 10 min

Two Types of Envy // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Misc

On exact mathematical formulae // daozaich, 2 min

Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre // Venkatesh Rao, 22 min Favorite

Symbiosis - An Intentional Community For Radical Self-Improvement // mr-hire, 4 min

On Emotional Responsibility & Abuse // devas, 4 min

Institutional Failure as Surprise // Samo Burja, 11 min

The Spousal Chain of Succession // pku, 1 min

Modeling Society as a Damped Harmonic Oscillator // pku, 1 min

Fermi Paradox - Reference Class arguments and Other Possibilities // agilecaveman, 1 min

Mental Health On A Budget // Scott Alexander, 7 min

Call For Adversarial Collaborations // Scott Alexander, 4 min

Do Science and Technology Lead to a Fall in Human Values? // jayshi19, 1 min

Mysterious Motivation // Robin Hanson, 3 min

Sad! // nws, 1 min

# Podcasts

#28 - Dr Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses // The 80,000 Hours team, 63 min

082: Discussion of Subvocal Recognition and Domestic Robots // Review the Future, 61 min

58 – Inside Trump Country with Joshua // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 103 min

# Videos of the week

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant // CGP Grey, 13 min Favorite