rationalnewsletter

Issue #50

Individualistic societies show a higher degree of civic engagement in political activity and tend to be more cohesive and cooperative than collectivist ones. // psych.ut.ee

# Instrumental

In My Culture // Duncan_Sabien, 1 min

How dangerous is it to ride a bicycle without a helmet? // habryka, 4 min

[NeedAdvice]How to stay Focused on a long-term goal? // Enes Sinanovic, 1 min

Mediocratopia: 3 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min

# Epistemic

To understand, study edge cases // shminux, 1 min

On the Regulation of Perception // lionhearted, 5 min

Want to Know What Time Is? // Alexander Weinmann, 3 min

# Ai

Alignment Research Field Guide // abramdemski, 21 min

Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false // Wei_Dai, 3 min

Asymptotically Benign AGI // michaelcohen, 1 min

mAIry's room: AI reasoning to solve philosophical problems // Stuart_Armstrong, 7 min

How much funding and researchers were in AI, and AI Safety, in 2018? // Raemon, 1 min

# Anthropic

Sleeping Beauty Problem, Anthropic Principle and Perspective Reasoning // dadadarren, 9 min

# Math and cs

Exponential Secretary // Jacobian, 1 min

Programmatic Code Generation: Composability // Martin Sustrik, 1 min

# Books

Book Review: The Eureka Factor // drossbucket, 15 min

# Community

Renaming "Frontpage" // Raemon, 5 min

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

IDA 1-4/14: Problem Statement // RAISE, 1 min

Lyubarsky intro // Mary Chernyshenko, 1 min

Inaugural New Brunswick LW Meetup // Brangus, 1 min

# Culture war

Consider Reparations // Robin Hanson, 6 min

Domestic Cozy: 1 // Venkatesh Rao, 2 min

Prospiracy Theories // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Art

Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World? // Ian Cheng, 4 min

# Misc

Personalized Medicine For Real // sarahconstantin, 6 min Favorite

Asking for help teaching a critical thinking class. // Brangus, 1 min

Leaky Concepts // Elo, 2 min

Ideas for an action coordination website // Yoav Ravid, 6 min

On The London Mulligan // Zvi, 13 min

# Podcasts

#149 — The Problem of Addiction // Waking up with Sam Harris, 92 min

Rationally Speaking #228 - William Gunn and Alex Holcombe on "Is Elsevier helping or hurting scientific progress?" // NYC Skeptics, 58 min

# Videos of the week

How women in Pakistan are creating political change | Shad Begum // TED, 13 min