rationalnewsletter

Issue #58

A group of international energy and foreign-policy researchers analyzes four geopolitical scenarios on energy source transitioning and future next steps. // www.nature.com

# Instrumental

Buying Value, not Price // Jacobian, 4 min Favorite

# Epistemic

Dishonest Update Reporting // Zvi, 7 min

Natural Structures and Definitions // Chris_Leong, 1 min

A quick map of consciousness // Elo, 3 min

# Ai

Self-confirming predictions can be arbitrarily bad // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min

What are some good examples of incorrigibility? // RyanCarey, 1 min

Oracles, sequence predictors, and self-confirming predictions // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

# Meta-ethics

Totalitarian ethical systems // Benquo, 4 min

# Decision theory

Functional Decision Theory vs Causal Decision Theory: Expanding on Newcomb's Problem // Geropy, 3 min

A Possible Decision Theory for Many Worlds Living // Evan Ward, 9 min

# Math and cs

Nash equilibriums can be arbitrarily bad // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

Hull: An alternative to shell that I'll never have time to implement // Martin Sustrik, 4 min

# Ea

Aging research and population ethics // emanuele ascani, 7 min

Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Relationships

The State of Affairs // Jacobian, 16 min

# Community

A Map of the Lesswrong-O-Sphere of Interest // Elo, 1 min

Has government or industry had greater past success in maintaining really powerful technological secrets? // habryka, 1 min

Bay Summer Solstice 2019 // Raemon, 2 min

Rationality Vienna Meetup May 2019 // Viliam, 1 min

Reference request: human as "backup" // Yuxi_Liu, 1 min

# Culture war

The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority // sarahconstantin, 4 min

Bounty Hunter Blackmail // Robin Hanson, 3 min

Liability Insurance For All // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Populists Like Late Bloomers  // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Taboo Gradations // Robin Hanson, 4 min

# Fun

Little Known Types Of Eclipse // Scott Alexander, 1 min

# Misc

Change A View: An interesting online community // habryka, 1 min

Pecking Order and Flight Leadership // sarahconstantin, 3 min

Rationality made me less bad at Mario Kart 8 // Three-Monkey Mind, 3 min

My poorly done attempt of formulating a game with incomplete information. // RorscHak, 5 min

Huemer On Disagreement // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Podcasts

Episode 3 of Tsuyoku Naritai! (the 'becoming stronger podcast): Nike Timers // Bae's Theorem, 1 min

#155 — Mental Models // Waking up with Sam Harris, 121 min

Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on “Defending big business against its critics” // NYC Skeptics, 64 min

# Videos of the week

What do sex workers want? | Juno Mac | TEDxEastEnd // TEDx Talks, 18 min