rationalnewsletter

Issue #61: Full List

Small climate nudges undermine support for substantive climate policy. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

Go Do Something // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min

What are good practices for using Google Scholar to research answers to LessWrong Questions? // DonyChristie, 1 min

Schelling Fences versus Marginal Thinking // Davidmanheim, 3 min

# Epistemic

Say Wrong Things // G Gordon Worley III, 4 min Favorite

Separation of Concerns // abramdemski, 7 min

# Ai

Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety? // Wei_Dai, 1 min

And the AI would have got away with it too, if... // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min

[AN #56] Should ML researchers stop running experiments before making hypotheses? // rohinmshah, 11 min

TAISU - Technical AI Safety Unconference // Linda Linsefors, 1 min

A Treacherous Turn Timeline - Children, Seed AIs and Predicting AI // Michaël Trazzi, 3 min

Trade-off in AI Capability Concealment // Michaël Trazzi, 1 min

Learning-by-doing AI Safety workshop // Linda Linsefors, 1 min

The concept of evidence as humanity currently uses it is a bit of a crutch. // TheSkeward, 1 min

# Anthropic

A Quick Taxonomy of Arguments for Theoretical Engineering Capabilities // Ruby, 4 min

# Decision theory

More Notes on Simple Rules // Zvi, 7 min

Simple Rules of Law // Zvi, 34 min

Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition! // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min

Why the empirical results of the Traveller’s Dilemma deviate strongly away from the Nash Equilibrium and seems to be close to the social optimum? // RorscHak, 3 min

# Books

Ethics as Warfare: Metaphysics and Morality of the Era of Transhumanism // Dubioustunic, 1 min

# Community

What is your personal experience with "having a meaningful life"? // Hazard, 1 min Favorite

Moscow LW meetup in "Nauchka" library // Alexander230, 1 min

SSC Paris Meetup // fbreton, 1 min

Cryonics Symposium International // synkarius, 1 min

# Culture war

Getting Out of the Filter Bubble Outside Your Filter Bubble // Evan_Gaensbauer, 7 min

Expand vs Fight in Social Justice, Fertility, Bioconservatism, & AI Risk // Robin Hanson, 6 min

Predictable Identities 10: Big Updates // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

Domestic Cozy: 5 // Venkatesh Rao, 1 min

# Fun

Laws of John Wick // Zvi, 7 min

# Misc

The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay // Scott Alexander, 16 min Favorite

Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness // eukaryote, 4 min

Constraints & Slackness Reasoning Exercises // johnswentworth, 7 min

A War of Ants and Grasshoppers // Benquo, 1 min

Does the Higgs-boson exist? // shminux, 1 min

Discourse Norms: Justify or Retract Accusations // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min

# Podcasts

Episode 5 of Tsuyoku Naritai (the 'becoming stronger' podcast): The Stance // Bae's Theorem, 1 min

85 – Stuff is Weird, Yo // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 96 min

#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say? // Waking up with Sam Harris, 77 min

# Videos of the week

Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? // Science Magazine, 6 min