rationalnewsletter

Issue #62

Staying neutral in a friend's conflict can reduce closeness and damage valuable friendships. // pdescioli.com

# Instrumental

Micro feedback loops and learning // Swimmer963, 8 min

How to find a lost phone with dead battery, using Google Location History Takeout // Wei_Dai, 1 min

How to determine if my sympathetic or my parasympathetic nervous system is currently dominant? // crabman, 1 min

# Epistemic

"But It Doesn't Matter" // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min

When Observation Beats Experiment // johnswentworth, 1 min

# Ai

Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction // evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 14 min

Conditions for Mesa-Optimization // evhub, Chris van Merwijk, Vladimir Mikulik, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 14 min

A shift in arguments for AI risk // ricraz, 1 min

Uncertainty versus fuzziness versus extrapolation desiderata // Stuart_Armstrong, 4 min

What is the best online community for questions about AI capabilities? // bgold, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

Egoism In Disguise // wfenza, 5 min

# Math and cs

The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing: Missing Link of the Dutch Book Arguments // johnswentworth, 3 min

# Books

Quotes from Moral Mazes // Zvi, 65 min Favorite

Chiang’s Exhalation // Robin Hanson, 6 min

# Ea

Drowning children are rare // Benquo, 5 min

Seeking suggestions for EA cash-prize contest // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min

# Community

MIRI Summer Fellows Program // colm, 2 min

Have you lost your purpose? // toonalfrink, 1 min

What is a good moment to start writing? // toonalfrink, 1 min

How would you advise a peer-supported virtues-oriented self-help group? // David_Gross, 1 min

Was CFAR always intended to be a distinct organization from MIRI? // Evan_Gaensbauer, 1 min

# Culture war

Low Prestige Hurts More // Robin Hanson, 2 min

Understandable Social Systems // Robin Hanson, 4 min

Weirding Diary: 8 // Venkatesh Rao, 3 min

# Misc

What is required to run a psychology study? // Raemon, 1 min

Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science // Benito, 3 min

Infinity is an adjective like positive rather than an amount // Slider, 2 min

What should rationalists think about the recent claims that air force pilots observed UFOs? // avturchin, 1 min

The Age of Diffraction // Venkatesh Rao, 20 min

# Podcasts

#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild // Waking up with Sam Harris, 122 min

Rationally Speaking #234 - Dylan Matthews on “Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that?” // NYC Skeptics, 77 min

# Videos of the week

How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel // TED, 9 min