rationalnewsletter

Issue #63

Neural signaling pathways that evolved to bolster cognition in settings of food insecurity may be stimulated by intermittent fasting and exercise. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting? // jp, 1 min

# Epistemic

Steelmanning Divination // Vaniver, 7 min Favorite

How is Solomonoff induction calculated in practice? // Bucky, 1 min

All knowledge is circularly justified // Chris Leong, 1 min

[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness // Scott Alexander, 5 min

# Ai

Selection vs Control // abramdemski, 13 min

The Inner Alignment Problem // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 15 min

Deceptive Alignment // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 20 min

Risks from Learned Optimization: Conclusion and Related Work // evhub, chrisvm, vlad_m, Joar Skalse, Scott Garrabrant, 7 min

AGI will drastically increase economies of scale // Wei_Dai, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

For the past, in some ways only, we are moral degenerates // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

To first order, moral realism and moral anti-realism are the same thing // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

# Anthropic

Progeny Probs: Souls, Ems, Quantum // Robin Hanson, 9 min

# Decision theory

Moral Mazes and Short Termism // Zvi, 4 min Favorite

The Schelling Choice is "Rabbit", not "Stag" // Raemon, 14 min

# Books

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success // Scott Alexander, 30 min Favorite

List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Secret Of Our Success” // Scott Alexander, 31 min

# Ea

Fractional Reserve Charity // Alicorn, 6 min

Impact of aging research besides LEV // emanuele ascani, 9 min

# Relationships

Personal musings on Individualism and Empathy // dragohole, 6 min

# Community

Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min

Washington SSC Meetup // robirahman, 1 min

# Culture war

Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad // Scott Alexander, 17 min Favorite

Asymmetric Weapons Aren't Always on Your Side // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min

Our Prestige Obsession // Robin Hanson, 4 min

Addendum To “Enormous Nutshell”: Competing Selectors // Scott Alexander, 8 min

Predictable Identities 11: Fear, Myths and the Outgroup – Part I // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

# Misc

Circle Games // sarahconstantin, 5 min

Major Update on Cost Disease // Max D Porter, 1 min

Seeing the Matrix, Switching Abstractions, and Missing Moods // Raemon, 4 min

On alien science // ricraz, 5 min

Two labyrinths - where would you rather be? // KyriakosCH, 4 min

# Podcasts

#159 — Conscious // Waking up with Sam Harris, 72 min

86 – Quick Shout Out to the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 85 min

#58 - Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI // The 80000 Hours team, 90 min

# Videos of the week

How AI could become an extension of your mind | Arnav Kapur // TED, 8 min