rationalnewsletter

Issue #66

One partner feeding the other during a first date was highly predictive of a second date, indicating ‘courtship’ feeding. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World // johnswentworth, 3 min Favorite

Instead of "I'm anxious," try "I feel threatened" // Holly_Elmore, 2 min

# Epistemic

Writing children's picture books // jessicata, 6 min

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance // Elizabeth, 4 min

What's up with self-esteem? // abramdemski, 2 min

Causal Reality vs Social Reality // Ruby, 7 min

# Ai

Aligning a toy model of optimization // paulfchristiano, 3 min

Machine Learning Projects on IDA // Owain_Evans, William_S, stuhlmueller, 2 min

Research Agenda in reverse: what *would* a solution look like? // Stuart_Armstrong, 1 min

Conceptual Problems with UDT and Policy Selection // abramdemski, 11 min

False assumptions and leaky abstractions in machine learning and AI safety // capybaralet, 1 min

# Longevity

Progress review: genome sequencing - June 2019 // Yuxi_Liu, 6 min

# Anthropic

Apocalypse, corrupted // Stuart_Armstrong, 3 min

# Math and cs

What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice? // Bucky, 1 min

# Books

Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High? // sarahconstantin, 9 min

# Community

GreaterWrong Arbital Viewer // clone of saturn, 1 min

Arbital Scrape V2 // emmab, 1 min

Is it good practice to write questions/comments on old posts you're trying to understand? // Liam Donovan, 1 min

How does one get invited to the alignment forum? // Chris_Leong, 1 min

Regenerations // Venkatesh Rao, 5 min

# Culture war

Grabbing Now Versus Later // Robin Hanson, 3 min Favorite

Predictable Identities 12: Fear, Myths, and the Outgroup – Part II // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

Libertarian Varieties // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Misc

More Confounders // Scott Alexander, 7 min Favorite

What's the best explanation of intellectual generativity? // Raemon, 1 min

What does the word "collaborative" mean in the phrase "collaborative truthseeking"? // Zack_M_Davis, 1 min

Whence decision exhaustion? // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min

Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative // ryan_b, 1 min

# Podcasts

Podcast - Putanumonit on The Switch // Jacobian, 1 min

#60 - Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better // The 80000 Hours team, 131 min

#161 — Rise & Fall // Waking up with Sam Harris, 88 min

Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified" // NYC Skeptics, 59 min

# Videos of the week

Jordan Peterson on AI-FOOM // Bound_up, 1 min

These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague // TED, 9 min