rationalnewsletter

Issue #68: Full List

Meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. // web.stanford.edu

# Instrumental

Diversify Your Friendship Portfolio // Davis_Kingsley, 2 min Favorite

# Epistemic

"Rationalizing" and "Sitting Bolt Upright in Alarm." // Raemon, 4 min

Black hole narratives // Alexei, 4 min

# Ai

The AI Timelines Scam // jessicata, 8 min

[AN #59] How arguments for AI risk have changed over time // rohinmshah, 9 min

What are we predicting for Neuralink event? // Dr_Manhattan, 1 min

Some Comments on Stuart Armstrong's "Research Agenda v0.9" // Charlie Steiner, 5 min

How can I help research Friendly AI? // avichapman, 1 min

Outline of NIST draft plan for AI standards // ryan_b, 7 min

Musings on Cumulative Cultural Evolution and AI // calebo, 8 min

Largest open collection quotes about AI // teradimich, 3 min

Indifference: multiple changes, multiple agents // Stuart_Armstrong, 10 min

NIST: draft plan for AI standards development // ryan_b, 1 min

Modeling AI milestones to adjust AGI arrival estimates? // Ozyrus, 1 min

AI Alignment "Scaffolding" Project Ideas (Request for Advice) // AllAmericanBreakfast, 1 min

IRL in General Environments // michaelcohen, 1 min

If I knew how to make an omohundru optimizer, would I be able to do anything good with that knowledge? // MakoYass, 1 min

Job description for an independent AI alignment researcher // rmoehn, 1 min

How does the organization "EthAGI" fit into the broader AI safety landscape? // Liam Donovan, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

If physics is many-worlds, does ethics matter? // ioannes_shade, 2 min Favorite

# Anthropic

Types of Boltzmann Brains // avturchin, 1 min

Why Age of Em Will Happen // Robin Hanson, 5 min

# Decision theory

Religion as Goodhart // shminux, 2 min

# Math and cs

Insights from Linear Algebra Done Right // sil ver, 11 min

Is the sum individual informativeness of two independent variables no more than their joint informativeness? // Brangus, 1 min

# Ea

[Link] First application round of the EAF Fund // JesseClifton, 4 min

# Community

Would you join the Society of the Free & Easy? // David_Gross, 3 min

Survey Results: Sexual Roles // Scott Alexander, 2 min

# Culture war

Gay Rites Are Civil Rites // Scott Alexander, 12 min Favorite

No nonsense version of the "racial algorithm bias" // Yuxi_Liu, 2 min

Raw Post: Talking With My Brother // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min

Predictable Identities: 13 – Totalizing Ideologies // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

# Misc

Reclaiming Eddie Willers // Swimmer963, 2 min

Magic is Dead, Give me Attention // Hazard, 6 min

How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails) // eukaryote, 1 min

Schism Begets Schism // Davis_Kingsley, 3 min

How can guesstimates work? // jacobjacob, 1 min

Do bond yield curve inversions really indicate there is likely to be a recession? // bgold, 1 min

Are there easy, low cost, ways to freeze some of my personal cell samples for future therapies? And is this a good idea? // elityre, 1 min

The Results of My First LessWrong-inspired I Ching Divination // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min

Bystander effect false? // Benito, 1 min

I Ching Exploratory Run 2/10 // AllAmericanBreakfast, 2 min

Pleasure as an Organizing Principle // Tiago Forte, 12 min

Do People Like Their Mental Health Care? // Scott Alexander, 2 min

Pay More For Results // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Podcasts

#163 — Ricky Gervais // Waking up with Sam Harris, 131 min

092: Review of EXHALATION, Part 1 // Review the Future, 64 min

# Videos of the week

Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin // TED, 13 min