rationalnewsletter

Issue #73: Full List

Study shows 1) Women are more willing to let a man pay on a date if he is attractive, 2) Men are more willing to pay if the woman is attractive and 3) Attractive men and women are less willing to pay for dates. // journals.sagepub.com

# Instrumental

Cognitive Benefits of Exercise // adam_scholl, 1 min

How can you use music to boost learning? // Matthew Barnett, 1 min

# Epistemic

Inspection Paradox as a Driver of Group Separation // shminux, 1 min

Adjectives from the Future: The Dangers of Result-based Descriptions // Pradeep_Kumar, 13 min

# Ai

Clarifying some key hypotheses in AI alignment // Ben Cottier, rohinmshah, 10 min Favorite

Problems in AI Alignment that philosophers could potentially contribute to // Wei_Dai, 1 min

Distance Functions are Hard // Grue_Slinky, 6 min

"Designing agent incentives to avoid reward tampering", DeepMind // gwern, 1 min

Predicted AI alignment event calendar // rmoehn, 1 min

Mesa-Optimizers and Over-optimization Failure (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects, Clarifying Thoughts - Part 4) // Davidmanheim, 5 min

# Decision theory

Predictable Identities: 15 – Newcomblike, Part I // Jacob Falkovich, 1 min

A Model of Paternalism // Robin Hanson, 3 min

# Math and cs

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 1: Basic review // Matthew Barnett, 8 min

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 2: Jacobians and other fun // Matthew Barnett, 8 min

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 3: The Chain Rule // Matthew Barnett, 7 min

# Books

Book Review: Secular Cycles // Scott Alexander, 19 min Favorite

# Community

Partial summary of debate with Benquo and Jessicata [pt 1] // Raemon, 25 min

AI Safety Reading Group // Søren Elverlin, 1 min

# Culture war

Paternalism Is About Status // Robin Hanson, 7 min

# Misc

Subagents, trauma and rationality // Kaj_Sotala, 23 min

What explanatory power does Kahneman's System 2 possess? // ricraz, 1 min

Could we solve this email mess if we all moved to paid emails? // jacobjacob, 5 min

What experiments would demonstrate "upper limits of augmented working memory?" // Raemon, 2 min

Does human choice have to be transitive in order to be rational/consistent? // jmh, 1 min

Beliefs Are For True Things // Davis_Kingsley, 3 min

Natural laws should be explicit constraints on strategy space // ryan_b, 1 min

Meaning as Ambiguity // Sarah Perry, 16 min

# Podcasts

#165 — Journey into Wokeness // Waking up with Sam Harris, 135 min

91 – Are You Jesus or Hitler?? // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 121 min

# Videos of the week

Augmented Reality Presentations Are Coming! // Two Minute Papers, 1 min