rationalnewsletter

Issue #77

Studies suggest that liberals have sacred values about protecting low-status groups and thus are particularly prone to bias against any information that portrays those groups unfavorably. // www.researchgate.net

# Instrumental

Do you have algorithms for passing time productively with only your own mind? // Rudi C, 1 min

# Epistemic

Shallow Review of Consistency in Statement Evaluation // Elizabeth, 10 min Favorite

Reversal Tests in Argument and Debate // Davis_Kingsley, 1 min

The Power to Solve Climate Change // Liron, 16 min

The Power to Make Scientific Breakthroughs // Liron, 7 min

The Power to Understand "God" // Liron, 6 min

# Ai

Conversation with Paul Christiano // abergal, 36 min

Do Sufficiently Advanced Agents Use Logic? // abramdemski, 10 min

Relaxed adversarial training for inner alignment // evhub, 32 min

Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodes // Wei_Dai, 3 min

What You See Isn't Always What You Want // TurnTrout, 3 min

# Anthropic

Reframing the evolutionary value of sex // paulfchristiano, 1 min

Looking for answers about quantum immortality. // Fivehundred, 3 min

# Decision theory

A Critique of Functional Decision Theory // wdmacaskill, 25 min

Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs // Zvi, 6 min

[Link] Truth-telling is aggression in zero-sum frames (Jessica Taylor) // ioannes_shade, 1 min

Is competition good? // toonalfrink, 5 min

Beware Multi-Monopolies // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Ea

Survival and Flourishing Fund grant applications open until October 4th ($1MM-$2MM planned for dispersal) // habryka, 1 min

Answering some questions about EA // jkaufman, 5 min

# Community

Rationality Exercises Prize of September 2019 ($1,000) // Ben Pace, 10 min

Who's an unusual thinker that you recommend following? // DonyChristie, 1 min

Request for stories of when quantitative reasoning was practically useful for you. // elityre, 1 min

If you had to pick one thing you've read that changed the course of your life, what would it be? // maximkazhenkov, 1 min

Scott Alexander visits DC // robirahman, 1 min

# Culture war

Yay Democracy Dollars // Robin Hanson, 1 min

# Misc

Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time // Scott Alexander, 8 min Favorite

What are the merits of signing up for cryonics with Alcor vs. with the Cryonics Institute? // elityre, 1 min

Alternative name for a Bug List // Bae's Theorem, 1 min

Devil's Dialectic // TekhneMakre, 3 min

SSC Journal Club: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain // Scott Alexander, 10 min

# Podcasts

Stories About Progress // Ben Pace, 23 min

What are some podcasts that just read aloud worthwhile content? // Rudi C, 1 min

Podcast #539: Life Hacking, A Reexamination // The Art of Manliness

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion // Waking up with Sam Harris, 87 min

93 – Conflict vs Mistake // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 111 min

# Videos of the week

The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | Margaret Heffernan // TED, 15 min