rationalnewsletter

Issue #80

In Finland, once the most sexually active country in the West, sexual frequency and female sexual desire dropped markedly, while the rate of women who never had an orgasm from intercourse almost doubled. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

What's your favorite notetaking system? // Elizabeth, 1 min

What are your strategies for avoiding micro-mistakes? // An1lam, 1 min

Conscious Proprioception - Your Sense of Position, Movement & Balance. // leggi, 6 min

# Epistemic

Noticing Frame Differences // Raemon, 10 min Favorite

Human instincts, symbol grounding, and the blank-slate neocortex // steve2152, 10 min

The Thinking Ladder - Wait But Why // Liron, 1 min

I try not to have opinions // lsusr, 1 min

# Ai

Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio and More // Ben Pace, 19 min Favorite

List of resolved confusions about IDA // Wei_Dai, 3 min

What are we assuming about utility functions? // Grue_Slinky, 2 min

Toy model #6: Rationality and partial preferences // Stuart_Armstrong, 2 min

The AI is the model // Charlie Steiner, 3 min

# Meta-ethics

Can we make peace with moral indeterminacy? // Charlie Steiner, 4 min

# Decision theory

Does the US nuclear policy still target cities? // landfish, 11 min Favorite

Christiano decision theory excerpt // Rob Bensinger, 6 min

Communication and Waking Hours // jkaufman, 1 min

Separating Redistribution From Hardship Insurance // Robin Hanson, 2 min

# Books

13 Causes of Bad Science (Novum Organum Book 1: 69-92) // Francis Bacon, 36 min

# Ea

Candy for Nets // jkaufman, 2 min

Long-Term Future Fund: August 2019 grant recommendations // habryka, 77 min

Please Take the 2019 EA Survey! // peter_hurford, 1 min

What funding sources exist for technical AI safety research? // johnswentworth, 1 min

# Community

New Petrov Game Brainstorm // Alexei, 2 min

# Misc

Who lacks the qualia of consciousness? // Richard_Kennaway, 1 min

Ideal Number of Parents // jkaufman, 4 min

[Link] Tools for thought (Matuschak & Nielson) // ioannes_shade, 2 min

Connectome-specific harmonic waves and meditation // G Gordon Worley III, 1 min

What empirical work has been done that bears on the 'freebit picture' of free will? // DanielFilan, 1 min

# Podcasts

Kohli episode discussion in 80K's Christiano interview // Rob Bensinger, 15 min

[Link] (EA Podcast) Global Optimum: How to Learn Better // Daniel_Gambacorta, 1 min

096: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 3 // Review the Future, 52 min

#170 — The Great Uncoupling // Waking up with Sam Harris, 94 min

# Videos of the week

OpenAI’s GPT-2 Is Now Available - It Is Wise as a Scholar! // Two Minute Papers, 5 min