rationalnewsletter

Issue #86

Bright side of Dark traits: Narcissists and Machiavellists achieve better task performance in the workplace. // drive.google.com

# Instrumental

Pieces of time // KatjaGrace, 2 min

Personal Experiment: Counterbalancing Risk-Adversion // lsusr, 1 min

[Productivity] Task vs. time delimitation // aaq, 3 min

V. Good Posture & Body Alignment. Your Base-Line for Self-Assessment & Improvement. // leggi, 5 min

# Epistemic

Self-Keeping Secrets // lsusr, 2 min

Practical Guidelines for Memory Reconsolidation // mr-hire, 1 min

Indescribable // lsusr, 1 min

The World as Phenomena // G Gordon Worley III, 8 min

# Ai

Evolution of Modularity // johnswentworth, 2 min Favorite

Robin Hanson on the futurist focus on AI // abergal, 1 min

[Link] John Carmack working on AGI // bgold, 1 min

Platonic rewards, reward features, and rewards as information // Stuart_Armstrong, 8 min

[Link] Is the Orthogonality Thesis Defensible? (Qualia Computing) // ioannes_shade, 1 min

# Meta-ethics

Experiments and Consent // jkaufman, 1 min

Ethical experimentation // KatjaGrace, 1 min

# Anthropic

Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 9 min Favorite

Instant stone (just add water!) // jasoncrawford, 5 min

The randomness/ignorance model solves many anthropic problems // sil ver, 2 min

# Decision theory

Goal-thinking vs desire-thinking // Sniffnoy, 4 min

Operationalizing Newcomb's Problem // ErickBall, 1 min

An optimal stopping paradox // Yuxi_Liu, 1 min

Occam’s Policy Razor // Robin Hanson, 4 min

A New Truth Mechanism // Robin Hanson, 1 min

# Math and cs

Insights from the randomness/ignorance model are genuine // sil ver, 2 min

[OCD] Proofs, forgetting, and an eldritch god // aaq, 5 min

# Books

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors // habryka, 2 min

Epistemic Spot Check: Unconditional Parenting // Elizabeth, 3 min

Books/Literature on resolving technical disagreements? // Hazard, 1 min

Book Review: The Body Keeps The Score // Scott Alexander, 14 min

# Ea

Lazy Compost is Worse Than Landfill // jkaufman, 2 min

EA Forum AMA - MIRI's Buck Shlegeris // Rob Bensinger, 1 min

Mosquito Net Fishing // jkaufman, 2 min

# Community

What I’ll be doing at MIRI // evhub, 1 min

# Culture war

Arguing about housing // jkaufman, 2 min

Prestige Blocks Reform // Robin Hanson, 1 min

# Misc

Hard to find "irrelevant" factors messing up experiments: Examples? // Hazard, 1 min

[Math] Vision problems // aaq, 5 min

Can indifference methods redeem person-affecting views? // capybaralet, 1 min

Attach Receipts to Credit Card Transactions // jkaufman, 1 min

# Podcasts

Rationally Speaking #243 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case for Open Borders" // NYC Skeptics, 49 min

#175 — Leaving the Faith // Waking up with Sam Harris, 80 min

# Videos of the week

The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane // TED, 10 min