Title
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Concepts Introduced/Discussed
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Author
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2006 Articles
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The Martial Art of Rationality
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Rationality, Rationality as martial art, Problem of verifying rationality
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Why truth? And...
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Truth, Rationality, Emotion, Litany of Tarski, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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...What's a bias, again?
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Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Proper Use of Humility
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Humility, Aumann's agreement theorem, Challenging the Difficult, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Modesty Argument
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Modesty, Modesty argument, Aumann's agreement theorem
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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"I don't know."
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I don't know, Underconfidence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Fable of Science and Politics
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Color politics, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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2007 Articles
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Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary
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Extraordinary evidence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Outside the Laboratory
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Separate magisteria, Religion
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Mind-killer, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Just Lose Hope Already
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Hope, Oops, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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You Are Not Hiring the Top 1%
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The top 1% fallacy
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
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Arguments as soldiers, Policy debates should not appear one-sided, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Burch's Law
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Burch's law
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
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Scales of justice fallacy, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Blue or Green on Regulation?
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Third option, Color politics
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
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Superstimulus
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Useless Medical Disclaimers
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Possibility, Connotation
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Archimedes's Chronophone
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Chronophone
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Chronophone Motivations
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Chronophone
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?
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Self-deception, Hypocrisy, Akrasia
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
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Tsuyoku naritai
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
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Tsuyoku naritai, Egalitarianism, Challenging the Difficult
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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"Statistical Bias"
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Statistical bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Useful Statistical Biases
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Statistical bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Error of Crowds
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Error of crowds
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Majority Is Always Wrong
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Error of crowds
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
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Motivated skepticism, Fully general counterargument, Dangerous knowledge, Bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction
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Bias, Costs of rationality, Debiasing
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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"Inductive Bias"
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Inductive bias, Priors
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Suggested Posts
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Futuristic Predictions as Consumable Goods
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Friedman unit, Prediction
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts
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Marginally zero-sum game
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Priors as Mathematical Objects
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Priors, Bayesian
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Lotteries: A Waste of Hope
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Lottery, Hope, Possibility, Challenging the Difficult
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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New Improved Lottery
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Lottery, Hope, Challenging the Difficult
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Your Rationality is My Business
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Altruism, Rationality
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread
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Morality
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Feeling Rational
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Emotion, Truth, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Universal Fire
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Magic, Universal law, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Universal Law
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Universal law, Natural world, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Think Like Reality
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Separate magisteria, Incredulity, Natural world, Surprise, Universal law, Reality is normal, Joy in the Merely Real
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Beware the Unsurprised
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Surprise, Bystander effect, Joy in the Merely Real
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Third Alternative
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False dilemma, Package-deal fallacy, Third option, Defensibility, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism
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Third option, Death, Cryonics, Religion
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Scope Insensitivity
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Scope insensitivity, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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One Life Against the World
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Scope insensitivity, Shut up and multiply
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Risk-Free Bonds Aren't
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Black swan, Possibility, Impossibility
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Correspondence Bias
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Correspondence bias, False consensus effect, Bias, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
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Correspondence bias, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Open Thread
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Two More Things to Unlearn from School
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Memorization, Understanding, Teacher's password, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Guessing the teacher's password
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
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Falsification, Costs of rationality, Free-floating belief, Making beliefs pay rent, Technical explanation, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Belief in Belief
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Belief, Belief in belief, Invisible dragon, Free-floating belief, Religion, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Bayesian Judo
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Bayesian judo, Bayesian bullying, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Professing and Cheering
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Professing, Cheering, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Belief as Attire
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Belief as attire, Improper belief, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable
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Religion, Religion's claim to be non-disprovable, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Importance of Saying "Oops"
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Oops, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Focus Your Uncertainty
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Uncertainty, Focusing uncertainty, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Proper Use of Doubt
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Doubt, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Virtue of Narrowness
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Narrowness, Broadness, Cached thought, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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You Can Face Reality
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Litany of Gendlin, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Apocalypse Bet
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Apocalypse bet
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Your Strength as a Rationalist
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Rational evidence, Surprise, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Antiprediction
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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I Defy the Data!
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Defying the data
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
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Evidence of absence, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Conservation of Expected Evidence
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Conservation of expected evidence, Evidence of absence, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Update Yourself Incrementally
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Belief update, Probabilistic counterevidence, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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One Argument Against An Army
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Rehearsed arguments, Double-counting evidence, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Hindsight bias
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Hindsight, Hindsight bias, Bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Hindsight Devalues Science
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Hindsight, Hindsight bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
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Science, Legal evidence, Rational evidence, Evidence, Filtered evidence, Standard of evidence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Is Molecular Nanotechnology "Scientific"?
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Science, Pseudoscience, Nanotechnology, Rational evidence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Explanations
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Fake explanation, Explanation, Fake simplicity, Semantic stopsign, Teacher's password, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Guessing the Teacher's Password
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Teacher's password, Intrinsic definition, Belief as attire, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence), Guessing the teacher's password
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Science as Attire
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Science as attire, Literaty genre, Science as a literary genre, Belief as attire, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Causality
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Fake causality, Phlogiston, Directed acyclic graph, Forward propagation, Backward propagation, Causality, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Semantic Stopsigns
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Semantic stopsign, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Mysterious answer, Mysterious question, Sacred mystery, Elan vital, Phlogiston, Semantic stopsign, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Futility of Emergence
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Emergence, Junk food of curiosity, Futility of chaos, Semantic stopsign, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
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Positive bias, Bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Say Not "Complexity"
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Futility of chaos, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Magic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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My Wild and Reckless Youth
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Traditional rationality, Mysterious question, Mysterious answer, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Failing to Learn from History
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Mysterious question, Mysterious answer, Mystery, Confusion, History, Historical evidence, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Making History Available
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History, Historical evidence, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Stranger Than History
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Absurdity heuristic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Explain/Worship/Ignore?
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Semantic stopsign, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Reductionism (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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"Science" as Curiosity-Stopper
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Semantic stopsign, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Absurdity Heuristic, Absurdity Bias
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Absurdity heuristic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Availability
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Availability heuristic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Why is the Future So Absurd?
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Absurdity heuristic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Anchoring and Adjustment
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Anchoring, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Crackpot Offer
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Oops, Crackpot, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Radical Honesty
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Crocker's rules, Radical honesty
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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We Don't Really Want Your Participation
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Signaling
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Applause Lights
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Applause light, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationality and the English Language
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Rational communication, Passive voice, Clear language, Unclear language, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Human Evil and Muddled Thinking
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Clear language, Unclear language, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
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Costs of rationality, Doublethink, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Why I'm Blooking
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Planning Fallacy
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Outside view, Planning fallacy, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Kahneman's Planning Anecdote
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Planning fallacy
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Conjunction Fallacy
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Conjunction fallacy, Representativeness heuristic, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)
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Conjunction fallacy, Representativeness heuristic, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Burdensome Details
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Conjunction fallacy, Burdensome details, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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What is Evidence?
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Evidence, Beliefs require observations, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
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Reflection, Evidence, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How Much Evidence Does It Take?
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Evidence, Amount of evidence, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Einstein's Arrogance
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Evidence, Defying the data, Locate the hypothesis, Privileging the hypothesis, Amount of evidence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Occam's Razor
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Occam's razor, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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9/26 is Petrov Day
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
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Absolute certainty, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Map and Territory (sequence)
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Bottom Line
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Not technically a lie, Rationalization, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
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Filtered evidence, Rationalization, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationalization
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Rationalization, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Recommended Rationalist Reading
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Rational Argument
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Rationalization, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
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Bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
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Rationalization, Oops, Motivated skepticism, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Meditation on Curiosity
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Curiosity, Litany of Tarski, Truth, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Singlethink
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How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
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Bayesian, Lawful intelligence, Traditional rationality, Evidence, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Priori
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Bayesian, Lawful intelligence
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Priming and Contamination
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Priming, Bias, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Do We Believe Everything We're Told?
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Priming, Bias, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Cached Thoughts
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Cached thought, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The "Outside the Box" Box
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Futility of chaos, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Original Seeing
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Cached thought, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Seem (and Be) Deep
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Cached thought, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
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Generalization from fictional evidence, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
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How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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"Can't Say No" Spending
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Congratulations to Paris Hilton
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
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Pascal's mugging, Paradox
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
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Inferential distance, Illusion of transparency, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Self-Anchoring
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Anchoring, Bias
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Expecting Short Inferential Distances
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Inferential distance
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!
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Inferential distance, Illusion of transparency
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Double Illusion of Transparency
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Inferential distance, Illusion of transparency
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
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General knowledge, No one knows what science doesn't know, Science
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK?
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Bay Area Bayesians Unite!
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
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Motivated stopping, Motivated continuation, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Torture vs. Dust Specks
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Scope insensitivity, Paradox, Shut up and multiply
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Case Study of Motivated Continuation
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Motivated continuation, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Terrifying Halloween Costume
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Justification
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Complexity of value, Rationalization, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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An Alien God
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Evolution, Evolution as alien god, Religion
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Wonder of Evolution
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Evolution, Evolution as alien god, Futility of chaos, Stupidity of evolution
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
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Evolution, Evolution as alien god, Slowness of evolution, Stupidity of evolution
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound
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Speed limit and complexity bound for evolution
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Beware of Stephen J. Gould
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Evolution
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
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Anthropomorphism, Evolution, Evolution as alien god, Group selection
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Selfishness
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Rationalization
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Morality
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Rationalization, Complexity of value
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Optimization Criteria
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Complexity of value, Evolution, Fake simplicity, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers
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Adaptation executers, Evolution, Evolutionary psychology, Superstimulus
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolutionary psychology
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism
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Evolutionary psychology
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Thou Art Godshatter
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Complexity of value, Evolutionary psychology
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Terminal Values and Instrumental Values
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Bayesian, Complexity of value, Decision theory
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Evolving to Extinction
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Bystander effect, Evolution, Evolution as alien god, Group selection
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices
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Evolution, General knowledge
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Simple Math of Everything
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General knowledge, Simple math of everything
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You
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Evolution, Group selection
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Artificial Addition
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Truly Part Of You
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Understanding
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)
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Complexity of value
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Leaky Generalizations
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
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Complexity of value, Fake simplicity, Magical categories
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Lost Purposes
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Seeing with Fresh Eyes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Purpose and Pragmatism
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Affect Heuristic
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Affect heuristic, Bias, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping)
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Bias, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism
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Bias, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Halo Effect
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Halo effect, Bias, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Superhero Bias
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Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Mere Messiahs
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Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Affective Death Spirals
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Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Resist the Happy Death Spiral
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Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Uncritical Supercriticality
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Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Groupthink, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Fake Utility Functions
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Complexity of value, General knowledge
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Fake Utility Functions
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Complexity of value, Fake simplicity
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
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Tolerance, Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Groupthink, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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When None Dare Urge Restraint
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Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Robbers Cave Experiment
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Color politics, Ingroup-outgroup dichotomy, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Politics is the Mind-Killer
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Misc Meta
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
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Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
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Reversed stupidity is not intelligence, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Argument Screens Off Authority
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Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Hug the Query
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Precision, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Guardians of the Truth
|
Affective death spiral, Truth, Challenging the Difficult, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Guardians of the Gene Pool
|
Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Guardians of Ayn Rand
|
Affective death spiral, Challenging the Difficult, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Litany Against Gurus
|
Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Politics is the Mind-Killer
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Politics and Awful Art
|
Politics is the Mind-Killer
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Two Cult Koans
|
Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
False Laughter
|
Politics is the Mind-Killer
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Effortless Technique
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Zen and the Art of Rationality
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Asch's Conformity Experiment
|
Conformity bias, Bias, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Seeing with Fresh Eyes, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Expressing Your Concerns
|
Conformity bias, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Lonely Dissent
|
Conformity bias, Lonely dissent, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, Seeing with Fresh Eyes, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Cultish Countercultishness
|
Conformity bias, Lonely dissent, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Strange Beliefs
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
2008 Articles
|
|
|
Posting on Politics
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Two-Party Swindle
|
Color politics
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The American System and Misleading Labels
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Stop Voting For Nincompoops
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rational vs. Scientific Ev-Psych
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Failed Just-So Story
|
Evolutionary psychology, Group selection
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
But There's Still A Chance, Right?
|
Antiprediction, Fallacy of gray, Possibility, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Fallacy of Gray
|
Fallacy of gray, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Absolute Authority
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Infinite Certainty
|
Absolute certainty, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
|
Absolute certainty, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Beautiful Math
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Expecting Beauty
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is Reality Ugly?
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Beautiful Probability
|
Bayesian, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Trust in Math
|
Bayesian, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 1
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 2
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 3
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Allais Paradox
|
Bias
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Zut Allais!
|
Bias
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 4
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Allais Malaise
|
Bias
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Against Discount Rates
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Circular Altruism
|
Bayesian, Shut up and multiply, Altruism
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 5
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 6
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 7
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 8
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 9
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"
|
Shut up and multiply, Utilitarianism
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Trust in Bayes
|
Bayesian, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Something to Protect
|
Something to protect, Rationalists should win, Challenging the Difficult, How To Actually Change Your Mind, The utility function is not up for grabs
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
|
Bayesian, Newcomb's problem, Something to protect, Rationalists should win, The utility function is not up for grabs
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
OB Meetup: Millbrae, Thu 21 Feb, 7pm
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Parable of the Dagger
|
Beliefs require observations, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Parable of Hemlock
|
A Human's Guide to Words, Arguing by definition
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Words as Hidden Inferences
|
Rationalist taboo, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Extensions and Intensions
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Buy Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Similarity Clusters
|
Configuration space, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
|
Configuration space, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Disguised Queries
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Neural Categories
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
|
How an algorithm feels from the inside, Free will, Free will (solution), How an algorithm feels, Reductionism (sequence), A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Disputing Definitions
|
Rationalist taboo, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Feel the Meaning
|
Reductionism (sequence), A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Argument from Common Usage
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Empty Labels
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Classic Sichuan in Millbrae, Thu Feb 21, 7pm
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Taboo Your Words
|
Rationalist taboo, Reductionism (sequence), A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Replace the Symbol with the Substance
|
Rationalist taboo, Lost purpose, Reductionism (sequence), A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fallacies of Compression
|
A Human's Guide to Words, Fallacy of gray
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Categorizing Has Consequences
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sneaking in Connotations
|
Connotation, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Arguing "By Definition"
|
Arguing by definition, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Where to Draw the Boundary?
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Entropy, and Short Codes
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
|
Configuration space, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
|
Configuration space, A Human's Guide to Words, Superexponential conceptspace
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Leave a Line of Retreat
|
Litany of Gendlin, Religion, Line of retreat, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
|
Bayesian, Beliefs require observations, Lawful intelligence, Religion
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Perpetual Motion Beliefs
|
Bayesian, Lawful intelligence, Privileging the hypothesis
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Searching for Bayes-Structure
|
Bayesian, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
|
Illusion of transparency, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 10
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 11
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Variable Question Fallacies
|
A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
|
Sequences, A Human's Guide to Words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Gary Gygax Annihilated at 69
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dissolving the Question
|
Wrong question, Free will, Free will (solution), How an algorithm feels, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Wrong Questions
|
Wrong question, Free will, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Righting a Wrong Question
|
Free will, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mind Projection Fallacy
|
Mind projection fallacy, How an algorithm feels, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Probability is in the Mind
|
Bayesian, Bayesian probability, Mind projection fallacy, Reductionism (sequence), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Quotation is not the Referent
|
Map and territory, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Penguicon & Blook
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Qualitatively Confused
|
Bayesian, Map and territory, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Reductionism
|
Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Explaining vs. Explaining Away
|
Reductionism, Free will (solution), Joy in the merely real, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fake Reductionism
|
How an algorithm feels, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Savanna Poets
|
Joy in the merely real, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Joy in the Merely Real
|
Joy in the merely real, Joy in the Merely Real, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Joy in Discovery
|
Joy in discovery, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bind Yourself to Reality
|
Joy in the merely real, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help
|
Joy in the merely real, Magic, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
New York OB Meetup (ad-hoc) on Monday, Mar 24, @6pm
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Beauty of Settled Science
|
General knowledge, Science, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st
|
General knowledge, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute?
|
Religion, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Scarcity
|
Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
To Spread Science, Keep It Secret
|
Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Initiation Ceremony
|
Beisutsukai, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hand vs. Fingers
|
Reductionism, Free will (solution), Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Angry Atoms
|
Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Heat vs. Motion
|
Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!
|
Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Reductive Reference
|
Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Zombies! Zombies?
|
P-zombie, Reductionism, Zombies (sequence), Philosophical zombie, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Zombie Responses
|
P-zombie, Reductionism, Zombies (sequence), Philosophical zombie
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
|
P-zombie, Reductionism, Zombies (sequence), Philosophical zombie
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
GAZP vs. GLUT
|
P-zombie, Reductionism, Zombies (sequence), Philosophical zombie
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Belief in the Implied Invisible
|
Everett branch, Zombies (sequence), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Quantum Explanations
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Configurations and Amplitude
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Joint Configurations
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Distinct Configurations
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Where Philosophy Meets Science
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Classical Configuration Spaces
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Quantum Arena
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Feynman Paths
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No Individual Particles
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Zombies: The Movie
|
P-zombie, Zombies (sequence), Philosophical zombie
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Three Dialogues on Identity
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherence
|
Decoherence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The So-Called Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Which Basis Is More Fundamental?
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Where Physics Meets Experience
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Where Experience Confuses Physicists
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Being Decoherent
|
Decoherence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Conscious Sorites Paradox
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherence is Pointless
|
Decoherence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherent Essences
|
Decoherence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Born Probabilities
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherence as Projection
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Entangled Photons
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bell's Theorem: No EPR "Reality"
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Spooky Action at a Distance: The No-Communication Theorem
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherence is Simple
|
Occam's razor, Decoherence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
|
Decoherence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Quantum Non-Realism
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Collapse Postulates
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
If Many-Worlds Had Come First
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Many Worlds, One Best Guess
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Failures of Eld Science
|
Beisutsukai, Rationality as martial art, Traditional rationality, Challenging the Difficult, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?
|
Rational evidence, Traditional rationality, Science, Standard of evidence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality
|
Rational evidence, Science, Traditional rationality, Standard of evidence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
When Science Can't Help
|
Science, Traditional rationality, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Science Isn't Strict Enough
|
Science, Traditional rationality, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?
|
Science, Traditional rationality, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No Safe Defense, Not Even Science
|
Science, Traditional rationality, No safe defense, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Changing the Definition of Science
|
Bayesian, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Conference on Global Catastrophic Risks
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Faster Than Science
|
Evidence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Einstein's Speed
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
That Alien Message
|
Bayesian, Evidence, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Childhood Role Model
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mach's Principle: Anti-Epiphenomenal Physics
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Broken Koan
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Relative Configuration Space
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Timeless Physics
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Timeless Beauty
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Timeless Causality
|
Causality, Free will (solution), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Einstein's Superpowers
|
Tsuyoku naritai, Challenging the Difficult, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Class Project
|
Beisutsukai, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Premature Word on AI
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Rhythm of Disagreement
|
Disagreement, Modesty
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Principles of Disagreement
|
Disagreement, Modesty
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Timeless Identity
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Why Quantum?
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Living in Many Worlds
|
Egan's law, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Thou Art Physics
|
Free will (solution), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Timeless Control
|
Causality, Free will (solution), The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Horgan
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Against Devil's Advocacy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Eliezer's Post Dependencies; Book Notification; Graphic Designer Wanted
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Causality, Egan's law, Quantum mechanics, Challenging the Difficult, Sequences, The Quantum Physics Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Quantum Physics Revealed As Non-Mysterious
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
And the Winner is... Many-Worlds!
|
Many-worlds interpretation, Everett branch
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity
|
Cryonics
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Causality and Moral Responsibility
|
Causality, Free will (solution)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Possibility and Could-ness
|
Free will (solution)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Ultimate Source
|
Free will (solution)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Passing the Recursive Buck
|
Fake simplicity
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Grasping Slippery Things
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ghosts in the Machine
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
LA-602 vs. RHIC Review
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Heading Toward Morality
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Outside View's Domain
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Surface Analogies and Deep Causes
|
Arguing by analogy, Outside view, Planning fallacy
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Optimization and the Singularity
|
Optimization process, Singularity paper
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Psychological Unity of Humankind
|
Human universal
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Design Space of Minds-In-General
|
Mind design space
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No Universally Compelling Arguments
|
Mind design space, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
2-Place and 1-Place Words
|
Metaethics sequence, 2-place and 1-place words
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Opposite Sex
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
What Would You Do Without Morality?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Moral Void
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Created Already In Motion
|
Created already in motion, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
I'd take it
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Bedrock of Fairness
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
2 of 10, not 3 total
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Moral Complexities
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is Morality Preference?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is Morality Given?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Will As Thou Wilt
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
|
Reflection, Metaethics sequence, No safe defense
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Fear of Common Knowledge
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Kind of Reflection
|
Reflection, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Genetic Fallacy
|
Genetic fallacy, Metaethics sequence, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Seeing with Fresh Eyes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fundamental Doubts
|
Reflection, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rebelling Within Nature
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Probability is Subjectively Objective
|
Bayesian, Bayesian probability, Priors, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Lawrence Watt-Evans's Fiction
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Posting May Slow
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Whither Moral Progress?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Gift We Give To Tomorrow
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Could Anything Be Right?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Existential Angst Factory
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Touching the Old
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Should We Ban Physics?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fake Norms, or "Truth" vs. Truth
|
Truth
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
When (Not) To Use Probabilities
|
Bayesian, Bayesian probability
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Can Counterfactuals Be True?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Math is Subjunctively Objective
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Does Your Morality Care What You Think?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Changing Your Metaethics
|
Egan's law, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Setting Up Metaethics
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Meaning of Right
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Interpersonal Morality
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Humans in Funny Suits
|
Alien values, Anthropomorphism, Human universal
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Detached Lever Fallacy
|
Detached lever fallacy, Evolutionary psychology, Rationalist taboo
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Genius for Destruction
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Comedy of Behaviorism
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No Logical Positivist I
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Anthropomorphic Optimism
|
Anthropomorphism, Evolution as alien god, Group selection, Unsupervised universe
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Contaminated by Optimism
|
Group selection
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hiroshima Day
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Morality as Fixed Computation
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Inseparably Right; or, Joy in the Merely Good
|
Fun theory, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps
|
Alien values, Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Moral Error and Moral Disagreement
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Abstracted Idealized Dynamics
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
"Arbitrary"
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is Fairness Arbitrary?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary?
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hot Air Doesn't Disagree
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid
|
Anthropomorphism
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Cartoon Guide to Lob's Theorem
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dumb Deplaning
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
You Provably Can't Trust Yourself
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No License To Be Human
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Invisible Frameworks
|
Metaethics sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mirrors and Paintings
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Unnatural Categories
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Magical Categories
|
Magic, Magical categories
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Three Fallacies of Teleology
|
Teleology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dreams of AI Design
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Against Modal Logics
|
Reductionism
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Harder Choices Matter Less
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Qualitative Strategies of Friendliness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dreams of Friendliness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Brief Break
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 12
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 13
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The True Prisoner's Dilemma
|
Paperclip maximizer, Prisoner's dilemma
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Truly Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 14
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 15
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 16
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Singularity Summit 2008
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Points of Departure
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 17
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Excluding the Supernatural
|
Magic, Reductionism, Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Psychic Powers
|
Reductionism (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Optimization
|
Optimization process
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Childhood Death Spiral
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Best and Worst Mistake
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Raised in Technophilia
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Prodigy of Refutation
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Say It Loud
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ban the Bear
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Horrible LHC Inconsistency
|
Paradox
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
That Tiny Note of Discord
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Naturalistic Awakening
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Level Above Mine
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Competent Elites
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Above-Average AI Scientists
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Magnitude of His Own Folly
|
Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Awww, a Zebra
|
Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Intrade and the Dow Drop
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Trying to Try
|
Challenging the Difficult
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Use the Try Harder, Luke
|
Challenging the Difficult
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 18
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Beyond the Reach of God
|
Unsupervised universe, Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
My Bayesian Enlightenment
|
Bayesian, Yudkowsky's coming of age, Yudkowsky's Coming of Age
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bay Area Meetup for Singularity Summit
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Doing the Impossible
|
Tsuyoku naritai, Challenging the Difficult
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Make an Extraordinary Effort
|
Tsuyoku naritai, Challenging the Difficult
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Shut up and do the impossible!
|
Tsuyoku naritai, Challenging the Difficult, Impossibility
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
AIs and Gatekeepers Unite!
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Crisis of Faith
|
Crisis of faith, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Ritual
|
Beisutsukai, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 19
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Why Does Power Corrupt?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies
|
Not technically a lie, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Traditional Capitalist Values
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dark Side Epistemology
|
Anti-epistemology, Fully general counterargument, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Protected From Myself
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ethical Inhibitions
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ethical Injunctions
|
Paperclip maximizer
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Prices or Bindings?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ethics Notes
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Which Parts Are "Me"?
|
Reflection
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Inner Goodness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
San Jose Meetup, Sat 10/25 @ 7:30pm
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Expected Creative Surprises
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Belief in Intelligence
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Aiming at the Target
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Measuring Optimization Power
|
Optimization process
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Economic Definition of Intelligence?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Intelligence in Economics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mundane Magic
|
Joy in the merely real, Joy in the Merely Real
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
BHTV: Jaron Lanier and Yudkowsky
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Building Something Smarter
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Complexity and Intelligence
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Today's Inspirational Tale
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hanging Out My Speaker's Shingle
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Back Up and Ask Whether, Not Why
|
The bottom line
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Recognizing Intelligence
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Lawful Creativity
|
Futility of chaos, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ask OB: Leaving the Fold
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Lawful Uncertainty
|
Bayesian, Futility of chaos, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Worse Than Random
|
Futility of chaos
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Weighted Majority Algorithm
|
Futility of chaos
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bay Area Meetup: 11/17 8PM Menlo Park
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Selling Nonapples
|
Futility of chaos, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Nature of Logic
|
Arguing by definition, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Boston-area Meetup: 11/18/08 9pm MIT/Cambridge
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Logical or Connectionist AI?
|
Futility of chaos, Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Whither OB?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Failure By Analogy
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Failure By Affective Analogy
|
Lawful intelligence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Weak Inside View
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The First World Takeover
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Whence Your Abstractions?
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Observing Optimization
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Life's Story Continues
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Surprised by Brains
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Cascades, Cycles, Insight...
|
Intelligence explosion, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
...Recursion, Magic
|
Intelligence explosion, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ad Hominem
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Engelbart: Insufficiently Recursive
|
Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Total Nano Domination
|
Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Thanksgiving Prayer
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Chaotic Inversion
|
Futility of chaos, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Singletons Rule OK
|
Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Disappointment in the Future
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Recursive Self-Improvement
|
Intelligence explosion, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hard Takeoff
|
Hard takeoff, Intelligence explosion, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Permitted Possibilities, & Locality
|
Intelligence explosion, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Underconstrained Abstractions
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sustained Strong Recursion
|
Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Is That Your True Rejection?
|
Belief, How To Actually Change Your Mind, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Artificial Mysterious Intelligence
|
Futility of chaos, Lawful intelligence, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
True Sources of Disagreement
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Disjunctions, Antipredictions, Etc.
|
Antiprediction, Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bay Area Meetup Wed 12/10 @8pm
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Mechanics of Disagreement
|
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
What I Think, If Not Why
|
Singularity paper, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
You Only Live Twice
|
Cryonics, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
BHTV: de Grey and Yudkowsky
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
For The People Who Are Still Alive
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Not Taking Over the World
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Visualizing Eutopia
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Prolegomena to a Theory of Fun
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
High Challenge
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Complex Novelty
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sensual Experience
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Living By Your Own Strength
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 20
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Imaginary Positions
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Harmful Options
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Devil's Offers
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Nonperson Predicates
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Nonsentient Optimizers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Nonsentient Bloggers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Can't Unbirth a Child
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Amputation of Destiny
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Dunbar's Function
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A New Day
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
2009 Articles
|
|
|
Free to Optimize
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Uses of Fun (Theory)
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Growing Up is Hard
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Changing Emotions
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 21
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Emotional Involvement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 22
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Serious Stories
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 23
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Continuous Improvement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Eutopia is Scary
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Building Weirdtopia
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
She has joined the Conspiracy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Seduced by Imagination
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Getting Nearer
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
In Praise of Boredom
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sympathetic Minds
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Interpersonal Entanglement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Failed Utopia #4-2
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Investing for the Long Slump
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Higher Purpose
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 24
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Complexity of value, Fun theory, Sequences, The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
BHTV: Yudkowsky / Wilkinson
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
31 Laws of Fun
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
OB Status Update
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 25
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Value is Fragile
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Three Worlds Collide (0/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
War and/or Peace (2/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Super Happy People (3/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Three Worlds Decide (5/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Epilogue: Atonement (8/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Thing That I Protect
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
...And Say No More Of It
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
(Moral) Truth in Fiction?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Informers and Persuaders
|
Dark arts
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?)
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary
|
Evolutionary psychology, Adaptation executers
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 26
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
An African Folktale
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Cynical About Cynicism
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Good Idealistic Books are Rare
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Against Maturity
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Pretending to be Wise
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Wise Pretensions v.0
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality Quotes 27
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fairness vs. Goodness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Not Having an Advance Abyssal Plan
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
About Less Wrong
|
Topic that must not be named
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Formative Youth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Markets are Anti-Inductive
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story... at Less Wrong
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Most Important Thing You Learned
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Most Important Thing You Learned
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Most Frequently Useful Thing
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Most Frequently Useful Thing
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
That You'd Tell All Your Friends
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Test Your Rationality
|
Problem of verifying rationality
|
RobinHanson
|
Unteachable Excellence
|
General knowledge
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Costs of Rationality
|
Costs of rationality
|
RobinHanson
|
Teaching the Unteachable
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
|
Religion, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice
|
Epistemic hygiene
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Belief in Self-Deception
|
Litany of Tarski, Self-deception, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality and Positive Psychology
|
|
badger
|
Posting now enabled
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Posting now enabled on Less Wrong
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Kinnaird's truels
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Recommended Rationalist Resources
|
|
MichaelHoward
|
Information cascades
|
Information cascade
|
Johnicholas
|
Is it rational to take psilocybin?
|
|
pwno
|
Does blind review slow down science?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Formalization is a rationality technique
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Slow down a little... maybe?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Checklists
|
Debiasing
|
Johnicholas
|
The Golem
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
|
|
Yvain
|
Moore's Paradox
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
It's the Same Five Dollars!
|
|
Z_M_Davis
|
Lies and Secrets
|
|
steven0461
|
The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
|
|
Yvain
|
Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Wrath of Kahneman
|
|
steven0461
|
The Mistake Script
|
Debiasing
|
jimrandomh
|
LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)
|
|
Marcello
|
You May Already Be A Sinner
|
|
Yvain
|
Striving to Accept
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Software tools for community truth-seeking
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Wanted: Python open source volunteers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Selective processes bring tag-alongs (but not always!)
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Adversarial System Hats
|
Intellectual roles
|
Johnicholas
|
Beginning at the Beginning
|
|
Annoyance
|
The Apologist and the Revolutionary
|
|
Yvain
|
Raising the Sanity Waterline
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
So you say you're an altruist...
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
A Sense That More Is Possible
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Rationality as martial art, Tsuyoku naritai, A sense that more is possible, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
|
Religion, Absurdity heuristic
|
Yvain
|
Boxxy and Reagan
|
|
And
|
Dialectical Bootstrapping
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Is Santa Real?
|
|
thomblake
|
Epistemic Viciousness
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Rationality as martial art, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists
|
|
MBlume
|
The Least Convenient Possible World
|
Least convenient possible world
|
Yvain
|
Closet survey #1
|
|
And
|
Soulless morality
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The Skeptic's Trilemma
|
|
Yvain
|
Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
|
Problem of verifying rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Really Extreme Altruism
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Storm by Tim Minchin
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
3 Levels of Rationality Verification
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Are You a Solar Deity?
|
|
Yvain
|
In What Ways Have You Become Stronger?
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Taboo "rationality," please.
|
|
MBlume
|
Science vs. art
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
|
Rationality, Map and Territory (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Comments for "Rationality"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The "Spot the Fakes" Test
|
|
Yvain
|
On Juvenile Fiction
|
|
MBlume
|
Rational Me or We?
|
Intellectual roles
|
RobinHanson
|
Dead Aid
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Tarski Statements as Rationalist Exercise
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Never Leave Your Room
|
Bias, Priming
|
Yvain
|
Rationalist Storybooks: A Challenge
|
|
MBlume
|
A corpus of our community's knowledge
|
|
infotropism
|
Little Johny Bayesian
|
|
Darmani
|
How to Not Lose an Argument
|
|
Yvain
|
Counterfactual Mugging
|
Counterfactual mugging
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Rationalist Fiction
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite!
|
|
Yvain
|
Precommitting to paying Omega.
|
|
topynate
|
Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
|
Akrasia, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Just a reminder: Scientists are, technically, people.
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Support That Sounds Like Dissent
|
|
jimrandomh
|
Tolerate Tolerance
|
Tolerance, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mind Control and Me
|
|
Patrick
|
Individual Rationality Is a Matter of Life and Death
|
|
patrissimo
|
The Power of Positivist Thinking
|
|
Yvain
|
Don't Revere The Bearer Of Good Info
|
|
CarlShulman
|
You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader?
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Cached Selves
|
Bias, Cached thought
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts
|
Eliezer Yudkowsky
|
steven0461
|
When Truth Isn't Enough
|
Connotation
|
Yvain
|
BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on "religious experience"
|
Religion
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
I'm confused. Could someone help?
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Playing Video Games In Shuffle Mode
|
|
talisman
|
Book: Psychiatry and the Human Condition
|
|
patrissimo
|
Thoughts on status signals
|
|
pwno
|
Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline
|
Priming
|
Yvain
|
On Things that are Awesome
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hyakujo's Fox
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Terrorism is not about Terror
|
|
gwern
|
The Implicit Association Test
|
Priming
|
Yvain
|
Contests vs. Real World Problems
|
|
badger
|
The Sacred Mundane
|
Anti-epistemology, Religion, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Extreme updating: The devil is in the missing details
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Spock's Dirty Little Secret
|
Emotion
|
pjeby
|
The Good Bayesian
|
|
Sideways
|
Fight Biases, or Route Around Them?
|
Debiasing, Priming
|
Yvain
|
Why *I* fail to act rationally
|
|
bentarm
|
Open Thread: March 2009
|
|
CarlShulman
|
Two Blegs
|
|
talisman
|
Your Price for Joining
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sleeping Beauty gets counterfactually mugged
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
The Mind Is Not Designed For Thinking
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Crowley on Religious Experience
|
Religion
|
Yvain
|
Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Seeking a Shortening of the Way
|
|
Annoyance
|
Altruist Coordination -- Central Station
|
|
MBlume
|
Less Wrong Facebook Page
|
|
MBlume
|
The Hidden Origins of Ideas
|
|
cleonid
|
Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1
|
Dark arts
|
Yvain
|
Church vs. Taskforce
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
When It's Not Right to be Rational
|
|
Annoyance
|
The Zombie Preacher of Somerset
|
P-zombie, Philosophical zombie
|
Yvain
|
Hygienic Anecdotes
|
Epistemic hygiene
|
badger
|
Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ask LW: What questions to test in our rationality questionnaire?
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics
|
Akrasia
|
ciphergoth
|
Deliberate and spontaneous creativity
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Most Rationalists Are Elsewhere
|
|
RobinHanson
|
Framing Effects in Anthropology
|
|
Yvain
|
Kling, Probability, and Economics
|
|
matt
|
Helpless Individuals
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Benefits of Rationality?
|
|
cousin_it
|
Money: The Unit of Caring
|
Shut up and multiply, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Building Communities vs. Being Rational
|
|
swestrup
|
Degrees of Radical Honesty
|
|
MBlume
|
Introducing CADIE
|
|
MBlume
|
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
|
Fuzzies, Shut up and multiply, Utilons, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Proverbs and Cached Judgments: the Rolling Stone
|
|
Annoyance
|
You don't need Kant
|
|
Andrew
|
Accuracy Versus Winning
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
Wrong Tomorrow
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Selecting Rationalist Groups
|
Paranoid debating, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Aumann voting; or, How to vote when you're ignorant
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
"Robot scientists can think for themselves"
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Where are we?
|
|
ciphergoth
|
The Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture
|
|
MBlume
|
Open Thread: April 2009
|
|
gjm
|
Rationality is Systematized Winning
|
Rationalists should win, Something to protect, The utility function is not up for grabs
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Another Call to End Aid to Africa
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
First London Rationalist Meeting upcoming
|
|
taw
|
On dollars, utility, and crack cocaine
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Incremental Progress and the Valley
|
Valley of bad rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The First London Rationalist Meetup
|
Paranoid debating
|
taw
|
Why Support the Underdog?
|
|
Yvain
|
Off-Topic Discussion Thread: April 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
Voting etiquette
|
|
gjm
|
Formalizing Newcomb's
|
Newcomb's problem
|
cousin_it
|
Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson's Near/Far distinction
|
Near/far thinking
|
Roko
|
Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationalist Wiki
|
|
badger
|
Rationality Toughness Tests
|
|
RobinHanson
|
Heuristic is not a bad word
|
Heuristic
|
HughRistik
|
Rationalists should beware rationalism
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Newcomb's Problem standard positions
|
Newcomb's problem
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Average utilitarianism must be correct?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Rationalist wiki, redux
|
|
ciphergoth
|
What do fellow rationalists think about Mensa?
|
|
taw
|
Extenuating Circumstances
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
On Comments, Voting, and Karma - Part I
|
|
thomblake
|
Newcomb's Problem vs. One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
|
Newcomb's problem
|
Wei_Dai
|
What isn't the wiki for?
|
|
ciphergoth
|
Eternal Sunshine of the Rational Mind
|
|
Cyan
|
Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Whining-Based Communities
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Help, help, I'm being oppressed!
|
|
Yvain
|
Zero-based karma coming through
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
E-Prime
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
Mandatory Secret Identities
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality, Cryonics and Pascal's Wager
|
|
Roko
|
Less Wrong IRC Meetup
|
|
jimrandomh
|
"Stuck In The Middle With Bruce"
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
|
Open problems on Less Wrong
|
Yvain
|
"Playing to Win"
|
Playing to win
|
CronoDAS
|
Secret Identities vs. Groupthink
|
Groupthink
|
Swimmy
|
Silver Chairs, Paternalism, and Akrasia
|
|
dclayh
|
Extreme Rationality: It Could Be Great
|
|
badger
|
The uniquely awful example of theism
|
Religion
|
gjm
|
Beware of Other-Optimizing
|
Other-optimizing, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How theism works
|
Religion
|
ciphergoth
|
That Crisis thing seems pretty useful
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Spay or Neuter Your Irrationalities
|
|
Alicorn
|
The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet
|
Other-optimizing
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Akrasia and Shangri-La
|
Other-optimizing, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Maybe Theism Is OK
|
Religion
|
byrnema
|
Metauncertainty
|
|
jimmy
|
Is masochism necessary?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Missed Distinctions
|
|
jimrandomh
|
Toxic Truth
|
|
MichaelHoward
|
Too much feedback can be a bad thing
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Twelve Virtues booklet printing?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How Much Thought
|
Costs of rationality
|
jimrandomh
|
Awful Austrians
|
|
Swimmy
|
Sunk Cost Fallacy
|
|
Z_M_Davis
|
It's okay to be (at least a little) irrational
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Marketing rationalism
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Bystander Apathy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Persuasiveness vs Soundness
|
|
Patrick
|
Declare your signaling and hidden agendas
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
GroupThink, Theism ... and the Wiki
|
|
byrnema
|
Collective Apathy and the Internet
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Tell it to someone who doesn't care
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Actions and Words: Akrasia and the Fruit of Self-Knowledge
|
|
Annoyance
|
Mechanics without wrenches
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
I Changed My Mind Today - Canned Laughter
|
|
pre
|
Of Gender and Rationality
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Welcome to Less Wrong!
|
|
MBlume
|
Instrumental Rationality is a Chimera
|
|
Tom_Talbot
|
Practical rationality questionnaire
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
My Way
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Art of Critical Decision Making
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The Trouble With "Good"
|
Fuzzies
|
Yvain
|
While we're on the subject of meta-ethics...
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Chomsky on reason and science
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Anti-rationality quotes
|
Quotes
|
PhilGoetz
|
Two-Tier Rationalism
|
|
Alicorn
|
My main problem with utilitarianism
|
|
taw
|
Just for fun - let's play a game.
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Rationality Quotes - April 2009
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
MBlume
|
How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight (Anti-akrasia)
|
|
dreeves
|
Atheist or Agnostic?
|
|
byrnema
|
Great Books of Failure
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Weekly Wiki Workshop and suggested articles
|
|
badger
|
The True Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
MBlume
|
Spreading the word?
|
|
ciphergoth
|
The ideas you're not ready to post
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
Evangelical Rationality
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
The Sin of Underconfidence
|
Egalitarianism, Underconfidence, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Masochism vs. Self-defeat
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
UC Santa Barbara Rationalists Unite - Saturday, 6PM
|
|
MBlume
|
LessWrong Boo Vote (Stochastic Downvoting)
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Escaping Your Past
|
|
Z_M_Davis
|
Go Forth and Create the Art!
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Fix it and tell us what you did
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
This Didn't Have To Happen
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Just a bit of humor...
|
|
CronoDAS
|
What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist...
|
|
badger
|
Rational Groups Kick Ass
|
|
talisman
|
Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective
|
|
MBlume
|
Programmatic Prediction markets
|
|
whpearson
|
Cached Procrastination
|
Akrasia, Cached thought
|
jimrandomh
|
Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories
|
Peak-end rule, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
"Self-pretending" is not as useful as we think
|
|
pwno
|
Where's Your Sense of Mystery?
|
|
Yvain
|
Less Meta
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
SIAI call for skilled volunteers and potential interns
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Sequences, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Excuse me, would you like to take a survey?
|
|
Yvain
|
Should we be biased?
|
|
James_Miller
|
Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted
|
Costs of rationality
|
Alicorn
|
The End (of Sequences)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Final Words
|
Beisutsukai
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bayesian Cabaret
|
|
Yvain
|
Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality
|
|
pangloss
|
How Not to be Stupid: Starting Up
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
How Not to be Stupid: Know What You Want, What You Really Really Want
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Approximations
|
Antiprediction
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
What is control theory, and why do you need to know about it?
|
Control theory
|
RichardKennaway
|
Re-formalizing PD
|
Prisoner's dilemma
|
cousin_it
|
Generalizing From One Example
|
Typical mind fallacy
|
Yvain
|
Wednesday depends on us.
|
|
byrnema
|
How to come up with verbal probabilities
|
|
jimmy
|
Fighting Akrasia: Incentivising Action
|
|
gworley
|
Fire and Motion
|
|
rwallace
|
Fiction of interest
|
|
dclayh
|
How Not to be Stupid: Adorable Maybes
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
Rationalistic Losing
|
|
MrHen
|
Rationalist Role in the Information Age
|
|
byrnema
|
Conventions and Confusing Continuity Conundrums
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
Open Thread: May 2009
|
|
steven0461
|
Second London Rationalist Meeting upcoming - Sunday 14:00
|
|
taw
|
TED Talks for Less Wrong
|
|
Cyan
|
The mind-killer
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Mind-killer
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ciphergoth
|
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
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Yvain
|
Return of the Survey
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Yvain
|
Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices
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Alicorn
|
Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
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MBlume
|
Without models
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Control theory
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RichardKennaway
|
Bead Jar Guesses
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Priors
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Alicorn
|
Special Status Needs Special Support
|
Affect heuristic
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How David Beats Goliath
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JulianMorrison
|
How to use "philosophical majoritarianism"
|
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jimmy
|
Off Topic Thread: May 2009
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MBlume
|
Introduction Thread: May 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
Consider Representative Data Sets
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
No Universal Probability Space
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gworley
|
Wiki.lesswrong.com Is Live
|
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models
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cousin_it
|
Beware Trivial Inconveniences
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Yvain
|
On the Fence? Major in CS
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talisman
|
Rationality is winning - or is it?
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taw
|
The First Koan: Drinking the Hot Iron Ball
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Annoyance
|
Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent
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Wei_Dai
|
Replaying History
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gworley
|
Framing Consciousness
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cousin_it
|
A Request for Open Problems
|
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MrHen
|
How Not to be Stupid: Brewing a Nice Cup of Utilitea
|
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Psy-Kosh
|
Step Back
|
|
Andy_McKenzie
|
You Are A Brain
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Liron
|
No One Knows Stuff
|
A sense that more is possible
|
talisman
|
Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rationality in the Media: Don't (New Yorker, May 2009)
|
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Andrew
|
Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
|
|
Yvain
|
"Open-Mindedness" - the video
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Religion, Mystery, and Warm, Soft Fuzzies
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Cheerios: An "Untested New Drug"
|
|
MBlume
|
Essay-Question Poll: Voting
|
|
Alicorn
|
Outward Change Drives Inward Change
|
|
cousin_it
|
Share Your Anti-Akrasia Tricks
|
|
Vladimir_Golovin
|
Wanting to Want
|
|
Alicorn
|
"What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Bad reasons for a rationalist to lose
|
|
matt
|
Supernatural Math
|
|
saturn
|
Rationality quotes - May 2009
|
Quotes
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Positive Bias Test (C++ program)
|
Positive bias
|
MBlume
|
Catchy Fallacy Name Fallacy (and Supporting Disagreement)
|
|
JGWeissman
|
Inhibition and the Mind
|
|
Annoyance
|
Least Signaling Activities?
|
|
RobinHanson
|
Brute-force Music Composition
|
|
HughRistik
|
Changing accepted public opinion and Skynet
|
|
Roko
|
Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity (or, What kind of sex is most moral?)
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Saturation, Distillation, Improvisation: A Story About Procedural Knowledge And Cookies
|
|
Alicorn
|
This Failing Earth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Wire versus Evolutionary Psychology
|
|
MrShaggy
|
Dissenting Views
|
|
byrnema
|
Eric Drexler on Learning About Everything
|
General knowledge
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Anime Explains the Epimenides Paradox
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Do Fandoms Need Awfulness?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Can we create a function that provably predicts the optimization power of intelligences?
|
|
whpearson
|
Link: The Case for Working With Your Hands
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
Image vs. Impact: Can public commitment be counterproductive for achievement?
|
|
patrissimo
|
A social norm against unjustified opinions?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Taking Occam Seriously
|
|
steven0461
|
The Onion Goes Inside The Biased Mind
|
|
patrissimo
|
The Frontal Syndrome
|
|
Annoyance
|
Open Thread: June 2009
|
|
Cyan
|
Concrete vs Contextual values
|
|
whpearson
|
Bioconservative and biomoderate singularitarian positions
|
|
Roko
|
Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion
|
|
Annoyance
|
With whom shall I diavlog?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mate selection for the men here
|
|
rhollerith
|
Third London Rationalist Meeting
|
|
taw
|
Post Your Utility Function
|
|
taw
|
Probability distributions and writing style
|
|
dclayh
|
My concerns about the term 'rationalist'
|
|
JamesCole
|
Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Macroeconomics, The Lucas Critique, Microfoundations, and Modeling in General
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
indexical uncertainty and the Axiom of Independence
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
The Aumann's agreement theorem game (guess 2/3 of the average)
|
|
Warrigal
|
Expected futility for humans
|
|
Roko
|
You can't believe in Bayes
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Less wrong economic policy
|
|
gworley
|
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It
|
|
Roko
|
Let's reimplement EURISKO!
|
|
cousin_it
|
If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer...
|
|
taw
|
Typical Mind and Politics
|
Typical mind fallacy
|
Yvain
|
Why safety is not safe
|
|
rwallace
|
Rationality Quotes - June 2009
|
Quotes
|
pjeby
|
Readiness Heuristics
|
|
jimrandomh
|
The two meanings of mathematical terms
|
|
JamesCole
|
The Laws of Magic
|
Contagion heuristic, Sympathetic magic
|
Annoyance
|
Intelligence enhancement as existential risk mitigation
|
Existential risk
|
Roko
|
Rationalists lose when others choose
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Ask LessWrong: Human cognitive enhancement now?
|
|
taw
|
Don't Count Your Chickens...
|
|
thomblake
|
Applied Picoeconomics
|
Akrasia
|
Yvain
|
Representative democracy awesomeness hypothesis
|
|
taw
|
The Physiology of Willpower
|
|
pjeby
|
Time to See If We Can Apply Anything We Have Learned
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation
|
|
Roko
|
ESR's comments on some EY:OB/LW posts
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Nonparametric Ethics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Shane Legg on prospect theory and computational finance
|
Prospect theory
|
Roko
|
The Domain of Your Utility Function
|
Hedonism
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
The Monty Maul Problem
|
|
JGWeissman
|
Guilt by Association
|
|
Annoyance
|
Lie to me?
|
|
pwno
|
Richard Dawkins TV - Baloney Detection Kit video
|
|
Roko
|
Coming Out
|
|
cousin_it
|
The Great Brain is Located Externally
|
General knowledge
|
Alicorn
|
Controlling your inner control circuits
|
Perceptual control theory, Control theory
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
What's In A Name?
|
|
Yvain
|
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
|
Religion
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Book Review: Complications
|
|
Annoyance
|
Open Thread: July 2009
|
|
Warrigal
|
Fourth London Rationalist Meeting?
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
Rationality Quotes - July 2009
|
Quotes
|
SilasBarta
|
Harnessing Your Biases
|
|
swestrup
|
Avoiding Failure: Fallacy Finding
|
|
Patrick
|
Not Technically Lying
|
Not technically a lie
|
Psychohistorian
|
The enemy within
|
|
Roko
|
Media bias
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Can chess be a game of luck?
|
|
Rune
|
The Dangers of Partial Knowledge of the Way: Failing in School
|
Dangerous knowledge
|
gworley
|
An interesting speed dating study
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Can self-help be bad for you?
|
|
Tom_Talbot
|
Causality does not imply correlation
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
Recommended reading for new rationalists
|
|
XFrequentist
|
Formalized math: dream vs reality
|
|
cousin_it
|
Causation as Bias (sort of)
|
|
spuckblase
|
Debate: Is short term planning in humans due to a short life or due to bias?
|
|
whpearson
|
Jul 12 Bay Area meetup - Hanson, Vassar, Yudkowsky
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms
|
Existential risk
|
Roko
|
Good Quality Heuristics
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
How likely is a failure of nuclear deterrence?
|
|
Roko
|
The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
"Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost"
|
|
cousin_it
|
The Dirt on Depression
|
|
pjeby
|
Fair Division of Black-Hole Negentropy: an Introduction to Cooperative Game Theory
|
Game theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
Absolute denial for atheists
|
Mind-killer
|
taw
|
Causes of disagreements
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
The Popularization Bias
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Zwicky's Trifecta of Illusions
|
|
thomblake
|
Are You Anosognosic?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Article upvoting
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Sayeth the Girl
|
|
Alicorn
|
Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve
|
Counterfactual mugging, Timeless decision theory
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
An Akrasia Anecdote
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
Being saner about gender and rationality
|
|
Roko
|
Are you crazy?
|
|
gworley
|
Counterfactual Mugging v. Subjective Probability
|
|
MBlume
|
Creating The Simple Math of Everything
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
Joint Distributions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
Chomsky, Sports Talk Radio, Media Bias, and Me
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
Outside Analysis and Blind Spots
|
|
orthonormal
|
Shut Up And Guess
|
Loss aversion
|
Yvain
|
Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Missing the Trees for the Forest
|
Narrative fallacy
|
Yvain
|
Deciding on our rationality focus
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Fairness and Geometry
|
|
cousin_it
|
It's all in your head-land
|
|
colinmarshall
|
An observation on cryocrastination
|
|
AndrewH
|
The Price of Integrity
|
|
Aurini
|
Are calibration and rational decisions mutually exclusive? (Part one)
|
|
Cyan
|
The Nature of Offense
|
Status, Offense
|
Wei_Dai
|
AndrewH's observation and opportunity costs
|
|
Yvain
|
Are calibration and rational decisions mutually exclusive? (Part two)
|
|
Cyan
|
Celebrate Trivial Impetuses
|
|
Alicorn
|
Freaky Fairness
|
|
cousin_it
|
Link: Interview with Vladimir Vapnik
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
Five Stages of Idolatry
|
|
hegemonicon
|
Bayesian Flame
|
|
cousin_it
|
The Second Best
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
The Trolley Problem in popular culture: Torchwood Series 3
|
|
botogol
|
Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict"
|
|
cousin_it
|
Information cascades in scientific practice
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
The Obesity Myth
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Pract: A Guessing and Testing Game
|
|
brian_jaress
|
An Alternative Approach to AI Cooperation
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Open Thread: August 2009
|
|
taw
|
Pain
|
|
Alicorn
|
Suffering
|
|
Tiiba
|
Why You're Stuck in a Narrative
|
Narrative fallacy
|
hegemonicon
|
Unspeakable Morality
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Difficulties of Potential People and Decision Making
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
Wits and Wagers
|
|
Johnicholas
|
The usefulness of correlations
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
She Blinded Me With Science
|
|
Jonathan_Graehl
|
The Machine Learning Personality Test
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
A Normative Rule for Decision-Changing Metrics
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Rationality Quotes - August 2009
|
Quotes
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Why Real Men Wear Pink
|
Status
|
Yvain
|
The Objective Bayesian Programme
|
|
cousin_it
|
LW/OB Rationality Quotes - August 2009
|
Quotes
|
Rune
|
Exterminating life is rational
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Robin Hanson's lists of Overcoming Bias Posts
|
|
AndrewH
|
Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source
|
|
gworley
|
A note on hypotheticals
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Dreams with Damaged Priors
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?
|
|
Yvain
|
Calibration fail
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Guess Again
|
|
Alicorn
|
Misleading the witness
|
|
Bo102010
|
Utilons vs. Hedons
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Deleting paradoxes with fuzzy logic
|
|
Warrigal
|
Sense, Denotation and Semantics
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Towards a New Decision Theory
|
Counterfactual mugging, Updateless decision theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
Fighting Akrasia: Survey Design Help Request
|
|
gworley
|
Minds that make optimal use of small amounts of sensory data
|
|
SforSingularity
|
Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Oh my God! It's full of Nash equilibria!
|
|
Cyan
|
Happiness is a Heuristic
|
|
hegemonicon
|
Experiential Pica
|
|
Alicorn
|
Friendlier AI through politics
|
|
Jonathan_Graehl
|
Singularity Summit 2009 (quick post)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Scott Aaronson's "On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality"
|
|
cousin_it
|
Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory
|
Decision theory, Timeless decision theory
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
You have just been Counterfactually Mugged!
|
|
CronoDAS
|
Evolved Bayesians will be biased
|
|
taw
|
How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
|
|
taw
|
Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
ESR's New Take on Qualia
|
|
billswift
|
The Journal of (Failed) Replication Studies
|
|
Vladimir_Gritsenko
|
Working Mantras
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Decision theory: An outline of some upcoming posts
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
How does an infovore manage information overload?
|
|
haig
|
Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions
|
|
taw
|
A Rationalist's Bookshelf: The Mind's I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981)
|
|
colinmarshall
|
Paper: Testing ecological models
|
|
brian_jaress
|
The Twin Webs of Knowledge
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Don't be Pathologically Mugged!
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
Some counterevidence for human sociobiology
|
|
taw
|
Cookies vs Existential Risk
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Great post on Reddit about accepting atheism
|
|
cousin_it
|
Optimal Strategies for Reducing Existential Risk
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
Open Thread: September 2009
|
|
AllanCrossman
|
Rationality Quotes - September 2009
|
Quotes
|
thomblake
|
LW/OB Quotes - Fall 2009
|
Quotes
|
thomblake
|
Knowing What You Know
|
|
hegemonicon
|
Decision theory: Why we need to reduce "could", "would", "should"
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
The Featherless Biped
|
|
Annoyance
|
The Sword of Good
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Notes on utility function experiment
|
|
taw
|
Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce "could" and "would", but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
|
Timeless decision theory
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Why I'm Staying On Bloggingheads.tv
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
An idea: Sticking Point Learning
|
|
cousin_it
|
FHI postdoc at Oxford
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Let Them Debate College Students
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Lifespan Dilemma
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Formalizing informal logic
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Timeless Identity Crisis
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
The New Nostradamus
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Formalizing reflective inconsistency
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Beware of WEIRD psychological samples
|
|
ciphergoth
|
The Absent-Minded Driver
|
Updateless decision theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
What is the Singularity Summit?
|
|
Liron
|
Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks
|
|
taw
|
Quantum Russian Roulette
|
|
Christian_Szegedy
|
MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience
|
|
SforSingularity
|
Hypothetical Paradoxes
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Reason as memetic immune disorder
|
Epistemic hygiene, Separate magisteria
|
PhilGoetz
|
How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets
|
|
Johnicholas
|
The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Ethics as a black box function
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
The utility curve of the human population
|
|
dclayh
|
Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals
|
|
Yvain
|
Non-Malthusian Scenarios
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Correlated decision making: a complete theory
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis
|
|
Johnicholas
|
The Anthropic Trilemma
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Your Most Valuable Skill
|
|
Alicorn
|
Privileging the Hypothesis
|
Privileging the hypothesis, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Antiprediction
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Regular NYC Meetups
|
|
MBlume
|
Open Thread: October 2009
|
|
gwern
|
Why Don't We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else?
|
|
MichaelGR
|
Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
'oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?'
|
|
MBlume
|
When Willpower Attacks
|
|
jimrandomh
|
Dying Outside
|
|
HalFinney
|
Don't Think Too Hard.
|
|
hegemonicon
|
The Presumptuous Philosopher's Presumptuous Friend
|
|
PlaidX
|
The First Step is to Admit That You Have a Problem
|
|
Alicorn
|
Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks
|
|
HughRistik
|
LW Meetup Google Calendar
|
|
MBlume
|
I'm Not Saying People Are Stupid
|
Stupidity
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
The Argument from Witness Testimony
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Link: PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness (Peter Watts)
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
What Program Are You?
|
|
RobinHanson
|
Do the 'unlucky' systematically underestimate high-variance strategies?
|
|
MBlume
|
Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
The power of information?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Quantifying ethicality of human actions
|
|
bogus
|
BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Andrew Gelman
|
|
MichaelGR
|
We're in danger. I must tell the others...
|
|
AllanCrossman
|
PredictionBook.com - Track your calibration
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Shadow Question
|
|
Alicorn
|
Information theory and FOOM
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PhilGoetz
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How to think like a quantum monadologist
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Mitchell_Porter
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Localized theories and conditional complexity
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jimmy
|
Applying Double Standards to "Divisive" Ideas
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PlaidX
|
Near and far skills
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cousin_it
|
Shortness is now a treatable condition
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taw
|
Lore Sjoberg's Life-Hacking FAQK
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PlaidX
|
Why the beliefs/values dichotomy?
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Wei_Dai
|
Biking Beyond Madness (link)
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hirvinen
|
Rationality Quotes: October 2009
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Quotes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The continued misuse of the Prisoner's Dilemma
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SilasBarta
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Better thinking through experiential games
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Puzzle game index, The Less Wrong Video Game
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Morendil
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Extreme risks: when not to use expected utility
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Expected utility
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold
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Annoyance
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Arrow's Theorem is a Lie
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tommccabe
|
The Value of Nature and Old Books
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David_J_Balan
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Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Computer bugs and evolution
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PhilGoetz
|
Doing your good deed for the day
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Yvain
|
Expected utility without the independence axiom
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Expected utility
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Post retracted: If you follow expected utility, expect to be money-pumped
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition)
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MichaelGR
|
David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
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marc
|
Less Wrong / Overcoming Bias meet-up groups
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MichaelVassar
|
Our House, My Rules
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David_J_Balan
|
Open Thread: November 2009
|
|
Warrigal
|
Re-understanding Robin Hanson's "Pre-Rationality"
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Wei_Dai
|
Rolf Nelson's "The Rational Entrepreneur"
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Money pumping: the axiomatic approach
|
Expected utility
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Light Arts
|
|
Alicorn
|
News: Improbable Coincidence Slows LHC Repairs
|
|
Zack_M_Davis
|
All hail the Lisbon Treaty! Or is that "hate"? Or just "huh"?
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Danger of Stories
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
Practical rationality in surveys
|
|
taw
|
Reflections on Pre-Rationality
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Rationality advice from Terry Tao
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Restraint Bias
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
What makes you YOU? For non-deists only.
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|
cleonid
|
Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions
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|
MichaelGR
|
Test Your Calibration!
|
|
tommccabe
|
Anti-Akrasia Technique: Structured Procrastination
|
|
patrissimo
|
Consequences of arbitrage: expected cash
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Auckland meet up Saturday Nov 28th
|
|
AndrewH
|
The Academic Epistemology Cross Section: Who Cares More About Status?
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
BHTV: Yudkowsky / Robert Greene
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Why (and why not) Bayesian Updating?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Efficient prestige hypothesis
|
|
taw
|
A Less Wrong singularity article?
|
Singularity paper
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Request For Article: Many-Worlds Quantum Computing
|
|
pre
|
The One That Isn't There
|
|
Annoyance
|
Calibration for continuous quantities
|
|
Cyan
|
Friedman on Utility
|
|
billswift
|
Rational lies
|
|
alexflint
|
In conclusion: in the land beyond money pumps lie extreme events
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
How to test your mental performance at the moment?
|
|
taw
|
Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Contrarianism and reference class forecasting
|
|
taw
|
Getting Feedback by Restricting Content
|
|
billswift
|
Rooting Hard for Overpriced M&Ms
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
A Nightmare for Eliezer
|
|
Madbadger
|
Rationality Quotes November 2009
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Morality and International Humanitarian Law
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|
David_J_Balan
|
Action vs. inaction
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Open Thread: December 2009
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|
CannibalSmith
|
The Difference Between Utility and Utility
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
11 core rationalist skills
|
|
Roko
|
Help Roko become a better rationalist!
|
|
Roko
|
Intuitive supergoal uncertainty
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Arbitrage of prediction markets
|
|
taw
|
Parapsychology: the control group for science
|
|
AllanCrossman
|
Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling
|
|
billswift
|
You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
|
|
komponisto
|
Probability Space & Aumann Agreement
|
Aumann's agreement theorem
|
Wei_Dai
|
What Are Probabilities, Anyway?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
The persuasive power of false confessions
|
|
matt
|
A question of rationality
|
|
mormon2
|
The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom
|
|
komponisto
|
Against picking up pennies
|
|
Warrigal
|
Previous Post Revised
|
|
komponisto
|
Man-with-a-hammer syndrome
|
|
Shalmanese
|
Rebasing Ethics
|
|
Shalmanese
|
Getting Over Dust Theory
|
|
jhuffman
|
An account of what I believe to be inconsistent behavior on the part of our editor
|
|
PeterS
|
December 2009 Meta Thread
|
|
CarlShulman
|
Reacting to Inadequate Data
|
|
MrHen
|
The Contrarian Status Catch-22
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit
|
|
Shalmanese
|
Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Sufficiently Advanced Sanity
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Mandating Information Disclosure vs. Banning Deceptive Contract Terms
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?
|
|
Shalmanese
|
The Correct Contrarian Cluster
|
Absurdity heuristic, Problem of verifying rationality
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Karma Changes
|
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
lessmeta
|
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PlaidX
|
The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Two Truths and a Lie
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality
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|
tommccabe
|
Are these cognitive biases, biases?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Positive-affect-day-Schelling-point-mas Meetup
|
|
Marcello
|
Playing the Meta-game
|
|
Technologos
|
A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
That other kind of status
|
|
Yvain
|
Singularity Institute $100K Challenge Grant / 2009 Donations Reminder
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Boksops -- Ancient Superintelligence?
|
|
MBlume
|
New Year's Resolutions Thread
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
New Year's Predictions Thread
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
2010 Articles
|
|
|
Are wireheads happy?
|
Wireheading
|
Yvain
|
Open Thread: January 2010
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Stigmergy and Pickering's Mangle
|
|
Johnicholas
|
Drawing Two Aces
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Max Tegmark on our place in history: "We're Not Insignificant After All"
|
|
Roko
|
Disclosure vs. Bans: Reply to Robin Hanson
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
When does an insight count as evidence?
|
|
alexflint
|
TakeOnIt: Database of Expert Opinions
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness
|
|
Alicorn
|
Communicating effectively: form and content
|
|
Morendil
|
Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers
|
|
MichaelGR
|
Rationality Quotes January 2010
|
|
Zack_M_Davis
|
Will reason ever outrun faith?
|
|
ABranco
|
Case study: Melatonin
|
|
gwern
|
Fictional Evidence vs. Fictional Insight
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Reference class of the unclassreferenceable
|
|
taw
|
Consciousness
|
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Mitchell_Porter
|
Hypotheses For Dualism
|
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byrnema
|
Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction"
|
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Roko
|
Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude
|
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PhilGoetz
|
Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Chpt 2
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|
PhilGoetz
|
Consciousness Explained, chapter 3
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The things we know that we know ain't so
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
High Status and Stupidity: Why?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Outline of a lower bound for consciousness
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Self control may be contagious
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
Advice for AI makers
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Comic about the Singularity
|
|
dclayh
|
Back of the envelope calculations around the singularity.
|
|
whpearson
|
The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
In defense of the outside view
|
|
cousin_it
|
The Wannabe Rational
|
|
MrHen
|
Dennett's heterophenomenology
|
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RichardKennaway
|
Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Sorting Out Sticky Brains
|
|
Alicorn
|
Advancing Certainty
|
|
komponisto
|
The Prediction Hierarchy
|
|
RobinZ
|
What big goals do we have?
|
|
cousin_it
|
Normal Cryonics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
That Magical Click
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Winning the Unwinnable
|
|
JRMayne
|
Easy Predictor Tests
|
|
MrHen
|
Costs to (potentially) eternal life
|
|
bgrah449
|
Privileged Snuff
|
|
rwallace
|
Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers
|
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botogol
|
Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies
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Kevin
|
Lesswrong UK planning thread
|
|
whpearson
|
Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario
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Wei_Dai
|
Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".
|
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Roko
|
Adaptive bias
|
|
Morendil
|
Welcome to Heaven
|
|
denisbider
|
You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Bizarre Illusions
|
|
MrHen
|
Play for a Cause
|
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brian_jaress
|
Logical Rudeness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Complexity of Value != Complexity of Outcome
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Deontology for Consequentialists
|
|
Alicorn
|
Pascal's Pyramid Scheme
|
|
patrissimo
|
Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions.
|
|
Roko
|
Open Thread: February 2010
|
|
wedrifid
|
Rationality Quotes: February 2010
|
|
wedrifid
|
Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long)
|
|
rolf_nelson
|
The AI in a box boxes you
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
My Failed Situation/Action Belief System
|
|
MrHen
|
David Pearce on Hedonic Moral realism
|
|
Roko
|
False Majorities
|
|
JamesAndrix
|
Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
A Much Better Life?
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
"Put It To The Test"
|
|
MBlume
|
A problem with Timeless Decision Theory (TDT)
|
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Gary_Drescher
|
Debate tools: an experience report
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Morendil
|
Ethics has Evidence Too
|
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Jack
|
BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan
|
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MichaelGR
|
A survey of anti-cryonics writing
|
|
ciphergoth
|
Epistemic Luck
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Alicorn
|
Common Errors in History
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PhilGoetz
|
Shut Up and Divide?
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Wei_Dai
|
The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks
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Kevin
|
My Fundamental Question About Omega
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MrHen
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How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything?
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David_J_Balan
|
Shock Levels are Point Estimates
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Peter_de_Blanc
|
Two Challenges
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Daniel_Burfoot
|
You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Two probabilities
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rwallace
|
Boo lights: groupthink edition
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Morendil
|
Hayekian Prediction Markets?
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David_J_Balan
|
Friendly AI at the NYC Future Salon
|
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Jasen
|
Open Thread: February 2010, part 2
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CronoDAS
|
Things You Can't Countersignal
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Alicorn
|
Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)
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Wei_Dai
|
Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions
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Liron
|
Study: Making decisions makes you tired
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bgrah449
|
Conversation Halters
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Akrasia Tactics Review
|
|
orthonormal
|
Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics
|
|
Cyan
|
Woo!
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BenAlbahari
|
Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
|
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Alicorn
|
"Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
What is Bayesianism?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Creating a Less Wrong prediction market
|
|
Kevin
|
Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
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|
pjeby
|
Superstimuli, setpoints, and obesity
|
|
taw
|
Mental Crystallography
|
|
Alicorn
|
Splinters and Wooden Beams
|
|
knb
|
Great Product. Lousy Marketing.
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future
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|
inklesspen
|
Open Thread: March 2010
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|
AdeleneDawner
|
Rationality quotes: March 2010
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Morendil
|
For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
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MichaelVassar
|
Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality
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Wei_Dai
|
Interesting Peter Norvig interview
|
|
xamdam
|
Priors and Surprise
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MichaelVassar
|
The Graviton as Aether
|
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tommccabe
|
The fallacy of work-life compartmentalization
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|
Morendil
|
Signaling Strategies and Morality
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MichaelVassar
|
TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman
|
|
Cyan
|
The strongest status signals
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pwno
|
Selfishness Signals Status
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Liron
|
Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts
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JustinShovelain
|
The Blackmail Equation
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner's Dilemma
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Deception and Self-Doubt
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Psychohistorian
|
Nature editorial: Do scientists really need a PhD?
|
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Kevin
|
Spring 2010 Meta Thread
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FAWS
|
Open Thread: March 2010, part 2
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RobinZ
|
Rational feelings: a crucial disambiguation
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Academian
|
The Importance of Goodhart's Law
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blogospheroid
|
Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing)
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Morendil
|
Crunchcourse - a tool for combating learning akrasia
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whpearson
|
Musings on probability
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bogdanb
|
Undiscriminating Skepticism
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Omega's subcontracting to Alpha
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Overcoming the mind-killer
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woozle
|
Subjective Anticipation and Death
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LucasSloan
|
Living Luminously
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Alicorn
|
You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue
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Alicorn
|
Disconnect between Stated/Implemented Preferences
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Strange7
|
Let There Be Light
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Alicorn
|
Sequential Organization of Thinking: "Six Thinking Hats"
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JustinShovelain
|
"Life Experience" as a Conversation-Halter
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Seth_Goldin
|
The ABC's of Luminosity
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Alicorn
|
Open Thread: March 2010, part 3
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RobinZ
|
Think Before You Speak (And Signal It)
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Wei_Dai
|
Information theory and the symmetry of updating beliefs
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Academian
|
Lights, Camera, Action!
|
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Alicorn
|
The Price of Life
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BenAlbahari
|
The scourge of perverse-mindedness
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simplicio
|
What would you do if blood glucose theory of willpower was true?
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taw
|
Understanding your understanding
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SilasBarta
|
Subtext is not invariant under linear transformations
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PhilGoetz
|
Necessary, But Not Sufficient
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pjeby
|
Co-operative Utilitarianism
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RichardChappell
|
Levels of communication
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Kaj_Sotala
|
There just has to be something more, you know?
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Academian
|
The two insights of materialism
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Academian
|
The "show, don't tell" nature of argument
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Morendil
|
An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning
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James_Miller
|
The Spotlight
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Alicorn
|
More thoughts on assertions
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Yvain
|
SIA won't doom you
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Over-encapsulation
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PhilGoetz
|
Maximise Expected Utility, not Expected Perception of Utility
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JGWeissman
|
The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory
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|
ata
|
Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon
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Kaj_Sotala
|
The Shabbos goy
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PhilGoetz
|
Newcomb's problem happened to me
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Academian
|
Addresses in the Multiverse
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jimrandomh
|
It's not like anything to be a bat
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Yvain
|
Mental Models
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hegemonicon
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The I-Less Eye
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rwallace
|
Highlights and Shadows
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Alicorn
|
NYC Rationalist Community
|
|
Cosmos
|
Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same
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PhilGoetz
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Disambiguating Doom
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steven0461
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City of Lights
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Alicorn
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Loleliezers
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dclayh
|
The role of neodeconstructive rationalism in the works of Less Wrong
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thomblake
|
Open Thread: April 2010
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Unnamed
|
The human problem
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PhilGoetz
|
Rationality quotes: April 2010
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wnoise
|
Announcing the Less Wrong Sub-Reddit
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tommccabe
|
Bayesian Collaborative Filtering
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JGWeissman
|
Free copy of Feynman's autobiography for best corny rationalist joke
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GreenRoot
|
Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News
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Wei_Dai
|
Lampshading
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Alicorn
|
Single Point of Moral Failure
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Alexandros
|
Pain and gain motivation
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Open Thread: April 2010, Part 2
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|
Unnamed
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Ureshiku Naritai
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Alicorn
|
Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic
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Wei_Dai
|
Swimming in Reasons
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steven0461
|
The Last Number
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Stuart_Armstrong
|
Singularity Call For Papers
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CarlShulman
|
Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory
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Roko
|
Ugh Fields
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Benja
|
Preference utilitarian measure of historical welfare
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taw
|
A LessWrong poster for the Humanity+ conference next Saturday
|
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ciphergoth
|
The many faces of status
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Morendil
|
Self-indication assumption is wrong for interesting reasons
|
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neq1
|
The Concepts Problem
|
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Attention Lurkers: Please say hi
|
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Kevin
|
Eluding Attention Hijacks
|
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ABranco
|
VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation
|
|
Academian
|
a meta-anti-akrasia strategy that might just work
|
|
MartinB
|
The Fundamental Question
|
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MBlume
|
Friendly, but Dumb: Why formal Friendliness proofs may not be as safe as they appear
|
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apophenia
|
The Red Bias
|
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Jack
|
CogSci books
|
|
xamdam
|
Eight Short Studies On Excuses
|
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Yvain
|
Fusing AI with Superstition
|
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Drahflow
|
Living Large - availability of life
|
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xamdam
|
Too busy to think about life
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Academian
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23andme genome analysis - $99 today only
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hegemonicon
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The role of mathematical truths
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SilasBarta
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Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence
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AnnaSalamon
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Who is your favorite rationalist?
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xamdam
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Only humans can have human values
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PhilGoetz
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Proposed New Features for Less Wrong
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tommccabe
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Attention Less Wrong: We need an FAQ
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Kevin
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MathOverflow as an example for LessWrong
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Academian
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Possibilities for converting useless fun into utility in Online Gaming
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Aleksei_Riikonen
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Jinnetic Engineering, by Richard Stallman
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MBlume
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What are our domains of expertise? A marketplace of insights and issues
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Morendil
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Averaging value systems is worse than choosing one
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PhilGoetz
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Open Thread: May 2010
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Jack
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Rationality quotes: May 2010
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ata
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Human values differ as much as values can differ
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PhilGoetz
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But Somebody Would Have Noticed
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Alicorn
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The Cameron Todd Willingham test
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Kevin
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Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit
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Yvain
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Cognitive Bias Song
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xamdam
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Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!"
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neq1
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What is bunk?
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SarahC
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The Psychological Diversity of Mankind
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Kaj_Sotala
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Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems
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Alexandros
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Q&A with Harpending and Cochran
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MBlume
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Conditioning on Observers
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Jonathan_Lee
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Updating, part 1: When can you change your mind? The binary model
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PhilGoetz
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Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices
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Yvain
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Bay Area Lesswrong Meet up Sunday May 16
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LucasSloan
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Study: Encouraging Obedience Considered Harmful
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MBlume
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The Math of When to Self-Improve
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Preface to a Proposal for a New Mode of Inquiry
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Daniel_Burfoot
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Multiple Choice
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Alicorn
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Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute
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AnnaSalamon
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What is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory?
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AlephNeil
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Physicalism: consciousness as the last sense
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Academian
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Backchaining causes wishful thinking
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PhilGoetz
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Blame Theory
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cousin_it
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Summer vs Winter Strategies
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whpearson
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Another way to look at consciousness
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JanetK
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Development of Compression Rate Method
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Daniel_Burfoot
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Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2
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Kevin
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Taking the awkwardness out of a Prenup - A Game Theoretic solution
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VijayKrishnan
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LessWrong downtime 2010-05-11, and other recent outages and instability
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matt
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To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer
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Clippy
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Link: Strong Inference
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Daniel_Burfoot
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30th Soar workshop
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Johnicholas
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On Enjoying Disagreeable Company
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Alicorn
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Abnormal Cryonics
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Will_Newsome
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread
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Unnamed
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Beyond Optimization by Proxy
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Alexandros
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This is your brain on ambiguity
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Morendil
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Composting fruitless debates
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Academian
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Significance of Compression Rate Method
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Daniel_Burfoot
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Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
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Yvain
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On Less Wrong traffic and new users -- and how you can help
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Kevin
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London UK, Saturday 2010-07-03: "How to think rationally about the future"
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ciphergoth
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Cultivating our own gardens
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SarahC
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Seven Shiny Stories
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Alicorn
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Open Thread: June 2010
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Morendil
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Rationality quotes: June 2010
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Morendil
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Singularity Summit 2010 on Aug. 14-15 in San Francisco
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tommccabe
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Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)
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komponisto
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Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit
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Wei_Dai
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Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists
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Will_Newsome
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Open Thread June 2010, Part 2
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komponisto
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Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group
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Morendil
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Your intuitions are not magic
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Kaj_Sotala
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UDT agents as deontologists
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Tyrrell_McAllister
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How to always have interesting conversations
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Kaj_Sotala
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Open Thread June 2010, Part 3
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Kevin
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Book Club Update and Chapter 1
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Morendil
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Open Thread June 2010, Part 4
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Will_Newsome
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Surface syllogisms and the sin-based model of causation
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PhilGoetz
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Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice
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Psychohistorian
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What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM?
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Mass_Driver
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Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions
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simplicio
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A Rational Education
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wedrifid
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Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future
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gworley
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Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence
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divia
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Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?
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WrongBot
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Book Club Update, Chapter 2 of Probability Theory
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Morendil
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A Challenge for LessWrong
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simplicio
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Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People
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Kaj_Sotala
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What Cost for Irrationality?
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Kaj_Sotala
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Open Thread: July 2010
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komponisto
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Rationality Quotes: July 2010
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komponisto
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A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser
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Kaj_Sotala
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Cryonics Wants To Be Big
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lsparrish
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Assuming Nails
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Psychohistorian
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A Taxonomy of Bias: Mindware Problems
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Kaj_Sotala
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Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2
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Alicorn
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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought
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Kaj_Sotala
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A Rational Identity
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Kaj_Sotala
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The red paperclip theory of status
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Morendil
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The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas
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Kevin
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Singularity Institute Call for Volunteers
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tommccabe
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Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think
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WrongBot
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Room for rent in North Berkeley house
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Kevin
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The Instrumental Value of Your Own Time
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Mass_Driver
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So You Think You're a Bayesian? The Natural Mode of Probabilistic Reasoning
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Matt_Simpson
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Book Club Update, Chapter 3 of Probability Theory
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Morendil
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Fight Zero-Sum Bias
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multifoliaterose
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(One reason) why capitalism is much maligned
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multifoliaterose
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A speculation on Near and Far Modes
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MichaelVassar
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Floating Festival Jul 22-25
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good
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multifoliaterose
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Book Review: The Root of Thought
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Yvain
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Simplified Humanism, Positive Futurism & How to Prevent the Universe From Being Turned Into Paper Clips
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Kevin
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Public Choice and the Altruist's Burden
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[deleted]
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Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution
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WrongBot
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Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010
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PlaidX
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Bay Area Events Roundup
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Metaphilosophical Mysteries
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Wei_Dai
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Alien parasite technical guy
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PhilGoetz
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Forager Anthropology
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WrongBot
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AI cooperation in practice
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cousin_it
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Open Thread, August 2010
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NancyLebovitz
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2
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dclayh
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Rationality quotes: August 2010
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Cyan
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The Threat of Cryonics
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lsparrish
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Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model
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Yvain
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Interested in a European lesswrong meetup
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MartinB
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Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Liron
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Purposefulness on Mars
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JamesAndrix
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Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics
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James_Miller
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Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers
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multifoliaterose
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Two straw men fighting
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JanetK
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Book Recommendations
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NancyLebovitz
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Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2
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NancyLebovitz
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Five-minute rationality techniques
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sketerpot
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Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity
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multifoliaterose
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A Proof of Occam's Razor
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Unknowns
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Is it rational to be religious? Simulations are required for answer.
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Aleksei_Riikonen
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Singularity Summit 2010 Less Wrong Meetup
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Mycroft65536
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010)
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orthonormal
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What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making)
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bentarm
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Should I believe what the SIAI claims?
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XiXiDu
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What a reduction of "could" could look like
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cousin_it
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An introduction to decision theory
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AdamBell
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Taking Ideas Seriously
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Will_Newsome
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Problems in evolutionary psychology
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Kaj_Sotala
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Existential Risk and Public Relations
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multifoliaterose
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Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem
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Johnicholas
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Newcomb's Problem: A problem for Causal Decision Theories
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AdamBell
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Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions
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RichardChappell
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Should humanity give birth to a galactic civilization?
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XiXiDu
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What a reduction of "probability" probably looks like
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cousin_it
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Other Existential Risks
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multifoliaterose
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How can we compare decision theories?
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bentarm
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Transhumanism and the denotation-connotation gap
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PhilGoetz
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Positioning oneself to make a difference
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Mitchell_Porter
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The Importance of Self-Doubt
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multifoliaterose
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Transparency and Accountability
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multifoliaterose
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Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go
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GreenRoot
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Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio
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simplicio
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Justifying Induction
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Unknowns
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The Smoking Lesion: A problem for evidential decision theory
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AdamBell
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Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness.
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daedalus2u
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Burning Man Meetup: Bayes Camp
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Larks
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Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) discussion thread
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FAWS
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The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity
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cousin_it
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Criteria for Rational Political Conversation
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woozle
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Self-fulfilling correlations
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PhilGoetz
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Cryonics Questions
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James_Miller
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Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI
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PhilGoetz
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3
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Unnamed
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Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory?
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SilasBarta
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Dreams of AIXI
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jacob_cannell
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Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010
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matt
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Rationality quotes: September 2010
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Morendil
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AI indifference through utility manipulation
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Frugality and working from finite data
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Snowyowl
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Anthropomorphic AI and Sandboxed Virtual Universes
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jacob_cannell
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Reasonably Fun
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JohnDavidBustard
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Controlling Constant Programs
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Something's Wrong
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SarahC
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A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy
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lionhearted
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September Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer's Bayesian Birthday Bash
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Jasen
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Humans are not automatically strategic
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AnnaSalamon
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Reason is not the only means of overcoming bias
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multifoliaterose
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More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA
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XFrequentist
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Memetic Hazards in Videogames
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jimrandomh
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Steps to Achievement: The Pitfalls, Costs, Requirements, and Timelines
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lionhearted
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The Science of Cutting Peppers
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Apprentice
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Reminder: Weekly LW meetings in NYC
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tommccabe
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The Effectiveness of Developing World Aid
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multifoliaterose
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
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Yvain
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The Affect Heuristic, Sentiment, and Art
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SarahC
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Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
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patrissimo
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Link: "You're Not Being Reasonable"
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CronoDAS
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Intelligence Amplification Open Thread
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Will_Newsome
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Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference
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neq1
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LW's first job ad
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The conscious tape
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PhilGoetz
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Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2
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NancyLebovitz
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Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality
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AnnaSalamon
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The Meaning of Life
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b1shop
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Rational Health Optimization
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jacob_cannell
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Rationality Power Tools
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Nic_Smith
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Fall 2010 Meta Thread
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Kevin
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Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears
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jimrandomh
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Error detection bias in research
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neq1
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Rationality Case Study - Ad-36
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Perplexed
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Is Rationality Maximization of Expected Value?
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AnlamK
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Let's make a deal
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Mitchell_Porter
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(Virtual) Employment Open Thread
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Will_Newsome
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Politics as Charity
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CarlShulman
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A Player of Games
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Larks
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What Makes My Attempt Special?
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Andy_McKenzie
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Vote Qualifications, Not Issues
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jimrandomh
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Don't judge a skill by its specialists
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Academian
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Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
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cousin_it
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Open Thread September, Part 3
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LucasSloan
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New Discussion section on LessWrong!
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Emile
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Experts vs. parents
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PhilGoetz
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Reflections on a Personal Public Relations Failure: A Lesson in Communication
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multifoliaterose
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Expectation-Based Akrasia Management
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AdeleneDawner
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Coding Rationally - Test Driven Development
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DSimon
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Break your habits: be more empirical
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Academian
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The Irrationality Game
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Will_Newsome
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Slava!
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SarahC
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Understanding vipassana meditation
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Luke_Grecki
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Rationality quotes: October 2010
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Morendil
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4
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gjm
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Notion of Preference in Ambient Control
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Recommended Reading for Friendly AI Research
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
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SarahC
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References & Resources for LessWrong
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XiXiDu
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Collecting and hoarding crap, useless information
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lionhearted
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Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid
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Relsqui
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The Dark Arts - Preamble
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Aurini
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Morality and relativistic vertigo
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Academian
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Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment
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nick012000
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Human performance, psychometry, and baseball statistics
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Craig_Heldreth
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Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium
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Meni_Rosenfeld
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Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills
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Luke_Grecki
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How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
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matt
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The Problem With Trolley Problems
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lionhearted
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Optimism versus cryonics
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lsparrish
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Willpower: not a limited resource?
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Jess_Riedel
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Let's split the cake, lengthwise, upwise and slantwise
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine
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NancyLebovitz
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Activation Costs
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lionhearted
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Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) Part 2 Discussion Thread
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JenniferRM
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If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
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Academian
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Call for Volunteers: Rationalists with Non-Traditional Skills
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Jasen
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Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
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AnnaSalamon
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Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)
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ciphergoth
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Value Deathism
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey
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Raw_Power
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Imagine a world where minds run on physics
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cousin_it
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Is cryonics evil because it's cold?
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ata
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What I would like the SIAI to publish
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XiXiDu
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Group selection update
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PhilGoetz
|
What is the group selection debate?
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Academian
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South/Eastern Europe Meeting in Ljubljana/Slovenia
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Thomas
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 5
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NihilCredo
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Oxford (UK) Rationality & AI Risks Discussion Group
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Larks
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Rationality Quotes: November 2010
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jaimeastorga2000
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The Curve of Capability
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rwallace
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The hard limits of hard nanotech
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lsparrish
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Have no heroes, and no villains
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PhilGoetz
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An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion
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James_Miller
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Information Hazards
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apophenia
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A note on the description complexity of physical theories
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cousin_it
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How to pick your categories
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SarahC
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The Strong Occam's Razor
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cousin_it
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If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
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ata
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Outreach opportunity
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RichardKennaway
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Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
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Yvain
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Another attempt to explain UDT
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cousin_it
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Fixedness From Frailty
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Vaniver
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The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes
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patrissimo
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Bayesian Nights (Rationalist Story Time)
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nickernst
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Anti-Akrasia Reprise
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dreeves
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Reference Points
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lionhearted
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Imperfect Levers
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blogospheroid
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Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn't) help
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AnnaSalamon
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Yes, a blog.
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Academian
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What I've learned from Less Wrong
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Louie
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The true prisoner's dilemma with skewed payoff matrix
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Jonii
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Inherited Improbabilities: Transferring the Burden of Proof
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komponisto
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Probability and Politics
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CarlShulman
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Buy Insurance -- Bet Against Yourself
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MBlume
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Singularity Non-Fiction Compilation to be Written
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MichaelVassar
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
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lionhearted
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Belief in Belief vs. Internalization
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Desrtopa
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Unsolved Problems in Philosophy Part 1: The Liar's Paradox
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Kevin
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The Boundaries of Biases
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Vaniver
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Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
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lionhearted
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How to Save the World
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Louie
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Cheat codes
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sketerpot
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Rationality Quotes: December 2010
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Tiiba
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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Mass_Driver
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Efficient Charity
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multifoliaterose
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The Trolley Problem: Dodging moral questions
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Desrtopa
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The Truth about Scotsmen, or: Dissolving Fallacies
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Tesseract
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Best career models for doing research?
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Were atoms real?
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AnnaSalamon
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Unpacking the Concept of "Blackmail"
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Vladimir_Nesov
|
A sense of logic
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NancyLebovitz
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Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
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Yvain
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Singularity Institute pitch and new project plus other organizations in our ecosystem
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MichaelVassar
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Folk grammar and morality
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Emile
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Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI
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paulfchristiano
|
Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010
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DanielVarga
|
What can you do with an Unfriendly AI?
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paulfchristiano
|
The Santa deception: how did it affect you?
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Desrtopa
|
Dutch Books and Decision Theory: An Introduction to a Long Conversation
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Jack
|
Iterated Sleeping Beauty and Copied Minds
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lucidfox
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Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010
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Kevin
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Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...
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Yvain
|
Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge
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Kaj_Sotala
|
The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner
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benelliott
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Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
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PhilGoetz
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Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Narrow your answer space
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Vaniver
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Some rationality tweets
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Peter_de_Blanc
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2011 Articles
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Optimizing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altruism Chip Jar
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orthonormal
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Choose To Be Happy
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DanArmak
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Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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New Year's Predictions Thread (2011)
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Kevin
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Rationality Quotes: January 2011
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wedrifid
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Applied Optimal Philanthropy: How to Donate $100 to SIAI for Free
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Louie
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Techniques for probability estimates
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Yvain
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The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
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lukeprog
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In the Pareto-optimised crowd, be sure to know your place
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Rationalist Clue
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Mass_Driver
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I
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PhilGoetz
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A LessWrong "rationality workbook" idea
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jwhendy
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Spaced Repetition Database for A Human's Guide to Words
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divia
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Back to the Basics of Rationality
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lukeprog
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Branches of rationality
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AnnaSalamon
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Anki deck for biases and fallacies
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phob
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Simpson's Paradox
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bentarm
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Rational Repentance
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Mass_Driver
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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
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lukeprog
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Eliezer to speak in Oxford, 8pm Jan 25th
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alexflint
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Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments
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lukeprog
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Theists are wrong; is theism?
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Will_Newsome
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Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
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lukeprog
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The Illusion of Sameness
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Elizabeth
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David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis"
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lukeprog
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Optimal Employment
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Louie
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Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge
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Vladimir_Nesov
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The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence
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lukeprog
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Rationality Quotes: February 2011
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gwern
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On Charities and Linear Utility
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Anatoly_Vorobey
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Fast Minds and Slow Computers
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jacob_cannell
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How to Beat Procrastination
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lukeprog
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You're in Newcomb's Box
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HonoreDB
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Value Stability and Aggregation
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jimrandomh
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Reaching the general public
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RichardKennaway
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Procedural Knowledge Gaps
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Alicorn
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How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive
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apophenia
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Subjective Relativity, Time Dilation and Divergence
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jacob_cannell
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Make your training useful
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AnnaSalamon
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Secure Your Beliefs
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lukeprog
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Science: Do It Yourself
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tommccabe
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Algorithms as Case Studies in Rationality
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abramdemski
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Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
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Vladimir_M
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Revisiting the Anthropic Trilemma II: axioms and assumptions
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Write It Like A Poem
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Strange7
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Scholarship and DIY Science
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SarahC
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Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Ability to react
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Swimmer963
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Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
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Cosmos
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Updateless anthropics
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Research methods
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Swimmer963
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Use curiosity
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AnnaSalamon
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Vassar talk in New Haven, Sunday 2/27
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tommccabe
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Singularity Institute now accepts donations via Bitcoin
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Kevin
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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Vassar at NYU, Thursday March 3rd
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Cosmos
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Rationality Quotes: March 2011
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Alexandros
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Go Try Things
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atucker
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A Transhumanist Poem
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Swimmer963
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Positive Thinking
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Swimmer963
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Less Wrong at Burning Man 2011
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Kevin
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The Limits of Curiosity
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Elizabeth
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Plant Seeds of Rationality
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lukeprog
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Making Reasoning Obviously Locally Correct
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JGWeissman
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How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
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Zvi
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Being a teacher
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Swimmer963
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Enjoying food more: a case study in third options
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MBlume
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How to Be Happy
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lukeprog
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Rationality Outreach: A Parable
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SarahC
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Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter
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Cosmos
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Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community
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LucasSloan
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Effective Rationality Outreach
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paulfchristiano
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Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
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lukeprog
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Costs and Benefits of Scholarship
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lukeprog
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Rationality Boot Camp
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Jasen
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The trouble with teamwork
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Swimmer963
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Crime and punishment
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PhilGoetz
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Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com
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Louie
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Faith and theory
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PhilGoetz
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Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
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patrissimo
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The Neuroscience of Pleasure
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lukeprog
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Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
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lukeprog
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London Hackday, this Friday, April 1st (No, this is not a joke)
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Alexandros
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Mental Metadata
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Alicorn
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Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants
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Yvain
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Reflections on rationality a year out
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SarahC
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Singularity Institute featured on Philanthroper
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Louie
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The Good News of Situationist Psychology
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lukeprog
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The peril of ignoring emotions
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Swimmer963
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Manufacturing prejudice
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PhilGoetz
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Don't Fear Failure
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atucker
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Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
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atucker
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Rationality Quotes: April 2011
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benelliott
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Details of Taskforces; or, Cooperate Now
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paulfchristiano
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Spaniard Lesswrongers, Unite!
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Raw_Power
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Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics
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Johnicholas
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Human errors, human values
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PhilGoetz
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The Neuroscience of Desire
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lukeprog
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Separate morality from free will
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PhilGoetz
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The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
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paulfchristiano
|
Anthropics makes sense with shorter people
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KatjaGrace
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We are not living in a simulation
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dfranke
|
Best videos inspiring first interest in rationality or the singularity
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Academian
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz
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How not to be a Naïve Computationalist
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diegocaleiro
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Levels of Action
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tommccabe
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Three consistent positions for computationalists
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dfranke
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The Bias You Didn't Expect
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Psychohistorian
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Say More, Justify Less
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paulfchristiano
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How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider
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lukeprog
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Offense versus harm minimization
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Yvain
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Build Small Skills in the Right Order
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lukeprog
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Learned Blankness
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AnnaSalamon
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Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements
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Swimmer963
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No, Seriously. Just Try It.
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lukeprog
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Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions
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Louie
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Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
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Skatche
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Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?
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gwern
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Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics
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lukeprog
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Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)
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AnnaSalamon
|
Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience
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lukeprog
|
Convincing Arguments Aren’t Necessarily Correct – They’re Merely Convincing
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lionhearted
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What is Metaethics?
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lukeprog
|
What data generated that thought?
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Mapping our maps: types of knowledge
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Swimmer963
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So You've Changed Your Mind
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Spurlock
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Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3)
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DavidM
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Cryonics Promotional Video Contest -- 10 BTC Prize
|
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lsparrish
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On Being Okay with the Truth
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lukeprog
|
SIAI - An Examination
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BrandonReinhart
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The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things
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lionhearted
|
Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3)
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DavidM
|
Your Evolved Intuitions
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lukeprog
|
Leadership and Self Deception, Anatomy of Peace
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TimFreeman
|
Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011
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Psychohistorian
|
Intuition and Unconscious Learning
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lukeprog
|
The Power of Agency
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lukeprog
|
The 5-Second Level
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Shifting Load to Explicit Reasoning
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Vladimir_Nesov
|
Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints
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calcsam
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Building rationalist communities: a series overview
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calcsam
|
Chemicals and Electricity
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lionhearted
|
When Intuitions Are Useful
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lukeprog
|
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
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lukeprog
|
Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves
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calcsam
|
Designing Rationalist Projects
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calcsam
|
Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory
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lukeprog
|
Colonization models: a programming tutorial (Part 1/2)
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snarles
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Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)
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snarles
|
Values vs. parameters
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PhilGoetz
|
How and Why to Granularize
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lukeprog
|
Suffering as attention-allocational conflict
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Kaj_Sotala
|
The Aliens have Landed!
|
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TimFreeman
|
On the Anthropic Trilemma
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KatjaGrace
|
Metacontrarian Metaethics
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Will_Newsome
|
Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.
|
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AdeleneDawner
|
A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
|
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Sniffnoy
|
Ace Attorney: pioneer Rationalism-didactic game?
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Raw_Power
|
Inferring Our Desires
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lukeprog
|
Self-programming through spaced repetition
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Luke_Grecki
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LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation
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virtualAdept
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Pancritical Rationalism Can Apply to Preferences and Behavior
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TimFreeman
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Dominus' Razor
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badger
|
The cost of universal cryonics
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handoflixue
|
Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia
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orthonormal
|
Bias in capital project decision making
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jsalvatier
|
Measuring aversion and habit strength
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Academian
|
A Study of Scarlet: The Conscious Mental Graph
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orthonormal
|
Teachable Rationality Skills
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
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badger
|
Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia
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orthonormal
|
Pluralistic Moral Reductionism
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lukeprog
|
Heuristics for Deciding What to Work On
|
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John_Maxwell_IV
|
Rationality Quotes: June 2011
|
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Oscar_Cunningham
|
The Landmark Forum — a rationalist's first impression
|
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Nisan
|
Action and habit
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Swimmer963
|
St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility
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TimFreeman
|
Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar
|
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jimrandomh
|
Memory, Spaced Repetition and Life
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Duke
|
Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone
|
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lukeprog
|
How not to move the goalposts
|
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HopeFox
|
Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?
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lionhearted
|
Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism
|
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multifoliaterose
|
Efficient philanthropy: local vs. global approaches
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multifoliaterose
|
When is further research needed?
|
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RichardKennaway
|
Foma: Beliefs that Cause Themselves to be True
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atucker
|
Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries
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calcsam
|
Community roles: committees and leadership
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calcsam
|
Entangled with Reality: The Shoelace Example
|
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lukeprog
|
The True Rejection Challenge
|
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Alicorn
|
Reasons for being rational
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Swimmer963
|
Not for the Sake of Selfishness Alone
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lukeprog
|
Rationality Quotes July 2011
|
|
Normal_Anomaly
|
Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans
|
|
Yvain
|
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
|
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Yvain
|
'Is' and 'Ought' and Rationality
|
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BobTheBob
|
Dark Arts: Schopenhauer wrote The Book on How To Troll
|
|
Raw_Power
|
Basics of Animal Reinforcement
|
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Yvain
|
Find yourself a Worthy Opponent: a Chavruta
|
|
Raw_Power
|
Basics of Human Reinforcement
|
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Yvain
|
How to annoy misanthropes and bleeding-hearts
|
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PhilGoetz
|
An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice
|
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Mass_Driver
|
Time and Effort Discounting
|
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Yvain
|
Wanting vs. Liking Revisited
|
|
Yvain
|
Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
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Yvain
|
Physical and Mental Behavior
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Yvain
|
Community norm question: brief text ad signatures
|
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts
|
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Yvain
|
Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications"
|
|
CarlShulman
|
Trivers on Self-Deception
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Yvain
|
Knowing what you want is a prerequisite to getting what you want
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|
nwthomas
|
Rationality Market Research
|
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Raemon
|
Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win
|
|
jschulter
|
To what degree do we have goals?
|
|
Yvain
|
Preference For (Many) Future Worlds
|
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wedrifid
|
The limits of introspection
|
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Yvain
|
Ego syntonic thoughts and values
|
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Yvain
|
Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
|
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Yvain
|
Illustrator needed: Intuitive Bayes 2.0
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks
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Yvain
|
Secrets of the eliminati
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Yvain
|
Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
|
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Yvain
|
Bayesian Conspiracy @ Burning Man 2011
|
|
Kevin
|
Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings
|
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lukeprog
|
How to enjoy being wrong
|
|
lincolnquirk
|
The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die
|
|
gwern
|
MSF Theory: Another Explanation of Subjectively Objective Probability
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potato
|
Teaching Introspection
|
|
Swimmer963
|
Rationality Quotes August 2011
|
|
dvasya
|
Do Humans Want Things?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Modularity and Buzzy
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Consistently Inconsistent
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Raise the Age Demographic
|
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calcsam
|
Selecting optimal group projects and roles
|
|
calcsam
|
Towards a New Decision Theory for Parallel Agents
|
|
potato
|
Theory of Knowledge (rationality outreach)
|
|
KPier
|
Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness
|
|
Tesseract
|
Remind Physicalists They're Physicalists
|
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lukeprog
|
Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased)
|
|
HoldenKarnofsky
|
Spaced Repetition literature review prize: And the winner is...
|
|
jsalvatier
|
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
|
|
lukeprog
|
A Sketch of an Anti-Realist Metaethics
|
|
Jack
|
Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rational Home Buying
|
|
Yvain
|
Decision Theory Paradox: PD with Three Implies Chaos?
|
|
orthonormal
|
Polyhacking
|
|
Alicorn
|
A History of Bayes' Theorem
|
|
lukeprog
|
Is Rationality Teachable?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted
|
|
orthonormal
|
Rationality Quotes September 2011
|
|
dvasya
|
Open Thread: September 2011
|
|
Pavitra
|
Hacking on LessWrong Just Got Easier
|
|
atucker
|
Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Results
|
|
prase
|
Tool ideology
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Rational Communication
|
|
Swimmer963
|
Rationalist sites worth archiving?
|
|
gwern
|
My Greatest Achievement
|
|
Swimmer963
|
The Cognitive Science of Rationality
|
|
lukeprog
|
Complexity: inherent, created, and hidden
|
|
Swimmer963
|
The Optimizer's Curse and How to Beat It
|
|
lukeprog
|
Your inner Google
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Knowledge is Worth Paying For
|
|
lukeprog
|
Blindsight and Consciousness
|
|
atucker
|
Living bias, not thinking bias
|
|
crazy88
|
Stanislav Petrov Day
|
|
gwern
|
A Rationalist's Tale
|
|
lukeprog
|
$100 off for Less Wrong: Singularity Summit 2011 on Oct 15 - 16 in New York
|
|
Louie
|
Philosophy by Humans, 1: Concepts Don't Work That Way
|
|
lukeprog
|
Rationality Drugs
|
|
lukeprog
|
Open thread, October 2011
|
|
MarkusRamikin
|
Rationality Quotes October 2011
|
|
MinibearRex
|
Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance
|
|
lukeprog
|
Prize for the best introduction to the LessWrong source ($250)
|
|
jsalvatier
|
Not By Empathy Alone
|
|
gwern
|
Neural Correlates of Conscious Access
|
|
atucker
|
Morality is not about willpower
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
1001 PredictionBook Nights
|
|
gwern
|
The Outside View Of Human Complexity
|
|
Andy_McKenzie
|
A few analogies to illustrate key rationality points
|
|
kilobug
|
Calibrate your self-assessments
|
|
Yvain
|
Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds
|
|
dreeves
|
A Rational Approach to Fashion
|
|
lionhearted
|
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
|
|
gwern
|
How to understand people better
|
|
pwno
|
Amanda Knox: post mortem
|
|
gwern
|
Things you are supposed to like
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The Protagonist Problem
|
|
atucker
|
Let Your Workers Gather Food
|
|
D_Malik
|
Better Disagreement
|
|
lukeprog
|
Rhetoric for the Good
|
|
lukeprog
|
Great Explanations
|
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lukeprog
|
2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
|
|
Yvain
|
Rationality Quotes November 2011
|
|
Jayson_Virissimo
|
Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics
|
|
lukeprog
|
Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry
|
|
HoldenKarnofsky
|
Modularity, signaling, and belief in belief
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction
|
|
Raemon
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?
|
|
Raemon
|
Existential Risk
|
|
lukeprog
|
Poker with Lennier
|
|
HonoreDB
|
Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
The curse of identity
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Relevance to Rationality
|
|
Raemon
|
Don’t Apply the Principle of Charity to Yourself
|
|
UnclGhost
|
Practical debiasing
|
|
crazy88
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Observing Reality
|
|
Raemon
|
Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition
|
|
XiXiDu
|
5-second level case study: Value of information
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Value of Information: Four Examples
|
|
Vaniver
|
(Subjective Bayesianism vs. Frequentism) VS. Formalism
|
|
potato
|
Philosophy by Humans, 2: Living Metaphorically
|
|
lukeprog
|
Uncertainty
|
|
Vaniver
|
Hack Away at the Edges
|
|
lukeprog
|
5 Axioms of Decision Making
|
|
Vaniver
|
Announcing the Quantified Health Prize
|
|
Zvi
|
Rationality Quotes December 2011
|
|
Jayson_Virissimo
|
Funnel plots: the study that didn't bark, or, visualizing regression to the null
|
|
gwern
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Technical Skill
|
|
Raemon
|
2011 Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
An akrasia case study
|
|
nyan_sandwich
|
Compressing Reality to Math
|
|
Vaniver
|
How to label thoughts nonverbally
|
|
eugman
|
Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration
|
|
Raemon
|
Measures, Risk, Death, and War
|
|
Vaniver
|
Decision Analysis Sequence
|
|
Vaniver
|
Spend Money on Ergonomics
|
|
Kevin
|
Prediction is hard, especially of medicine
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gwern
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Just another day in utopia
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012)
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orthonormal
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Best of Rationality Quotes, 2011 Edition
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DanielVarga
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For-Profit Rationality Training
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ksvanhorn
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The Value (and Danger) of Ritual
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Raemon
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The bias shield
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PhilGoetz
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2012 Articles
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So You Want to Save the World
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lukeprog
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New Year's Prediction Thread (2012)
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gwern
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Rationality quotes January 2012
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Thomas
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Quantified Health Prize Deadline Extended
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tommccabe
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What Curiosity Looks Like
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lukeprog
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Designing Ritual
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Raemon
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Rationality meditation theory.
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WingedFoe
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The Gift I Give Tomorrow
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Raemon
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On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power.
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Dmytry
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
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lukeprog
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The Savage theorem and the Ellsberg paradox
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fool
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Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey
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lukeprog
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Histocracy: Open, Effective Group Decision-Making With Weighted Voting
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HonoreDB
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The problem with too many rational memes
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Swimmer963
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POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism.
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Dmytry
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The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
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lukeprog
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How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
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Swimmer963
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Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
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AnnaSalamon
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The Substitution Principle
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Kaj_Sotala
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The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity
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vallinder
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The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps
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fool
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Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
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atorm
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Terminal Bias
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nyan_sandwich
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Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness
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gwern
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Risk aversion vs. concave utility function
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dvasya
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Is risk aversion really irrational ?
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kilobug
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Rationality Quotes February 2012
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GabrielDuquette
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Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?
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gwern
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Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
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Morendil
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Feed the spinoff heuristic!
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CarlShulman
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My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
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lukeprog
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Avoid misinterpreting your emotions
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Kaj_Sotala
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The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates
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Mass_Driver
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Quantified Health Prize results announced
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Zvi
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Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher
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nerfhammer
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Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms
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Christian_Szegedy
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Get Curious
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lukeprog
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Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13)
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PhilGoetz
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Status and Changing your Mind
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jkaufman
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Heuristics and Biases in Charity
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Kaj_Sotala
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Rationality Quotes March 2012
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Thomas
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The kinesthesia switch
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NancyLebovitz
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Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary
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Swimmer963
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The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes
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Strange7
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How to Fix Science
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lukeprog
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Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit
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CarlShulman
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Causal diagrams and software engineering
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Morendil
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Rationally Irrational
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HungryTurtle
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I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias
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Kaj_Sotala
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Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer
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orthonormal
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Biased Pandemic
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freyley
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Schelling fences on slippery slopes
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Yvain
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How to avoid dying in a car crash
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michaelcurzi
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Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence
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Kaj_Sotala
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6 Tips for Productive Arguments
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Emotional regulation Part II: research summary
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Swimmer963
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I
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orthonormal
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Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt
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Manfred
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Brain Preservation
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jkaufman
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SotW: Check Consequentialism
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
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AnnaSalamon
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Examine your assumptions
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Douglas_Reay
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Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about
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JoshuaFox
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Fictional Bias
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thomblake
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Rationality Quotes April 2012
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Oscar_Cunningham
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SotW: Be Specific
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part II
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orthonormal
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Exploring the Idea Space Efficiently
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Elithrion
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Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
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kalla724
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
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orthonormal
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Be Happier
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Klevador
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To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony
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Kaj_Sotala
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Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic
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kalla724
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Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes
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Johnicholas
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Rationality Quotes May 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review
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Vaniver
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Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
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HoldenKarnofsky
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General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous
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PhilGoetz
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Sneaky Strategies for TDT
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drnickbone
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SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Problematic Problems for TDT
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drnickbone
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Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
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jsalvatier
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When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2
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Jay_Schweikert
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Avoid inflationary use of terms
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lsparrish
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Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study
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badger
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Rationality Quotes June 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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"Progress"
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PhilGoetz
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Ask an experimental physicist
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RolfAndreassen
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Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
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Kaj_Sotala
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AGI Impacts conference in Oxford in December, with Call for Papers
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Local Ordinances of Fun
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Alicorn
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Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
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tommccabe
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Female Compatriots, Stay For a Week in Berkeley!
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ShannonFriedman
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Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Power of Reinforcement
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lukeprog
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A (small) critique of total utilitarianism
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide
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Yvain
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Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
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Yvain
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Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma
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Yvain
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Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees
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Yvain
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Thoughts on moral intuitions
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Kaj_Sotala
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Your existence is informative
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KatjaGrace
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New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans
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tommccabe
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Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas
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Yvain
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Rationality Quotes July 2012
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RobertLumley
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Negative and Positive Selection
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tommccabe
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Interlude for Behavioral Economics
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Yvain
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To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking
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gwern
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Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute
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lukeprog
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An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction
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Alex_Altair
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Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration
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Stuart_Armstrong
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What Is Optimal Philanthropy?
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tommccabe
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What Is Signaling, Really?
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Yvain
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Bargaining and Auctions
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Yvain
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Tips for Starting Group Houses
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ShannonFriedman
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)
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ciphergoth
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Imperfect Voting Systems
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Yvain
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SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st
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lukeprog
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Game Theory As A Dark Art
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Yvain
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Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians
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ChrisHallquist
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Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 1)
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royf
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AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)
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royf
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Rationality Quotes August 2012
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Alejandro1
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What are the optimal biases to overcome?
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aaronsw
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Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality
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aaronsw
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Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules
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pragmatist
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Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
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royf
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Solving the two envelopes problem
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rstarkov
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Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders
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Yvain
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Why Don't People Help Others More?
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peter_hurford
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Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?
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ShannonFriedman
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AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?
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Stuart_Armstrong
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How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics
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JGWeissman
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AI timeline prediction data
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Stuart_Armstrong
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The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?
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Yvain
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Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
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Jayson_Virissimo
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The Bayesian Agent
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royf
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Less Wrong Polls in Comments
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jimrandomh
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New study on choice blindness in moral positions
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nerfhammer
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Causality: a chapter by chapter review
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Vaniver
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The Useful Idea of Truth
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationality Quotes October 2012
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MBlume
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Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the waterline
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Morendil
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Point-Based Value Iteration
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royf
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Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)
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Morendil
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The Fabric of Real Things
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)
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Morendil
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Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How To Have Things Correctly
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Alicorn
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Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Causal Reference
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers
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ShannonFriedman
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Now I Appreciate Agency
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ShannonFriedman
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Original Research on Less Wrong
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lukeprog
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Checking Kurzweil's track record
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Proofs, Implications, and Models
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists
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jsteinhardt
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Logical Pinpointing
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Sign up to be notified about new LW meetups in your area
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Louie
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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
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Yvain
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Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity
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Academian
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Rationality Quotes November 2012
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GabrielDuquette
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Checklist of Rationality Habits
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AnnaSalamon
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Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs
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AnnaSalamon
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How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
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lukeprog
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Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity
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wdcrouch
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AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles
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Swimmer963
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Overconfident Pessimism
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lukeprog
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LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
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daenerys
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How minimal is our intelligence?
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Douglas_Reay
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A definition of wireheading
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Anja
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Thoughts on designing policies for oneself
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Causal Universes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way
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lukeprog
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Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't
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lukeprog
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Rationality Quotes December 2012
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Thomas
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LessWrong podcasts
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Louie
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Factions, inequality, and social justice
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
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lukeprog
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2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute
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lukeprog
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2012 Survey Results
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Yvain
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By Which It May Be Judged
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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New Sequences and General Update From Castify
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scott_from_castify
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Why you must maximize expected utility
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Benja
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More Cryonics Probability Estimates
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jkaufman
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Narrative, self-image, and self-communication
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Academian
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Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.
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Raemon
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Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness
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Raemon
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2013 Articles
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You can't signal to rubes
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Patrick
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Rationality Quotes January 2013
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katydee
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How to Disentangle the Past and the Future
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royf
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Applied Rationality Workshops: Jan 25-28 and March 1-4
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AnnaSalamon
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2012: Year in Review
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Kaj_Sotala
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Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes
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gwern
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Second-Order Logic: The Controversy
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Morality is Awesome
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