| 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
|
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
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism
|
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
|
| Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
|
Affective death spiral, Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
|
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Argument Screens Off Authority
|
Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Hug the Query
|
Precision, Politics is the Mind-Killer, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
Mind-killer
|
ciphergoth
|
| What I Tell You Three Times Is True
|
|
Yvain
|
| Return of the Survey
|
|
Yvain
|
| Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
|
|
MBlume
|
| Without models
|
Control theory
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Bead Jar Guesses
|
Priors
|
Alicorn
|
| Special Status Needs Special Support
|
Affect heuristic
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How David Beats Goliath
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
| How to use "philosophical majoritarianism"
|
|
jimmy
|
| Off Topic Thread: May 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
| Introduction Thread: May 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
| Consider Representative Data Sets
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| No Universal Probability Space
|
|
gworley
|
| Wiki.lesswrong.com Is Live
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Beware Trivial Inconveniences
|
|
Yvain
|
| On the Fence? Major in CS
|
|
talisman
|
| Rationality is winning - or is it?
|
|
taw
|
| The First Koan: Drinking the Hot Iron Ball
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Replaying History
|
|
gworley
|
| Framing Consciousness
|
|
cousin_it
|
| A Request for Open Problems
|
|
MrHen
|
| How Not to be Stupid: Brewing a Nice Cup of Utilitea
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Step Back
|
|
Andy_McKenzie
|
| You Are A Brain
|
|
Liron
|
| No One Knows Stuff
|
A sense that more is possible
|
talisman
|
| Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality in the Media: Don't (New Yorker, May 2009)
|
|
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
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| How to think like a quantum monadologist
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| Localized theories and conditional complexity
|
|
jimmy
|
| Applying Double Standards to "Divisive" Ideas
|
|
PlaidX
|
| Near and far skills
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Shortness is now a treatable condition
|
|
taw
|
| Lore Sjoberg's Life-Hacking FAQK
|
|
PlaidX
|
| Why the beliefs/values dichotomy?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Biking Beyond Madness (link)
|
|
hirvinen
|
| Rationality Quotes: October 2009
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The continued misuse of the Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
SilasBarta
|
| Better thinking through experiential games
|
Puzzle game index, The Less Wrong Video Game
|
Morendil
|
| Extreme risks: when not to use expected utility
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Arrow's Theorem is a Lie
|
|
tommccabe
|
| The Value of Nature and Old Books
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Computer bugs and evolution
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Doing your good deed for the day
|
|
Yvain
|
| Expected utility without the independence axiom
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Post retracted: If you follow expected utility, expect to be money-pumped
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition)
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
|
|
marc
|
| Less Wrong / Overcoming Bias meet-up groups
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Our House, My Rules
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Open Thread: November 2009
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Re-understanding Robin Hanson's "Pre-Rationality"
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Rolf Nelson's "The Rational Entrepreneur"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Money pumping: the axiomatic approach
|
Expected utility
|
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.
|
|
cleonid
|
| Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| lessmeta
|
|
PlaidX
|
| The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Two Truths and a Lie
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality
|
|
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
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| Hypotheses For Dualism
|
|
byrnema
|
| Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction"
|
|
Roko
|
| Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Chpt 2
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
botogol
|
| Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies
|
|
Kevin
|
| Lesswrong UK planning thread
|
|
whpearson
|
| Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".
|
|
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
|
|
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)
|
|
Gary_Drescher
|
| Debate tools: an experience report
|
|
Morendil
|
| Ethics has Evidence Too
|
|
Jack
|
| BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| A survey of anti-cryonics writing
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Epistemic Luck
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Common Errors in History
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Shut Up and Divide?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks
|
|
Kevin
|
| My Fundamental Question About Omega
|
|
MrHen
|
| How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything?
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Shock Levels are Point Estimates
|
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
| Two Challenges
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
| You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Two probabilities
|
|
rwallace
|
| Boo lights: groupthink edition
|
|
Morendil
|
| Hayekian Prediction Markets?
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Friendly AI at the NYC Future Salon
|
|
Jasen
|
| Open Thread: February 2010, part 2
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Things You Can't Countersignal
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions
|
|
Liron
|
| Study: Making decisions makes you tired
|
|
bgrah449
|
| Conversation Halters
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Akrasia Tactics Review
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics
|
|
Cyan
|
| Woo!
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
| Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
|
|
Alicorn
|
| "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| What is Bayesianism?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Creating a Less Wrong prediction market
|
|
Kevin
|
| Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
|
|
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
|
|
inklesspen
|
| Open Thread: March 2010
|
|
AdeleneDawner
|
| Rationality quotes: March 2010
|
|
Morendil
|
| For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Interesting Peter Norvig interview
|
|
xamdam
|
| Priors and Surprise
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| The Graviton as Aether
|
|
tommccabe
|
| The fallacy of work-life compartmentalization
|
|
Morendil
|
| Signaling Strategies and Morality
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman
|
|
Cyan
|
| The strongest status signals
|
|
pwno
|
| Selfishness Signals Status
|
|
Liron
|
| Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
| The Blackmail Equation
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Deception and Self-Doubt
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Nature editorial: Do scientists really need a PhD?
|
|
Kevin
|
| Spring 2010 Meta Thread
|
|
FAWS
|
| Open Thread: March 2010, part 2
|
|
RobinZ
|
| Rational feelings: a crucial disambiguation
|
|
Academian
|
| The Importance of Goodhart's Law
|
|
blogospheroid
|
| Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing)
|
|
Morendil
|
| Crunchcourse - a tool for combating learning akrasia
|
|
whpearson
|
| Musings on probability
|
|
bogdanb
|
| Undiscriminating Skepticism
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Omega's subcontracting to Alpha
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Overcoming the mind-killer
|
|
woozle
|
| Subjective Anticipation and Death
|
|
LucasSloan
|
| Living Luminously
|
|
Alicorn
|
| You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Disconnect between Stated/Implemented Preferences
|
|
Strange7
|
| Let There Be Light
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Sequential Organization of Thinking: "Six Thinking Hats"
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
| "Life Experience" as a Conversation-Halter
|
|
Seth_Goldin
|
| The ABC's of Luminosity
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Open Thread: March 2010, part 3
|
|
RobinZ
|
| Think Before You Speak (And Signal It)
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Information theory and the symmetry of updating beliefs
|
|
Academian
|
| Lights, Camera, Action!
|
|
Alicorn
|
| The Price of Life
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
| The scourge of perverse-mindedness
|
|
simplicio
|
| What would you do if blood glucose theory of willpower was true?
|
|
taw
|
| Understanding your understanding
|
|
SilasBarta
|
| Subtext is not invariant under linear transformations
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Necessary, But Not Sufficient
|
|
pjeby
|
| Co-operative Utilitarianism
|
|
RichardChappell
|
| Levels of communication
|
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Kaj_Sotala
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| There just has to be something more, you know?
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Academian
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| The two insights of materialism
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Academian
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| The "show, don't tell" nature of argument
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Morendil
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| An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning
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James_Miller
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| The Spotlight
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Alicorn
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| More thoughts on assertions
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Yvain
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| SIA won't doom you
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Over-encapsulation
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PhilGoetz
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| Maximise Expected Utility, not Expected Perception of Utility
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JGWeissman
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| The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory
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ata
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| Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon
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Kaj_Sotala
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| The Shabbos goy
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PhilGoetz
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| Newcomb's problem happened to me
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Academian
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| Addresses in the Multiverse
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jimrandomh
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| It's not like anything to be a bat
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Yvain
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| Mental Models
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hegemonicon
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| The I-Less Eye
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rwallace
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| Highlights and Shadows
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Alicorn
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| NYC Rationalist Community
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Cosmos
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| 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
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| The role of neodeconstructive rationalism in the works of Less Wrong
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thomblake
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| Open Thread: April 2010
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Unnamed
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| The human problem
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PhilGoetz
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| Rationality quotes: April 2010
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wnoise
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| Announcing the Less Wrong Sub-Reddit
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tommccabe
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| Bayesian Collaborative Filtering
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JGWeissman
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| Free copy of Feynman's autobiography for best corny rationalist joke
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GreenRoot
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| Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News
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Wei_Dai
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| Lampshading
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Alicorn
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| Single Point of Moral Failure
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Alexandros
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| Pain and gain motivation
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Open Thread: April 2010, Part 2
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Unnamed
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| Ureshiku Naritai
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Alicorn
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| Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic
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Wei_Dai
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| Swimming in Reasons
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steven0461
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| The Last Number
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Singularity Call For Papers
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CarlShulman
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| Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory
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Roko
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| Ugh Fields
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Benja
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| Preference utilitarian measure of historical welfare
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taw
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| A LessWrong poster for the Humanity+ conference next Saturday
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ciphergoth
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| The many faces of status
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Morendil
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| Self-indication assumption is wrong for interesting reasons
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neq1
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| The Concepts Problem
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Attention Lurkers: Please say hi
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Kevin
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| Eluding Attention Hijacks
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ABranco
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| VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation
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Academian
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| a meta-anti-akrasia strategy that might just work
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MartinB
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| The Fundamental Question
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MBlume
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| Friendly, but Dumb: Why formal Friendliness proofs may not be as safe as they appear
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apophenia
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| The Red Bias
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Jack
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| CogSci books
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xamdam
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| Eight Short Studies On Excuses
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Yvain
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| Fusing AI with Superstition
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Drahflow
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| Living Large - availability of life
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xamdam
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| 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
|
| What is bunk?
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SarahC
|
| The Psychological Diversity of Mankind
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| This is your brain on ambiguity
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Morendil
|
| Composting fruitless debates
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Academian
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| Significance of Compression Rate Method
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Daniel_Burfoot
|
| Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
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|
Yvain
|
| On Less Wrong traffic and new users -- and how you can help
|
|
Kevin
|
| London UK, Saturday 2010-07-03: "How to think rationally about the future"
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Cultivating our own gardens
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SarahC
|
| Seven Shiny Stories
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Alicorn
|
| Open Thread: June 2010
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Morendil
|
| Rationality quotes: June 2010
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Morendil
|
| Singularity Summit 2010 on Aug. 14-15 in San Francisco
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tommccabe
|
| Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)
|
|
komponisto
|
| Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists
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|
Will_Newsome
|
| Open Thread June 2010, Part 2
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|
komponisto
|
| Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group
|
|
Morendil
|
| Your intuitions are not magic
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| UDT agents as deontologists
|
|
Tyrrell_McAllister
|
| How to always have interesting conversations
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Open Thread June 2010, Part 3
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|
Kevin
|
| Book Club Update and Chapter 1
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|
Morendil
|
| Open Thread June 2010, Part 4
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Surface syllogisms and the sin-based model of causation
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM?
|
|
Mass_Driver
|
| Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions
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|
simplicio
|
| A Rational Education
|
|
wedrifid
|
| Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future
|
|
gworley
|
| Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence
|
|
divia
|
| Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?
|
|
WrongBot
|
| Book Club Update, Chapter 2 of Probability Theory
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|
Morendil
|
| A Challenge for LessWrong
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|
simplicio
|
| Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| What Cost for Irrationality?
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Open Thread: July 2010
|
|
komponisto
|
| Rationality Quotes: July 2010
|
|
komponisto
|
| A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Cryonics Wants To Be Big
|
|
lsparrish
|
| Assuming Nails
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| A Taxonomy of Bias: Mindware Problems
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2
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|
Alicorn
|
| What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| A Rational Identity
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| The red paperclip theory of status
|
|
Morendil
|
| The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas
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|
Kevin
|
| Singularity Institute Call for Volunteers
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|
tommccabe
|
| Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think
|
|
WrongBot
|
| Room for rent in North Berkeley house
|
|
Kevin
|
| The Instrumental Value of Your Own Time
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|
Mass_Driver
|
| So You Think You're a Bayesian? The Natural Mode of Probabilistic Reasoning
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| Book Club Update, Chapter 3 of Probability Theory
|
|
Morendil
|
| Fight Zero-Sum Bias
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| (One reason) why capitalism is much maligned
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| A speculation on Near and Far Modes
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Floating Festival Jul 22-25
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Book Review: The Root of Thought
|
|
Yvain
|
| Simplified Humanism, Positive Futurism & How to Prevent the Universe From Being Turned Into Paper Clips
|
|
Kevin
|
| Public Choice and the Altruist's Burden
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|
[deleted]
|
| Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution
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WrongBot
|
| Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010
|
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PlaidX
|
| Bay Area Events Roundup
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Metaphilosophical Mysteries
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|
Wei_Dai
|
| Alien parasite technical guy
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Forager Anthropology
|
|
WrongBot
|
| AI cooperation in practice
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Open Thread, August 2010
|
|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2
|
|
dclayh
|
| Rationality quotes: August 2010
|
|
Cyan
|
| The Threat of Cryonics
|
|
lsparrish
|
| Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model
|
|
Yvain
|
| Interested in a European lesswrong meetup
|
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MartinB
|
| Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky
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|
Liron
|
| Purposefulness on Mars
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JamesAndrix
|
| Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics
|
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James_Miller
|
| Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Two straw men fighting
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|
JanetK
|
| Book Recommendations
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|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2
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|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Five-minute rationality techniques
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|
sketerpot
|
| Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity
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multifoliaterose
|
| A Proof of Occam's Razor
|
|
Unknowns
|
| Is it rational to be religious? Simulations are required for answer.
|
|
Aleksei_Riikonen
|
| Singularity Summit 2010 Less Wrong Meetup
|
|
Mycroft65536
|
| Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010)
|
|
orthonormal
|
| What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making)
|
|
bentarm
|
| Should I believe what the SIAI claims?
|
|
XiXiDu
|
| What a reduction of "could" could look like
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|
cousin_it
|
| An introduction to decision theory
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|
AdamBell
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| Taking Ideas Seriously
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|
Will_Newsome
|
| Problems in evolutionary psychology
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| Existential Risk and Public Relations
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem
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|
Johnicholas
|
| Newcomb's Problem: A problem for Causal Decision Theories
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|
AdamBell
|
| Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions
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RichardChappell
|
| Should humanity give birth to a galactic civilization?
|
|
XiXiDu
|
| What a reduction of "probability" probably looks like
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|
cousin_it
|
| Other Existential Risks
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| How can we compare decision theories?
|
|
bentarm
|
| Transhumanism and the denotation-connotation gap
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| Positioning oneself to make a difference
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|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| The Importance of Self-Doubt
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Transparency and Accountability
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go
|
|
GreenRoot
|
| Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio
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|
simplicio
|
| Justifying Induction
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|
Unknowns
|
| The Smoking Lesion: A problem for evidential decision theory
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|
AdamBell
|
| Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness.
|
|
daedalus2u
|
| Burning Man Meetup: Bayes Camp
|
|
Larks
|
| Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) discussion thread
|
|
FAWS
|
| The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Criteria for Rational Political Conversation
|
|
woozle
|
| Self-fulfilling correlations
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Cryonics Questions
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|
James_Miller
|
| Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3
|
|
Unnamed
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| Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory?
|
|
SilasBarta
|
| Dreams of AIXI
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|
jacob_cannell
|
| Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010
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|
matt
|
| Rationality quotes: September 2010
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|
Morendil
|
| 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
|
| Controlling Constant Programs
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|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Something's Wrong
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|
SarahC
|
| A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy
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|
lionhearted
|
| September Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer's Bayesian Birthday Bash
|
|
Jasen
|
| Humans are not automatically strategic
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| 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
|
| Steps to Achievement: The Pitfalls, Costs, Requirements, and Timelines
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|
lionhearted
|
| The Science of Cutting Peppers
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|
Apprentice
|
| Reminder: Weekly LW meetings in NYC
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|
tommccabe
|
| The Effectiveness of Developing World Aid
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|
multifoliaterose
|
| Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
|
|
Yvain
|
| The Affect Heuristic, Sentiment, and Art
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|
SarahC
|
| Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
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|
patrissimo
|
| Link: "You're Not Being Reasonable"
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|
CronoDAS
|
| Intelligence Amplification Open Thread
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|
Will_Newsome
|
| Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference
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|
neq1
|
| LW's first job ad
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| The conscious tape
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PhilGoetz
|
| Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2
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|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| The Meaning of Life
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|
b1shop
|
| Rational Health Optimization
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|
jacob_cannell
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| Rationality Power Tools
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|
Nic_Smith
|
| Fall 2010 Meta Thread
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|
Kevin
|
| Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears
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|
jimrandomh
|
| Error detection bias in research
|
|
neq1
|
| Rationality Case Study - Ad-36
|
|
Perplexed
|
| Is Rationality Maximization of Expected Value?
|
|
AnlamK
|
| Let's make a deal
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| (Virtual) Employment Open Thread
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Politics as Charity
|
|
CarlShulman
|
| A Player of Games
|
|
Larks
|
| What Makes My Attempt Special?
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|
Andy_McKenzie
|
| Vote Qualifications, Not Issues
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|
jimrandomh
|
| Don't judge a skill by its specialists
|
|
Academian
|
| Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Open Thread September, Part 3
|
|
LucasSloan
|
| New Discussion section on LessWrong!
|
|
Emile
|
| Experts vs. parents
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Reflections on a Personal Public Relations Failure: A Lesson in Communication
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Expectation-Based Akrasia Management
|
|
AdeleneDawner
|
| Coding Rationally - Test Driven Development
|
|
DSimon
|
| Break your habits: be more empirical
|
|
Academian
|
| The Irrationality Game
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Slava!
|
|
SarahC
|
| Understanding vipassana meditation
|
|
Luke_Grecki
|
| Rationality quotes: October 2010
|
|
Morendil
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4
|
|
gjm
|
| Notion of Preference in Ambient Control
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Recommended Reading for Friendly AI Research
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
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|
SarahC
|
| References & Resources for LessWrong
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|
XiXiDu
|
| Collecting and hoarding crap, useless information
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|
lionhearted
|
| Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid
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|
Relsqui
|
| The Dark Arts - Preamble
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|
Aurini
|
| Morality and relativistic vertigo
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|
Academian
|
| Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment
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|
nick012000
|
| Human performance, psychometry, and baseball statistics
|
|
Craig_Heldreth
|
| Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium
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|
Meni_Rosenfeld
|
| Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills
|
|
Luke_Grecki
|
| How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
|
|
matt
|
| The Problem With Trolley Problems
|
|
lionhearted
|
| Optimism versus cryonics
|
|
lsparrish
|
| Willpower: not a limited resource?
|
|
Jess_Riedel
|
| Let's split the cake, lengthwise, upwise and slantwise
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine
|
|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Activation Costs
|
|
lionhearted
|
| Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) Part 2 Discussion Thread
|
|
JenniferRM
|
| If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
|
|
Academian
|
| Call for Volunteers: Rationalists with Non-Traditional Skills
|
|
Jasen
|
| Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Value Deathism
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Imagine a world where minds run on physics
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Is cryonics evil because it's cold?
|
|
ata
|
| What I would like the SIAI to publish
|
|
XiXiDu
|
| Group selection update
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PhilGoetz
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| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| Singularity Institute pitch and new project plus other organizations in our ecosystem
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|
MichaelVassar
|
| Folk grammar and morality
|
|
Emile
|
| Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI
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|
paulfchristiano
|
| Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010
|
|
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
|
|
Jack
|
| Iterated Sleeping Beauty and Copied Minds
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|
lucidfox
|
| Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010
|
|
Kevin
|
| Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...
|
|
Yvain
|
| Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner
|
|
benelliott
|
| Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Narrow your answer space
|
|
Vaniver
|
| Some rationality tweets
|
|
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
|
| Choose To Be Happy
|
|
DanArmak
|
| Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| New Year's Predictions Thread (2011)
|
|
Kevin
|
| Rationality Quotes: January 2011
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|
wedrifid
|
| Applied Optimal Philanthropy: How to Donate $100 to SIAI for Free
|
|
Louie
|
| Techniques for probability estimates
|
|
Yvain
|
| The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
|
|
lukeprog
|
| In the Pareto-optimised crowd, be sure to know your place
|
|
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
|
| Spaced Repetition Database for A Human's Guide to Words
|
|
divia
|
| Back to the Basics of Rationality
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Branches of rationality
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Anki deck for biases and fallacies
|
|
phob
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| Simpson's Paradox
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|
bentarm
|
| Rational Repentance
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|
Mass_Driver
|
| The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Eliezer to speak in Oxford, 8pm Jan 25th
|
|
alexflint
|
| Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Theists are wrong; is theism?
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The Illusion of Sameness
|
|
Elizabeth
|
| David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis"
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Optimal Employment
|
|
Louie
|
| Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Quotes: February 2011
|
|
gwern
|
| On Charities and Linear Utility
|
|
Anatoly_Vorobey
|
| Fast Minds and Slow Computers
|
|
jacob_cannell
|
| How to Beat Procrastination
|
|
lukeprog
|
| You're in Newcomb's Box
|
|
HonoreDB
|
| Value Stability and Aggregation
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|
jimrandomh
|
| Reaching the general public
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Procedural Knowledge Gaps
|
|
Alicorn
|
| How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive
|
|
apophenia
|
| Subjective Relativity, Time Dilation and Divergence
|
|
jacob_cannell
|
| Make your training useful
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Secure Your Beliefs
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|
lukeprog
|
| Science: Do It Yourself
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|
tommccabe
|
| Algorithms as Case Studies in Rationality
|
|
abramdemski
|
| Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
|
|
Vladimir_M
|
| Revisiting the Anthropic Trilemma II: axioms and assumptions
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Write It Like A Poem
|
|
Strange7
|
| Scholarship and DIY Science
|
|
SarahC
|
| Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Ability to react
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
|
|
Cosmos
|
| Updateless anthropics
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Research methods
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Use curiosity
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Vassar talk in New Haven, Sunday 2/27
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Singularity Institute now accepts donations via Bitcoin
|
|
Kevin
|
| Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Vassar at NYU, Thursday March 3rd
|
|
Cosmos
|
| Rationality Quotes: March 2011
|
|
Alexandros
|
| Go Try Things
|
|
atucker
|
| A Transhumanist Poem
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Positive Thinking
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Less Wrong at Burning Man 2011
|
|
Kevin
|
| The Limits of Curiosity
|
|
Elizabeth
|
| Plant Seeds of Rationality
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Making Reasoning Obviously Locally Correct
|
|
JGWeissman
|
| How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
|
|
Zvi
|
| Being a teacher
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Enjoying food more: a case study in third options
|
|
MBlume
|
| How to Be Happy
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Outreach: A Parable
|
|
SarahC
|
| Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter
|
|
Cosmos
|
| Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community
|
|
LucasSloan
|
| Effective Rationality Outreach
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Costs and Benefits of Scholarship
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Boot Camp
|
|
Jasen
|
| The trouble with teamwork
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Crime and punishment
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com
|
|
Louie
|
| Faith and theory
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
|
|
patrissimo
|
| The Neuroscience of Pleasure
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
|
|
lukeprog
|
| London Hackday, this Friday, April 1st (No, this is not a joke)
|
|
Alexandros
|
| Mental Metadata
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants
|
|
Yvain
|
| Reflections on rationality a year out
|
|
SarahC
|
| Singularity Institute featured on Philanthroper
|
|
Louie
|
| The Good News of Situationist Psychology
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The peril of ignoring emotions
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Manufacturing prejudice
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Don't Fear Failure
|
|
atucker
|
| Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
|
|
atucker
|
| Rationality Quotes: April 2011
|
|
benelliott
|
| Details of Taskforces; or, Cooperate Now
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Spaniard Lesswrongers, Unite!
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Human errors, human values
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Neuroscience of Desire
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Separate morality from free will
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Anthropics makes sense with shorter people
|
|
KatjaGrace
|
| We are not living in a simulation
|
|
dfranke
|
| Best videos inspiring first interest in rationality or the singularity
|
|
Academian
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast
|
|
Eneasz
|
| How not to be a Naïve Computationalist
|
|
diegocaleiro
|
| Levels of Action
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Three consistent positions for computationalists
|
|
dfranke
|
| The Bias You Didn't Expect
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Say More, Justify Less
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Offense versus harm minimization
|
|
Yvain
|
| Build Small Skills in the Right Order
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Learned Blankness
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| No, Seriously. Just Try It.
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions
|
|
Louie
|
| Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
|
|
Skatche
|
| Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?
|
|
gwern
|
| Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Convincing Arguments Aren’t Necessarily Correct – They’re Merely Convincing
|
|
lionhearted
|
| What is Metaethics?
|
|
lukeprog
|
| What data generated that thought?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Mapping our maps: types of knowledge
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| So You've Changed Your Mind
|
|
Spurlock
|
| Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3)
|
|
DavidM
|
| Cryonics Promotional Video Contest -- 10 BTC Prize
|
|
lsparrish
|
| On Being Okay with the Truth
|
|
lukeprog
|
| SIAI - An Examination
|
|
BrandonReinhart
|
| The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things
|
|
lionhearted
|
| Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3)
|
|
DavidM
|
| Your Evolved Intuitions
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Leadership and Self Deception, Anatomy of Peace
|
|
TimFreeman
|
| Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Intuition and Unconscious Learning
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The Power of Agency
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The 5-Second Level
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Shifting Load to Explicit Reasoning
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints
|
|
calcsam
|
| Building rationalist communities: a series overview
|
|
calcsam
|
| Chemicals and Electricity
|
|
lionhearted
|
| When Intuitions Are Useful
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves
|
|
calcsam
|
| Designing Rationalist Projects
|
|
calcsam
|
| Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Colonization models: a programming tutorial (Part 1/2)
|
|
snarles
|
| Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)
|
|
snarles
|
| Values vs. parameters
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| How and Why to Granularize
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Suffering as attention-allocational conflict
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| The Aliens have Landed!
|
|
TimFreeman
|
| On the Anthropic Trilemma
|
|
KatjaGrace
|
| Metacontrarian Metaethics
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.
|
|
AdeleneDawner
|
| A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
|
|
Sniffnoy
|
| Ace Attorney: pioneer Rationalism-didactic game?
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Inferring Our Desires
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Self-programming through spaced repetition
|
|
Luke_Grecki
|
| LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation
|
|
virtualAdept
|
| Pancritical Rationalism Can Apply to Preferences and Behavior
|
|
TimFreeman
|
| Dominus' Razor
|
|
badger
|
| The cost of universal cryonics
|
|
handoflixue
|
| Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Bias in capital project decision making
|
|
jsalvatier
|
| Measuring aversion and habit strength
|
|
Academian
|
| A Study of Scarlet: The Conscious Mental Graph
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Teachable Rationality Skills
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
|
|
badger
|
| Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Pluralistic Moral Reductionism
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Heuristics for Deciding What to Work On
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Rationality Quotes: June 2011
|
|
Oscar_Cunningham
|
| The Landmark Forum — a rationalist's first impression
|
|
Nisan
|
| Action and habit
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility
|
|
TimFreeman
|
| Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| Memory, Spaced Repetition and Life
|
|
Duke
|
| Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone
|
|
lukeprog
|
| How not to move the goalposts
|
|
HopeFox
|
| Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?
|
|
lionhearted
|
| Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| Efficient philanthropy: local vs. global approaches
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| When is further research needed?
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Foma: Beliefs that Cause Themselves to be True
|
|
atucker
|
| Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries
|
|
calcsam
|
| Community roles: committees and leadership
|
|
calcsam
|
| Entangled with Reality: The Shoelace Example
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The True Rejection Challenge
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Reasons for being rational
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Not for the Sake of Selfishness Alone
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Quotes July 2011
|
|
Normal_Anomaly
|
| Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans
|
|
Yvain
|
| The Blue-Minimizing Robot
|
|
Yvain
|
| 'Is' and 'Ought' and Rationality
|
|
BobTheBob
|
| Dark Arts: Schopenhauer wrote The Book on How To Troll
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Basics of Animal Reinforcement
|
|
Yvain
|
| Find yourself a Worthy Opponent: a Chavruta
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Basics of Human Reinforcement
|
|
Yvain
|
| How to annoy misanthropes and bleeding-hearts
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice
|
|
Mass_Driver
|
| Time and Effort Discounting
|
|
Yvain
|
| Wanting vs. Liking Revisited
|
|
Yvain
|
| Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
|
|
Yvain
|
| Physical and Mental Behavior
|
|
Yvain
|
| Community norm question: brief text ad signatures
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts
|
|
Yvain
|
| Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications"
|
|
CarlShulman
|
| Trivers on Self-Deception
|
|
Yvain
|
| Knowing what you want is a prerequisite to getting what you want
|
|
nwthomas
|
| Rationality Market Research
|
|
Raemon
|
| Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win
|
|
jschulter
|
| To what degree do we have goals?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Preference For (Many) Future Worlds
|
|
wedrifid
|
| The limits of introspection
|
|
Yvain
|
| Ego syntonic thoughts and values
|
|
Yvain
|
| Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
|
|
Yvain
|
| Illustrator needed: Intuitive Bayes 2.0
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks
|
|
Yvain
|
| Secrets of the eliminati
|
|
Yvain
|
| Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
|
|
Yvain
|
| Bayesian Conspiracy @ Burning Man 2011
|
|
Kevin
|
| Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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?
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lukeprog
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| Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted
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orthonormal
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| Rationality Quotes September 2011
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dvasya
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| Open Thread: September 2011
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Pavitra
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| Hacking on LessWrong Just Got Easier
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atucker
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| Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Results
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prase
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| Tool ideology
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PhilGoetz
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| Rational Communication
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Swimmer963
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| Rationalist sites worth archiving?
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gwern
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| My Greatest Achievement
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Swimmer963
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| The Cognitive Science of Rationality
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lukeprog
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| Complexity: inherent, created, and hidden
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Swimmer963
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| The Optimizer's Curse and How to Beat It
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lukeprog
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| Your inner Google
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PhilGoetz
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| Knowledge is Worth Paying For
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lukeprog
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| Blindsight and Consciousness
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atucker
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| Living bias, not thinking bias
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crazy88
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| Stanislav Petrov Day
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gwern
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| A Rationalist's Tale
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lukeprog
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| $100 off for Less Wrong: Singularity Summit 2011 on Oct 15 - 16 in New York
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Louie
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| Philosophy by Humans, 1: Concepts Don't Work That Way
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lukeprog
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| Rationality Drugs
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lukeprog
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| Open thread, October 2011
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MarkusRamikin
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| Rationality Quotes October 2011
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MinibearRex
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| Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance
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lukeprog
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| Prize for the best introduction to the LessWrong source ($250)
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jsalvatier
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| Not By Empathy Alone
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gwern
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| Neural Correlates of Conscious Access
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atucker
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| Morality is not about willpower
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PhilGoetz
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| 1001 PredictionBook Nights
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gwern
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| The Outside View Of Human Complexity
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Andy_McKenzie
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| A few analogies to illustrate key rationality points
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kilobug
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| Calibrate your self-assessments
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Yvain
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| Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds
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dreeves
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| A Rational Approach to Fashion
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lionhearted
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| On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
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gwern
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| How to understand people better
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pwno
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| Amanda Knox: post mortem
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gwern
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| Things you are supposed to like
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PhilGoetz
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| The Protagonist Problem
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atucker
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| Let Your Workers Gather Food
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D_Malik
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| Better Disagreement
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lukeprog
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| Rhetoric for the Good
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lukeprog
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| Great Explanations
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lukeprog
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| 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
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Yvain
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| Rationality Quotes November 2011
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Jayson_Virissimo
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| Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics
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lukeprog
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| Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry
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HoldenKarnofsky
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| Modularity, signaling, and belief in belief
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction
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Raemon
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| Drawing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?
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Raemon
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| Existential Risk
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lukeprog
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| Poker with Lennier
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HonoreDB
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| Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia
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AnnaSalamon
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| The curse of identity
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Drawing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Relevance to Rationality
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Raemon
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| Don’t Apply the Principle of Charity to Yourself
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UnclGhost
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| Practical debiasing
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crazy88
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| Drawing Less Wrong: Observing Reality
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Raemon
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| Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition
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XiXiDu
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| 5-second level case study: Value of information
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Value of Information: Four Examples
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Vaniver
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| (Subjective Bayesianism vs. Frequentism) VS. Formalism
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potato
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| Philosophy by Humans, 2: Living Metaphorically
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lukeprog
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| Uncertainty
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Vaniver
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| Hack Away at the Edges
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lukeprog
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| 5 Axioms of Decision Making
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Vaniver
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| Announcing the Quantified Health Prize
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Zvi
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| Rationality Quotes December 2011
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Jayson_Virissimo
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| Funnel plots: the study that didn't bark, or, visualizing regression to the null
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gwern
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| Drawing Less Wrong: Technical Skill
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Raemon
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| 2011 Survey Results
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Yvain
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| An akrasia case study
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nyan_sandwich
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| Compressing Reality to Math
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Vaniver
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| How to label thoughts nonverbally
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eugman
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| Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration
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Raemon
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| Measures, Risk, Death, and War
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Vaniver
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| Decision Analysis Sequence
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Vaniver
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| Spend Money on Ergonomics
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Kevin
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| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity
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vallinder
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| The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps
|
|
fool
|
| 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
|
| Risk aversion vs. concave utility function
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dvasya
|
| 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
|
| Feed the spinoff heuristic!
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CarlShulman
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| My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
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lukeprog
|
| Avoid misinterpreting your emotions
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates
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|
Mass_Driver
|
| Quantified Health Prize results announced
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|
Zvi
|
| Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher
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|
nerfhammer
|
| Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms
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|
Christian_Szegedy
|
| Get Curious
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lukeprog
|
| 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
|
| Rationality Quotes March 2012
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Thomas
|
| The kinesthesia switch
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NancyLebovitz
|
| Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary
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|
Swimmer963
|
| The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes
|
|
Strange7
|
| How to Fix Science
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lukeprog
|
| Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit
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|
CarlShulman
|
| Causal diagrams and software engineering
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|
Morendil
|
| Rationally Irrational
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HungryTurtle
|
| I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer
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|
orthonormal
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| Biased Pandemic
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|
freyley
|
| Schelling fences on slippery slopes
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|
Yvain
|
| How to avoid dying in a car crash
|
|
michaelcurzi
|
| Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| 6 Tips for Productive Arguments
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|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Emotional regulation Part II: research summary
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I
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|
orthonormal
|
| Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt
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|
Manfred
|
| Brain Preservation
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|
jkaufman
|
| SotW: Check Consequentialism
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Examine your assumptions
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|
Douglas_Reay
|
| Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about
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|
JoshuaFox
|
| Fictional Bias
|
|
thomblake
|
| Rationality Quotes April 2012
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|
Oscar_Cunningham
|
| SotW: Be Specific
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| 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
|
| Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
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|
kalla724
|
| Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
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|
orthonormal
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| Be Happier
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|
Klevador
|
| To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic
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kalla724
|
| 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
|
| Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review
|
|
Vaniver
|
| Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
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|
HoldenKarnofsky
|
| General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| Sneaky Strategies for TDT
|
|
drnickbone
|
| SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Problematic Problems for TDT
|
|
drnickbone
|
| Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
|
|
jsalvatier
|
| When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2
|
|
Jay_Schweikert
|
| Avoid inflationary use of terms
|
|
lsparrish
|
| Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study
|
|
badger
|
| Rationality Quotes June 2012
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|
OpenThreadGuy
|
| "Progress"
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| Ask an experimental physicist
|
|
RolfAndreassen
|
| Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| AGI Impacts conference in Oxford in December, with Call for Papers
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Local Ordinances of Fun
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Female Compatriots, Stay For a Week in Berkeley!
|
|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Power of Reinforcement
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|
lukeprog
|
| A (small) critique of total utilitarianism
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide
|
|
Yvain
|
| Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
|
|
Yvain
|
| Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma
|
|
Yvain
|
| Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees
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|
Yvain
|
| Thoughts on moral intuitions
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|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Your existence is informative
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|
KatjaGrace
|
| New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans
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|
tommccabe
|
| Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas
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|
Yvain
|
| Rationality Quotes July 2012
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|
RobertLumley
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| Negative and Positive Selection
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|
tommccabe
|
| Interlude for Behavioral Economics
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|
Yvain
|
| To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking
|
|
gwern
|
| Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute
|
|
lukeprog
|
| An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction
|
|
Alex_Altair
|
| Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| What Is Optimal Philanthropy?
|
|
tommccabe
|
| What Is Signaling, Really?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Bargaining and Auctions
|
|
Yvain
|
| Tips for Starting Group Houses
|
|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Imperfect Voting Systems
|
|
Yvain
|
| SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Game Theory As A Dark Art
|
|
Yvain
|
| Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians
|
|
ChrisHallquist
|
| Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 1)
|
|
royf
|
| AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)
|
|
royf
|
| Rationality Quotes August 2012
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|
Alejandro1
|
| What are the optimal biases to overcome?
|
|
aaronsw
|
| Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality
|
|
aaronsw
|
| Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules
|
|
pragmatist
|
| Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
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|
royf
|
| Solving the two envelopes problem
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|
rstarkov
|
| Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders
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|
Yvain
|
| Why Don't People Help Others More?
|
|
peter_hurford
|
| Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?
|
|
ShannonFriedman
|
| AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics
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|
JGWeissman
|
| AI timeline prediction data
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Rationality Quotes September 2012
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|
Jayson_Virissimo
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| The Bayesian Agent
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|
royf
|
| Less Wrong Polls in Comments
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|
jimrandomh
|
| New study on choice blindness in moral positions
|
|
nerfhammer
|
| Causality: a chapter by chapter review
|
|
Vaniver
|
| The Useful Idea of Truth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes October 2012
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|
MBlume
|
| Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the waterline
|
|
Morendil
|
| Point-Based Value Iteration
|
|
royf
|
| Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)
|
|
Morendil
|
| The Fabric of Real Things
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)
|
|
Morendil
|
| Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How To Have Things Correctly
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Causal Reference
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers
|
|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Now I Appreciate Agency
|
|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Original Research on Less Wrong
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|
lukeprog
|
| Checking Kurzweil's track record
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Proofs, Implications, and Models
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists
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|
jsteinhardt
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| Logical Pinpointing
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Sign up to be notified about new LW meetups in your area
|
|
Louie
|
| 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
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|
Yvain
|
| Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity
|
|
Academian
|
| Rationality Quotes November 2012
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|
GabrielDuquette
|
| Checklist of Rationality Habits
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity
|
|
wdcrouch
|
| AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Overconfident Pessimism
|
|
lukeprog
|
| LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
|
|
daenerys
|
| How minimal is our intelligence?
|
|
Douglas_Reay
|
| A definition of wireheading
|
|
Anja
|
| Thoughts on designing policies for oneself
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Causal Universes
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't
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|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Quotes December 2012
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|
Thomas
|
| LessWrong podcasts
|
|
Louie
|
| Factions, inequality, and social justice
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
|
|
lukeprog
|
| 2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute
|
|
lukeprog
|
| 2012 Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
| By Which It May Be Judged
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| New Sequences and General Update From Castify
|
|
scott_from_castify
|
| Why you must maximize expected utility
|
|
Benja
|
| More Cryonics Probability Estimates
|
|
jkaufman
|
| Narrative, self-image, and self-communication
|
|
Academian
|
| Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.
|
|
Raemon
|
| Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness
|
|
Raemon
|
| 2013 Articles
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|
|
| You can't signal to rubes
|
|
Patrick
|
| Rationality Quotes January 2013
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|
katydee
|
| How to Disentangle the Past and the Future
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|
royf
|
| Applied Rationality Workshops: Jan 25-28 and March 1-4
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| 2012: Year in Review
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes
|
|
gwern
|
| Second-Order Logic: The Controversy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Morality is Awesome
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|
nyan_sandwich
|
| How to Be Oversurprised
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|
royf
|
| Don't Build Fallout Shelters
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|
katydee
|
| A fungibility theorem
|
|
Nisan
|
| Assessing Kurzweil: the results
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Update Then Forget
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|
royf
|
| 2014 Articles
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|
|
| Best of Rationality Quotes, 2013 Edition
|
Quotes
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DanielVarga
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