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Co­or­di­na­tion Sur­veys: why we should sur­vey to or­ga­nize re­spon­si­bil­ities, not just predictions

Academian7 May 2019 17:43 UTC
68 points
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Un­rol­ling so­cial metacog­ni­tion: Three lev­els of meta are not enough.

Academian25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
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Sur­vey: What’s the most nega­tive*plau­si­ble cry­on­ics-works story that you know?

Academian23 Dec 2015 7:32 UTC
9 points
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De­liber­ate Grad School

Academian4 Oct 2015 10:11 UTC
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Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

Academian15 Jun 2014 18:29 UTC
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CFAR is look­ing for a videog­ra­pher for next Wednesday

Academian8 Oct 2013 5:16 UTC
9 points
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Are coin flips quan­tum ran­dom to my con­scious brain-parts?

Academian19 Feb 2013 9:51 UTC
10 points
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[LINK] Gen­eral-au­di­ence doc­u­men­tary on cos­mol­ogy, an­throp­ics, and superintelligence

Academian11 Jan 2013 5:11 UTC
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The Re­la­tion Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy and the pur­pose of life

Academian28 Dec 2012 4:14 UTC
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Nar­ra­tive, self-image, and self-communication

Academian19 Dec 2012 9:42 UTC
48 points
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Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

Academian26 Nov 2012 0:52 UTC
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Vot­ing is like donat­ing thou­sands of dol­lars to charity

Academian5 Nov 2012 1:02 UTC
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In­for­ma­tion The­ory vs Harry Pot­ter [LINK]

Academian25 Apr 2012 17:40 UTC
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Needed: A large database of state­ments for true/​false exercises

Academian13 Apr 2012 2:26 UTC
7 points
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Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity made me bet­ter (at re­search and other things)

Academian2 Feb 2012 18:10 UTC
5 points
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Mini-camp was in­deed awe­some, and so was Luke (just add Bayes)

Academian2 Sep 2011 8:55 UTC
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Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

Academian30 Aug 2011 15:58 UTC
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Michael Jor­dan dis­solves Bayesian vs Fre­quen­tist in­fer­ence de­bate [video lec­ture]

Academian30 Aug 2011 1:12 UTC
10 points
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Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

Academian27 May 2011 1:05 UTC
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List of liter­ally false state­ments in the Bible

Academian20 May 2011 8:10 UTC
−17 points
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