Ter­mi­nal Values and In­stru­men­tal Values

Thou Art Godshatter

Protein Re­in­force­ment and DNA Consequentialism

Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Fake Op­ti­miza­tion Criteria

Why aren’t our prop­erty rights over one an­other more trans­fer­able?

Fake Morality

Fake Selfishness

The Tragedy of Group Selectionism

Be­ware of Stephen J. Gould

Nat­u­ral Selec­tion’s Speed Limit and Com­plex­ity Bound

Cor­po­rate ecology

Evolu­tions Are Stupid (But Work Any­way)

Draw­ing lines and tigers

A way to be more open minded (an ex­per­i­men­tal thought)

The Won­der of Evolution

Some half-se­ri­ous, half-formed thoughts on ex­ist­ing and so on

An Alien God

Fake Justification

A Ter­rify­ing Hal­loween Costume

A Case Study of Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Self-Anchoring

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Origi­nal Seeing

The “Out­side the Box” Box

Cached Thoughts

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Prim­ing and Contamination

A Priori

No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Singlethink

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think