Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—June 2009

Ex­plain ex­pla­na­tions for choos­ing by choice

Why safety is not safe

Typ­i­cal Mind and Politics

If it looks like util­ity max­i­mizer and quacks like util­ity max­i­mizer...

Let’s reim­ple­ment EURISKO!

The Ter­rible, Hor­rible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Mo­ral­ity and What To Do About It

Less wrong eco­nomic policy

You can’t be­lieve in Bayes

Ex­pected fu­til­ity for humans

The Au­mann’s agree­ment the­o­rem game (guess 2/​3 of the av­er­age)

Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ist Mee­tups bikeshed paint­ing thread

in­dex­i­cal un­cer­tainty and the Ax­iom of Independence

Macroe­co­nomics, The Lu­cas Cri­tique, Microfoun­da­tions, and Model­ing in General

Hon­esty: Beyond In­ter­nal Truth

My con­cerns about the term ‘ra­tio­nal­ist’

Prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions and writ­ing style

Post Your Utility Function

Third Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ist Meeting

Mate se­lec­tion for the men here

With whom shall I di­avlog?

Would You Slap Your Father? Ar­ti­cle Link­age and Discussion

Bio­con­ser­va­tive and bio­mod­er­ate sin­gu­lar­i­tar­ian positions

Con­crete vs Con­tex­tual values

YouTube Test

Open Thread: June 2009

The Frontal Syndrome

The Onion Goes In­side The Bi­ased Mind

Tak­ing Oc­cam Seriously

A so­cial norm against un­jus­tified opinions?

Image vs. Im­pact: Can pub­lic com­mit­ment be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for achieve­ment?

Link: The Case for Work­ing With Your Hands

Can we cre­ate a func­tion that prov­ably pre­dicts the op­ti­miza­tion power of in­tel­li­gences?

Do Fan­doms Need Awful­ness?

An­ime Ex­plains the Epi­menides Paradox

Eric Drexler on Learn­ing About Everything

Dissent­ing Views

The Wire ver­sus Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

This Failing Earth

Sat­u­ra­tion, Distil­la­tion, Im­pro­vi­sa­tion: A Story About Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge And Cookies

Ho­mo­gene­ity vs. het­ero­gene­ity (or, What kind of sex is most moral?)

Please voice your sup­port for stem cell research

Chang­ing ac­cepted pub­lic opinion and Skynet

Least Sig­nal­ing Ac­tivi­ties?

In­hi­bi­tion and the Mind

Catchy Fal­lacy Name Fal­lacy (and Sup­port­ing Disagree­ment)

Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes—May 2009

Su­per­nat­u­ral Math

Bad rea­sons for a ra­tio­nal­ist to lose