Joint Distri­bu­tions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas

Creat­ing The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging v. Sub­jec­tive Probability

Are you crazy?

Be­ing saner about gen­der and rationality

An Akra­sia Anecdote

Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory: Prob­lems I Can’t Solve

Sayeth the Girl

Ar­ti­cle upvoting

Are You Anosog­nosic?

Zwicky’s Trifecta of Illusions

The Pop­u­lariza­tion Bias

Causes of disagreements

Ab­solute de­nial for atheists

Fair Divi­sion of Black-Hole Ne­gen­tropy: an In­tro­duc­tion to Co­op­er­a­tive Game Theory

The Dirt on Depression

“Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost”

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

How likely is a failure of nu­clear de­ter­rence?

Good Qual­ity Heuristics

Our so­ciety lacks good self-preser­va­tion mechanisms

Jul 12 Bay Area meetup—Han­son, Vas­sar, Yudkowsky

De­bate: Is short term plan­ning in hu­mans due to a short life or due to bias?

Cau­sa­tion as Bias (sort of)

For­mal­ized math: dream vs reality

Recom­mended read­ing for new rationalists

Re­vis­it­ing tor­ture vs. dust specks

Causal­ity does not im­ply correlation

Can self-help be bad for you?

An in­ter­est­ing speed dat­ing study

The Dangers of Par­tial Knowl­edge of the Way: Failing in School

Can chess be a game of luck?

Me­dia bias

The en­emy within

Not Tech­ni­cally Lying

Avoid­ing Failure: Fal­lacy Finding

The Fixed Sum Fallacy

Who do we care about?

Har­ness­ing Your Biases

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—July 2009

Fourth Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ist Meet­ing?

Open Thread: July 2009

Book Re­view: Complications

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

What’s In A Name?

Con­trol­ling your in­ner con­trol circuits

The Great Brain is Lo­cated Externally

Com­ing Out

Re­quests to the Right Ear Are More Suc­cess­ful Than to the Left

Richard Dawk­ins TV—Baloney De­tec­tion Kit video