Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

Towards a New De­ci­sion Theory

Dreams with Da­m­aged Priors

Con­fu­sion about New­comb is con­fu­sion about counterfactuals

In­gre­di­ents of Time­less De­ci­sion Theory

Work­ing Mantras

Pain

Why You’re Stuck in a Narrative

Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory and Meta-Cir­cu­lar De­ci­sion Theory

Utilons vs. Hedons

Un­speak­able Morality

How in­evitable was mod­ern hu­man civ­i­liza­tion—data

De­ci­sion the­ory: An out­line of some up­com­ing posts

The Ma­chine Learn­ing Per­son­al­ity Test

Evolved Bayesi­ans will be biased

Robin Han­son’s lists of Over­com­ing Bias Posts

Ar­gu­ment Maps Im­prove Crit­i­cal Thinking

A note on hypotheticals

Scott Aaron­son’s “On Self-Delu­sion and Bounded Ra­tion­al­ity”

Blog­ging­heads: Yud­kowsky and Aaron­son talk about AI and Many-worlds

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Book­shelf: The Mind’s I (Dou­glas Hofs­tadter and Daniel Den­nett, 1981)

The use­ful­ness of correlations

Ex­ter­mi­nat­ing life is rational

The Ob­jec­tive Bayesian Programme

My God! It’s full of Nash equil­ibria!

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2009 (quick post)

Cook­ies vs Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Great post on Red­dit about ac­cept­ing atheism

She Blinded Me With Science

Guess Again

Mislead­ing the witness

Math­e­mat­i­cal sim­plic­ity bias and ex­po­nen­tial functions

Hap­piness is a Heuristic

Minds that make op­ti­mal use of small amounts of sen­sory data

Sense, Deno­ta­tion and Semantics

The Jour­nal of (Failed) Repli­ca­tion Studies

Suffering

Pitts­burgh Meetup: Sur­vey of Interest

Cal­ibra­tion fail

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Au­gust 2009

Recom­mended read­ing: Ge­orge Or­well on knowl­edge from authority

Open Thread: Au­gust 2009

Don’t be Patholog­i­cally Mugged!

Fight­ing Akra­sia: Find­ing the Source

Delet­ing para­doxes with fuzzy logic

You have just been Coun­ter­fac­tu­ally Mugged!

The Difficul­ties of Po­ten­tial Peo­ple and De­ci­sion Making

LW/​OB Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Au­gust 2009