Time­less Iden­tity Crisis

For­mal­iz­ing in­for­mal logic

The Lifes­pan Dilemma

Pitts­burgh Meetup: Satur­day 9/​12, 6:30PM, CMU

Let Them De­bate Col­lege Students

Out­law­ing An­throp­ics: An Up­date­less Dilemma

FHI post­doc at Oxford

An idea: Stick­ing Point Learning

Char­i­ta­ble explanation

Why I’m Stay­ing On Blog­ging­heads.tv

Forc­ing An­throp­ics: Boltz­mann Brains

Sub­con­scious stalk­ing?

De­ci­sion the­ory: Why Pearl helps re­duce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives

Bay Area OBLW Meetup Sep 12

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging and Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Notes on util­ity func­tion experiment

Free­dom is slavery

Tor­ture vs. Dust vs. the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher: An­thropic Rea­son­ing in UDT

The Sword of Good

The Feather­less Biped

De­ci­sion the­ory: Why we need to re­duce “could”, “would”, “should”

The puz­zle continues

Know­ing What You Know

LW/​OB Quotes—Fall 2009

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Septem­ber 2009

Open Thread: Septem­ber 2009

Do fetch­ing mod­els stave off shal­low­ness?

Op­ti­mal Strate­gies for Re­duc­ing Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Great post on Red­dit about ac­cept­ing atheism

Ar­gu­ment Maps Im­prove Crit­i­cal Thinking

Cook­ies vs Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Some coun­terev­i­dence for hu­man sociobiology

Don’t be Patholog­i­cally Mugged!

The Twin Webs of Knowledge

Paper: Test­ing ecolog­i­cal models

Pitts­burgh Meetup: Sur­vey of Interest

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

Math­e­mat­i­cal sim­plic­ity bias and ex­po­nen­tial functions

Con­fu­sion about New­comb is con­fu­sion about counterfactuals

How does an in­fovore man­age in­for­ma­tion over­load?

De­ci­sion the­ory: An out­line of some up­com­ing posts

Value for money kills?

Work­ing Mantras

The Jour­nal of (Failed) Repli­ca­tion Studies

Is your sub­con­scious com­mu­nist?

ESR’s New Take on Qualia

Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory and Meta-Cir­cu­lar De­ci­sion Theory

How in­evitable was mod­ern hu­man civ­i­liza­tion—data

Evolved Bayesi­ans will be biased

You have just been Coun­ter­fac­tu­ally Mugged!