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

colinmarshallAug 26, 2009, 7:08 PM
21 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal sim­plic­ity bias and ex­po­nen­tial functions

tawAug 26, 2009, 6:34 PM
16 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fu­sion about New­comb is con­fu­sion about counterfactuals

AnnaSalamonAug 25, 2009, 8:01 PM
54 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

How does an in­fovore man­age in­for­ma­tion over­load?

haigAug 25, 2009, 6:54 PM
3 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory: An out­line of some up­com­ing posts

AnnaSalamonAug 25, 2009, 7:34 AM
31 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

Value for money kills?

KatjaGraceAug 24, 2009, 11:37 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing Mantras

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 24, 2009, 10:08 PM
48 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

The Jour­nal of (Failed) Repli­ca­tion Studies

Vladimir_GritsenkoAug 23, 2009, 9:15 AM
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Is your sub­con­scious com­mu­nist?

KatjaGraceAug 22, 2009, 3:39 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

ESR’s New Take on Qualia

billswiftAug 21, 2009, 9:26 AM
5 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory and Meta-Cir­cu­lar De­ci­sion Theory

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 20, 2009, 10:07 PM
42 points
37 comments10 min readLW link

How in­evitable was mod­ern hu­man civ­i­liza­tion—data

tawAug 20, 2009, 9:42 PM
32 points
103 comments3 min readLW link

Evolved Bayesi­ans will be biased

tawAug 20, 2009, 2:54 PM
28 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

You have just been Coun­ter­fac­tu­ally Mugged!

CronoDASAug 19, 2009, 10:24 PM
7 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

In­gre­di­ents of Time­less De­ci­sion Theory

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 19, 2009, 1:10 AM
52 points
232 comments7 min readLW link

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

cousin_itAug 18, 2009, 7:17 PM
22 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2009 (quick post)

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 16, 2009, 11:29 PM
18 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Friendlier AI through politics

Jonathan_GraehlAug 16, 2009, 9:29 PM
2 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

AlicornAug 16, 2009, 9:23 PM
129 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

Hap­piness is a Heuristic

[deleted]Aug 16, 2009, 9:12 PM
13 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

My God! It’s full of Nash equil­ibria!

CyanAug 16, 2009, 7:59 PM
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Vladimir_NesovAug 16, 2009, 4:06 PM
22 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Minds that make op­ti­mal use of small amounts of sen­sory data

SforSingularityAug 15, 2009, 2:11 PM
12 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Fight­ing Akra­sia: Sur­vey De­sign Help Request

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 14, 2009, 7:48 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Mis­takes with nonex­is­tent people

KatjaGraceAug 13, 2009, 10:28 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a New De­ci­sion Theory

Wei DaiAug 13, 2009, 5:31 AM
83 points
148 comments6 min readLW link

Are abor­tion views sex­ist?

KatjaGraceAug 12, 2009, 12:01 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Sense, Deno­ta­tion and Semantics

Vladimir_NesovAug 11, 2009, 12:47 PM
12 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Delet­ing para­doxes with fuzzy logic

[deleted]Aug 11, 2009, 4:27 AM
7 points
76 comments4 min readLW link

Cache in­val­i­da­tion test

wmooreAug 11, 2009, 2:05 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Utilons vs. Hedons

PsychohistorianAug 10, 2009, 7:20 PM
40 points
119 comments6 min readLW link

Mislead­ing the witness

Bo102010Aug 9, 2009, 8:13 PM
16 points
116 comments2 min readLW link

Guess Again

AlicornAug 9, 2009, 7:11 PM
17 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion fail

PhilGoetzAug 9, 2009, 5:15 PM
10 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

Scott AlexanderAug 8, 2009, 10:57 PM
93 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Dreams with Da­m­aged Priors

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 8, 2009, 10:31 PM
59 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

A note on hypotheticals

PhilGoetzAug 7, 2009, 6:56 PM
23 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Fight­ing Akra­sia: Find­ing the Source

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 7, 2009, 2:49 PM
8 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s lists of Over­com­ing Bias Posts

AndrewHAug 6, 2009, 8:10 PM
26 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ter­mi­nat­ing life is rational

PhilGoetzAug 6, 2009, 4:17 PM
19 points
279 comments10 min readLW link

LW/​OB Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Au­gust 2009

RuneAug 6, 2009, 1:35 PM
7 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

The Ob­jec­tive Bayesian Programme

cousin_itAug 6, 2009, 10:33 AM
19 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Scott AlexanderAug 6, 2009, 7:39 AM
100 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Au­gust 2009

Vladimir_NesovAug 6, 2009, 1:58 AM
9 points
122 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­mended read­ing: Ge­orge Or­well on knowl­edge from authority

CronoDASAug 5, 2009, 3:30 PM
9 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

A Nor­ma­tive Rule for De­ci­sion-Chang­ing Metrics

FrankAdamekAug 5, 2009, 5:07 AM
2 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

The Ma­chine Learn­ing Per­son­al­ity Test

PhilGoetzAug 4, 2009, 11:36 PM
31 points
34 comments6 min readLW link

She Blinded Me With Science

Jonathan_GraehlAug 4, 2009, 7:10 PM
17 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

The use­ful­ness of correlations

Richard_KennawayAug 4, 2009, 7:00 PM
20 points
59 comments4 min readLW link

Wits and Wagers

JohnicholasAug 4, 2009, 4:39 PM
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link