‘Clearly’ cov­ers murky thought

Ethics as a black box function

Why do an­i­mal lovers want an­i­mals to feel pain?

The Fi­nale of the Ul­ti­mate Meta Mega Crossover

How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

Hy­po­thet­i­cal Paradoxes

Min­neapo­lis Meetup: Sur­vey of interest

MWI, weird quan­tum ex­per­i­ments and fu­ture-di­rected con­ti­nu­ity of con­scious experience

Quan­tum Rus­sian Roulette

So­cio­sex­ual Ori­en­ta­tion In­ven­tory, or failing to perform ba­sic san­ity checks

What is the Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit?

The Ab­sent-Minded Driver

Be­ware of WEIRD psy­cholog­i­cal samples

For­mal­iz­ing re­flec­tive inconsistency

The New Nostradamus

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