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!

In­gre­di­ents of Time­less De­ci­sion Theory

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

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2009 (quick post)

Friendlier AI through politics

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

Hap­piness is a Heuristic

My God! It’s full of Nash equil­ibria!

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

Minds that make op­ti­mal use of small amounts of sen­sory data

Fight­ing Akra­sia: Sur­vey De­sign Help Request

Mis­takes with nonex­is­tent people

Towards a New De­ci­sion Theory

Are abor­tion views sex­ist?

Sense, Deno­ta­tion and Semantics

Delet­ing para­doxes with fuzzy logic

Cache in­val­i­da­tion test

Utilons vs. Hedons