Bizarre Illusions

You can­not be mis­taken about (not) want­ing to wirehead

Wel­come to Heaven

Adap­tive bias

Si­mon Con­way Mor­ris: “Aliens are likely to look and be­have like us”.

Value Uncer­tainty and the Sin­gle­ton Scenario

Less­wrong UK plan­ning thread

Lists of cog­ni­tive bi­ases, com­mon mis­con­cep­tions, and fallacies

Far & Near /​ Ru­n­away Trol­leys /​ The Prox­im­ity Of (Fat) Strangers

Priv­ileged Snuff

Costs to (po­ten­tially) eter­nal life

Easy Pre­dic­tor Tests

Win­ning the Unwinnable

That Mag­i­cal Click

Lon­don meetup: “The Friendly AI Prob­lem”

Nor­mal Cryonics

What big goals do we have?

The Pre­dic­tion Hierarchy

Ad­vanc­ing Certainty

Sort­ing Out Sticky Brains

Tips and Tricks for An­swer­ing Hard Questions

Den­nett’s heterophenomenology

The Wannabe Rational

In defense of the out­side view

The Prefer­ence Utili­tar­ian’s Time In­con­sis­tency Problem

Back of the en­velope calcu­la­tions around the sin­gu­lar­ity.

Comic about the Singularity

More stuff

Ad­vice for AI makers

Self con­trol may be contagious

Meetup: Bay Area: Jan 15th, 7pm

Out­line of a lower bound for consciousness

High Sta­tus and Stu­pidity: Why?

We de­sire ge­net­i­cally at­tributed success

Why are ob­vi­ous mean­ings veiled?

The things we know that we know ain’t so

Con­scious­ness Ex­plained, chap­ter 3

Den­nett’s “Con­scious­ness Ex­plained”: Chpt 2

Why does failed in­dul­gence cause guilt?

Den­nett’s “Con­scious­ness Ex­plained”: Prelude

Savulescu: “Ge­net­i­cally en­hance hu­man­ity or face ex­tinc­tion”

Hy­pothe­ses For Dualism

In­ter­gen­er­a­tional inequality

Consciousness

Does it look like it’s all about hap­piness?

Refer­ence class of the unclassreferenceable

Fic­tional Ev­i­dence vs. Fic­tional Insight

Case study: Melatonin

Will rea­son ever out­run faith?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2010