Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Vladimir_Nesov14 Jan 2011 21:21 UTC
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Ra­tional Repentance

Mass_Driver14 Jan 2011 9:37 UTC
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 7

Unnamed14 Jan 2011 6:49 UTC
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Link—to­tal body transplant

Dr_Manhattan14 Jan 2011 4:41 UTC
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Treat­ment Tips for Used up Cos­tume out­fit Jewelry

jewelryshop201114 Jan 2011 1:43 UTC
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I want to learn economics

Alex Flint13 Jan 2011 23:02 UTC
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Link: The Uncer­tain Fu­ture—“The Fu­ture Ac­cord­ing to You”

XiXiDu13 Jan 2011 17:44 UTC
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Fields re­lated to Friendli­ness philosophy

Will_Newsome13 Jan 2011 12:25 UTC
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[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

Kaj_Sotala13 Jan 2011 9:32 UTC
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Simp­son’s Paradox

bentarm12 Jan 2011 23:01 UTC
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Scott Sum­ner on Utility vs Hap­piness [Link]

Nic_Smith12 Jan 2011 20:14 UTC
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NYC Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy Post-Game Discussion

Zvi12 Jan 2011 19:40 UTC
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Link: why train­ing a.i. isn’t like train­ing your pets

XiXiDu12 Jan 2011 18:23 UTC
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Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

phob12 Jan 2011 15:34 UTC
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Reach­ing The Stars Is Easy [Videos]

XiXiDu12 Jan 2011 11:07 UTC
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Freaky unfairness

benelliott12 Jan 2011 10:08 UTC
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Link: NY Times cov­ers Bayesian statistics

Mass_Driver12 Jan 2011 8:45 UTC
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The Math­e­mat­ics of Beauty [link]

Kevin12 Jan 2011 6:51 UTC
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Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC
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VIDEO: The Prob­lem With Anecdotes

JenniferRM12 Jan 2011 2:37 UTC
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NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

arundelo11 Jan 2011 22:58 UTC
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Con­vinc­ing ET of our rationality

TheRev11 Jan 2011 17:32 UTC
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Pop­u­la­tion ethics and per­sonal identity

KatjaGrace11 Jan 2011 17:21 UTC
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Alter­nate Sleep Schedules

[deleted]11 Jan 2011 11:47 UTC
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Are com­mit­ted truth­seek­ers lone­lier?

spencerth11 Jan 2011 9:42 UTC
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Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

lukeprog11 Jan 2011 7:05 UTC
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Aguirre, Teg­mark, Layzer “Cos­molog­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics”

cousin_it11 Jan 2011 6:29 UTC
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Does Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory re­ally fail Solomon’s Prob­lem?

AlexMennen11 Jan 2011 4:53 UTC
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Non-triv­ial prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions for pri­ors and Oc­cam’s razor

JoshuaZ11 Jan 2011 3:59 UTC
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Less Wrong fan­fic­tion suggestion

Vlodermolt11 Jan 2011 2:53 UTC
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LINK: Bayesian statis­tics is so sub­ver­sive, it’s banned in China!

lukeprog11 Jan 2011 0:50 UTC
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Spread­sheet-based tool for track­ing time

jwhendy10 Jan 2011 23:55 UTC
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The Un­pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

KatjaGrace10 Jan 2011 16:40 UTC
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Deon­tolog­i­cal De­ci­sion The­ory and The Solu­tion to Morality

Tesseract10 Jan 2011 16:15 UTC
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Open Thread, Jan­uary 2011

Paul Crowley10 Jan 2011 11:14 UTC
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Bayesi­anism ver­sus Crit­i­cal Rationalism

Jayson_Virissimo10 Jan 2011 4:54 UTC
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A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”

PhilGoetz10 Jan 2011 1:40 UTC
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Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for A Hu­man’s Guide to Words

divia10 Jan 2011 0:21 UTC
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A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

jwhendy9 Jan 2011 17:52 UTC
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Sleep­ing Beauty should re­main pure

KatjaGrace9 Jan 2011 17:40 UTC
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Lon­don meetup, Shake­speare’s Head, Sun­day 2011-03-06 14:00

Paul Crowley9 Jan 2011 15:43 UTC
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Brand­ing Biodiversity

Axel9 Jan 2011 15:20 UTC
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Se­cond Life cre­ators to at­tempt to cre­ate AI

nick0120009 Jan 2011 13:50 UTC
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Meetup or­ga­niz­ing query & a rally for Minnesotans

jwhendy9 Jan 2011 4:51 UTC
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Is there a way to quan­tify the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Per­son1′s Map and Per­son2′s Map?

InquilineKea9 Jan 2011 1:14 UTC
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Fem­i­ninity can’t be that bad

KatjaGrace8 Jan 2011 23:18 UTC
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Is there any­thing af­ter death?

afterdeath8 Jan 2011 22:56 UTC
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Could mar­kets be called op­ti­miza­tion proc­cesses?

[deleted]8 Jan 2011 21:42 UTC
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The or­der of learn­ing things (gen­eral to spe­cific vs. spe­cific to gen­eral)

InquilineKea8 Jan 2011 21:19 UTC
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How do you use the phrase “free will”?

[deleted]8 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC
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