Meta: Ra­tion­al­ity News Area

Slate ar­ti­cle on Effi­cient Char­ity (link)

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

Try­ing to hide bad sig­nal­ing? To the Dark Side, lead you it will.

UFAI Web Comic

Link: Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011: “What Scien­tific Con­cept Would Im­prove Every­body’s Cog­ni­tive Toolkit? (edge.org)

Which are the use­ful ar­eas of AI study?

Why is con­sis­tency of­ten con­sid­ered to be an in­tel­lec­tual virtue?

Peo­ple Ne­glect Who They Really Are When Pre­dict­ing Their Own Fu­ture Hap­piness [link]

SMBC self-fulfilling prophecy

Image: Another un­in­formed per­spec­tive on risks from AI (hu­mor)

“Bad-for-the-world-ipe­dia?”

Peer re­view me

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

Ra­tional Repentance

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 7

Link—to­tal body transplant

Treat­ment Tips for Used up Cos­tume out­fit Jewelry

I want to learn economics

Link: The Uncer­tain Fu­ture—“The Fu­ture Ac­cord­ing to You”

Fields re­lated to Friendli­ness philosophy

[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

Simp­son’s Paradox

Scott Sum­ner on Utility vs Hap­piness [Link]

NYC Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy Post-Game Discussion

Link: why train­ing a.i. isn’t like train­ing your pets

Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

Reach­ing The Stars Is Easy [Videos]

Freaky unfairness

Link: NY Times cov­ers Bayesian statistics

The Math­e­mat­ics of Beauty [link]

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

VIDEO: The Prob­lem With Anecdotes

NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

Con­vinc­ing ET of our rationality

Pop­u­la­tion ethics and per­sonal identity

Alter­nate Sleep Schedules

Are com­mit­ted truth­seek­ers lone­lier?

Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

Aguirre, Teg­mark, Layzer “Cos­molog­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics”

Does Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory re­ally fail Solomon’s Prob­lem?

Non-triv­ial prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions for pri­ors and Oc­cam’s razor

Less Wrong fan­fic­tion suggestion

LINK: Bayesian statis­tics is so sub­ver­sive, it’s banned in China!

Spread­sheet-based tool for track­ing time

The Un­pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Deon­tolog­i­cal De­ci­sion The­ory and The Solu­tion to Morality

Open Thread, Jan­uary 2011

Bayesi­anism ver­sus Crit­i­cal Rationalism

A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”