Mo­ral­ity is Awesome

Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

Assess­ing Kurzweil: the results

Just One Sentence

Course recom­men­da­tions for Friendli­ness researchers

My sim­ple hack for in­creased alert­ness and im­proved cog­ni­tive func­tion­ing: very bright light

I at­tempted the AI Box Ex­per­i­ment (and lost)

The Zeroth Skillset

Up­date on Kim Suozzi (can­cer pa­tient in want of cry­on­ics)

Se­cond-Order Logic: The Controversy

AidGrade—GiveWell fi­nally has some competition

2012: Year in Review

[minor] Separate Upvotes and Down­votes Implimented

Don’t Build Fal­lout Shelters

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2012 Edition

On the Im­por­tance of Sys­tem­atic Bi­ases in Science

Eval­u­at­ing the fea­si­bil­ity of SI’s plan

[LINK] NYT Ar­ti­cle about Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from AI

Harsanyi’s So­cial Ag­gre­ga­tion The­o­rem and what it means for CEV

PSA: Please list your refer­ences, don’t just link them

A fun­gi­bil­ity theorem

How to Teach Stu­dents to Not Guess the Teacher’s Pass­word?

Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shops: Jan 25-28 and March 1-4

Evolu­tion, Sex, and Gen­der, Not to Men­tion Research

Macro, not Micro

In the be­gin­ning, Dart­mouth cre­ated the AI and the hype

CEV: a util­i­tar­ian critique

How to sig­nal cu­ri­os­ity?

[LINK] Why tak­ing ideas se­ri­ously is prob­a­bly a bad thing to do

A re­ply to Mark Linsen­mayer about philosophy

Notes on Au­tonomous Cars

[Link] Your Elu­sive Fu­ture Self

Right for the Wrong Reasons

Post-col­lege: chang­ing na­ture of friend interactions

False vac­uum: the uni­verse play­ing quan­tum suicide

Meetup : Love and Sex in Salt Lake City

Cryo and So­cial Obligations

Out­line of Pos­si­ble Sources of Values

AI box: AI has one shot at avoid­ing de­struc­tion—what might it say?

Gen­er­al­iz­ing from One Trend

Long-chain cor­re­la­tion: lead paint and crime

LW an­chor­ing ex­per­i­ment: maybe

How to Disen­tan­gle the Past and the Future

Value-Fo­cused Think­ing: a chap­ter-by-chap­ter summary

Assess­ing Kurzweil: the gory details

Michael Vas­sar’s Edge con­tri­bu­tion: summary

How to Be Oversurprised

Re: Se­cond-Order Logic: The Controversy

You can’t sig­nal to rubes