How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

A Vot­ing Puz­zle, Some Poli­ti­cal Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

Men­tal Con­text for Model Theory

How habits work and how you may con­trol them

Bayesi­anism for Humans

What Can We Learn About Hu­man Psy­chol­ogy from Chris­tian Apolo­get­ics?

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Get­ting Killed By Politics

Med­i­ta­tion Trains Metacognition

How to Learn from Experts

Does Goal Set­ting Work?

Sys­tem­atic Lucky Breaks

[Link] Low-Hang­ing Poop

Trust­ing Ex­pert Consensus

In­ter­est­ing cri­tique of Bri­tish ed­u­ca­tion by out­go­ing ad­vi­sor (warn­ing: some poli­tics)

On the im­por­tance of tak­ing limits: In­finite Spheres of Utility

What should nor­mal peo­ple do?

In­tel­lec­tual energy

A Mug­gle Stud­ies course

Re­search in­ter­ests I don’t cur­rently have time to de­velop alone

PSA: Very im­por­tant policy change at Cry­on­ics Institute

Is it im­moral to have chil­dren?

Is it worth your time to read a lot of self help and how to books?

[Link] Trou­ble at the lab

Crush Your Uncertainty

[Link] You and Your Research

How do you say no?

Why didn’t peo­ple (ap­par­ently?) un­der­stand the metaethics se­quence?

Why officers vs. en­listed?

Ra­tion­al­ity, com­pet­i­tive­ness and akrasia

The self­ish rea­son to write some­thing for Ada Lovelace Day

Re­view of stud­ies says you can de­crease mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion through self-affirmation

Sup­ple­ment­ing mem­ory with ex­pe­rience sampling

Gane­sal­ingam and Gow­ers on au­to­mated the­o­rem-proving

Megameetup on De­cem­ber 13-15th, NYC

Link dump: Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity in­sti­tute tech­ni­cal reports

An In­tro­duc­tion To Rationality

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to kids?

How to Beat Pro­cras­ti­na­tion (to some de­gree) (if you’re iden­ti­cal to me)

The best 15 words

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk II

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic­tion—“Un­der­stand”, by Ted Chiang

Ad­vice for a smart 8-year-old bored with school

Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ity Through Lu­cid Dreaming

Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Training

Oc­to­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

Does the simu­la­tion ar­gu­ment even need simu­la­tions?

Un­der the eyes of your betters

Look­ing for opinions of peo­ple like Nick Bostrom or An­ders Sand­berg on cur­rent cryo techniques

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2013

Cam­bridge Meetup: Talk by Eliezer Yud­kowsky: Re­cur­sion in ra­tio­nal agents