The Virtue of Silence

Ro­bust Co­op­er­a­tion in the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

All De­bates Are Brav­ery Debates

After crit­i­cal event W hap­pens, they still won’t be­lieve you

Tiling Agents for Self-Mod­ify­ing AI (OPFAI #2)

For FAI: Is “Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy” putting our best foot for­ward?

How prob­a­ble is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech?

Pri­soner’s Dilemma (with visi­ble source code) Tournament

How to Write Deep Characters

Do Earths with slower eco­nomic growth have a bet­ter chance at FAI?

Public Ser­vice An­nounce­ment Collection

Start Un­der the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows

Use­ful Con­cepts Repository

Earn­ing to Give vs. Altru­is­tic Ca­reer Choice Revisited

Some reser­va­tions about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument

[link] The Eco­nomics of So­cial Status

The Use of Many In­de­pen­dent Lines of Ev­i­dence: The Basel Problem

Many Weak Ar­gu­ments vs. One Rel­a­tively Strong Argument

Ma­hatma Arm­strong: CEVed to death.

Bad Con­cepts Repository

How to Have Space Correctly

James Martin’s death

[link] Scott Aaron­son on free will

Com­mon failure modes in habit formation

Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaron­son’s “The Ghost in the Quan­tum Tur­ing Ma­chine”

Re­duc­tion­ism se­quence now available in au­dio format

CFAR work­shop, June 15th, Salt Lake City UT

Effec­tive Altru­ism Through Ad­ver­tis­ing Vege­tar­i­anism?

An­ti­ci­pat­ing crit­i­cal transitions

Why do the­ists, un­der­grads, and Less Wrongers fa­vor one-box­ing on New­comb?

A per­sonal his­tory of in­volve­ment with effec­tive altruism

[META] Make poll re­sults ac­cessible to peo­ple who have not voted

How should Eliezer and Nick’s ex­tra $20 be split

Va­cancy at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute: Aca­demic Pro­ject Manager

Two Weeks of Med­i­ta­tion can Re­duce Mind Wan­der­ing and Im­prove Men­tal Perfor­mance.

How can I strate­gi­cally write a com­plex best­sel­ler? (4HS001)

A dis­claimer about my effec­tive philan­thropy posts (in con­nec­tion with as­tro­nom­i­cal waste)

Ini­tial Thoughts on Per­son­ally Find­ing a High-Im­pact Career

Sugges­tions for Ra­tion­al­ity Blogs in the Sidebar

Other pre­spec­tive on re­solv­ing the Pri­soner’s dilemma

Ex­er­cise isn’t nec­es­sar­ily good for people

So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

Sav­ing lives via bed nets is hard to beat for im­me­di­ate impact

Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Free­dom and Democracy

Nor­ma­tive un­cer­tainty in New­comb’s problem

Elites and AI: Stated Opinions

Weak ev­i­dence that eat­ing veg­eta­bles makes you live longer

David Brooks from the NY Times writes on earn­ing-to-give

Many Weak Ar­gu­ments and the Typ­i­cal Mind

Char­ity Effec­tive­ness and Third-World Economics