AnnaSalamon

Cen­ter for Modern Ra­tion­al­ity cur­rently hiring: Ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants, Teach­ers, Re­search as­sis­tants, Con­sul­tants.

Mini­camps on Ra­tion­al­ity and Awe­some­ness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

How do you no­tice when you’re ra­tio­nal­iz­ing?

Urges vs. Goals: The anal­ogy to an­ti­ci­pa­tion and belief

Poll re­sults: LW prob­a­bly doesn’t cause akrasia

Meetup : Talk on Sin­gu­lar­ity sce­nar­ios and op­ti­mal philan­thropy, fol­lowed by in­for­mal meet-up

[Ques­tion] Do you know a good game or demo for demon­strat­ing sunk costs?

[LINK] How Hard is Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence? The Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment and Ob­ser­va­tion Selec­tion Effects

Up­com­ing meet-ups

Up­com­ing meet-ups:

Up­com­ing meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Min­neapo­lis, Ot­tawa, Ed­in­burgh, Cam­bridge, Lon­don, DC

Mini-camp on Ra­tion­al­ity, Awe­some­ness, and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)

Learned Blankness

Talk and Meetup to­day 4/​4 in San Diego

Use cu­ri­os­ity

Make your train­ing useful

Start­ing a LW meet-up is easy.

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

If re­duc­tion­ism is the ham­mer, what nails are out there?

An­thro­pol­o­gists and “sci­ence”: dark side episte­mol­ogy?