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| The Martial Art of Rationality |
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| Why truth? And… |
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| …What’s a bias, again? |
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| The Proper Use of Humility |
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| The Modesty Argument |
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| “I don’t know.” |
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| A Fable of Science and Politics |
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| Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary |
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| Outside the Laboratory |
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| Politics is the Mind-Killer |
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| Just Lose Hope Already |
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| You Are Not Hiring the Top 1% |
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| Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided |
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| Burch’s Law |
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| The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality |
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| Blue or Green on Regulation? |
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| Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization |
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| Useless Medical Disclaimers |
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| Archimedes’s Chronophone |
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| Chronophone Motivations |
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| Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia? |
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| Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) |
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct |
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| “Statistical Bias” |
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| Useful Statistical Biases |
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| The Error of Crowds |
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| The Majority Is Always Wrong |
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| Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People |
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| Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction |
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| “Inductive Bias” |
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| Suggested Posts |
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| Futuristic Predictions as Consumable Goods |
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| Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts |
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| Priors as Mathematical Objects |
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| Lotteries: A Waste of Hope |
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| New Improved Lottery |
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| Your Rationality is My Business |
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| Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread |
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| Feeling Rational |
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| Universal Fire |
Universal Fire |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Universal Law |
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| Think Like Reality |
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| Beware the Unsurprised |
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| The Third Alternative |
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| Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism |
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| Scope Insensitivity |
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| One Life Against the World |
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| Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t |
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| Correspondence Bias |
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| Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? |
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| Open Thread |
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| Two More Things to Unlearn from School |
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| Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) |
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| Belief in Belief |
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| Bayesian Judo |
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| Professing and Cheering |
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| Belief as Attire |
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| Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable |
Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| The Importance of Saying “Oops” |
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| Focus Your Uncertainty |
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| The Proper Use of Doubt |
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| The Virtue of Narrowness |
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| You Can Face Reality |
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| The Apocalypse Bet |
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| Your Strength as a Rationalist |
Your Strength as a Rationalist |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| I Defy the Data! |
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| Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence |
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| Conservation of Expected Evidence |
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| Update Yourself Incrementally |
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| One Argument Against An Army |
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| Hindsight bias |
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| Hindsight Devalues Science |
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| Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence |
Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence |
ywecur |
| Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”? |
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| Fake Explanations |
Fake Explanations |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Guessing the Teacher’s Password |
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| Science as Attire |
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| Fake Causality |
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| Semantic Stopsigns |
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| Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions |
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| The Futility of Emergence |
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| Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark |
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| Say Not “Complexity” |
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| My Wild and Reckless Youth |
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| Failing to Learn from History |
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| Making History Available |
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| Stranger Than History |
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| Explain/Worship/Ignore? |
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| “Science” as Curiosity-Stopper |
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| Absurdity Heuristic, Absurdity Bias |
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| Availability |
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| Why is the Future So Absurd? |
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| Anchoring and Adjustment |
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| The Crackpot Offer |
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| Radical Honesty |
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| We Don’t Really Want Your Participation |
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| Applause Lights |
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| Rationality and the English Language |
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| Human Evil and Muddled Thinking |
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| Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased) |
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| Why I’m Blooking |
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| Planning Fallacy |
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| Kahneman’s Planning Anecdote |
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| Conjunction Fallacy |
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| Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down) |
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| Burdensome Details |
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| What is Evidence? |
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| The Lens That Sees Its Flaws |
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| How Much Evidence Does It Take? |
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| Einstein’s Arrogance |
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| Occam’s Razor |
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| 9/26 is Petrov Day |
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| How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 |
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| The Bottom Line |
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| What Evidence Filtered Evidence? |
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| Rationalization |
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| Recommended Rationalist Reading |
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| A Rational Argument |
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| We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think |
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| Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points |
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| The Meditation on Curiosity |
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| Singlethink |
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| No One Can Exempt You From Rationality’s Laws |
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| A Priori |
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| Priming and Contamination |
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| Do We Believe Everything We’re Told? |
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| Cached Thoughts |
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| The “Outside the Box” Box |
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| Original Seeing |
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| How to Seem (and Be) Deep |
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| The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence |
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| Hold Off On Proposing Solutions |
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| “Can’t Say No” Spending |
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| Congratulations to Paris Hilton |
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| Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities |
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| Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You |
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| Self-Anchoring |
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| Expecting Short Inferential Distances |
Expecting Short Inferential Distances |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! |
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| Double Illusion of Transparency |
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| No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know |
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| Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? |
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| Bay Area Bayesians Unite! |
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| Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation |
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| Torture vs. Dust Specks |
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| A Case Study of Motivated Continuation |
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| A Terrifying Halloween Costume |
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| Fake Justification |
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| An Alien God |
An Alien God |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| The Wonder of Evolution |
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| Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) |
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| Natural Selection’s Speed Limit and Complexity Bound |
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| Beware of Stephen J. Gould |
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| The Tragedy of Group Selectionism |
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| Fake Selfishness |
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| Fake Morality |
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| Fake Optimization Criteria |
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| Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers |
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| Evolutionary Psychology |
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| Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism |
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| Thou Art Godshatter |
Thou Art Godshatter |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Terminal Values and Instrumental Values |
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| Evolving to Extinction |
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| No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices |
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| The Simple Math of Everything |
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| Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You |
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| Artificial Addition |
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| Truly Part Of You |
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| Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) |
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| Leaky Generalizations |
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| The Hidden Complexity of Wishes |
The Hidden Complexity of Wishes |
ywecur |
| Lost Purposes |
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| Purpose and Pragmatism |
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| The Affect Heuristic |
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| Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping) |
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| Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism |
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| The Halo Effect |
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| Superhero Bias |
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| Mere Messiahs |
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| Affective Death Spirals |
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| Resist the Happy Death Spiral |
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| Uncritical Supercriticality |
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| Fake Fake Utility Functions |
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| Fake Utility Functions |
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| Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs |
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| When None Dare Urge Restraint |
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| The Robbers Cave Experiment |
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| Misc Meta |
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| Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult |
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| Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence |
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| Argument Screens Off Authority |
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| Hug the Query |
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| Guardians of the Truth |
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| Guardians of the Gene Pool |
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| Guardians of Ayn Rand |
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| The Litany Against Gurus |
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| Politics and Awful Art |
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| Two Cult Koans |
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| False Laughter |
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| Effortless Technique |
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| Zen and the Art of Rationality |
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| The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy |
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| Asch’s Conformity Experiment |
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| On Expressing Your Concerns |
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| Lonely Dissent |
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| To Lead, You Must Stand Up |
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| Cultish Countercultishness |
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| My Strange Beliefs |
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| Posting on Politics |
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| The Two-Party Swindle |
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| The American System and Misleading Labels |
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| Stop Voting For Nincompoops |
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| Rational vs. Scientific Ev-Psych |
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| A Failed Just-So Story |
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| But There’s Still A Chance, Right? |
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| The Fallacy of Gray |
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| Absolute Authority |
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| Infinite Certainty |
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| 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities |
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| Beautiful Math |
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| Expecting Beauty |
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| Is Reality Ugly? |
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| Beautiful Probability |
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| Trust in Math |
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| Rationality Quotes 1 |
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| Rationality Quotes 2 |
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| Rationality Quotes 3 |
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| The Allais Paradox |
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| Zut Allais! |
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| Rationality Quotes 4 |
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| Allais Malaise |
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| Against Discount Rates |
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| Circular Altruism |
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| Rationality Quotes 5 |
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| Rationality Quotes 6 |
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| Rationality Quotes 7 |
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| Rationality Quotes 8 |
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| Rationality Quotes 9 |
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| The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism” |
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| Trust in Bayes |
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| Something to Protect |
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| Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality |
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| OB Meetup: Millbrae, Thu 21 Feb, 7pm |
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| The Parable of the Dagger |
The Parable of the Dagger |
rockham |
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| The Parable of Hemlock |
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| Words as Hidden Inferences |
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| Extensions and Intensions |
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| Buy Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace |
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| Similarity Clusters |
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| Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity |
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| The Cluster Structure of Thingspace |
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| Disguised Queries |
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| Neural Categories |
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| How An Algorithm Feels From Inside |
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| Disputing Definitions |
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| Feel the Meaning |
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| The Argument from Common Usage |
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| Empty Labels |
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| Classic Sichuan in Millbrae, Thu Feb 21, 7pm |
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| Taboo Your Words |
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| Replace the Symbol with the Substance |
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| Fallacies of Compression |
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| Categorizing Has Consequences |
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| Sneaking in Connotations |
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| Arguing “By Definition” |
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| Where to Draw the Boundary? |
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| Entropy, and Short Codes |
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| Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace |
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| Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words |
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| Leave a Line of Retreat |
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| The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition |
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| Perpetual Motion Beliefs |
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| Searching for Bayes-Structure |
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| Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes |
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| Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles |
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| Rationality Quotes 10 |
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| Rationality Quotes 11 |
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| Variable Question Fallacies |
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| 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong |
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| Gary Gygax Annihilated at 69 |
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| Dissolving the Question |
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| Wrong Questions |
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| Righting a Wrong Question |
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| Mind Projection Fallacy |
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| Probability is in the Mind |
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| The Quotation is not the Referent |
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| Penguicon & Blook |
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| Qualitatively Confused |
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| Reductionism |
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| Explaining vs. Explaining Away |
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| Fake Reductionism |
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| Savanna Poets |
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| Joy in the Merely Real |
Joy in the Merely Real |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| Joy in Discovery |
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| Bind Yourself to Reality |
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| If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help |
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| New York OB Meetup (ad-hoc) on Monday, Mar 24, @6pm |
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| The Beauty of Settled Science |
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| Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st |
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| Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute? |
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| Scarcity |
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| To Spread Science, Keep It Secret |
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| Initiation Ceremony |
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| Hand vs. Fingers |
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| Angry Atoms |
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| Heat vs. Motion |
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| Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons! |
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| Reductive Reference |
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| Zombies! Zombies? |
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| Zombie Responses |
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| The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle |
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| GAZP vs. GLUT |
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| Belief in the Implied Invisible |
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| Quantum Explanations |
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| Configurations and Amplitude |
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| Joint Configurations |
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| Distinct Configurations |
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| Where Philosophy Meets Science |
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| Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical? |
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| Classical Configuration Spaces |
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| The Quantum Arena |
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| Feynman Paths |
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| No Individual Particles |
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| Identity Isn’t In Specific Atoms |
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| Zombies: The Movie |
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| Three Dialogues on Identity |
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| Decoherence |
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| The So-Called Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
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| Which Basis Is More Fundamental? |
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| Where Physics Meets Experience |
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| Where Experience Confuses Physicists |
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| On Being Decoherent |
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| The Conscious Sorites Paradox |
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| Decoherence is Pointless |
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| Decoherent Essences |
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| The Born Probabilities |
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| Decoherence as Projection |
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| Entangled Photons |
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| Bell’s Theorem: No EPR “Reality” |
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| Spooky Action at a Distance: The No-Communication Theorem |
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| Decoherence is Simple |
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| Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable |
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| Quantum Non-Realism |
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| Collapse Postulates |
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| If Many-Worlds Had Come First |
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| Many Worlds, One Best Guess |
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| The Failures of Eld Science |
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| The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? |
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| Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality |
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| When Science Can’t Help |
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| Science Isn’t Strict Enough |
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| Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff? |
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| No Safe Defense, Not Even Science |
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| Changing the Definition of Science |
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| Conference on Global Catastrophic Risks |
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| Faster Than Science |
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| Einstein’s Speed |
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| That Alien Message |
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| My Childhood Role Model |
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| Mach’s Principle: Anti-Epiphenomenal Physics |
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| A Broken Koan |
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| Relative Configuration Space |
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| Timeless Physics |
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| Timeless Beauty |
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| Timeless Causality |
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| Einstein’s Superpowers |
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| Class Project |
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| A Premature Word on AI |
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| The Rhythm of Disagreement |
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| Principles of Disagreement |
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| Timeless Identity |
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| Why Quantum? |
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| Living in Many Worlds |
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| Thou Art Physics |
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| Timeless Control |
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| Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Horgan |
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| Against Devil’s Advocacy |
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| Eliezer’s Post Dependencies; Book Notification; Graphic Designer Wanted |
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| The Quantum Physics Sequence |
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| An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics |
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| Quantum Physics Revealed As Non-Mysterious |
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| And the Winner is… Many-Worlds! |
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| Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity |
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| Causality and Moral Responsibility |
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| Possibility and Could-ness |
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| The Ultimate Source |
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| Passing the Recursive Buck |
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| Grasping Slippery Things |
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| Ghosts in the Machine |
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| LA-602 vs. RHIC Review |
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| Heading Toward Morality |
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| The Outside View’s Domain |
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| Surface Analogies and Deep Causes |
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| Optimization and the Singularity |
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| The Psychological Unity of Humankind |
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| The Design Space of Minds-In-General |
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| No Universally Compelling Arguments |
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| 2-Place and 1-Place Words |
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| The Opposite Sex |
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| What Would You Do Without Morality? |
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| The Moral Void |
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| Created Already In Motion |
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| I’d take it |
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| The Bedrock of Fairness |
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| 2 of 10, not 3 total |
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| Moral Complexities |
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| Is Morality Preference? |
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| Is Morality Given? |
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| Will As Thou Wilt |
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| Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom |
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| The Fear of Common Knowledge |
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| My Kind of Reflection |
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| The Genetic Fallacy |
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| Fundamental Doubts |
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| Rebelling Within Nature |
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| Probability is Subjectively Objective |
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| Lawrence Watt-Evans’s Fiction |
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| Posting May Slow |
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| Whither Moral Progress? |
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| The Gift We Give To Tomorrow |
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| Could Anything Be Right? |
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| Existential Angst Factory |
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| Touching the Old |
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| Should We Ban Physics? |
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| Fake Norms, or “Truth” vs. Truth |
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| When (Not) To Use Probabilities |
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| Can Counterfactuals Be True? |
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| Math is Subjunctively Objective |
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| Does Your Morality Care What You Think? |
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| Changing Your Metaethics |
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| Setting Up Metaethics |
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| The Meaning of Right |
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| Interpersonal Morality |
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| Humans in Funny Suits |
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| Detached Lever Fallacy |
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| A Genius for Destruction |
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| The Comedy of Behaviorism |
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| No Logical Positivist I |
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| Anthropomorphic Optimism |
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| Contaminated by Optimism |
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| Hiroshima Day |
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| Morality as Fixed Computation |
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| Inseparably Right; or, Joy in the Merely Good |
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| Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps |
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| Moral Error and Moral Disagreement |
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| Abstracted Idealized Dynamics |
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| “Arbitrary” |
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| Is Fairness Arbitrary? |
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| The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? |
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| Hot Air Doesn’t Disagree |
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| When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid |
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| The Cartoon Guide to Lob’s Theorem |
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| Dumb Deplaning |
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| You Provably Can’t Trust Yourself |
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| No License To Be Human |
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| Invisible Frameworks |
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| Mirrors and Paintings |
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| Unnatural Categories |
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| Magical Categories |
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| Three Fallacies of Teleology |
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| Dreams of AI Design |
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| Against Modal Logics |
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| Harder Choices Matter Less |
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| Qualitative Strategies of Friendliness |
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| Dreams of Friendliness |
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| Brief Break |
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| Rationality Quotes 12 |
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| Rationality Quotes 13 |
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| The True Prisoner’s Dilemma |
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| The Truly Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma |
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| Rationality Quotes 14 |
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| Rationality Quotes 15 |
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| Rationality Quotes 16 |
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| Singularity Summit 2008 |
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| Points of Departure |
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| Rationality Quotes 17 |
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| Excluding the Supernatural |
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| Psychic Powers |
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| Optimization |
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| My Childhood Death Spiral |
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| My Best and Worst Mistake |
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| Raised in Technophilia |
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| A Prodigy of Refutation |
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| The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth |
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| Say It Loud |
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| Ban the Bear |
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| How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? |
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| Horrible LHC Inconsistency |
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| That Tiny Note of Discord |
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| Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth |
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| My Naturalistic Awakening |
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| The Level Above Mine |
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| Competent Elites |
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| Above-Average AI Scientists |
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| Friedman’s “Prediction vs. Explanation” |
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| The Magnitude of His Own Folly |
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| Awww, a Zebra |
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| Intrade and the Dow Drop |
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| Trying to Try |
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| Use the Try Harder, Luke |
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| Rationality Quotes 18 |
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| Beyond the Reach of God |
Beyond the Reach of God |
ywecur |
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| My Bayesian Enlightenment |
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| Bay Area Meetup for Singularity Summit |
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| On Doing the Impossible |
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| Make an Extraordinary Effort |
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| Shut up and do the impossible! |
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| AIs and Gatekeepers Unite! |
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| Crisis of Faith |
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| The Ritual |
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| Rationality Quotes 19 |
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| Why Does Power Corrupt? |
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| Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans) |
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| Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies |
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| Traditional Capitalist Values |
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| Dark Side Epistemology |
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| Protected From Myself |
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| Ethical Inhibitions |
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| Ethical Injunctions |
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| Prices or Bindings? |
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| Ethics Notes |
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| Which Parts Are “Me”? |
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| Inner Goodness |
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| San Jose Meetup, Sat 10/25 @ 7:30pm |
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| Expected Creative Surprises |
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| Belief in Intelligence |
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| Aiming at the Target |
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| Measuring Optimization Power |
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| Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization |
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| Economic Definition of Intelligence? |
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| Intelligence in Economics |
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| Mundane Magic |
Mundane Magic |
hpmorpodcast.com |
| BHTV: Jaron Lanier and Yudkowsky |
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| Building Something Smarter |
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| Complexity and Intelligence |
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| Today’s Inspirational Tale |
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| Hanging Out My Speaker’s Shingle |
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| Back Up and Ask Whether, Not Why |
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| Recognizing Intelligence |
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| Lawful Creativity |
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| Ask OB: Leaving the Fold |
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| Lawful Uncertainty |
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| Worse Than Random |
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| The Weighted Majority Algorithm |
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| Bay Area Meetup: 11/17 8PM Menlo Park |
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| Selling Nonapples |
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| The Nature of Logic |
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| Boston-area Meetup: 11/18/08 9pm MIT/Cambridge |
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| Logical or Connectionist AI? |
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| Whither OB? |
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| Failure By Analogy |
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| Failure By Affective Analogy |
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| The Weak Inside View |
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| The First World Takeover |
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| Whence Your Abstractions? |
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| Observing Optimization |
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| Life’s Story Continues |
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| Surprised by Brains |
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| Cascades, Cycles, Insight… |
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| …Recursion, Magic |
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| The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ad Hominem |
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| Engelbart: Insufficiently Recursive |
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| Total Nano Domination |
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| Thanksgiving Prayer |
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| Chaotic Inversion |
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| Singletons Rule OK |
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| Disappointment in the Future |
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| Recursive Self-Improvement |
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| Hard Takeoff |
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| Permitted Possibilities, & Locality |
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| Underconstrained Abstractions |
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| Sustained Strong Recursion |
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| Is That Your True Rejection? |
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| Artificial Mysterious Intelligence |
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| True Sources of Disagreement |
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| Disjunctions, Antipredictions, Etc. |
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| Bay Area Meetup Wed 12/10 @8pm |
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| The Mechanics of Disagreement |
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| What I Think, If Not Why |
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| You Only Live Twice |
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| BHTV: de Grey and Yudkowsky |
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| For The People Who Are Still Alive |
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| Not Taking Over the World |
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| Visualizing Eutopia |
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| Prolegomena to a Theory of Fun |
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| High Challenge |
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| Complex Novelty |
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| Sensual Experience |
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| Living By Your Own Strength |
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| Rationality Quotes 20 |
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| Imaginary Positions |
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| Harmful Options |
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| Devil’s Offers |
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| Nonperson Predicates |
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| Nonsentient Optimizers |
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| Nonsentient Bloggers |
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| Can’t Unbirth a Child |
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| Amputation of Destiny |
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| Dunbar’s Function |
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| A New Day |
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| Free to Optimize |
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| The Uses of Fun (Theory) |
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| Growing Up is Hard |
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| Changing Emotions |
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| Rationality Quotes 21 |
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| Emotional Involvement |
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| Rationality Quotes 22 |
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| Serious Stories |
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| Rationality Quotes 23 |
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| Continuous Improvement |
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| Eutopia is Scary |
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| Building Weirdtopia |
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| She has joined the Conspiracy |
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| Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises |
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| Seduced by Imagination |
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| Getting Nearer |
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| In Praise of Boredom |
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| Sympathetic Minds |
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| Interpersonal Entanglement |
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| Failed Utopia #4-2 |
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| Investing for the Long Slump |
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| Higher Purpose |
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| Rationality Quotes 24 |
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| The Fun Theory Sequence |
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| BHTV: Yudkowsky / Wilkinson |
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| 31 Laws of Fun |
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| OB Status Update |
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| Rationality Quotes 25 |
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| Value is Fragile |
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| Three Worlds Collide (0/8) |
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| The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8) |
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| War and/or Peace (2/8) |
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| The Super Happy People (3/8) |
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| Interlude with the Confessor (4/8) |
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| Three Worlds Decide (5/8) |
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| Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) |
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| True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8) |
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| Epilogue: Atonement (8/8) |
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| The Thing That I Protect |
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| …And Say No More Of It |
|
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| (Moral) Truth in Fiction? |
|
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| Informers and Persuaders |
|
|
| Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?) |
|
|
| The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary |
|
|
| An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment |
|
|
| Rationality Quotes 26 |
|
|
| An African Folktale |
|
|
| Cynical About Cynicism |
|
|
| Good Idealistic Books are Rare |
|
|
| Against Maturity |
|
|
| Pretending to be Wise |
|
|
| Wise Pretensions v.0 |
|
|
| Rationality Quotes 27 |
|
|
| Fairness vs. Goodness |
|
|
| On Not Having an Advance Abyssal Plan |
|
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| About Less Wrong |
|
|
| Formative Youth |
|
|
| Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story |
|
|
| Markets are Anti-Inductive |
|
|
| Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features |
|
|
| Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story… at Less Wrong |
|
|
| The Most Important Thing You Learned |
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| The Most Important Thing You Learned |
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| The Most Frequently Useful Thing |
|
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| The Most Frequently Useful Thing |
|
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| That You’d Tell All Your Friends |
|
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| Unteachable Excellence |
|
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| Teaching the Unteachable |
|
|
| No, Really, I’ve Deceived Myself |
|
|
| Belief in Self-Deception |
|
|
| Posting now enabled |
|
|
| Posting now enabled on Less Wrong |
|
|
| Slow down a little… maybe? |
|
|
| Moore’s Paradox |
|
|
| Don’t Believe You’ll Self-Deceive |
|
|
| Striving to Accept |
|
|
| Wanted: Python open source volunteers |
|
|
| Raising the Sanity Waterline |
|
|
| A Sense That More Is Possible |
|
|
| Epistemic Viciousness |
|
|
| Schools Proliferating Without Evidence |
|
|
| 3 Levels of Rationality Verification |
|
|
| What Do We Mean By “Rationality”? |
What Do We Mean By “Rationality”? |
ywecur |
| Comments for “Rationality” |
|
|
| The Pascal’s Wager Fallacy Fallacy |
|
|
| Rationalist Fiction |
|
|
| Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate |
|
|
| Tolerate Tolerance |
|
|
| You’re Calling *Who* A Cult Leader? |
|
|
| BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on “religious experience” |
|
|
| On Things that are Awesome |
|
|
| Hyakujo’s Fox |
|
|
| The Sacred Mundane |
|
|
| Your Price for Joining |
|
|
| Can Humanism Match Religion’s Output? |
|
|
| Church vs. Taskforce |
|
|
| Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes |
|
|
| Helpless Individuals |
|
|
| Money: The Unit of Caring |
|
|
| Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately |
|
|
| Wrong Tomorrow |
|
|
| Selecting Rationalist Groups |
|
|
| Rationality is Systematized Winning |
|
|
| Another Call to End Aid to Africa |
|
|
| Incremental Progress and the Valley |
|
|
| Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness |
|
|
| Newcomb’s Problem standard positions |
|
|
| Extenuating Circumstances |
|
|
| Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups |
|
|
| Whining-Based Communities |
|
|
| Zero-based karma coming through |
|
|
| Mandatory Secret Identities |
|
|
| Beware of Other-Optimizing |
Beware of Other-Optimizing |
ywecur |
| That Crisis thing seems pretty useful |
|
|
| The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet |
|
|
| Akrasia and Shangri-La |
|
|
| Twelve Virtues booklet printing? |
|
|
| Bystander Apathy |
|
|
| Collective Apathy and the Internet |
|
|
| Bayesians vs. Barbarians |
|
|
| Of Gender and Rationality |
|
|
| My Way |
|
|
| Rationality Quotes – April 2009 |
|
|
| Great Books of Failure |
|
|
| The Sin of Underconfidence |
|
|
| Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism |
|
|
| Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts |
|
|
| Go Forth and Create the Art! |
|
|
| This Didn’t Have To Happen |
|
|
| Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories |
|
|
| Less Meta |
|
|
| The Craft and the Community |
|
|
| The End (of Sequences) |
|
|
| Final Words |
|
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| |
|
|
| BONUS Non-Sequence Reading |
|
| Transhumanism As Simplified Humanism |
Transhumanism As Simplified Humanism |
hpmorpodcast.com |
