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Some counterevidence for human sociobiology
taw
Aug 29, 2009, 2:08 AM
2
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Don’t be Pathologically Mugged!
Psy-Kosh
Aug 28, 2009, 9:47 PM
8
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Twin Webs of Knowledge
Kaj_Sotala
Aug 28, 2009, 9:45 AM
6
points
72
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Paper: Testing ecological models
brian_jaress
Aug 27, 2009, 10:12 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh Meetup: Survey of Interest
Nick_Tarleton
Aug 27, 2009, 4:18 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Rationalist’s Bookshelf: The Mind’s I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981)
colinmarshall
Aug 26, 2009, 7:08 PM
21
points
7
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions
taw
Aug 26, 2009, 6:34 PM
16
points
87
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals
AnnaSalamon
Aug 25, 2009, 8:01 PM
54
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How does an infovore manage information overload?
haig
Aug 25, 2009, 6:54 PM
3
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: An outline of some upcoming posts
AnnaSalamon
Aug 25, 2009, 7:34 AM
31
points
31
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Value for money kills?
KatjaGrace
Aug 24, 2009, 11:37 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Working Mantras
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 24, 2009, 10:08 PM
48
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Journal of (Failed) Replication Studies
Vladimir_Gritsenko
Aug 23, 2009, 9:15 AM
12
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is your subconscious communist?
KatjaGrace
Aug 22, 2009, 3:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ESR’s New Take on Qualia
billswift
Aug 21, 2009, 9:26 AM
5
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 20, 2009, 10:07 PM
42
points
37
comments
10
min read
LW
link
How inevitable was modern human civilization—data
taw
Aug 20, 2009, 9:42 PM
32
points
103
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Evolved Bayesians will be biased
taw
Aug 20, 2009, 2:54 PM
28
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
You have just been Counterfactually Mugged!
CronoDAS
Aug 19, 2009, 10:24 PM
7
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 19, 2009, 1:10 AM
52
points
232
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Scott Aaronson’s “On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality”
cousin_it
Aug 18, 2009, 7:17 PM
22
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Singularity Summit 2009 (quick post)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 16, 2009, 11:29 PM
18
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Friendlier AI through politics
Jonathan_Graehl
Aug 16, 2009, 9:29 PM
2
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Experiential Pica
Alicorn
Aug 16, 2009, 9:23 PM
129
points
113
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Happiness is a Heuristic
[deleted]
Aug 16, 2009, 9:12 PM
13
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
My God! It’s full of Nash equilibria!
Cyan
Aug 16, 2009, 7:59 PM
19
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds
Vladimir_Nesov
Aug 16, 2009, 4:06 PM
22
points
102
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Minds that make optimal use of small amounts of sensory data
SforSingularity
Aug 15, 2009, 2:11 PM
12
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fighting Akrasia: Survey Design Help Request
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Aug 14, 2009, 7:48 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mistakes with nonexistent people
KatjaGrace
Aug 13, 2009, 10:28 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Towards a New Decision Theory
Wei Dai
Aug 13, 2009, 5:31 AM
84
points
148
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Are abortion views sexist?
KatjaGrace
Aug 12, 2009, 12:01 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sense, Denotation and Semantics
Vladimir_Nesov
Aug 11, 2009, 12:47 PM
12
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Deleting paradoxes with fuzzy logic
[deleted]
Aug 11, 2009, 4:27 AM
7
points
76
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cache invalidation test
wmoore
Aug 11, 2009, 2:05 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utilons vs. Hedons
Psychohistorian
Aug 10, 2009, 7:20 PM
40
points
119
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Misleading the witness
Bo102010
Aug 9, 2009, 8:13 PM
16
points
116
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Guess Again
Alicorn
Aug 9, 2009, 7:11 PM
17
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Calibration fail
PhilGoetz
Aug 9, 2009, 5:15 PM
10
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?
Scott Alexander
Aug 8, 2009, 10:57 PM
93
points
132
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Dreams with Damaged Priors
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 8, 2009, 10:31 PM
60
points
61
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A note on hypotheticals
PhilGoetz
Aug 7, 2009, 6:56 PM
23
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Aug 7, 2009, 2:49 PM
8
points
48
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Robin Hanson’s lists of Overcoming Bias Posts
AndrewH
Aug 6, 2009, 8:10 PM
26
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Exterminating life is rational
PhilGoetz
Aug 6, 2009, 4:17 PM
19
points
279
comments
10
min read
LW
link
LW/OB Rationality Quotes—August 2009
Rune
Aug 6, 2009, 1:35 PM
7
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Objective Bayesian Programme
cousin_it
Aug 6, 2009, 10:33 AM
19
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
Aug 6, 2009, 7:39 AM
104
points
155
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—August 2009
Vladimir_Nesov
Aug 6, 2009, 1:58 AM
9
points
122
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority
CronoDAS
Aug 5, 2009, 3:30 PM
9
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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