Recom­mended read­ing: Ge­orge Or­well on knowl­edge from authority

A Nor­ma­tive Rule for De­ci­sion-Chang­ing Metrics

The Ma­chine Learn­ing Per­son­al­ity Test

She Blinded Me With Science

The use­ful­ness of correlations

Wits and Wagers

The Difficul­ties of Po­ten­tial Peo­ple and De­ci­sion Making

Un­speak­able Morality

Why You’re Stuck in a Narrative

Mar­kets mar­keted better

Suffering

Pain

Open Thread: Au­gust 2009

An Alter­na­tive Ap­proach to AI Cooperation

Pract: A Guess­ing and Test­ing Game

The Hero With A Thou­sand Chances

The Obe­sity Myth

In­for­ma­tion cas­cades in sci­en­tific practice

Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

The Trol­ley Prob­lem in pop­u­lar cul­ture: Torch­wood Series 3

Reli­gion and con­ser­va­tion of evidence

Bayesian Utility: Rep­re­sent­ing Prefer­ence by Prob­a­bil­ity Measures

The Se­cond Best

Bayesian Flame

Five Stages of Idolatry

Link: In­ter­view with Vladimir Vapnik

Freaky Fairness

Many Reasons

Cel­e­brate Triv­ial Impetuses

Are cal­ibra­tion and ra­tio­nal de­ci­sions mu­tu­ally ex­clu­sive? (Part two)

An­drewH’s ob­ser­va­tion and op­por­tu­nity costs

The Na­ture of Offense

Are cal­ibra­tion and ra­tio­nal de­ci­sions mu­tu­ally ex­clu­sive? (Part one)

The Price of Integrity

Murder

An ob­ser­va­tion on cryocrastination

It’s all in your head-land

Fair­ness and Geometry

De­cid­ing on our ra­tio­nal­ity focus

Miss­ing the Trees for the Forest

Ob­vi­ous­ness is not what it seems

Old blog

Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Shut Up And Guess

Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

Chom­sky, Sports Talk Ra­dio, Me­dia Bias, and Me

Joint Distri­bu­tions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas

Creat­ing The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging v. Sub­jec­tive Probability

Are you crazy?