A “Failure to Eval­u­ate Re­turn-on-Time” Fallacy

Some­thing’s Wrong

Con­trol­ling Con­stant Programs

Rea­son­ably Fun

An­thro­po­mor­phic AI and Sand­boxed Vir­tual Uni­verses

Fru­gal­ity and work­ing from finite data

Test

AI in­differ­ence through util­ity manipulation

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: Septem­ber 2010

Berkeley LW Meet-up Sun­day Septem­ber 5

Less Wrong: Open Thread, Septem­ber 2010

Dreams of AIXI

Mo­ral­ity as Parfi­tian-filtered De­ci­sion The­ory?

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 3

Ex­ploita­tion and co­op­er­a­tion in ecol­ogy, gov­ern­ment, busi­ness, and AI

Cry­on­ics Questions

Self-fulfilling correlations

Cri­te­ria for Ra­tional Poli­ti­cal Conversation

The prior of a hy­poth­e­sis does not de­pend on its complexity

Lu­minos­ity (Twilight fan­fic) dis­cus­sion thread

Burn­ing Man Meetup: Bayes Camp

Why is med­i­cal ad­vice all cau­tion and no info?

Min­i­mum com­pu­ta­tion and data re­quire­ments for con­scious­ness.

The Smok­ing Le­sion: A prob­lem for ev­i­den­tial de­ci­sion theory

Who are we?

Jus­tify­ing Induction

Con­scious­ness of simu­la­tions & up­loads: a reductio

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

Trans­parency and Accountability

The Im­por­tance of Self-Doubt

Po­si­tion­ing one­self to make a difference

Tran­shu­man­ism and the de­no­ta­tion-con­no­ta­tion gap

How can we com­pare de­ci­sion the­o­ries?

Other Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

On be­half of phys­i­cal things

What a re­duc­tion of “prob­a­bil­ity” prob­a­bly looks like

Should hu­man­ity give birth to a galac­tic civ­i­liza­tion?

De­sir­able Dis­po­si­tions and Ra­tional Actions

New­comb’s Prob­lem: A prob­lem for Causal De­ci­sion Theories

Kevin T. Kelly’s Ock­ham Effi­ciency Theorem

Statis­ti­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion is ex­ter­nal­ity deliniation

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Public Relations

Why you don’t seek friends dat­ing site style

Prob­lems in evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy

Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

How the ab­strac­tion shield works

An in­tro­duc­tion to de­ci­sion theory

De­ci­sion the­ory ques­tion: Alpha and omega play pa­per scis­sor rock

What a re­duc­tion of “could” could look like

Hu­mor isn’t norm evasion