A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
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Ra­tional Home Buying

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2011 0:15 UTC
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Polyhacking

Alicorn28 Aug 2011 8:35 UTC
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Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

HoldenKarnofsky18 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC
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Teenage Ra­tion­al­ists and Chang­ing Your Mind

KPier5 Aug 2011 18:19 UTC
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The­ory of Knowl­edge (ra­tio­nal­ity out­reach)

KPier9 Aug 2011 21:36 UTC
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Con­sis­tently Inconsistent

Kaj_Sotala4 Aug 2011 22:33 UTC
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A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprog29 Aug 2011 7:04 UTC
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Why epi­demiol­ogy will not cor­rect itself

gwern11 Aug 2011 0:54 UTC
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Help Fund Luke­prog at SIAI

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Aug 2011 7:16 UTC
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In­di­vi­d­ual De­ni­a­bil­ity, Statis­ti­cal Honesty

Alicorn9 Aug 2011 4:17 UTC
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Strate­gic ig­no­rance and plau­si­ble deniability

Kaj_Sotala10 Aug 2011 9:30 UTC
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An EPub of Eliezer’s blog posts

Paul Crowley11 Aug 2011 14:20 UTC
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Please do not down­vote ev­ery com­ment or post some­one has ever made as a re­tal­i­a­tion tac­tic.

Will_Newsome21 Aug 2011 12:35 UTC
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Take heed, for it is a trap

Zed14 Aug 2011 10:23 UTC
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Are Deon­tolog­i­cal Mo­ral Judg­ments Ra­tion­al­iza­tions?

lukeprog16 Aug 2011 16:40 UTC
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Level­ing IRL

cousin_it5 Aug 2011 21:35 UTC
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Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Strate­gic Plan 2011

MichaelAnissimov26 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC
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Judg­ment Un­der Uncer­tainty sum­maries, Part 1: Representativeness

Tesseract15 Aug 2011 0:05 UTC
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Magic Tricks Re­vealed: Test Your Rationality

Peter Wildeford13 Aug 2011 5:23 UTC
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De­ci­sion The­ory Para­dox: PD with Three Im­plies Chaos?

orthonormal27 Aug 2011 19:22 UTC
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[LINK] Get paid to train your rationality

XFrequentist3 Aug 2011 15:01 UTC
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Do Hu­mans Want Things?

lukeprog4 Aug 2011 5:00 UTC
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[deleted]30 Aug 2011 3:56 UTC
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The ba­sic ques­tions of rationality

[deleted]22 Aug 2011 2:23 UTC
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Ca­reer choice for a util­i­tar­ian giver

juliawise8 Aug 2011 2:10 UTC
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Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view prize: And the win­ner is...

jsalvatier19 Aug 2011 20:35 UTC
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Why no archive of re­futed re­search?

Kaj_Sotala26 Aug 2011 8:14 UTC
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Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

Academian30 Aug 2011 15:58 UTC
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Mo­du­lar­ity and Buzzy

Kaj_Sotala4 Aug 2011 11:35 UTC
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Fic­tion: Let­ter from the End

AlexMennen9 Aug 2011 23:04 UTC
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Teach­ing Introspection

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 1 Aug 2011 1:10 UTC
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[Link] Scott Aaron­son on Why Philoso­phers Should Care About Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

DanielVarga15 Aug 2011 22:51 UTC
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Why are cer­tain trends so pre­cisely ex­po­nen­tial?

orthonormal6 Aug 2011 17:38 UTC
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[LINK] “Aca­demic pub­lish­ers make Mur­doch look like a so­cial­ist” says Ge­orge Mon­biot

[deleted]30 Aug 2011 12:27 UTC
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“Meetup” pro­posal: Google+

[deleted]12 Aug 2011 17:32 UTC
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Marti­ne­naite and Tave­nier on cryonics

Paul Crowley4 Aug 2011 7:39 UTC
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Level­ing IRL—level 1

cousin_it9 Aug 2011 17:12 UTC
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Spaced rep­e­ti­tion re­view (my en­try)

gwern8 Aug 2011 15:48 UTC
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Years saved: Cry­on­ics vs VillageReach

handoflixue1 Aug 2011 21:04 UTC
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Call for Per­sonal Volunteers

lukeprog29 Aug 2011 16:31 UTC
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Re­mind Phys­i­cal­ists They’re Physicalists

lukeprog15 Aug 2011 4:36 UTC
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An­ti­so­cial per­son­al­ity traits pre­dict util­i­tar­ian re­sponses to moral dilemmas

Vladimir_M23 Aug 2011 9:13 UTC
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Hu­mans: Not Carved from Marble

lukeprog16 Aug 2011 4:44 UTC
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How to be Deader than Dead

gwern24 Aug 2011 15:47 UTC
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A Sketch of an Anti-Real­ist Metaethics

Jack22 Aug 2011 5:32 UTC
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[LINK] NYTimes es­say on willpower, based on an up­com­ing Baumeister book

Vladimir_Golovin18 Aug 2011 10:05 UTC
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Table of bi­ases, the nor­ma­tive mod­els they vi­o­late, and their explanations

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 23:26 UTC
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[LINK] How Hard is Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence? The Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment and Ob­ser­va­tion Selec­tion Effects

AnnaSalamon29 Aug 2011 5:27 UTC
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Do we want more pub­lic­ity, and if so how?

Wei Dai22 Aug 2011 17:43 UTC
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