Is felt prefer­ence a use­ful in­di­ca­tor? (A ram­ble)

11 minute TED talk is about in­stru­men­tal rationality

Draft: Get Lucky

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Stan­dard In­tro­duc­tion (Part 2)

Tran­script: “Choice Machines, Causal­ity, and Co­op­er­a­tion”

Look­ing for a room­mate in Moun­tain View

Us­ing Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity to teach the sci­en­tific method to Psy­chol­ogy undergraduates

[Link] Holis­tic learn­ing ebook

r/​HPMOR on heroic responsibility

Re­in­force­ment, Prefer­ence and Utility

Room­mate in­ter­est and co­or­di­na­tion thread

[Link] “Proxy mea­sures, sunk costs, and Ch­ester­ton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic

What are you work­ing on? Au­gust 2012

Cry­on­ics dona­tion fund for Kim Suozzi es­tab­lished by So­ciety for Venturism

The wan­der­ing rationalist

Benefits of Calorie Restric­tion Linked To Other Factors

Do you BayesBlog? Richard Car­rier is look­ing for links

Pos­si­ble meetup: Singapore

Kelly Cri­te­ria and Two Envelopes

Men­tion­ing cry­on­ics to a dy­ing person

[LINK] A Meta-In­duc­tive Ap­proach to Hume’s Prob­lem of Induction

What is moral foun­da­tion the­ory good for?

[Draft] Pro­duc­tive Use of Heuris­tics and Biases

PSA: Peo­ple can see what you’ve “liked” and “dis­liked” if you checked “Make my votes pub­lic”

Ad­mis­sions Es­say Help?

Head­ing off a near-term AGI arms race

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2012

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​6/​12

[LINK] Cry­on­ics—with­out even trying

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 4

Scott Aaron­son’s cau­tious op­ti­mism for the MWI

AI 5 minute ex­is­ten­tial risk talk

[video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101

Luke’ AMA gets a plug @ Wired [link]

What Are You Do­ing for Self-Quan­tifi­ca­tion?

Rus­sian plan for im­mor­tal­ity [link]

From the “weird math ques­tions” de­part­ment...

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​20/​12

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Cannabis, De­ci­sion-Mak­ing, And A Chance To Change Your Mind

What are use­ful skills to learn at uni­ver­sity?

[SEQ RERUN] Qual­i­ta­tive Strate­gies of Friendliness

[SEQ RERUN] Raised in Technophilia

Au­gust 2012 Me­dia Thread

[LINK] The Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­clud­ing the Supernatural

Meetup : Paris Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] The Truly Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma

[SEQ RERUN] Against Mo­dal Logics

Ex­pected util­ity and util­ity af­ter time