Title
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Concepts Introduced/Discussed
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Author
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So You Want to Save the World
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lukeprog
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New Year's Prediction Thread (2012)
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gwern
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Rationality quotes January 2012
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Thomas
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Quantified Health Prize Deadline Extended
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tommccabe
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What Curiosity Looks Like
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lukeprog
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Designing Ritual
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Raemon
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Rationality meditation theory.
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WingedFoe
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The Gift I Give Tomorrow
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Raemon
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On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power.
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Dmytry
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
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lukeprog
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The Savage theorem and the Ellsberg paradox
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fool
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Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey
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lukeprog
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Histocracy: Open, Effective Group Decision-Making With Weighted Voting
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HonoreDB
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The problem with too many rational memes
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Swimmer963
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POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism.
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Dmytry
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The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
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lukeprog
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How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
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Swimmer963
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Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
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AnnaSalamon
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The Substitution Principle
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Kaj_Sotala
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The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity
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vallinder
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The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps
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fool
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Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
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atorm
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Terminal Bias
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nyan_sandwich
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Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness
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gwern
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Risk aversion vs. concave utility function
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dvasya
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Is risk aversion really irrational ?
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kilobug
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Rationality Quotes February 2012
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GabrielDuquette
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Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?
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gwern
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Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
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Morendil
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Feed the spinoff heuristic!
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CarlShulman
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My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
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lukeprog
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Avoid misinterpreting your emotions
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Kaj_Sotala
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The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates
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Mass_Driver
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Quantified Health Prize results announced
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Zvi
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Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher
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nerfhammer
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Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms
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Christian_Szegedy
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Get Curious
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lukeprog
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Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13)
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PhilGoetz
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Status and Changing your Mind
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jkaufman
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Heuristics and Biases in Charity
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Kaj_Sotala
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Rationality Quotes March 2012
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Thomas
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The kinesthesia switch
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NancyLebovitz
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Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary
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Swimmer963
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The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes
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Strange7
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How to Fix Science
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lukeprog
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Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit
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CarlShulman
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Causal diagrams and software engineering
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Morendil
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Rationally Irrational
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HungryTurtle
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I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias
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Kaj_Sotala
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Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer
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orthonormal
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Biased Pandemic
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freyley
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Schelling fences on slippery slopes
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Yvain
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How to avoid dying in a car crash
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michaelcurzi
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Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence
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Kaj_Sotala
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6 Tips for Productive Arguments
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Emotional regulation Part II: research summary
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Swimmer963
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I
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orthonormal
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Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt
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Manfred
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Brain Preservation
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jkaufman
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SotW: Check Consequentialism
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
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AnnaSalamon
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Examine your assumptions
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Douglas_Reay
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Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about
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JoshuaFox
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Fictional Bias
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thomblake
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Rationality Quotes April 2012
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Oscar_Cunningham
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SotW: Be Specific
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part II
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orthonormal
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Exploring the Idea Space Efficiently
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Elithrion
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Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
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kalla724
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Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
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orthonormal
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Be Happier
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Klevador
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To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony
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Kaj_Sotala
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Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic
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kalla724
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Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes
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Johnicholas
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Rationality Quotes May 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review
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Vaniver
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Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
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HoldenKarnofsky
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General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous
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PhilGoetz
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Sneaky Strategies for TDT
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drnickbone
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SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Problematic Problems for TDT
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drnickbone
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Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
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jsalvatier
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When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2
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Jay_Schweikert
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Avoid inflationary use of terms
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lsparrish
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Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study
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badger
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Rationality Quotes June 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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"Progress"
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PhilGoetz
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Ask an experimental physicist
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RolfAndreassen
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Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions
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Konkvistador
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Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
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Kaj_Sotala
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AGI Impacts conference in Oxford in December, with Call for Papers
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Local Ordinances of Fun
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Alicorn
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Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
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tommccabe
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Female Compatriots, Stay For a Week in Berkeley!
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ShannonFriedman
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Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The Power of Reinforcement
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lukeprog
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A (small) critique of total utilitarianism
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide
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Yvain
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Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
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Yvain
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Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma
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Yvain
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Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees
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Yvain
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Thoughts on moral intuitions
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Kaj_Sotala
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Your existence is informative
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KatjaGrace
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New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans
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tommccabe
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Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas
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Yvain
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Rationality Quotes July 2012
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RobertLumley
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Negative and Positive Selection
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tommccabe
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Interlude for Behavioral Economics
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Yvain
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To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking
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gwern
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Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute
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lukeprog
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An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction
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Alex_Altair
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Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration
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Stuart_Armstrong
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What Is Optimal Philanthropy?
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tommccabe
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What Is Signaling, Really?
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Yvain
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Bargaining and Auctions
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Yvain
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Tips for Starting Group Houses
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ShannonFriedman
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)
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ciphergoth
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Imperfect Voting Systems
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Yvain
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SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st
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lukeprog
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Game Theory As A Dark Art
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Yvain
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Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians
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ChrisHallquist
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Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 1)
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royf
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AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)
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royf
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Rationality Quotes August 2012
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Alejandro1
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What are the optimal biases to overcome?
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aaronsw
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Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality
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aaronsw
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Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules
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pragmatist
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Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
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royf
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Solving the two envelopes problem
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rstarkov
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Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders
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Yvain
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Why Don't People Help Others More?
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peter_hurford
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Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?
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ShannonFriedman
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AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?
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Stuart_Armstrong
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How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics
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JGWeissman
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AI timeline prediction data
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Stuart_Armstrong
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The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?
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Yvain
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Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
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Jayson_Virissimo
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How about testing our ideas?
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Konkvistador
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The Bayesian Agent
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royf
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Less Wrong Polls in Comments
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jimrandomh
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New study on choice blindness in moral positions
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nerfhammer
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Causality: a chapter by chapter review
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Vaniver
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The Useful Idea of Truth
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationality Quotes October 2012
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MBlume
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Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the waterline
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Morendil
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Point-Based Value Iteration
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royf
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Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)
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Morendil
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The Fabric of Real Things
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)
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Morendil
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Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How To Have Things Correctly
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Alicorn
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Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Causal Reference
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers
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ShannonFriedman
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Now I Appreciate Agency
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ShannonFriedman
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Original Research on Less Wrong
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lukeprog
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Checking Kurzweil's track record
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Proofs, Implications, and Models
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists
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jsteinhardt
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Logical Pinpointing
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Sign up to be notified about new LW meetups in your area
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Louie
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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
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Yvain
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Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity
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Academian
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Rationality Quotes November 2012
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GabrielDuquette
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Checklist of Rationality Habits
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AnnaSalamon
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Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs
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AnnaSalamon
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How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
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lukeprog
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Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity
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wdcrouch
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AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles
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Swimmer963
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Overconfident Pessimism
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lukeprog
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LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
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daenerys
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How minimal is our intelligence?
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Douglas_Reay
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A definition of wireheading
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Anja
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Thoughts on designing policies for oneself
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Causal Universes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way
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lukeprog
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Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't
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lukeprog
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Rationality Quotes December 2012
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Thomas
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LessWrong podcasts
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Louie
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Factions, inequality, and social justice
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
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lukeprog
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2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute
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lukeprog
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2012 Survey Results
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Yvain
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By Which It May Be Judged
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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New Sequences and General Update From Castify
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scott_from_castify
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Why you must maximize expected utility
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Benja
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More Cryonics Probability Estimates
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jkaufman
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Narrative, self-image, and self-communication
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Academian
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Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.
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Raemon
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Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness
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Raemon
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