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model agency, rationality

UDASSA

You are a random sample of short experience-generating strings, and the crazy thing about it is that it's all less crazy than it sounds.

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023anthropics2 Comments
meta, rationality

Monastery and Throne

Thinking about the impact of my writing upon finding out that it may have been much greater than I thought.

April 3, 2021April 7, 2021COVID, politics, social reality16 Comments
rationality

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Rationality is knowing better than to sell your soul for a few dollars, even if you don't believe you have one.

March 11, 2021March 12, 202127 Comments
consciousness and the brain, rationality

Confirmation Bias in Action

Confirmation bias is the biggest obstacle to Rationality, and often the least understood. We need to rethink it through the lens of brains evolved in bodies and made for action, not argument.

January 23, 2021October 26, 2021predictive processing16 Comments
book review, rationality

LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology

Review of the LessWrong 2018 essay collection on epistemology, from how it smells to what it says about the state of the Rationality community in 2020.

December 26, 2020January 15, 20215 Comments
rationality

The Path to Reason

Rationalists did amazingly well with COVID. Will this inspire everyone else to embrace rationality? I see a few obstacles on the way.

October 8, 2020March 31, 202129 Comments
consciousness and the brain, rationality

The Great Annealing

Coronavirus revealed a great crisis of sensemaking, which means it has also created a great opportunity.

March 27, 2020October 26, 2021media, psychedelics, social reality7 Comments
rationality

Seeing the Smoke

Information on the coronavirus is widely available, and it doesn't look positive. So why is everyone waiting for permission to do something about it?

February 27, 2020March 8, 202066 Comments
rationality

Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

It's obvious to some people that Rationality can improve your life, and equally obvious to others that it won't - the latter group includes Daniel Kahneman and Scott Alexander. Who's right? And how would we know?

December 8, 2019February 26, 202015 Comments
love, model agency, rationality

Polyamory is Rational(ist)

Are Rationalists just a polyamory community? And if not, what explains the connection between the two? I dig deep into the data, and reach some unexpected conclusions.

October 16, 2019February 26, 2020polyamory39 Comments
rationality

Thinking Fast and Hard

A cool superpower to have would be the ability to slow subjective time and get a lot of thinking done. In every superhero movie, no matter how fast the protagonists fly or how hard they punch, they always end up within one step of disaster because their planning skills are dogshit. The villain loses not … Continue reading Thinking Fast and Hard

May 7, 2019May 5, 201910 Comments
math class, rationality

Monty Hall in the Wild

Monty Hall isn't just a curious probability puzzle. It's a widely applicable demonstration of Bayesian thinking and rationality.

June 3, 2018November 7, 2019Bayes, statistics12 Comments
rationality

Don’t Believe Wrong Things

Should we believe what is useful to believe over what it true? I attack this question from various angles: wrong "wrongness", murder-Gandhiism, the Gorilla Channel, and fake glasses.

April 23, 2018September 20, 2019fake frameworks, Sequences13 Comments
life, rationality

Internal Diet Crux

Should I keep trying one diet after another or just accept my figure as it is? I let the voices in my head hash it out.

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018CFAR, diet18 Comments
life, rationality

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Should secular liberals try to get in the head of a conservative philosopher of religion? Yes, if it's all in the pursuit of truth.

March 3, 2018March 7, 2018culture war, Peterson21 Comments
rationality

Bad Religion

Is rationality a religion? If so, it's a really crappy one.

April 15, 2017rationality, religion10 Comments
life, love, rationality

How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet)

For the hardest choices we make in life, our gut is not enough. We also need a chart with numbers in it.

March 12, 2017April 13, 2019evaluation matrix51 Comments
hedgehog alert, rationality

Inflated Bubbles

What makes people who hold an extreme opinion think that they represent the majority?

December 23, 2016January 24, 2017biases, bubbles, politics21 Comments
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Climbing the Horseshoe

"Of all the corrupters of moral sentiments, therefore, faction and fanaticism have always been by far the greatest." - Adam Smith

November 23, 2016June 12, 2019horseshoe theory, Moloch, polarization, Trump27 Comments
rationality

This is the way the world… is

Today isn't strange, it's how the world is. It didn't become that way today, we just found out now. So let's deal with this.

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016denial, elections, Trump12 Comments

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