Go and look
Almost everything we argue about has a number in it; almost every number we have is a proxy
A model of human nature
Every political philosophy is a bet on it — and its width matters more than its centre
Designing behind the veil
How to choose institutions when you don't know what people will want
Agency as the candidate objective
Deriving a social utility function from four toy worlds
Tradition and Change
Why We Need Both Conservatism and Progressiveness
Hate is a strong word
On bullies and escape
Loud
Silence Like a Cancer Grows
The Satiated King
A Man Who Had Everything, Except Failure
The Napkin Solution
Solved, but not implemented
Beyond Earning to Give
The EA Road to AI
The Unfair Lottery
and the Duty to Spend Your Luck
What is Capitalism at its Core?
A Steelman of the Four Beliefs That Shape Our World
The Utility of Stories
and the limits of our imagination
Freedom-Adjusted Life Years
Are We Solving the Right Problems?
The Clockwork Mind
The strange paradox of free-will
A Market for 'Truth'
Using Bets to Find a Shared Truth
The Price of Belief
Deriving Probability from Rationality
Entropism
The Universe's Burning Ambition
Affirmative Action's Simplistic Approach
Using a 1-Dimensional Solution for a Multi-Dimensional Problem
Every Bias Names an Algorithm
Bounded reasoners trade accuracy for efficiency in three places, and each trade leaves its own fingerprint
Luck vs skill in poker and life
Why does poker have many rounds?
Life as a minority
How can you prove anthopogenic global warming?
An individual cannot.
What makes something true?
How does deductive truth (ie math) relate to inductive truth (ie science)?
Youth and truth
I struggled with 'reality'...
Adversarial collaboration contest
Let's have a tolerant debate
Being open minded
Let's take turns reading books
Automated science
Model-based reinforcement learning, symbolic AI, and the limits of efficient learning.
Needing purpose
Humble
A tribute to Carl Sagan and to science.
People are shit
I am a person.
Karma and merit
They deserve it
Right beliefs, wrong reasons
It occured to me that my belief in evolution was just as illogical as others belief in god.
Dope, I am addicted?