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Followup to:  No Universally Compelling Arguments, Passing the Recursive Buck, Wrong Questions, A Priori Why do I believe that the Sun wil

Followup to:  Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom In "Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom", I concluded that it's okay to use

Followup to:  The Design Space of Minds-in-General, Ghosts in the Machine, A Priori What is so terrifying about the idea that not every po

Followup to:  Anthropomorphic Optimism Once upon a time there was a strange little species—that might have been biological, or might have

Followup to:  The Mind Projection Fallacy, Variable Question Fallacy I have previously spoken of the ancient, pulp-era magazine covers tha

Followup to:  No Universally Compelling Arguments To those who say "Nothing is real," I once replied, "That's great, but how does the noth

Followup to:  The Moral Void, Joy in the Merely Real, No Universally Compelling Arguments, Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom, The Gi

Followup to:  Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom, Rebelling Within Nature Years ago, Eliezer1999 was convinced that he knew nothing

Followup to:  The Meaning of Right Toby Ord commented: Eliezer,  I've just reread your article and was wondering if this is a good quic

Followup to:  Anthropomorphic Optimism, Superexponential Conceptspace, The Hidden Complexity of Wishes, Unnatural Categories 'We can desi

It occurred to me one day that the standard visualization of the Prisoner's Dilemma is fake. The core of the Prisoner's Dilemma is this sy

Followup to:  Humans in Funny Suits "Mirror neurons" are neurons that are active both when performing an action and observing the same act

Followup to:  Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone), Existential Angst Factory There's a class of prophecy that runs:  "In the Future, mac

Every Utopia ever constructed—in philosophy, fiction, or religion—has been, to one degree or another, a place where you wouldn't actually wa

Followup to:  The Fun Theory Sequence, Fake Fake Utility Functions, Joy in the Merely Good, The Hidden Complexity of Wishes, The Gift We Giv

Followup to:  Thou Art Godshatter, Joy in the Merely Real, Is Morality Given?, Rebelling Within Nature  How, oh how, did an unloving and m