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Warning: people will be trying to be pessimistic here.  Don't read this if you don't want to be reminded of scary outcomes. Request: if yo

Among my friends interested in rationality, effective altruism, and existential risk reduction, I often hear: "If you want to have a real po

I once asked a room full of about 100 neuroscientists whether willpower depletion was a thing, and there was widespread disagreement with th

Hi all, CFAR is looking for a videographer in the Bay Area to shoot and edit a 1-minute video introducing us.  Do you know anyone? If so, pl

Hello rationality friends!  I have a question that I bet some of you have thought about... I hear lots of people saying that classical coi

If you have friends or family you'd like to get thinking about cosmology and the like, this might be a nice documentary to stir up curiosity

I bet most people here have realized this explicitly or implicitly, but this comment has inspired me to write a short, linkable summary of t

Related to: Cached selves, Why you're stuck in a narrative, The curse of identity Outline: Some back-story, Pondering the mechanics of sel

Hey rationality friends, I just made this FAQ for the credence calibration game.  So if you have people you'd like to introduce to it --- fo

Summary:  People often say that voting is irrational, because the probability of affecting the outcome is so small. But the outcome itself i