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"Flinching away from truth” is often about protecting the epistemology

Related to: Leave a line of retreat; Categorizing has consequences. There’s a story I like, about this little kid who wants to be a writer

Further discussion of CFAR’s focus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neutrality”

Follow-up to: - CFAR's new focus, and AI safety - CFAR's new mission statement (link post; links to our website). In the days since we p

CFAR's new mission statement (on our website)

This is a linkpost for http://www.rationality.org/about/mission

CFAR’s new focus, and AI Safety

A bit about our last few months: - We’ve been working on getting a simple clear mission and an organization that actually works. We think

On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

Epistemic status: My actual best bet. But I used to think differently; and I don't know how to fully explicate the updating I did (I'm not

Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety

CFAR will be running several free summer programs this summer which are currently taking applications. Please apply if you’re interested, a

Consider having sparse insides

It's easier to seek true beliefs if you keep your (epistemic) identity small. (E.g., if you avoid beliefs like "I am a democrat", and say on

The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed

Related to: Half-assing it with everything you've got; Wasted motion; Say it Loud. Once upon a time (true story), I was on my way to a hot

Why CFAR's Mission?

Related to: - Our 2015 Fundraiser; Why CFAR? The view from 2015; Critch's "The 2015 x-risk ecosystem". Briefly put, CFAR's mission is to

Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

(This post was collaboratively written together with Duncan Sabien.) Startup founders stereotypically experience some pretty serious m