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People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words.  They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words.  In this t

I have several rough drafts of things I'd like to post to Less Wrong.  The one I'm currently working on is about Solomonoff Induction.  I se

This is a discussion thread about applied rationality. In the comments, please explain an actual problem you have in your life you want to

I recently wanted to keep track of my income and expenses, in a cost-sensitive way.  I am not very good at treating money as a real object,

Nick Bostrom recently posted the article "Information Hazards", which is about the myriad of ways in which information can harm us. You ca

I am writing a program to estimate someone's utility function in various common situations.  My primary application is to find out how avera

While pondering the AI box problem, I tend to mentally "play" both sides, checking if there are any arguments that could convince me to let