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I'll keep this quick: In general, the problem presented by the Mugging is this: As we examine the utility of a given act for each possible

I'm interested in how easy it would be to simulate just one present-day person's life rather than an entire planet's worth of people. Curren

I recently realized that, encouraged by LessWrong, I had been using a heuristic in my philosophical reasoning that I now think is suspect. I

I play Starcraft:BW sometimes with my brothers. One of my brothers is much better than the rest of us combined. This story is typical: In a

I am about to graduate from one of the only universities in the world that has a high concentration of high-caliber analytic philosophers wh

This post is to raise a question about the demographics of rationality: Is rationality something that can appeal to low-IQ people as well?