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CFAR workshop with new instructors in Seattle, 6/7-6/11

CFAR is running its first workshop in Seattle! Over the past several months, CFAR has been training a new batch of instructors, including

In memory of Thomas Schelling

This is a linkpost for http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/newsroom/faculty/memory-thomas-schelling

Against utility functions

I think we should stop talking about utility functions. In the context of ethics for humans, anyway. In practice I find utility functions

What resources have increasing marginal utility?

Most resources you might think to amass have decreasing marginal utility: for example, a marginal extra $1,000 means much more to you if you

The January 2013 CFAR workshop: one-year retrospective

About a year ago, I attended my first CFAR workshop and wrote a post about it here. I mentioned in that post that it was too soon for me to

Useful Questions Repository

See also: Boring Advice Repository, Solved Problems Repository, Grad Student Advice Repository, Useful Concepts Repository, Bad Concepts Rep

Evidential Decision Theory, Selection Bias, and Reference Classes

See also: Does Evidential Decision Theory really fail Solomon's Problem?, What's Wrong with Evidential Decision Theory? It seems to me tha

[LINK] Cantor's theorem, the prisoner's dilemma, and the halting problem

I wouldn't normally link to a post from my math blog here, but it concerns a cute interpretation of Cantor's theorem that showed up when I w

[LINK] The Selected Papers Network

John Baez has been writing, here and here, about problems with the academic journal system and a tool that might be a step towards fixing th

Useful Concepts Repository

See also: Boring Advice Repository, Solved Problems Repository, Grad Student Advice Repository I often find that my understanding of the w