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This post describes an infinite gamble that, under some reasonable assumptions, will motivate people who act to maximize an unbounded utilit

ETA: As stated below, criticizing beliefs is trivial in principle, either they were arrived at with an approximation to Bayes' rule starting

"General Thud! General Thud! Wake up! The aliens have landed. We must surrender!" General Thud's assistant Fred turned on the lights and ope

The standard story when dealing with inclusive fitness in evolutionary arguments is that my sibling's life is worth half of mine and my cous

I highly recommend reading Leadership and Self Deception (Henceforth "L&SD") by the Arbinger Institute (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Boo

At    http://lesswrong.com/lw/ru/the_bedrock_of_fairness/ldy Eliezer mentions two challenges he often gets, "Friendly to who?" and "Oh, so y