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Closely related to: How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? Consider the following thought experiment. At the start, an "original" coin is toss

There is a standard argument against diversification of donations, popularly explained by Steven Landsburg in the essay Giving Your All. Thi

This post describes a different (less agent-centric) way of looking at UDT-like decision theories that resolves some aspects of the long-sta

This post collects a few situations where agents might want to make their decisions either predictable or unpredictable to certain methods o

Related to: Which Parts Are "Me"?, Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy, The 5-Second Level. What's damaging about moralizing that w

I wrote a greasemonkey script that fixes the problem with Karma bubble that prevents you from seeing the last digits of Karma for big Karma

Consider the following thought experiment ("Counterfactual Calculation"): You are taking a test, which includes a question: "Is Q an even

I feel that the term "rationalism", as opposed to "rationality", or "study of rationality", has undesirable connotations. My concerns are pr

Keep in mind: Controlling Constant Programs, Notion of Preference in Ambient Control. There is a reasonable game-theoretic heuristic, "don

Thought experiments involving multiple agents usually postulate that the agents have no moral value, so that the explicitly specified payoff