Editorial text isn't very interesting; they call for descriptive statistics and don't recommend any particular analysis.
'MIRI' works in the search field when electing a charity to get 0.5% of your https://smile.amazon.com purchases.
Has anyone read "How We Reason" by Philip Johnson-Laird? He and others in his field (the "model theory" of psychology/cognitive science) claim that their studies refute the naive claim that human brains often operate in terms of logic or Bayesian reasoning (probablistic logic). I gather they'd say that we are...
Adam Alter lists some evidence from people who study the effects of "disfluency" (unfamiliarity, or lack of clarity), which somewhat surprisingly leads to greater depth of thought (while you're expending the energy to understand something, you can't help but think about it), and also a willingness to depart further from...
How many people feel despair in imagining a heaven (positive singularity) that they'll miss out on if they don't survive long enough? I don't think about it, but I already have plenty of reasons to like being alive.
> In Copenhagen the summer before last, I shared a taxi with a man who thought his chance of dying in an artificial intelligence-related accident was as high as that of heart disease or cancer. No surprise if he’d been the driver, perhaps (never tell a taxi driver that you’re...
Three Toed Sloth has a nice exposition on the difficulties of optimizing an economy, including the best explanation of convex optimization ever: > If plan A calls for 10,000 diapers and 2,000 towels, and plan B calls for 2,000 diapers and 10,000 towels, we could do half of plan A...