I went through all my LW posts and gathered the ones that either presented or reminded me of some problem in human rationality.

1. As we become more rational, how do we translate/transfer our old values embodied in the less rational subsystems?

2. How to figure out one's comparative advantage?

3. Meta-ethics. It's hard to be rational if you don't know where your values are supposed to come from.

4. Normative ethics. How much weight to put on altruism? Population ethics. Hedonic vs preference utilitarianism. Moral circle. Etc. It's hard to be rational if you don't know what your values are.

5. Which mental subsystem has one's real values, or how to weigh them.

6. How to handle moral uncertainty? For example should we discount total utilitarianism because we would have made a deal to for total utilitarianism to give up control in this universe?

7. If we apply UDT to humans, what does it actually say in various real-life situations like voting or contributing to x-risk reduction?

8. Does Aumann Agreement apply to humans, and if so how?

9. Meta-philosophy. It's hard to be rational if one doesn't know how to solve philosophical problems related to rationality.

10. It's not clear how selfishness works in UDT, which might be a problem if that's the right decision theory for humans.

11. Bargaining, politics, building alliances, fair division, we still don't know how to apply game theory to a lot of messy real-world problems, especially those involving more than a few people.

12. Reality fluid vs. caring measure. Subjective anticipation. Anthropics in general.

13. What is the nature of rationality, and more generally normativity?

14. What is the right way to handle logical uncertainty, and how does that interact with decision theory, bargaining, and other problems?

Comparing the rate of problems opened vs problems closed, we have so far to go....

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