Machine Intelligence Research Institute posts
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Replacing Guilt
In Replacing Guilt, Nate Soares articulates a framework for seeing the world as it is and taking effective action — without putting half your work into beating yourself up.Say you’re a college student, and you have a paper due. The quality of the paper will depend upon the amount of effort you ...
How to Actually Change Your Mind
Download in three formats: EPUB, MOBI, and PDF"I believe that it is right and proper for me, as a human being, to have an interest in the future, and what human civilization becomes in the future. One of those interests is the human pursuit of truth, which has strengthened slowly over the gen...
Map and Territory
Download in three formats: EPUB, MOBI, and PDFIf you live in an urban area, you probably don’t need to walk very far to find a martial arts dojo.Why aren’t there dojos that teach rationality?Very recently—in just the last few decades—the human species has acquired a great deal of new ...
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Download in three formats: EPUB, MOBI, and PDF.When should you think that you may be able to do something Whether you’re trying to outperform in science, or in business, or just in finding good deals shopping on eBay, it’s important that you have a sober understanding of your rela...
