Rationality

Posts on rational thinking, decision theory, and cognitive optimization.

Posts

• Effective Decision Theory
• Intelligence is a Game We Play - Defines “game” against Wittgenstein’s family resemblance critique: **Game = interactive process wher
• Sacred Coherence - Proposes logical coherence as supreme value (“Vulcanism” / Sacred Coherence).
• Defending Bayes, Part 4 - Short post connecting indexical uncertainty (Yudkowsky) with timeline uncertainty.
• Universal Alignment - Comprehensive AI alignment analysis.
• Opportunity Cost - Hidden dimension behind every sacrifice: opportunity cost. Definition: Value of next-best al
• Pancritical Rationalism - Presents William Warren Bartley’s Pancritical Rationalism (PCR) as solution to philosophy’s foundati
• Secular Sacredness - This post argues that secular people have not abandoned sacredness but merely changed its content, e