Meteuphoric
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- 492 from 15 Jul 2007 to 21 May 2026
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2026 20
- Why are people so scared of causing fear?
- Numb mental state shifts
- Games that change your mind
- Understand why AI is a doom-risk in 39 captivating minutes
- 11 ways to be less deferential
- Talking to journalists
- Is there an acceptable way to store clothes?
- Orgs: unreasonable boyfriend as service
- When will AI surpass us at being limited?
- Missing markets in executive function
- The salad market mystery
- AI risk was not invested by AI CEOs to hype their companies
- Vibe signaling externalities and the people-to-places pipeline
- How much should the ideal person cry wolf?
- AI unemployment and AI extinction are often the same
- Eggs, rooms, puzzles, and talking about AI
- We can prevent progress! Conceptual clarity, and inspiration from the FDA
- AI as a Trojan horse race
- How I love running
- An easy coordination problem?
2025 4
2024 19
- Secondary forces of debt
- Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists
- What if a tech company forced you to move to NYC?
- Podcast: Center for AI Policy, on AI risk and listening to AI researchers
- Podcast: Eye4AI on 2023 Survey
- An explanation of evil in an organized world
- The first future and the best future
- Experiment on repeating choices
- Mid-conditional love
- Partial value takeover without world takeover
- New social credit formalizations
- Movie posters
- Are we so good to simulate?
- Shaming with and without naming
- Deep and obvious points in the gap between your thoughts and your pictures of thought
- Shaming with and without naming
- I put odds on ends with Nathan Young
- Parasocial relationship logic
- Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures
2023 4
2022 7
2021 6
2020 13
- Opposite attractions
- What is it good for? But actually?
- Unexplored modes of language
- Why are delicious biscuits obscure?
- Cultural accumulation
- Cultural accumulation
- Misalignment and misuse: whose values are manifest?
- Tweet markets for impersonal truth tracking?
- Automated intelligence is not AI
- Whence the symptoms of social media?
- But what kinds of puppets are we?
- Yet another world spirit sock puppet
- The bads of ads
2019 13
- Pieces of time
- Ethical experimentation
- For the metaphors
- Self policing for self doubt
- Personal quality experimentation
- Normative reductionism
- Total horse takeover
- Politics is work and work needs breaks
- Skill and leverage
- But exactly how complex and fragile?
- Doing things in a populated world
- Halloween
- Strong stances
2018 10
- Worth keeping
- Are ethical asymmetries from property rights?
- Personal relationships with goodness
- Realistic thought experiments
- The fundamental complementarity of consciousness and work
- Strengthening the foundations under the Overton Window without moving it
- Person-moment affecting views
- Replacing expensive costly signals
- The Principled Intelligence Hypothesis
- Why everything might have taken so long
2017 23
- Why did everything take so long?
- Rules of variety
- Multidimensional signaling
- Signal seeding
- Prosocial manipulation
- For signaling? (Part I)
- Impression track records
- What you can’t say to a sympathetic ear
- Critiquing other people’s plans politely
- Be my neighbor
- Anecdotal panic prevention strategies
- Who watches?
- Bad arguments as evidence
- Self-fulfilling values of time
- Threat erosion
- Being useless to show effectiveness
- Philosophical love poetry
- Selective social policing
- Effective diversity
- Tragedy of the free time commons
- Fear or fear?
- Want like want want
- Why read old philosophy?
2016 42
- Making nothing out of a big deal
- Experience diets
- “San Francisco and so forth”
- Clusters in creationspace
- Unifying stuff is hard
- Slaves to fashion signaling
- The Tower of Babble
- Price dikes
- Do whole lines hold the line against holding up the line?
- Content warning: death
- Effective altruisms large and small
- Reverse lotteries with friends
- Two kinds of responses
- On using computers as brains and brains as computers
- Iterating hurt
- On liking things about crushes
- Hiding misinformation in meanings
- Shame as low verbal justification alarm
- Reputation bets
- Good intuitions
- Ethicists should look less ethical
- Aisle seat theorizing
- Anecdotal uncertainty of pain
- Therapy and materialistic accounts of behavior
- Mistakes #6: Identifying reality slowly
- Research immersiveness
- Why would I want a female role model?
- Acquiring common human skills
- Vote on values
- Evidence on why abstract research is or isn’t respected
- Effective hypocrisy?
- Mistakes #5: Blinded by winning
- Moral progress enhancement
- Why are humans soft?
- The meaningful action treadmill
- Recommend what the customer wants
- The escape duty
- Meteuphoric games
- Start taking drugs randomly
- Why is effective altruism new and obvious?
- Commitments and affordances
- How do we know our own desires?
2015 21
- EA as offsetting
- Social games
- Friendship is utilitarian
- Too late for the easy solutions
- One misuse of the efficient Katja hypothesis
- Mental minimalism
- Wanting the destination in a journey-based community
- Non-existent markets in everything: anecdotes
- Mistakes #4: breaking Chesterton’s fence in the presence of bull
- Misunderstandings of not understanding
- Mistakes I’ve made part 3: Poor sacrificial accounting
- Mistakes I’ve made, part 2: Father Christmas
- Mistakes I’ve made, part 1: greedy altruism
- Why are track records unpopular?
- Dance dance evaluation
- Why do all the considerations point the same way?
- Socially optimal weirdness
- How to pay for lives to be worth living
- For whom should recommendations be effective?
- The economy of weirdness
- AI Impacts
2014 29
- When should an Effective Altruist be vegetarian?
- Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh on FHI and CSER
- Robert Wiblin on the Copenhagen Consensus Center
- Alexander Berger on GiveWell Labs
- Gordon Irlam on the BEGuide
- AI: is research like board games or seeing?
- Discontinuous paths
- High ulterior motives
- AI surprise research: high value?
- Conversation with Paul Penley of Excellence in Giving
- Shallow investigation into cause prioritization
- Announcement: Superintelligence reading group
- Conversation with Paul Christiano on Cause Prioritization Research
- Imaginary queues
- Owen Cotton-Barratt on GPP
- Doing good in a very noisy world
- Intuitions and utilitarianism
- Reminders without times
- Should altruists pay for profitable things?
- How to buy a truth from a liar
- Why would info worsen altruistic options?
- Setting an example too good
- Doubt regarding basic assumptions
- Does increasing peak typing speed help?
- Intelligence Amplification Interview
- How to trade money and time
- Meta-error: I like therefore I am
- Interview with Cool Earth
- New website contents
2013 47
- Discussions for information
- In praise of pretending to really try
- Ethical Intuitionism, part 1
- Research on climate organizations
- Probabilistic self-defeat arguments
- The future of values 2: explicit vs. implicit
- The future of values
- Which stage of effectiveness matters most?
- Why would evolution favor more bad?
- Writers as scientists
- Obvious points
- The landscape of altruistic interventions
- High level climate intervention considerations
- An illicit theory of costly signaling
- An unusual counterargument
- Effectiveness or altruism?
- Economic growth and parallelization of work
- Failure in the marketplace of ideas
- Wasteful qualifiers
- What celebration is
- Weirdos and foreigners
- When seeing X suggests ‘generally ¬X’
- Personal experimentation: summary
- What motivates cognition?
- Personal experimentation: I’m wrong?
- Personal experimentation: context specific?
- Personal experimentation: not shared?
- Personal experiments: fueled by innovation?
- Personal experiments: for the unusual?
- Why personal experimentation?
- More signaling
- Filters and bottlenecks
- Can a tiny bit of noise destroy communication?
- Could risk aversion be from friend thresholds?
- Why underestimate acceptable partners?
- The value of time as a student
- The transitivity of trust
- Rude research
- Significance and motivation
- How to motivate women to speak up
- Signaling bias in philosophical intuition
- Surplus splitting strategy
- On the goodness of Beeminder
- Grace-Hanson Podcast
- Disorganized collection growth
- Ethical heuristics
- Robot ethics returns
2012 23
- Responsibility and clicking
- Fragmented status doesn’t help
- Your existence is informative
- Resolving Paradoxes of Intuition
- Moving blogs
- Do strange scenarios help us ask why not?
- Podcasts with Robin Hanson 3
- A scene I once saw
- More convergent instrumental goals
- Updated blog summary
- Epistemology of evilness
- Value realism
- Too obvious to say
- Explanations of mathematical explanation
- Mountain View Meetup
- Want to meet?
- Katla on Katja
- Are we infantile introspectors?
- The appeal of fictional conflict
- Suspicious arguments regarding cow counting
- Is it obvious that pain is very important?
- Defense theory of diversified giving
- Motivation on the margin of saving the world
2011 61
- Affecting everything
- On avoiding evidence
- Laughing strategy
- Drinking to lower standards?
- What’s wrong with advertising?
- Whether to care about the desires of the dead
- Repression in the age of human enhancement
- Podcasts with Robin Hanson 2
- Stop blaming efficiency
- Reasons for Persons
- Romantic efficiency
- Can’t buy me instant gratification
- How you will change the world
- In defence of ignorant thinking
- Why we love unimportant things
- Hidden motives or innocent failure?
- When to explain
- What to not know
- One-on-one charity
- What ‘believing’ usually is
- Leaving out the dead
- Taking chances with dinner
- Cheap signaling
- How much do you really love the internet?
- Podcast with Robin Hanson
- New York Meetup
- How to inflict huge costs kindly
- How much do pictures matter?
- Mediocre masses are not what’s repugnant
- Temporal allies and spatial rivals
- Hidden philosophical progress
- Is it repugnant?
- When not to know?
- Signaling for a cause
- Dirty old men and greedy young women
- On the Anthropic Trilemma
- Missing magic
- More anthropic warnings at H+
- Satisfying preferences by creating them
- Compare the unconceived – don’t unchain them
- Advice to aspiring undergraduates
- How thoroughly do you research your dreams?
- Why death for oneself, suffering for others?
- Person moments make sense of anthropics
- How to talk to yourself
- Don’t warn nonspecifically!
- If ‘birth’ is worth nothing, births are worth anything
- Agreement on anthropics
- Katla on death as entertainment
- Why are promisers innocent?
- I am anti-awareness and you should be too
- Does SI make everyone look like swimsuit models?
- Is science the worst field for learning science in?
- Why can’t a man be more like a woman?
- Where are the big questions?
- Matching game
- My novel opinions
- Population ethics and personal identity
- The Unpresumptuous Philosopher
- Sleeping Beauty should remain pure
- Femininity can’t be that bad
2010 76
- Where is your moral thermostat?
- Estimation is the best we have
- Does anti-discrimination look like discrimination?
- Why focus on making robots nice?
- SIA and the Two Dimensional Doomsday Argument
- SIA says AI is no big threat
- Know thyself vs. know one another
- Light cone eating AI explosions are not filters
- Anthropic principles agree on bigger future filters
- When is investment procrastination?
- Meet science: rationalizing evidence to save beliefs
- Poverty does not respond to incentives
- Nothing wastes resources like saving them
- Popular morality: spare those on the left
- Perfect procrastination
- I don’t clean because the house is never dirty
- Ignorance of non-existent preferences
- My plans
- Why is medical advice all caution and no info?
- Who are we?
- On behalf of physical things
- Statistical discrimination is externality deliniation
- Why you don’t seek friends dating site style
- How the abstraction shield works
- Humor isn’t norm evasion
- Discrimination: less is more
- Why is gender equality so rude?
- Why do ‘respectable’ women want dead husbands?
- Agreeable ways to disable your children
- Is cryonicists’ selfishness distance induced?
- Are meaningful careers a cover story?
- You might be population too
- Heuristics for a good life
- Thinking makes for a better chase
- I’m behind my eyes
- Why is reductionism rude?
- Explanatory normality fallacy
- Interview
- Not Mothers’ Day
- Why not fake height?
- Moving marginal mothers
- Experiences are friends
- Connotations are indelible
- Enjoy ≠ want, but why should wants submit?
- Why is bad teaching attached to uni certification?
- Who observes being you, and do they cheat in SIA?
- Anthropic summary
- Systems and stories
- Might law save us from uncaring AI?
- When is forced organ selfishness good for you?
- How does information affect hookups?
- SIA on other minds
- SIA doomsday: The filter is ahead
- Addiction
- Trade makes you responsible, but why?
- Divide individuals for utilitarian libertarianism
- Fictitious sentiments
- Dignity
- Doers or doings?
- Limited kindness is unappreciated
- ‘Cheap’ goals won’t explode intelligence
- How does Facebook make overt self obsession ok?
- Philosophy of mind review
- Paternity tests endanger the unborn
- Being useless to express care
- Who are you?
- More stuff
- Why are obvious meanings veiled?
- Why does failed indulgence cause guilt?
- Intergenerational inequality
- Does it look like it’s all about happiness?
- Treat conspicuous consumption like hard nipples?
- Why are wine competitions unpredictable?
- Advertise while honoring the dead
- A status theory of blog commentary
- Perfect principles are for bargaining
2009 52
- Nothing to see here
- Why do aphorisms and cynicism go together?
- Extremes of reliability and zealotry
- Why evaluate everything ASAP?
- Do what your parents say?
- Why is poor communication popular?
- Why you should listen to your heart
- Respond to flying like dying?
- Unpromising promise?
- Protect the seemingly useless
- Externalizing between conformers
- Determinism is not blame-free
- Why are fictional inventors anti-trade?
- Romantic idealism: true love conquers almost all
- Choose pain-free utilitarianism
- Choosing the right amount of choice
- Natural cultural relativists?
- What is hope?
- Generous people cross the street before the beggar
- Trust in the adoration of strangers
- Everyone else prefers laws to values
- What do trust and sharing do to reputations?
- Why will we be extra wrong about AI values?
- How does raising awareness stop prejudice?
- How far can AI jump?
- Dominant characters on the left
- ‘Clearly’ covers murky thought
- Why do animal lovers want animals to feel pain?
- Charitable explanation
- Subconscious stalking?
- Freedom is slavery
- The puzzle continues
- Do fetching models stave off shallowness?
- Value for money kills?
- Is your subconscious communist?
- Mistakes with nonexistent people
- Are abortion views sexist?
- Markets marketed better
- Meteuphoric
- Murder
- Obviousness is not what it seems
- Old blog
- Who do we care about?
- Morality is subjective preference, but it can be objectively wrong
- Be your conformist, approval seeking, self
- Explain explanations for choosing by choice
- A puzzle
- Obvious identity fail
- Constrained talk on free speech
- Romance is magical
- The origins of virtue
- Repeated thought
2008 10
2007 12
- Why aren’t our property rights over one another more transferable?
- Corporate ecology
- Drawing lines and tigers
- A way to be more open minded (an experimental thought)
- Some half-serious, half-formed thoughts on existing and so on
- Probability is the oil of rationalisation
- Is outdoing monkeys while imagining free will the only way you can feel like a man?
- So much for the factual public debate that democracies completely fail to be built on
- Markets are a kind of electrochemical cell
- Who needs democracy, free speech and all that rubbish when you can prescribe the values of your citizens?
- God is irrelevant
- Free will isn’t a concept (unless you mean determinism)