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blue rat

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Will the next pope think gay sex is a sin?

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Which beliefs are the most rationalist?

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Will there be another Jan 6th if Trump loses the election?

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Will I think jury nullification occured in the Luigi Mangione case?

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Will America have 700 mass shootings in 2023?

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Will the NFC team win the 2023 Super Bowl coin toss?

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If I run my trades past Claude 3.5 before I bet will my all time profit hit 0 before the end of the month?

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Who will be awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2023

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will flightaware.com report the plane that is scheduled to leave TLV at 11:10 pm IST Monday landed at EWR before 4 am EST Tuesday?

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If someone does statistical analysis on manifold markets ability to predict things, will I be impressed by the accuracy?

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will I see all the pitch black products in stores before the limited time offer ends?

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Will the World Mission Society Church of god still exist 20 years after the death of Zahng Gil-jah?

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I am smarter than most people.

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I personally try to do whatever I can in order to make better decisions

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you should never be 100% confident of any belief

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learning about common biases and trying to account for them in yourself can help one to make better decisions

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Rationality is the art of winning; if there's a behavior you think is rational, but it tends to lose, you're not actu...

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The probability that AI destroys humanity or causes incredible suffering before 2100 is >5%.

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I would be very happy if Eliezer Yudkowsky was president

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Did you get the "Which is heavier: 20 pounds of bricks or 20 feathers?" question right on the first try?

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most people are too often overconfident that they know what someone else is trying to say. It can be helpful in discu...

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everyone should do what they can in order to make better decisions

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studying economics can help one to make better decisions

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beliefs which do not influence future predictions (ie. ones that can only explain things in retrospect or ones that d...

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Least Convenient Possible World: LGBTQ Rights or Economic Stability?

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It is important to vet beliefs such that your beliefs will be true and you will not hold beliefs that are false.

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Consequentialism and deontology are not at odds. Use deontology because it's easier to work with on a daily basis; us...

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"The Sequences" are worth reading in their entirety

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an intuitive understanding of bayes' theorem can help one to make better decisions

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studying game theory can help one to make better decisions

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I would be very happy if Scott Alexander was president

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one should change their beliefs when presented with new information.

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it's important to distinguish between your model of reality and reality itself

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we are prone to "become attached to beliefs we may not want", but we can take explicit reasoning steps to mitigate this

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Emotions are bad and dumb. Smart people try to ignore them.

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