Topics I need to discuss

I have discussing quite a few topics on my todo list, and I probably should periodically create short lists of what I haven't discussed. This is one of them.

• Immortality, cloning, and having kids. I don't want to be myself forever...
• The problem of language. "Monkey see. Monkey do." is a completely different paradigm from "Simon says," and "Simon says" is worse.
• Cryonics. I'm in favor, but mostly as signalling.
• Death. If it's not terminal bad, it's instrumental good.
• Error theory. Sort of. God is the tribe personified, and morality is the will of god.
• More error theory. I'm much more sympathetic to the idea of the existence of meta-level claims about morality that are true, than I am about the possibility of the existence of true object-level claims about morality.
• Utilitarianism, now and later. How does the fact that what people value changes over time fit with utilitarianism?
• Utilitarianism: present and future. Trying to optimize future utility is very different from trying to optimize present utility.
• The null hypothesis -- How do we decide which hypothesis is null and is there a better way to do it?
• Privileging the hypothesis. I don't think it's as bad as Eliezer does.
• An alternative to Occam's Razor, genetic algorithms based on modifying existing hypotheses get to start with probability stolen from their parents.
• Everyone is a sociopath with respect to their enemies. Not being a sociopath is just about belonging to some in-group.
• Sometimes I wonder if I'm on the autism spectrum. My approach to morality, the way I review books, and the particular ways I like to approach organization all seem a bit autistic to me. In a good way, I think.
• To be verbs -- are they bad?
• Solomonoff Induction -- is it actually asymptotically optimal?
• Should I seek to be happy?
• Talk about sanity...
• Humor, hyperbole, and sarcasm. Should I try to be funny?
• Slate Star Codex: No arbitrage in social science but plenty in business, even though businesses are subject to much higher selective pressure. Hmm...
• Slate Star Codex on the control group being out of control, and related. How should you update your beliefs as you collect new evidence?
• Time, evidence, and over-fitting. Only predictions provide evidence for the accuracy of a claim. Well, only predictions and explanatory power.
• Time, evidence, and equations. How would you expect physics to be different if we are in a timeless universe versus if we are in a universe where time is relevant?
• Models of science need to include models of scientists.
• An introduction to extreme skepticism.
• Be wary of non-monotonic trends.
• Self-perpetuating phenomena and multi-faceted explanations of major shifts.
• What are reasonable "prior" odds?
• Andy Warhol sponsoring art.
• A quick overview of social history as I understand it.
• Evolution: an introduction to the code I'm writing to test ideas followed up with occasional posts about results.
• Pronouns. Easy reference please. (Let's have more than one pronoun even if we have gender neutral pronouns.)
• Language is an encryption.
• City states have small governments. Empires have big governments.
• I was wrong about Lawful Good and literature. Terry Pratchett totally does it.
• Resource allocation is hard!