Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold

Ex­treme risks: when not to use ex­pected utility

Bet­ter think­ing through ex­pe­ri­en­tial games

The con­tinued mi­suse of the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Gen­er­ous peo­ple cross the street be­fore the beggar

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: Oc­to­ber 2009

Bik­ing Beyond Mad­ness (link)

Trust in the ado­ra­tion of strangers

Why the be­liefs/​val­ues di­chotomy?

Lore Sjöberg’s Life-Hack­ing FAQK

Every­one else prefers laws to values

Short­ness is now a treat­able condition

What do trust and shar­ing do to rep­u­ta­tions?

Near and far skills

Ap­ply­ing Dou­ble Stan­dards to ‘‘Divi­sive’’ Ideas

Lo­cal­ized the­o­ries and con­di­tional complexity

Why will we be ex­tra wrong about AI val­ues?

How does rais­ing aware­ness stop prej­u­dice?

How far can AI jump?

How to think like a quan­tum monadologist

Water­loo, ON, Canada Meetup: 6pm Sun Oct 18 ’09!

In­for­ma­tion the­ory and FOOM

The Shadow Question

Pre­dic­tionBook.com—Track your calibration

We’re in dan­ger. I must tell the oth­ers...

BHTV: Eliezer Yud­kowsky and An­drew Gelman

Quan­tify­ing eth­i­cal­ity of hu­man actions

The power of in­for­ma­tion?

An­ti­ci­pa­tion vs. Faith: At What Cost Ra­tion­al­ity?

Do the ‘un­lucky’ sys­tem­at­i­cally un­der­es­ti­mate high-var­i­ance strate­gies?

What Pro­gram Are You?

Link: PRISMs, Gom Jab­bars, and Con­scious­ness (Peter Watts)

The Ar­gu­ment from Wit­ness Testimony

How to get that Friendly Sin­gu­lar­ity: a minor­ity view

I’m Not Say­ing Peo­ple Are Stupid

LW Meetup Google Calendar

Bos­ton Area Less Wrong Meetup: 2 pm Sun­day Oc­to­ber 11th

New Haven/​Yale Less Wrong Meetup: 5 pm, Mon­day Oc­to­ber 12

Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

The First Step is to Ad­mit That You Have a Problem

The Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher’s Pre­sump­tu­ous Friend

Don’t Think Too Hard.

Dy­ing Outside

When Willpower Attacks

‘oy, girls on lw, want to get to­gether some time?’

Scott Aaron­son on Born Probabilities

Dom­i­nant char­ac­ters on the left

Are you a Demo­crat sin­gle­to­nian, or a Repub­li­can sin­gle­to­nian?

Why Don’t We Ap­ply What We Know About Twins to Every­body Else?

Open Thread: Oc­to­ber 2009