Re­act­ing to Inad­e­quate Data

De­cem­ber 2009 Meta Thread

An ac­count of what I be­lieve to be in­con­sis­tent be­hav­ior on the part of our editor

Philadelphia LessWrong Meetup, De­cem­ber 16th

Get­ting Over Dust Theory

Re­bas­ing Ethics

Man-with-a-ham­mer syndrome

Pre­vi­ous Post Revised

Against pick­ing up pennies

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the In­ter­net Beats a Year in the Courtroom

A ques­tion of rationality

The per­sua­sive power of false confessions

What Are Prob­a­bil­ities, Any­way?

Prob­a­bil­ity Space & Au­mann Agreement

You Be the Jury: Sur­vey on a Cur­rent Event

Science—Ideal­is­tic Ver­sus Signaling

Para­psy­chol­ogy: the con­trol group for science

Noth­ing to see here

Ar­bi­trage of pre­dic­tion markets

Fre­quen­tist Statis­tics are Fre­quently Subjective

In­tu­itive su­per­goal uncertainty

Help Roko be­come a bet­ter ra­tio­nal­ist!

11 core ra­tio­nal­ist skills

The Differ­ence Between Utility and Utility

Open Thread: De­cem­ber 2009

Why do apho­risms and cyn­i­cism go to­gether?

Call for new SIAI Visit­ing Fel­lows, on a rol­ling basis

The Mo­ral Sta­tus of In­de­pen­dent Iden­ti­cal Copies

Ac­tion vs. inaction

Mo­ral­ity and In­ter­na­tional Hu­man­i­tar­ian Law

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2009

A Night­mare for Eliezer

Ex­tremes of re­li­a­bil­ity and zealotry

Root­ing Hard for Over­priced M&Ms

Get­ting Feed­back by Restrict­ing Content

Why eval­u­ate ev­ery­thing ASAP?

Con­trar­i­anism and refer­ence class forecasting

Do what your par­ents say?

Agree, Re­tort, or Ig­nore? A Post From the Future

How to test your men­tal perfor­mance at the mo­ment?

In con­clu­sion: in the land be­yond money pumps lie ex­treme events

Ra­tional lies

Fried­man on Utility

Cal­ibra­tion for con­tin­u­ous quantities

The One That Isn’t There

Re­quest For Ar­ti­cle: Many-Wor­lds Quan­tum Computing

Why is poor com­mu­ni­ca­tion pop­u­lar?

A Less Wrong sin­gu­lar­ity ar­ti­cle?

Effi­cient pres­tige hypothesis

Why (and why not) Bayesian Up­dat­ing?