Our so­ciety lacks good self-preser­va­tion mechanisms

Jul 12 Bay Area meetup—Han­son, Vas­sar, Yudkowsky

De­bate: Is short term plan­ning in hu­mans due to a short life or due to bias?

Cau­sa­tion as Bias (sort of)

For­mal­ized math: dream vs reality

Recom­mended read­ing for new rationalists

Re­vis­it­ing tor­ture vs. dust specks

Causal­ity does not im­ply correlation

Can self-help be bad for you?

An in­ter­est­ing speed dat­ing study

The Dangers of Par­tial Knowl­edge of the Way: Failing in School

Can chess be a game of luck?

Me­dia bias

The en­emy within

Not Tech­ni­cally Lying

Avoid­ing Failure: Fal­lacy Finding

The Fixed Sum Fallacy

Who do we care about?

Har­ness­ing Your Biases

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—July 2009

Fourth Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ist Meet­ing?

Open Thread: July 2009

Book Re­view: Complications

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

What’s In A Name?

Con­trol­ling your in­ner con­trol circuits

The Great Brain is Lo­cated Externally

Com­ing Out

Re­quests to the Right Ear Are More Suc­cess­ful Than to the Left

Richard Dawk­ins TV—Baloney De­tec­tion Kit video

Lie to me?

Guilt by Association

The Monty Maul Problem

The Do­main of Your Utility Function

Shane Legg on prospect the­ory and com­pu­ta­tional finance

Non­para­met­ric Ethics

ESR’s com­ments on some EY:OB/​LW posts

Cas­cio in The At­lantic, more on cog­ni­tive en­hance­ment as ex­is­ten­tial risk mitigation

Time to See If We Can Ap­ply Any­thing We Have Learned

The Phys­iol­ogy of Willpower

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive democ­racy awe­some­ness hypothesis

Mo­ral­ity is sub­jec­tive prefer­ence, but it can be ob­jec­tively wrong

Ap­plied Picoeconomics

Don’t Count Your Chick­ens...

Be your con­formist, ap­proval seek­ing, self

Ask LessWrong: Hu­man cog­ni­tive en­hance­ment now?

Ra­tion­al­ists lose when oth­ers choose

In­tel­li­gence en­hance­ment as ex­is­ten­tial risk mitigation

The Laws of Magic

The two mean­ings of math­e­mat­i­cal terms