Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: June 2010

Open Thread: June 2010

Seven Shiny Stories

Cul­ti­vat­ing our own gardens

Lon­don UK, Satur­day 2010-07-03: “How to think ra­tio­nally about the fu­ture”

On Less Wrong traf­fic and new users—and how you can help

Nega­tive pho­ton num­bers observed

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Sig­nifi­cance of Com­pres­sion Rate Method

Com­post­ing fruitless debates

Asperg­ers Sur­vey Re-results

Think­ing makes for a bet­ter chase

This is your brain on ambiguity

Beyond Op­ti­miza­tion by Proxy

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread

Ab­nor­mal Cryonics

On En­joy­ing Disagree­able Company

Shock Level 5: Big Wor­lds and Mo­dal Realism

I’m be­hind my eyes

LessWrong meetup, Lon­don UK, 2010-06-06 16:00

30th Soar workshop

Link: Strong Inference

Why is re­duc­tion­ism rude?

To sig­nal effec­tively, use a non-hu­man, non-stop­pable enforcer

LessWrong down­time 2010-05-11, and other re­cent out­ages and instability

Tak­ing the awk­ward­ness out of a Prenup—A Game The­o­retic solution

The Tragedy of the So­cial Episte­mol­ogy Commons

Chicago Meetup

Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2

Devel­op­ment of Com­pres­sion Rate Method

Another way to look at consciousness

Sum­mer vs Win­ter Strategies

Blame Theory

Backchain­ing causes wish­ful thinking

Phys­i­cal­ism: con­scious­ness as the last sense

What is Wei Dai’s Up­date­less De­ci­sion The­ory?

Be a Visit­ing Fel­low at the Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

Mul­ti­ple Choice

Test on AWS

Pre­face to a Pro­posal for a New Mode of Inquiry

Ex­plana­tory nor­mal­ity fallacy

The Math of When to Self-Improve

Study: En­courag­ing Obe­di­ence Con­sid­ered Harmful

The So­cial Co­pro­ces­sor Model

Bay Area Less­wrong Meet up Sun­day May 16

Cam­bridge Less Wrong meetup this Sun­day, May 16

Blue- and Yel­low-Tinted Choices

Up­dat­ing, part 1: When can you change your mind? The bi­nary model

Asperg­ers Poll Re­sults: LW is nerdier than the Math Olympiad?

Interview