Lu­minos­ity (Twilight fan­fic) dis­cus­sion thread

Burn­ing Man Meetup: Bayes Camp

Why is med­i­cal ad­vice all cau­tion and no info?

Min­i­mum com­pu­ta­tion and data re­quire­ments for con­scious­ness.

The Smok­ing Le­sion: A prob­lem for ev­i­den­tial de­ci­sion theory

Who are we?

Jus­tify­ing Induction

Con­scious­ness of simu­la­tions & up­loads: a reductio

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

Trans­parency and Accountability

The Im­por­tance of Self-Doubt

Po­si­tion­ing one­self to make a difference

Tran­shu­man­ism and the de­no­ta­tion-con­no­ta­tion gap

How can we com­pare de­ci­sion the­o­ries?

Other Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

On be­half of phys­i­cal things

What a re­duc­tion of “prob­a­bil­ity” prob­a­bly looks like

Should hu­man­ity give birth to a galac­tic civ­i­liza­tion?

De­sir­able Dis­po­si­tions and Ra­tional Actions

New­comb’s Prob­lem: A prob­lem for Causal De­ci­sion Theories

Kevin T. Kelly’s Ock­ham Effi­ciency Theorem

Statis­ti­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion is ex­ter­nal­ity deliniation

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Public Relations

Why you don’t seek friends dat­ing site style

Prob­lems in evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy

Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

How the ab­strac­tion shield works

An in­tro­duc­tion to de­ci­sion theory

De­ci­sion the­ory ques­tion: Alpha and omega play pa­per scis­sor rock

What a re­duc­tion of “could” could look like

Hu­mor isn’t norm evasion

Should I be­lieve what the SIAI claims?

What should I have for din­ner? (A case study in de­ci­sion mak­ing)

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (2010-2011)

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2010 Less Wrong Meetup

Is it ra­tio­nal to be re­li­gious? Si­mu­la­tions are re­quired for an­swer.

Discrim­i­na­tion: less is more

A Proof of Oc­cam’s Razor

Against Cry­on­ics & For Cost-Effec­tive Charity

Five-minute ra­tio­nal­ity techniques

Open Thread, Au­gust 2010-- part 2

Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations

Two straw men fighting

Why is gen­der equal­ity so rude?

Ex­trater­res­trial pa­per­clip maximizers

Christo­pher Hitchens and Cryonics

Pur­pose­ful­ness on Mars

Why do ‘re­spectable’ women want dead hus­bands?

Agree­able ways to dis­able your children