The Best Text­books on Every Subject

Work­ing hurts less than pro­cras­ti­nat­ing, we fear the twinge of starting

The Ne­glected Virtue of Scholarship

Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

Tech­niques for prob­a­bil­ity estimates

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

Simp­son’s Paradox

Statis­ti­cal Pre­dic­tion Rules Out-Perform Ex­pert Hu­man Judgments

My story /​ own­ing one’s reasons

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Meta: A 5 karma re­quire­ment to post in discussion

Hugo Awards—HP:MoR

An Overview of For­mal Episte­mol­ogy (links)

David Chalmers’ “The Sin­gu­lar­ity: A Philo­soph­i­cal Anal­y­sis”

6502 simu­lated—mind up­load­ing for microprocessors

What is Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s meta-eth­i­cal the­ory?

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for A Hu­man’s Guide to Words

My mother is now in cryostasis

Ra­tional Repentance

Short fic about uFAI

Pro­posal: all Ama­zon hy­per­links get Less Wrong’s Ama­zon As­so­ci­ates refer­ral code

Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Ra­tion­al­ist Clue

[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

In­trap­er­sonal negotiation

2011 In­trade fee changes, or, In­trade con­sid­ered no longer use­ful for LessWrongers

A poem for LessWrong

Link: “Top 10 Mis­takes in Be­hav­ior Change”

NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

Is Less Wrong dis­cour­ag­ing less nerdy peo­ple from par­ti­ci­pat­ing?

Be­ing your own censor

The Orange Head Joke

Choose To Be Happy

Freaky unfairness

A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

Pro­posal: Anti-Akra­sia Alliance

Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

Why do some kinds of work not feel like work?

Prob­lem Solv­ing via Polya

How to Grow a Mind (video)

Omega can be re­placed by amnesia

Hyper­links and Less Wrong

Meta: Test

Knowl­edge doesn’t just hap­pen

Aguirre, Teg­mark, Layzer “Cos­molog­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics”

A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”

Kick­ing Akra­sia: Now or Never

Steve Jobs’ med­i­cal leave, riches and longevity