Simp­son’s Paradox

Scott Sum­ner on Utility vs Hap­piness [Link]

NYC Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy Post-Game Discussion

Link: why train­ing a.i. isn’t like train­ing your pets

Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

Reach­ing The Stars Is Easy [Videos]

Freaky unfairness

Link: NY Times cov­ers Bayesian statistics

The Math­e­mat­ics of Beauty [link]

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

VIDEO: The Prob­lem With Anecdotes

NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

Con­vinc­ing ET of our rationality

Pop­u­la­tion ethics and per­sonal identity

Alter­nate Sleep Schedules

Are com­mit­ted truth­seek­ers lone­lier?

Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

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

Does Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory re­ally fail Solomon’s Prob­lem?

Non-triv­ial prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions for pri­ors and Oc­cam’s razor

Less Wrong fan­fic­tion suggestion

LINK: Bayesian statis­tics is so sub­ver­sive, it’s banned in China!

Spread­sheet-based tool for track­ing time

The Un­pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Deon­tolog­i­cal De­ci­sion The­ory and The Solu­tion to Morality

Open Thread, Jan­uary 2011

Bayesi­anism ver­sus Crit­i­cal Rationalism

A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for A Hu­man’s Guide to Words

A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

Sleep­ing Beauty should re­main pure

Lon­don meetup, Shake­speare’s Head, Sun­day 2011-03-06 14:00

Brand­ing Biodiversity

Se­cond Life cre­ators to at­tempt to cre­ate AI

Meetup or­ga­niz­ing query & a rally for Minnesotans

Is there a way to quan­tify the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Per­son1′s Map and Per­son2′s Map?

Fem­i­ninity can’t be that bad

Is there any­thing af­ter death?

Could mar­kets be called op­ti­miza­tion proc­cesses?

The or­der of learn­ing things (gen­eral to spe­cific vs. spe­cific to gen­eral)

How do you use the phrase “free will”?

My mother is now in cryostasis

gen­er­al­ized n-cat­e­gories?

Be­ing your own censor

Kas­parov in­ter­view

6502 simu­lated—mind up­load­ing for microprocessors

I

The Trickle-Down Effect of Good Communities

Link: “When Science Goes Psy­chic”

Ra­tion­al­ist Clue