Cal­ibrate your self-assessments

Things you are sup­posed to like

How to un­der­stand peo­ple bet­ter

A sig­nal­ing the­ory of class x poli­tics interaction

Bet­ter Disagreement

Rhetoric for the Good

Anti-akra­sia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds

On the Open­ness per­son­al­ity trait & ‘ra­tio­nal­ity’

1001 Pre­dic­tionBook Nights

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons Learned from Ir­ra­tional Ad­ven­tures in Romance

A few analo­gies to illus­trate key ra­tio­nal­ity points

Over­com­ing the Curse of Knowledge

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: Look­ing At Progress On C. elgans

[FICTION] Ham­let and the Philoso­pher’s Stone

So­cial sta­tus & testosterone

Get geno­typed for free ( If your IQ is high enough)

Amanda Knox: post mortem

Ra­tion­al­ity Drugs

On self-deception

11 Less Wrong Ar­ti­cles I Prob­a­bly Will Never Have Time to Write

Re­view of Kah­ne­man, ‘Think­ing, Fast and Slow’ (2011)

[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

[LINK] Be­ing proven wrong is like win­ning the lot­tery

Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­scious Access

Dis­abil­ity Cul­ture Meets the Tran­shu­man­ist Condition

Knox and Sol­lecito freed

Satis­ficers want to be­come maximisers

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

Vasili Arkhipov Day

Cry­on­ics on Cas­tle [Spoilers]

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

Re­view of Lakoff & John­son, ‘Philos­o­phy in the Flesh’

Let Your Work­ers Gather Food

5 Se­cond Level: Sub­sti­tut­ing the Question

Not By Em­pa­thy Alone

Don’t call your­self a ra­tio­nal­ist.

Mo­ti­vated skep­ti­cism: it’s harder to avoid than I’d think

A Ra­tional Ap­proach to Fashion

Ger­ald Jay Suss­man talk on new ideas about mod­el­ing computation

[LINK] Loss of lo­cal knowl­edge af­fect­ing in­tel­lec­tual trends

The Pro­tag­o­nist Problem

First, they must be con­vinced to play the game

Prize for the best in­tro­duc­tion to the LessWrong source ($250)

Mike Dar­win on Kurzweil, Techno-Op­ti­mism, and Delu­sional Stances on Cryonics

[Link] Awe­some in­ter­ac­tive vi­su­al­iza­tion article

Con­ver­sa­tion as so­cial groom­ing – a ra­tio­nal­ity prob­lem?

Help needed: Ger­man trans­la­tion of the Sin­gu­lar­ity FAQ

How to Build Your Post

Don’t ban chimp testing

The Plea­sures of Rationality