Why would we think artists perform bet­ter on drugs ?

[Re­quest] Feed­back on my Writing

[SEQ RERUN] The Sim­ple Math of Everything

[LINK] Be­ing proven wrong is like win­ning the lot­tery

[SEQ RERUN] No Evolu­tions for Cor­po­ra­tions or Nanodevices

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: Look­ing At Progress On C. elgans

Help needed: Ger­man trans­la­tion of the Sin­gu­lar­ity FAQ

Whether to care about the de­sires of the dead

Dis­abil­ity Cul­ture Meets the Tran­shu­man­ist Condition

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Penn State, Madi­son WI, Pitts­burgh, Melbourne, Can­berra, and Cambridge

Sus­tain­abil­ity of Hu­man Progress

[SEQ RERUN] Evolv­ing to Extinction

How to pop­u­larize LW ideas: a we­b­comic?

The Plea­sures of Rationality

Best In­tro to LW ar­ti­cle for transhumanists

Meetup : Austin, TX

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

Ger­ald Jay Suss­man talk on new ideas about mod­el­ing computation

5 Se­cond Level: Sub­sti­tut­ing the Question

Con­ver­sa­tion as so­cial groom­ing – a ra­tio­nal­ity prob­lem?

Ra­tional to dis­trust your own ra­tio­nal­ity?

[MORESAFE] Preven­tion of the global catas­tro­phe and hu­man values

A pes­simistic view of quan­tum immortality

Vasili Arkhipov Day

Sub­jec­tive and Ob­jec­tive Real­ity: My Essay

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wed­nes­day 7pm

[SEQ RERUN] Ter­mi­nal Values and In­stru­men­tal Values

Ri­val for­mal­iza­tions of a de­ci­sion problem

The time has come to talk of whether pigs have wings

Meetup : First Zurich LW Meetup

Rhetoric for the Good

[LINK] Non-Con­formists Bet­ter At Work­ing Toward Com­mon Good

Offi­cial videos from the Sin­gu­lar­ity Summit

[MORESAFE] Start­ing global risk discussion

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit—some videos

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

On max­imis­ing ex­pected value

[SEQ RERUN] Thou Art Godshatter

How to Build Your Post

De­viant ar­gu­men­ta­tion re­gard­ing Monty Hall problem

[FICTION] Ham­let and the Philoso­pher’s Stone

Is math sub­jec­tive?

How Much Rent

In­tro­duc­tion: “Acro­hu­man­ity”

[SEQ RERUN] Protein Re­in­force­ment and DNA Consequentialism

Nam­ing the High­est Virtue of Epistemic Rationality

Bet­ter Disagreement

META: Se­cu­rity Certificate

Let Your Work­ers Gather Food

Footage of the Michael Fox lecture